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Genotype-environment interaction for production characteristics in cherry tomato (Solanum spp.)
Much of the tomato diversity is found in cherry-type populations. There are promising wild cherry tomato species with good behavior in terms of yield and quality that can be produced with a minimum of agro-inputs. The genetic expression of genotypes is influenced by the optimal environment they can develop in....
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Report
Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems
Unemployment rates for youth are three times higher than for adults in all world regions, and a vast majority of unemployed youth are young women. Among people who do have jobs, youth have a higher incidence of working poverty and vulnerable employment than adults. Youth also face serious barriers in...
2021 - CFS
Video
Construção de cisternas
Este vídeo, produzido com apoio da FAO, explica quais os materiais necessários e o passo a passo para a construção das cisternas de placas. Ele pode ser usado sozinho ou junto ao vídeo “Formação”, que fala sobre o processo de formação e mobilização desenvolvidos pela ASA. O vídeo está disponível...
Brazil
2021 - Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA)
Practices
Elaboración y utilización de silos de montón
El ensilado de montón es uno de los métodos más fáciles para ensilar ya que el nailon sería lo único que tendría que comprar el productor para tapar el silo. Mediante la utilización de silos de montón se incrementa la producción de leche y se contribuye a mantener el estado...
Nicaragua
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article
Entrepreneurship in Farming: Small-Scale Farming and Agricultural Mechanization Hire Service Enterprises in Iraq
The main aim of the research was to attempt to better understand agripreneurship and agripreneurs’ characteristics in small-scale farming in Iraq. This involved researching the small-scale farm as an enterprise as well as focusing on a common farm enterprise: agricultural mechanization hire service enterprises. The nature of the research taken...
Iraq
2021
Case study
Mapeo de iniciativa de agricultura familiar en Paraguay
Resumen de iniciativa vinculadas a la agricultura familiar
El mapeo de las iniciativas de agricultura familiar es una herramienta que busca entregar una visión completa sobre panorama de cada país de América Latina y el Caribe. Este resumen presenta una categorización de las distintas leyes que se implementaron e implementaran.
Paraguay
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Fact sheet
Alternatives for contentious inputs: Research well on track
On 30 November and 1 December, the Organic Innovation Days 2021 entitled “Better inputs for organic agriculture” took place online. This public event was organised in collaboration with the two Horizon 2020- funded EU projects RELACS and Organic-PLUS. Both projects aim to reduce the use of controversial inputs in organic...
2021 - RELACS
Website
The 2021 Food Systems Summit
In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on...
2021 - United Nations
Miscellanea
Faecal egg counts to improve worm control in organic sheep farming
The steps needed for monitoring faecal egg count are outlined in this practice abstract. Carrying out your own tests gives instant results and allows for greater flexibility in monitoring gastrointestinal nematode infections throughout the year. This may be especially important around lambing, when a greater number of transmission stages are...
2021 - Organic Farm Knowledge
Report
Food systems for healthier diets in Nigeria: A research agenda
Malnutrition, mostly resulting from poor food, health, and care practices, is related to physiological, socioeconomic, and psychological factors and remains one of the leading causes of mortality in children under five years of age in low- and middle-income countries. Nigeria, as with many parts of the world, is experiencing a...
2021 - IFPRI
Journal article
Estimación del consumo de forraje para dos biotipos bovinos lecheros en el trópico altoandino de Nariño, Colombia
Consumo materia seca Bovino
La implementación de tecnologías eficientes de pastoreo en las ganaderías de alta montaña del departamento de Nariño (Colombia), permite incrementar la sostenibilidad de estos sistemas productivos y propende por la conservación del diseño paisajístico. Con el objetivo de evaluar el consumo de materia seca de los biotipos bovinos F1 (Kiwi-cross...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Training is key to a bright future in farming – experience from the Russian Federation Good practice series – Agricultural extension
gribusiness is a profitable sector in the Russian Federation, which is rapidly gaining in popularity. Attracting generous state support in the form of subsidies, tax breaks, grants and land allocation, this is an area that is destined to grow, with strong potential for the country’s economy, as well as for...
Russian Federation
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Case study
Análisis de coyuntura de impactos de la pandemia del coronavirus en el agro ecuatoriano con énfasis en pequeños productores
El presente documento realiza un análisis y expone los antecedentes de la crisis del COVID-19 en el agro ecuatoriano, describe la evolución de la misma hasta el 30 de abril y analiza los impactos prestando especial atención a los pequeños productores de agricultura familiar. El texto extrae aprendizajes y muestra...
Ecuador
2021 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Blog article
Europe and Central Asia: “economic and agricultural powerhouse” with solutions at hand
The region of Europe and Central Asia is an economic and agricultural powerhouse that boasts diverse cultures, agri-food systems and climatic zones, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today. This diversity, he added, provides opportunities to share experience and good practices within the region and beyond, but to tap this potential...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
El Agave y su gran potencial
Los agaves tienen un gran potencial, además de producir tequila y mezcal.
Mexico
2021 - Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos
Event
Ciclo de Conversatorios: Hacia una Transformación Agroecológica
Con el fin de contribuir al intercambio de conocimiento, los co-organizadores de La Comunidad de Práctica de Agricultura Familiar y Agroecología de Latinoamérica y El Caribe – el Centro de Conocimientos sobre Agroecología (CCA) de la FAO, el Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), la Plataforma de Conocimientos sobre Agricultura Familiar (PCAF) de la FAO, la Red Políticas...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
Uso de abejas sin aguijón para la polinización
Si bien la tecnología de cáscara de coco es la forma más fácil y más barata para propagar las abejas sin aguijón, puede que no sea práctica para el transporte entre las islas para la polinización de los grandes cultivos de plantación como el mango. Por lo tanto, se diseñó...
Philippines
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
A reflection on the successes, priorities and problems facing community organisations during the pandemic – with implications for their future funding and even survival.
In hundreds of cities community organisations developed many different ways to address the pandemic in informal settlements, to counter its devastating social, economic and health impacts.
Many are...
2021 - IIED
Newsletter
FAO Markets and Trade Newsletter - June 2021
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Markets and Trade Newsletter - June 2021
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Let the people decide: citizen deliberation on the role of GMOs in Mali’s agriculture
This paper describes and critically reflects on a participatory policy process which resulted in a government decision not to introduce genetically modified (GM) cotton in farmers’ fields in Mali (West Africa). In January 2006, 45 Malian farmers gathered in Sikasso to deliberate on GM cotton and the future of farming...
Mali
2021
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