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Cosecha y poscosecha del cacao: Limpieza, clasificación y empaque
Es fundamental para mantener la calidad del grano en el proceso de beneficio. Antes de la comercialización se deben eliminar todas las impurezas y los granos defectuosos.
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Journal article
Turkey: Be Resilient, Not Vulnerable
The effects of the COVID-19 epidemic on small-scale fisheries in Istanbul, Turkey, bring out the need to address the structural inequalities and power asymmetries that bind the sector. There have been wide-ranging discussions on the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for food production and access to food among small-scale fishing...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Rural poverty reduction through job creation in small ruminant value chains in Ethiopian highlands
Each year, approximately 100,000 Ethiopians flee their country, in search of a better future. Braving human trafficking and crossing war zones… they risk their lives to escape poverty. The situation is only worsening with the COVID-19 pandemic, as many migrants are forced to return home… while hundreds of others remain stranded in crowded camps at borders.
Ethiopia
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
16 thousand litres - Plates Cisternas
Over the past decades, ASA and families throughout Brazil's semiarid region have developed and refined the method of building plate cisterns. This booklet aims to share this experience in cistern construction, enabling other people to benefit from this technology that has changed the scenario and the lives of thousands of...
Brazil
2021 - Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA)
Blog article
Teaching the farmers of tomorrow with videos
Youth around the world are leaving agriculture, but many would stay on the farm if they had appropriate technologies and better social services, as Professor Alejandro Bonifacio explained to me recently.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2021 - Access Agriculture
Event
Organic seed breeding at the Organic World Congress
The LIVESEED project, which IFOAM Organics Europe co-cordinates, is contributing to the Organic World Congress (OWC) with a colourful program. Organised 8-10 September 2021 in Rennes, France, the Congress is an excellent opportunity to showcase the project’s results and recommendations.
2021 - IFOAM Organics Europe
Video
Growing food in a pandemic: a story of resilience
Capital Growth, a food growing network, presents people with the opportunity to grow food as part of a healthy, resilient food system. During the pandemic in 2019/2020, Capital Growth worked with over 50 gardens to grow food for the local community through their Community Harvest Initiative.
This video tells their stories of...
2021 - Capital Growth
Website
Sembrando capacidades
Este sitio web da cuenta del alcance del proyecto Sembrando Capacidades, iniciativa de cooperación sur-sur trilateral, que buscó el fortalecimiento de instrumentos y políticas para la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria en Colombia, a partir de la gestión del conocimiento y el intercambio de experiencias, presenta en este repositorio web todos los...
Colombia
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Análisis de eventos climáticos extremos asociados a excesos de lluvia y heladas meteorológicas en el Altiplano Cundiboyacense de Colombia
Los excesos de lluvia y las heladas meteorológicas son fenómenos adversos en la agricultura, que ocasionan daños irreparables en la fisiología de las plantas, reduciendo la productividad de biomasa de éstas. Con el objetivo de establecer aquellas áreas de mayor amenaza ante tales fenómenos, se realizó el análisis para un...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Journal article
Nutritional quality of five grasses associated to Lotus uliginosus Schkuhr in the high tropic of Colombia
Objective: To evaluate the nutritional quality and acceptability of five cold-climate grasses: Holcus lanatus (L), Bromus catharticus (Vahl), Festuca arundinacea (Schreb), Cenchrus clandestinus Hochst. ex Chiov (naturalizado), Dactylis glomerata, associated with Lotus uliginosus (Schkuhr) in the high tropic of Colombia.
Materials and Methods: The work was conducted in the Marengo Agricultural...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria AGROSAVIA
Blog article
Uzbekistan gears up for UN Food Systems Summit through dialogue events
Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), organised a national dialogue to prepare for the UN Food Systems Summit, a major global event which is planned for September.
In over 100 countries around the world, national dialogues and...
Uzbekistan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Fact sheet
Manejo fitosanitario: Escoba de bruja
Cacao-Theobroma cacao
La infección causa superbrotacóon o engrosamiento; hojas grandes curvadas, retorcidas y variables. - Podar los árboles de cacao a una altura por debajo de los - Remoción de tejidos enfermos (enterrarlos). - Plantas afectadas seriamente se deben rehabilitar con materiales tolerantes. - Establecimiento de genotipos tolerantes a la enfermedad. -...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Journal article
High Infection to SARS-CoV-2 in an Indigen Community of the Colombian Amazon Region
Introduction. COVID-19 is a pathology caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. The World Health Organization has reported more than 94 million cases and two million deaths worldwide. Objective: To describe the seroprevalence, spatial distribution, and clinical and sociodemographic variables of SARS-CoV2 in a community of the Colombian Amazon region. Methods. In...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Video
Making livestock production more sustainable
Supporting nomadic herding and pastoral communities in a changing world.
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
Cisterna Calçadão - 52 mil litros
Ao longo das últimas décadas, a ASA e famílias de todo o Semiárido do Brasil desenvolveram e aprimoraram o método de construção das cisternas de placas. Esta cartilha tem como objetivo partilhar essa experiência na construção de cisternas, possibilitando que outros povos possam usufruir dessa tecnologia que mudou o cenário...
Brazil - British Indian Ocean Territory - British Virgin Islands
2021 - Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA)
Blog article
African farmers can feed Africa
This article offers a well-argued and supported study synthesis in response to the issue, Why didn't AGRA's Green Revolution work in Mali? Is it feasible for African farmers to feed the continent? This is a must-read essay for anybody interested in the situation of Mali and the powerful farmers' movement...
Mali
2021
Report
Autonomy through agroecology: What women farmers expect from sustainable food systems
Women farmers, especially female peasant and family farmers are pivotal to build back better food systems. 60% of the world’s food is produced by smallholders on 30% of the global agricultural surface. 50%-80% of this food, depending on the country and region, is produced by women.
SWISSAID and partners launched a qualitative...
2021 - SWISSAID
Magazine article
Agriculture et Développement
Revue de vulgarisation et d'appui conseil
Articles:
Pisciculture: promotion et développement de la pisciculture dans les régions Sahariennes
Pour une gestion durable de la foret Algérienne
Les systèmes de gestion de l'information et des connaissances
2021 - Agriculture et Développement
Event
EIP-AGRI workshop Farm data for better farm performance
Digital technologies and data-based solutions can help farmers work more precisely, efficiently, and sustainably, improving decision-making and farming practices, and helping increase farm’s environmental performance and competitiveness, whilst also making farming jobs more attractive to younger generations. Collaborative data sharing models play a key role in ensuring that data driven...
European Union
2021 - EIPAgri
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