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The Silent Wave | A fisheries cooperative in India responds to Covid-19
On 21 March 2020, ten days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic, a voluntary closure was imposed on all fishing and fish marketing activities in Kollam in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Shot during the peak of the first wave of Covid-19 in India, this...
India
2021 - ICSF
Report
What is the contribution of organic agriculture to sustainable development? A synthesis of twelve years (2007–2019) of the “long-term farming systems comparisons in the tropics (SysCom)”
A recurrent controversy related to food systems and their transition toward more sustainability is the ability of organic farming to produce sufficient food for a growing world population. This long-term research from FiBL provides new and interesting insights into this policy issue.
Results from long-term comparative farming systems research of FiBL in Kenya,...
2021 - FIBL
Practices
How does Conservation Agriculture work: understanding soil role, an example from Timor-Leste
This practice explains how conservation agriculture (CA) works, its limitations, and how to identify practical solutions to challenges farmers face in Timor-Leste.
For the adoption of CA practices, the CA principles must be well understood by those providing advice and by those implementing it – extensionists and farmers. This practice describes...
Timor-Leste
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Cabras lecheras como alternativa para mejorar la alimentación
El Programa Especial para la Seguridad Alimentaria (PESA), Nicaragua, provee de cabras lecheras a familias que viven en zonas rurales, de mayor vulnerabilidad al hambre y la pobreza. Cabras lecheras como alternativa para mejorar la alimentación conduce a un aumento de la seguridad alimentaria en estas áreas. Este material proviene...
Nicaragua
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Policy brief/paper
Impacto del COVID-19 en sistema alimentario paraguayo
El impacto directo de las restricciones a la movilidad- propias de la cuarentena - afectó principalmente al sector comercial y de servicios, con reducción del empleo. Se estima que una parte de la población que perdió su empleo -de muy difícil cuantificación - ha retornado a las zonas rurales, que...
Paraguay
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Working paper
Créer des forêts et des systèmes de production agrosylvopastoraux résilients au climat en zones arides
Une approche qui conduit à des transformations économiques, sociales et écologiquement durables liées à des contextes spécifiques
Les efforts de transformation visant les forêts arides et les systèmes agrosylvopastoraux sont le plus souvent centrés sur des aspects techniques de la gestion des systèmes. Ils ciblent généralement la gestion des pâturages, la restauration ou l'ajout d'arbres et la gestion de la matière organique, de l'eau et de la...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
Does organic certification make economic sense for dairy farmers in Europe?–A latent class counterfactual analysis
Certification in agriculture ensures compliance with tangible standards and should generate economic opportunities for farmers. This study quantifies the variable profit and efficiency impacts of organic certification in dairy farming across Europe, using farm-level FADN data from 25 countries while accounting for heterogeneity through a class splitting model. Four distinct...
2021
Article
Support to High-Nature-Value Farming in Bulgaria: Compliance with the no backsliding principle?
The SWOT analysis accompanying the CAP Strategic Plan in Bulgaria identified this country as one of the Member States with the highest loss of HNV farmland in the EU. Unfortunately, it digs no further to analyse the reasons behind the loss, the types of HNV farmland that suffers most, or...
Bulgaria
2021 - Arc2020
Event
Festival Latinoamericano de Juventudes Rurales - Intercambio 7
Las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC) son motor de gran parte de los cambios que actualmente viven nuestras sociedades y que también generan impacto entre las juventudes,
ampliando la velocidad en que se comparte la información, extendiendo las modalidades de interacción social e impulsando otras formas de...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Promoting agroecology in a biodiversity hotspot
The Greater Mahale Ecosystem (GME) with its stunning views and fascinating wildlife along the shores of Lake Tanganyika – the world's longest freshwater lake – must be an exciting region to visit in western Tanzania.
United Republic of Tanzania
2021 - Access Agriculture
Journal article
Sistematización de la experiencia proyecto Cadena de valor láctea de Colombia en cuatro asociaciones productoras de leche en el trópico alto
Contexto. El estudio presenta la sistematización de experiencias de un proyecto para el fortalecimiento de la cadena láctea colombiana a la luz de las prácticas de cuatro asociaciones, así como proceso de formación del equipo de extensionistas acompañante. Objetivo. Identificar el aprendizaje en términos productivos, tecnológicos, económicos y ambientales que...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Case study
Los impactos del COVID-19 en la agricultura peruana
El presente documento es una aproximación inicial a la situación de la agricultura nacional bajo los impactos de las restricciones impuestas para hacer frente a la pandemia de Covid-19 en el Perú.
La característica principal de este escenario de crisis sanitaria es la incertidumbre respecto de su intensidad y duración, por lo...
Peru
2021 - Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) - Perú
Video
Empowering rural communities through farmer field schools and agroecology
By putting farmers at the heart of the learning and innovation process, FAO’s Farmer Field Schools (FFS) empower people, households and communities and help restore ecosystems. The discovery-learning process in FFS is ideal to support farmers’ learning and innovation on agroecology.
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #48
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #48 June 2021
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Policy brief/paper
Building a European network on agroecology to accelerate the transition towards sustainable agriculture and food systems
12 European partners join forces in a coordination and support action to develop a framework for a European network of agroecological living labs, research infrastructure and learning spaces for farmers, research and civil society actors. European agriculture and food systems are strongly impacted by a large number of challenges such...
European Union
2021 - AE4EU
Fact sheet
Tifawine Cooperative in Morocco
The initiative is located in the valley of Asni, at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains. In 2010, the family farms of the Tifawine cooperative decided to change their practices to improve the value of their orchards. Since this transition to agroecology, yields have increased by 27% and so...
Morocco
2021 - CARI, Agrisud International
Blog article
Knowledge for success in organic farming
A field robot autonomously hoed sugar beet for the first time in the canton of Thurgau. And FiBL filmmaker Thomas Alföldi was right there with his video camera. First he filmed the robot from all angles, sent up his drone and then interviewed the farmer about his the material into a...
2021 - FIBL
Video
Asociación Almejas del Pacífico - Historia de éxito del Corredor Seco Centroamericano
Este video muestra una historia de éxito del Corredor Seco Centroamericano, localizada en El Salvador donde la Asociación Almejas del Pacifíco es la responsable.
El Salvador
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Food Outlook
BIANNUAL REPORT ON GLOBAL FOOD MARKETS
The recent upsurge in agricultural input prices has triggered considerable alarm about rising costs of food production, which in a free market economy will be typically passed onto consumers through higher food prices. Already, the impacts on prices are captured by the rising FAO Food Price Index (FFPI), which reached...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Organic Farm Knowledge Platform expansion
The Organic Farm Knowledge Platform provides practical information for organic farmers and advisors. Initially, the platform was set up to cover tools and information on organic arable farming, addressing current bottlenecks. In the past two years, materials on the feeding of monogastrics and seeds/breeding were added. Now the platform has...
2021 - Organic Farm Knowledge Platform
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