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Manual
Recarbonizing global soils: A technical manual of recommended sustainable soil management

Cropland, grassland, integrated systems and farming approaches - Case studies
During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Practices
Conversión de la agricultura convencional a la agricultura orgánica paso a paso

Por lo general, la conversión de la producción convencional a la agricultura orgánica se divide en tres etapas. El primer paso es recopilar toda la información relacionada con las prácticas orgánicas que podrían aplicarse en las condiciones de producción. Luego, en una segunda etapa, estas prácticas deben ser probadas en...
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Fact sheet
Reseña de Agricultura Familiar - Perú

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...
Peru
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Practices
Uso de variedades de batata como alternativa para control de vientos

Las provincias de Barahona y Bahoruco están localizadas en zonas de depresión que frecuentemente son atacadas por fenómenos naturales, que ocasionan fuerte vientos e inundaciones, ocasionando grandes daños a los sistemas de producción por su vulnerabilidad a estos fenómenos. En los últimos años el cambio climático ha expuesto esta región...
Dominican Republic
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

E-learning
Practicing Agroecology: Livelihoods, food security and Business

This set of slides introduce the basics of agroecology and the role it can play when building climate resilience in communities. The slides can also form the initial dialogues about how to get started with using agroecology for sustainable production, food security, and environmental protection with partners, farmers, and extension...
2021 - Fabo Learning Lab

Blog article
Growing Organic in Latvia

The question is though – how often do I get to choose between organic and conventionally grown produce here, in Riga, Latvia? Well, it turns out that if I am very motivated, I can find quite a wide variety of products, even locally produced ones except for example exotic fruits,...
Latvia
2021 - IFOAM Organics International

Blog article
Value addition – Making small farms smarter

Family farms produce 80 percent of world’s food from 70.80 percent of farm land. By 2050 food grain production needs to grow 330 MT per year. The small family farms are ecological and play a big role in promoting food security and nutritional support. In the state of Kerala, the average...
India
2021 - Leisa India

E-learning
Sustainable food systems: Concept and framework

This course is part of a series of three e-learning courses on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS), designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools required to apply systems thinking to complex food systems challenges in an integrated manner. The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Agroecología en los sistemas andinos

Este nuevo tiempo global nos exige la reformulación de los viejos paradigmas de la "revolución verde" y del modelo de la agricultura industrial del siglo XX. La fuerte incidencia de los proceso agroindustriales intensivos, desde los agroquímicos sistéticos y la energía involucrada hasta los objetos ultraprocesados que se ofrecen a...
2021 - CLACSO. Fundación McKnigth.

Website
CZU mobiLAB - A comprehensive solution for the detection of infectious diseases in hard-to-reach areas

CZU mobiLAB (developed at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague) represents a complex solution that enables the application of state-of-the-art molecular detection methods in remote or inaccessible areas. The principal advantage of the proposed solution is the concept of a mobile laboratory, which is unique in terms of its size...
Antarctica
2021 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Report
The FAO Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2021–2025

Supporting innovation and resilience in food and agriculture sectors
Due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), drug-resistant infections are placing an ever-increasing burden on human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Drug-resistant infections have the potential to become leading causes of death. AMR may force tens of millions more people into extreme poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and the associated economic losses are...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Project
Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG)

The Programme is focusing on three value chains of cocoa, vanilla and fisheries (aquaculture, riverine and in shore/reef) and aims to achieve an overall objective "To increase sustainable and inclusive economic development of rural areas" through a combination of two integrated outcomes: (1) Increasing the economic returns and opportunities from...
European Union - Papua New Guinea
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Event
Workshop on improving the sustainability of intensive organic fruit orchards

On 16 March 2021, a digital workshop on the topic of sustainability of organic fruit orchards was held in the framework of the EU project DOMINO. Among other things, the results of trials conducted by FiBL Switzerland and six project partners over the past three years were presented. Organic fruit production...
2021 - Fibl

Article
Efecto de un recubrimiento comestible comercial sobre las características fisicoquímicas de frutos de guayaba (Psidium guajava L.) bajo condiciones de almacenamiento

El objetivo de esta investigación fue evaluar la aplicación del recubrimiento comestible comercial Proallium Brill® (RC) en frutos de guayaba (Psidium guajava L.) ecotipo “regional roja”. El RC no ha sido estudiado y puede ser una alternativa de conservación post cosecha. Se empleó un diseño experimental completamente al azar con...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Article
Estimación de parámetros genéticos para caracteres de crecimiento en bovinos criollos Romosinuano

Objetivo. Estimar la heredabilidad y las correlaciones de la para tres caracteres relacionados con el crecimiento en bovinos criollos Romosinuano, y construir un índice de selección (IS).  Materiales y métodos. Se analizó una base de datos conformada por 4079 registros de peso al nacimiento (PN), al destete (PD) y a los 16 meses...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Report
Plan de trabajo con las Mesas de CTIA para la actualización de la Agenda I+D+i y la definición de insumos Codecti

Plan de trabajo con las Mesas de CTIA para la actualización de la Agenda I+D+i y la definición de insumos Codecti. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Fact sheet
Reseña de Agricultura Familiar - República Dominicana

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...
Dominican Republic
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Journal article
Agrobiodiversity Index scores show agrobiodiversity is underutilized in national food systems

The diversity of plants, animals and microorganisms that directly or indirectly support food and agriculture is critical to achieving healthy diets and agroecosystems. Here we present the Agrobiodiversity Index (based on 22 indicators), which provides a monitoring framework and informs food systems policy. Agrobiodiversity Index calculations for 80 countries reveal...
2021 - Bioversity International

Event
EIP-AGRI Seminar 'CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of AKIS in Member States'

EIP-AGRI Seminar: “CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in Member States” - Online seminar The EIP-AGRI Seminar 'CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of AKIS in Member States' was initially planned to take place in Warsaw, Poland on 22-23 April but it was postponed...
European Union
2021 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation

Blog article
Moving towards agroecologically sustainable farming

Sandeep Narayan Jamjade is a farmer residing in Jalochi Village, Baramati, Pune. He is 37 years old with a family of 11. He started his farming venture when he was 24.    It took him years of trial and error to adopt various practical solutions leading to ecologically sustainable agricultural practices. Though...
India
2021 - Leisa India
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