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Journal article
Caracterización físico-química de los suelos dedicados al cultivo de maíz en el Valle del Sinú, Colombia
El Valle del Sinú es una subregión en donde se concentra la mayor área de siembra y producción de maíz en Colombia. En esta subregión los rendimientos del cultivo en los últimos años han presentado un estancamiento, a pesar de contar con tecnologías y condiciones agroecológicas aptas para su desarrollo...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria AGROSAVIA
Book part
Introducción a los recursos zoogenéticos en Argentina
La República Argentina tiene una superficie total de 3.761.274 km2, con un sector continental de 2.791.810 km2. Su extensión de norte a sur es de 3.694 km y de oeste a este, de 1.423 km. Su clima es diverso, varía de templado a cálido, árido y frío, y se pueden...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Newsletter article
From the Editor, Yemaya, No.63, May 2021
Across the world, more than a year since it first struck, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives, destroy livelihoods and paralyse economies with unprecedented lockdowns and supply chain disruptions. Lockdown and physical distancing measures in particular impact vulnerable small-scale fishers; the frequent disruption of economic activity is an enormous...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Oceans: Blue Gold
A study illustrates the deep influences that guide the gilded ocean economy: just 100 companies generated 60 per cent of revenues from the largest ocean-based industries in 2018. The promise and potential of the ocean as an ‘economic frontier’ in the 21st century has attracted attention from governments, the private sector,...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Potential solutions for local, regional and global action to deliver SDGs by transforming food systems
The UN Food Systems Summit has revealed the 15 action areas with more than 50 solution clusters that will serve as a key element to underpin discussions at the Pre-Summit gathering in Rome, Italy from July 26-28.
Each action area, developed by more than 500 members of the Summit’s five Action Tracks,...
2021 - UN
Blog article
Stakeholders Hold Forum On Agro-Ecology, Eco-Restoration
Action Aid International gathered stakeholders on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve agro-ecology and eco-restoration on the Gambia's south, middle, and north banks, with the goal of ensuring community resilience to climate change, achieving food security, climate justice, and comprehensive disaster prevention. The Agroecology, Eco-Restoration, and Resilience Building Project, according...
Gambia
2021 - Action Aid International
Website
ConectAgroecology Hub
The digital hub ConectAgroecology is a meeting space for the members of the CPLP Agroecology Network and a tool to support the training of farmers, fishermen, and other food producers, technicians from public entities, and all people interested in developing knowledge and practices in agroecology. It is intended to contribute to the development of...
2021
Blog article
Biodiversity and land degradation in dryland areas - Role of pastoralism
Pastoralism is a form of livestock farming based on continuous or seasonal, local or regional herd mobility. This livestock rearing strategy is geared towards meeting the herd’s nutritional needs via intermittent grazing of fodder resources of often spatiotemporally varying availability and quality. In Sahelian-Saharan areas, pastoral livestock farming is family-based,...
2021 - The French Scientific Committee on Desertification (CSFD)
Video
CSA Starts Here: Should I Start A CSA Farm? An introduction to our educational video series
CSA Starts Here is an educational video series for aspiring and beginning CSA farmers. These twelve videos will help you evaluate whether or not CSA farming is the right model for you while also explaining the skills you need to nurture in order to be successful at CSA farming.
CSA...
2021 - CSA Starts Here
Report
Transformational change to reduce deforestation and climate change impacts
A review of definitions, concepts and drivers in scientific and grey literature
In this study, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) teamed up to investigate how transformational change (transformational change) is understood in the scientific literature. The study, the first of its kind to review academic studies on transformational change,...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter article
US: Why small-scale fisheries matter
A growing coalition of small-scale, community-based fishers is calling for the recognition and protection of Alaska’s invaluable coastal fisheries. Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in the industrialised world–a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far...
United States of America
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Fishing Techniques: What is Destructive Fishing?
Drawing on the sectors of fisheries management, small-scale fisheries, seafood corporates, academia and civil society, an ongoing project attempts to define ‘destructive fishing’. The language of fisheries, conservation and sustainable development can be fraught with jargon. Of course, aquatic ecosystems are inherently dynamic and fluid; it’s easy to see why technical...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Practices
Concentrated plant liquid manure
Concentrated plant liquid manure is easy to make and store. It supplies plants with nutrients which as well manage pest and diseases in crops.
Plant liquid manure is made from plants rich in both micro and macro nutrients, such plants includes Russian confrey, Lantana camara, Pumpkin leaves, Calliadra, Pumpkin leaves, Tethonia, Wandering Jew and...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Young Ugandan entrepreneurs get hands-on experience with digital tools
Seven young entrepreneurs belonging to four teams from Uganda participated in a hands-on learning course to familiarise themselves with the solar-powered smart projector kit that they had won through the Access Agriculture Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund initiative. The smart projector contains the entire library of Access Agriculture farmer-training videos in...
Uganda
2021 - Access Agriculture
Working paper
Food systems and digitalization on from a food sovereignty approach
This study aims to assist food producers and social movements in the complicated discussion around digitization. The goal of this working paper is to provide an analytical tool to food producers and advocates regarding dangerous trends that are currently occurring in this field, which are frequently supported by a general...
2021 - Schola Campesina
E-learning
Training of Trainers: ''Introduction to Agroecology'' for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)
Training of Trainers: ''Introduction to Agroecology'' for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)
This Training of Trainers is part of the activities of the Training Centre for Sustainable Family Farming (CCAFS) of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). As part of a broader work program of knowledge and capacity building, the main...
2021 - Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)
Website
FAO's work on Climate Change
Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity and livestock are a significant driver of climate change, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere and triggering global warming.
Climate change has both direct and indirect effects on agricultural productivity...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
Bangladesh: Hotter, Wetter, Saltier
The unique geography of Bangladesh makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change and warrants appropriate tools and strategies to combat and mitigate negative impacts. Bangladesh has been one of the countries most affected by climate change in the last 15 years. It is the seventh most vulnerable country on the Climate...
Bangladesh
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
ICBA, UOWD join forces to support food system resilience in UAE
The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) agreed to work together to develop a suite of innovative tools for bolstering the resilience of the UAE’s food system.
Under a cooperative agreement signed by Dr. Tarifa Alzaabi, Acting Director General of ICBA, and Professor...
United Arab Emirates
2021 - The International Center for Biosaline AgricultureICBA
Book part
La información genómica de la ganadería bovina y ovina: proyecto Image
De acuerdo con los lineamientos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (fao, 2013), los bancos de germoplasma deben ser unidades de conservación de recursos genéticos localizados en instalaciones delimitadas que sirvan como repositorios de material biológico y faciliten la conservación de todo material...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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