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The Role of Actor Networks in Enabling Agroecological Innovation: Lessons from Laos
In this paper, the authors use conceptual insights from the actor–network theory (ANT) to explore the role of agroecological innovation systems (AeISs) in the reconfiguration of agricultural practices toward sustainability. AeISs are actor networks involving a diversity of individuals (e.g., farmers, traders, experts) and organizations (e.g., cooperatives, rural development agencies,...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2022
Report
Marine Protected Areas in India
As the conservation of marine resources becomes a growing global priority, the concept of marine protected areas (MPAs) is being widely propagated. Since most MPAs are located in coastal areas of great biodiversity, their development has direct relevance and concern to the livelihoods, culture and survival of small-scale and traditional...
India
2022 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
Blog article
Highland agriculture in the hands of women
Women in the Andean highlands of Cocapata, Bolivia, play a leading role in re-establishing peasant ways of farming, while building innovative connections with urban people. In doing so, they are creating agricultural systems that not only nourish the community and its natural resources but that also support vulnerable populations in...
India
2021 - Leisa India
Policy brief/paper
Policy Brief No.3-Extension and Advisory Services in Scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture in South Asia
Mounting evidence points to the fact that climate change is already affecting agriculture and food security, which will therefore make the challenge of ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture even more difficult (FAO 2016). Through Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13, the 2030 Agenda calls for...
2021 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia
Blog article
Secondary Agriculture – Empowering tribals of Central India
Secondary agriculture offers a viable option of doubling the farmers’ income and also making agriculture competitive.Functional expansion of hitherto traditional agriculture can be a potential way to increase the income of the farmers, particularly those who are small, landless, and dependent on natural resources like forests for their sustenance. Besides...
India
2021 - Leisa India
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
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
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
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
Blog article
Bio management of coconut pests – Social process for mass adoption
Coconut is the crop of small and marginal farmers which is grown contiguously on their land holdings. Crop management is largely dependent on farmer to farmer extension as conventional extension system seldom looked into the contextual needs, need based delivery mechanisms for improving the efficacy of management in farmers gardens.
Black...
India
2021 - Leisa India
Blog article
Solomon Islands training addresses gender challenges women face in the agriculture and rural sector
Focused on gender equality, analysis and mainstreaming, the training provided an opportunity for 12 females and 18 males Solomon Islands Government staff from the ministries of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL), Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs (MWYCFA), Public Service (MPS) and Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) to learn more about...
Solomon Islands
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
FAO and the Republic of Korea join forces to reduce foodborne antimicrobial resistance
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Republic of Korea, through its Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), today signed a new Framework Arrangement which establishes overarching terms and conditions that will govern the cooperation through voluntary contributions and facilitate future negotiations between MFDS...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
Against the tide: The future of transhumant herders in the Kailash Sacred Landscape of Nepal
Transhumant pastoralism, with its cultural, ecological, and socioeconomic significance, is an important livelihood strategy for mountain communities. Despite its importance, transhumant pastoralism is declining in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. This study examines the drivers of change experienced by transhumant herders in Bajhang, western Nepal, to understand future implications for...
Nepal
2021 - The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Technical paper
ILRI’S digital advisory tool to reduce yield gap in dairy animals in the context of mixed farming
The productivity of livestock in Asia is found to be far below the global benchmark. The milk production per cattle in Bangladesh and Nepal, for instance, is only 305 kg and 459 kg per animal per year, respectively, compared to 7500 kg/animal/year in the USA and Europe (SAARC 2015). Improved...
2021 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia
Blog article
Producer groups key to empowering rural women in Nepal
Women-led cooperatives pave a path to independence and benefit rural communities
Shanta Neupane had a vision. From Panauti Municipality, in central Nepal, she could see how hard women in the rural forest and farming communities around her worked in their family smallholdings, helping to feed their households. But although, like Shanta herself, they were members of community forest user groups, these same...
Nepal
2021 - Landscape News Editor
Video
Scaling Up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together - Day 1
Last 28 & 29 April, 2021 , high-level policy experts gathered at the digital event “Scaling up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together” to discuss and inspire key decision-makers on policies supporting agroecology and organic agriculture in the region. The Himalayas event was organised by IFOAM – Organics International and the...
Bhutan - India - Nepal
2021 - IFOAM – Organics International and the World Future Council
Video
Increasing Agricultural Productivity through Sustainable Water Resource Management in Tajikistan
Strong water users' associations are instrumental in sustaining reforms and improvement in the country's water sector. To address the interrelated challenges of agriculture, water, food insecurity, and poverty in Tajikistan, the Public Employment for Sustainable Agriculture and Water Resources Management Project (PAMP II) was implemented from 2013 to 2020 with...
Tajikistan
2021 - AFA
Video
Scaling Up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together - Day 2
Last 28 & 29 April, 2021, high-level policy experts gathered at the digital event “Scaling up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together” to discuss and inspire key decision-makers on policies supporting agroecology and organic agriculture in the region. The Himalayas event was organised by IFOAM – Organics International and the World...
Bhutan - India - Nepal
2021 - IFOAM – Organics International and the World Future Council
Report
Contributions of agroecology to a “new normal” in Asia and the Pacific
Besides the severe health crisis, the COVID-19 epidemic also caused the global economy to contract at a rate not seen since the Second World War and led to a severe increase of poor and food insecure people as well as a sharp projected decrease of production of agricultural goods in...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Increasing Agricultural Productivity through Sustainable Water Resource Management in Tajikistan
Strong water users' associations are instrumental in sustaining reforms and improvement in the country's water sector. To address the interrelated challenges of agriculture, water, food insecurity, and poverty in Tajikistan, the Public Employment for Sustainable Agriculture and Water Resources Management Project (PAMP II) was implemented from 2013 to 2020 with...
Tajikistan
2021 - Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
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