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Policy brief/paper
Contribución de la investigación de AGROSAVIA a la Agricultura Campesina Familiar y Comunitaria (ACFC)
La agricultura familiar equivale al 87% de las unidades productoras agrícolas de Colombia y dentro del sector agrícola nacional su participación en la superficie cosechada es del orden del 67%; en 2015, a partir de la iniciativa sobre Agricultura Campesina Familiar y Comunitaria (ACFC) liderada por el Ministerio de Agricultura...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, AGROSAVIA
Technical paper
KULIMA: Revitalising agricultural clusters and ulimi wa m'ndandanda through farmer field schools in Malawi
Learn more about the project 'Revitalising agricultural clusters and ulimi wa m’ndandanda through farmer field schools in Malawi'. This project is part of the wider European Union (EU)-funded KULIMA programme, a five year programme that is being implemented between May 2017 and June 2022 with the aim of achieving improved...
Malawi
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Magazine article
Escuela de Oficios: Una historia de fortalezas, saberes y haceres comienza
En octubre de 2021 se inició en Venado Tuerto la “Capacitación de operarios de campo para la producción de semillas híbridas de maíz”, en el marco de la Escuela de Oficios del Área de Extensión y Territorio de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario.
Esta capacitación constituye un hito no sólo para...
Argentina
2021 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Case study
Apps and animations improve traditional dairy production in Kazakhstan
FAO’s Collect Mobile app and Smart Milk digital portal are boosting farmers’ livelihoods
Within the vast borders of Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth largest country, about two million families earn a living from the dairy sector. Small-scale farmers who own fewer than five cows produce 80 percent of the country’s raw milk.
Kazakhstan’s dairy industry has significant potential for growth, but it still faces many...
Kazakhstan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Silos (trojas) de grano: descripción y características básicas
Excelente alternativa para el almacenamiento, que garantiza el aprovisionamiento de granos sanos e higiénicos durante largos períodos de tiempo. Esta forma de almacenamiento de granos es buena en comparación con la troja tradicional porque no es atacada principalmente por roedores. La siguiente práctica ofrece una descripción detallada de la implementación...
Nicaragua
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Pandemia estreitou os laços campo-cidade, avaliam camponeses capixabas
Dobrou número de cestas entregues em algumas cidades. E, junto dos alimentos, o bate-papo sobre 'a vida na roça'
A maior crise sanitária do século fez aumentar a procura por uma alimentação saudável, livre de venenos, em todo o mundo. Por isso, os agricultores que já estão nesse caminho e são amparadas por uma rede de apoio para a certificação agroecológica/orgânica de seus produtos, puderam ampliar sua produção, levando...
Brazil
2021 - Século Diario
Video
Turkana pastoralists of Northern Uganda facing climate change
Turkana pastoralists of Northern Uganda facing climate change
2021 - AFSAfrica
Blog article
Joint action to boost peace and organic agriculture in the Philippines
With the ambitious target to have 1.2 million hectares of farmland in the Philippines converted to organic by 2022, Hon. Mayor Rommel C. Arnado, President of LOAMCP, welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) with Access Agriculture as a very timely event.
Philippines
2021 - Access Agriculture
Video
Pitcher irrigation
With pitcher irrigation, round porous clay pots are buried into the soil near the crop and filled with water. The water seeps out slowly through the porous walls of the pot and reaches the roots of the plants. As the plants consume the water, more water will seep out from...
India
2021 - Access Agriculture
Journal article
Ghana: The Missing Link
Mike Abaka-Edu, President of the Western Region branch of the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC), makes a compelling case for banning ‘saiko’ fishing in this interview with Peter Adjei, a Member of ICSF. The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC) was formed in 1982 with the objective of promoting the...
Ghana
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
FAO crop experiment sees lower pesticide use reap rewards in Turkey
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, so the saying goes. FAO, jointly with Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and other local partners, is helping to ensure Turkish consumers get their daily apple free of both pests and pesticides.
Sustainable and safe fruit production that fosters economic, social, and...
Türkiye
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi
Malawi’s many smallholders rely heavily on rainfed, low-input subsistence farming to meet their food needs. Yet for most rural Malawian households, subsistence agriculture cannot consistently produce enough food to ward off hunger. Nor can they rely on the country’s weak markets to buy additional food they may require or to...
Malawi
2021 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Journal article
Indonesia: Backs to the Wall
Through a mix of downplaying, intransparency and undertesting, the largest archipelago nation in the world paid little heed to its vulnerable fishers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Edy, a fisherman on Indonesia’s Pari island said: “For almost three months we did not travel outside the island. Earlier, we got additional income from...
Indonesia
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter
Romanian Rural Network June 2021 Newsletter
Rural Romania news - NSU Newsletter #59- 6/2021 . Topics include: AgriFish Council of 28-29 June 2021&agreement on CAP; Bulgaria-Romania meeting on LEADER;Survey on small farms and youth in mountain areas;LTVRA Communication; Marginimea Sibiului mountain area cooperative opens first store&many more topics from EU and national level.
Romania
2021 - RNRD
Practices
Uso de sombra en el cultivo de cacao
Con el uso de sombra en el cultivo de cacao se protegen las plantas contra las radiaciones solares y se evita también la mortalidad de las mismas. Esta tecnología ofrece beneficios económicos, sociales y ambientales.
Nicaragua
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Working paper
A guide to forest–water management
Many people worldwide lack adequate access to clean water to meet basic needs, and many important economic activities, such as energy production and agriculture, also require water. Climate change is likely to aggravate water stress. As temperatures rise, ecosystems and the human, plant, and animal communities that depend on them...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Respuesta de la agricultura familiar y el movimiento agroecológico frente al COVID-19
En América Latina, el así llamado ‘sector informal’ asociado a la agricultura familiar y los movimientos agroecológicos fue fundamental para enfrentar y adaptarse a los desafíos de la pandemia de COVID-19. A los pocos meses de iniciada la pandemia organizamos un proceso de investigación para evaluar la naturaleza y alcance...
2021 - IFAB INTA-CONICET
Policy brief/paper
Roots of Resilience: Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe
A collective of organisations, coming together under the banner of the Nyéléni Europe Food Sovereignty Movement have just released a new report : “Roots of Resilience : Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe”. The report argues for an approach to land policy in Europe based on a model of land...
2021 - Nyeleni Europe and Central Asia
Video
How to organise a field day
In this LIVESEED video, Riccardo Bocci from Rete Semi Rurali (IT) explains how to organise a field day. LIVESEED is a EU Horizon 2020-funded project that runs from 2017 to 2021. LIVESEEED aims to improve transparency and competitiveness of the organic seed and breeding sector, encouraging greater use of organic...
Italy
2021 - LiveSeed
Blog article
Digitalization offers agriculture a faster pathway to recovery from COVID-19 crisis
Digital technologies have been part of agriculture since well before the COVID-19 pandemic began, but the current crisis has given further impetus to finding new applications for technology in food production. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today carried out a webinar – focusing on Europe...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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