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Saguna Regenerative Technique (SRT), a no-till, conservation agriculture method of rice-based farming

Conservation Agriculture (CA), No-till method of farming which is climate smart, increases organic carbon of the soil, essentially are generative agricultural practice, considerably increases productivity of the land and adds to the amazing happiness & confidence of the farmer." The Saguna Regenerative Technique (SRT) cultivation method was evolved in 2011...
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Video
Seed Guardians - How families in Brazil are increasing biodiversity with help from the past.

Brazil used to be a country rich in biodiversity, but in the semi-arid North East of the country, Extensive livestock raising, slash and burn agriculture and uncontrolled demand for wood fuel has have led to widespread environmental degradation of its unique Caatinga biodiversity. Adeline and her granddaughter Jucimara are among...
Brazil
2021 - IFAD

Report
Food systems and COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the difficulties cities face in managing crises that are exacerbated by population density and depend on supply chains that often start outside the city for their resolution. For this reason, one of the unfortunate consequences of the pandemic crisis has been an increase in hunger...
2021 - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Practices
Banco de forrajes

El establecimiento de bancos forrajes en el área rural de Pasto tiene importancia fundamental, dado que la alimentación de animales y productividad de las fincas tiene un alto costo, que se busca reducir junto con mejorar la productividad. Los bancos forrajeros son cultivos intensivos para la producción de grandes volúmenes...
Colombia
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Módulos pecuarios escolares

Los diagnósticos participativos llevados a cabo en las comunidades Kaqchiqueles y en las que trabaja el PESA (Xibalbay, Oratorio y Chaquiyá, municipio de Sololá) indicaron un déficit en acceso y consumo de proteína animal, por lo que se decidió trabajar con Módulo Pecuario (MP) de pollos de engorde. Las aves...
Guatemala
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Blog article
Farmer’s story: Moving towards agroecologically sustainable farming

Sandeep Narayan Jamjade is a farmer residing in Jalochi Village, Baramati, and Pune, India. He is 37 years old with a family of 11. He started his farming venture when he was 24. It took him years of trial and error to adopt various practical solutions leading to ecologically sustainable agricultural...
India
2021 - LEISA India

Blog article
End of the road? The future of smallholder farmers in Malawi

Two new studies published by the Agriculture Policy Research in Africa (APRA) collaboration present a bleak picture of Malawi's smallholder farmers' future. This article builds on the results of APRA Working Papers to better understand the realities of smallholder farming in Malawi and what the future holds for those who...
Malawi
2021 - APRA

Report
From Space to Farm: Characterization of Small Farms Using Remote Sensing Data

This publication describes the analytical process carried out under the European Union-funded SALSA project which enabled the development of a European map of the distribution of small farms at the NUTS-3 level and assessed the capabilities and usefulness of Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites for small farms monitoring, specifically in...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Fact sheet
Desertification and land degradation trend indicators

A working group pooling members of the international scientific community and civil society was formed in 2008 as a French initiative. It aims to address the imperatives outlined in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification: developing a minimum set of indicators to help policy makers assess desertification and land...
2021 - The French Scientific Committee on Desertification (CSFD)

Fact sheet
Algodón M-137 variedad SINUANA

SINUANA M-137, proviene del cruzamiento entre la variedad Africana STAMF y la Liena Cesar LC85-90-M-9-1-7. Se caracteriza fundamentalmente por sus excelentes rendimientos en campo, alto porcentaje de fibra y por su excelente calidad para la industria textil. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Producción caprina y pase de cadena

Las personas beneficiadas por la aplicación de esta tecnología han recibido capacitaciones en el manejo de la especie caprina, construyen cabrerizas y luego reciben una cabra hembra en etapa reproductiva, sin coste, pero con el compromiso escrito de entregar una cría hembra de más de 6 meses para favorecer a...
Guatemala
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Event
Natural Agriculture in Japan - Restoring Biodiversity and Seed Saving

The practice of natural agriculture focuses on biodiversity preservation and promotes seed conservation.  This approach emphasizes the environment's fundamental characteristics and supports the Satoyama concept that integrates ecological compatibility among landscape and seascape management. In this session, part of the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2021 programme, Shumei Natural Agriculture presented a virtual tour of natural agriculture farms...
Japan
2021 - Oxford Real Farming

Blog article
Aquaculture is key to meet increasing food demand, says FAO

Aquaculture is vital for feeding the world's expanding population and the conference is considering a range of issues and opportunities ranging from traditional family farming in vulnerable communities to cutting-edge technology.  Themes to be discussed at the conference include: innovation, genetic resources, biosecurity, the social and human dimension, value chains...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Rural Development Report 2021

The transformation of food systems is a burning topic across the globe, in response to concerns about the nutritional, environmental and equity impacts of our current system. Food system transformation is inextricably linked with efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty, since the livelihoods of a large share of the world’s...
2021 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Blog article
FAO, OIE and WHO call for stronger coordination in mitigating health threats

In a joint statement released today, FAO, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the World Health Organization (WHO), committed to strengthening multi-sectoral coordination and efforts to combat health threats associated with interactions between humans, animals, and the environment across Europe and Central Asia. This message was reiterated in a virtual...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics 2020 edition

Agriculture, forestry and fi shery statistics provides a selection of recent, topical data. Information is presented for the European Union (EU) and its Member States, and is supplemented (when available) with data for the United Kingdom, EFTA members, candidate countries to the EU and potential candidates. This publication aims to...
European Union
2021 - European Commission

Fact sheet
Berenjena C015 variedad Corpoica

La variedad de berenjena C015, fue obtenida de una colecta realizada en fincas de productores del Caribe Colombiano, específicamente en el Valle del Sinú, Sabanas Colindadas de Córdoba, Sucre y Bolívar, y Zona Bananera del Magdalena. Se caracteriza por tener frutos alargados de color lila, con rendimiento promedio de 31,43...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Cultivo de granos básicos con manejo integrado de la fertilidad con bioabonos (Bocashi)

Propuesto en Nicaragua, aplicado en Zacapa y Chiquimula en proyectos de agroforestería como respuesta al problema de la baja producción y altos costos en maíz y fríjol identificado en DRP (1999 y 2000), con evaluación participativa realizada en 2002 a través de PROZACHI 2.
Nicaragua
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Case study
A PATHWAY TO FOOD SECURITY: ‘’Tackling the Issue of Land Rights as a Pathway to Food Security in Uganda’’

Amplifying the voices of women farmers is proving an effective way to help tackle gender inequality and promote agroecology, helping small-scale farmers take back power over their land.
In the Adjumani and Amuria districts of Uganda, women are responsible for 75% of agricultural labour. Only 30% have rights over the land that they farm.  Male ownership of property is culturally ingrained in these communities. Women only have secondary rights through their male family members, which are often lost through...
2021 - AFSA

Article
Effects of COVID-19 and other shocks on Papua New Guinea’s food economy: A multi-market simulation analysis

Understanding how the Papua New Guinea (PNG) agricultural economy and associated household consumption is affected by climate, market and other shocks requires attention to linkages and substitution effects across various products and the markets in which they are traded. In this study, we use a multi-market simulation model of the...
Papua New Guinea
2021 - IFPRI
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