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Manejo fitosanitario: Perforadores
Los perforadores del fruto ocasionan daños en los cultivos de cacao en diferentes zonas de Colombia. Las hembras ponen huevos sobre frutos inmaduros con la ayuda de una sustancia pegajosa. El daño inicia una vez la larva emerge, ya que barrena la mazorca hasta encontrar la semilla. Finalizando su etapa...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Reducing input costs for Paddy, Sugarcane, Groundnut, Turmeric and Banana by using herbal pesticides
Herbal pesticide has been prepared based on farmers innovations documented by SEVA in association with Honeybee Network and National Innovation Foundation. The main objective is to disseminate low cost eco-friendly practices which are safe to human, livestock and environment. SEVA has promoted farmers experimentation and validated this practice. Now this...
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Técnica de inducción floral en el cultivo de la piña (Ananas comosus)
Ésta ficha técnica describe la técnica de inducción floral en el cultivo de la piña (Ananas comosus) recomendando el uso de carburo de calcio. También se desarrollan las ventajas, costos, restricciones y beneficios en los ámbitos económicos, sociales y ambientales de esta técnica.
Nicaragua
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Overview of mitigation measures to reduce the incidental catch of vulnerable species in fisheries
Potentially harmful contact between fisheries and marine vulnerable species represents a global conservation issue and efforts to mitigate the negative repercussions of these interactions belong in strategies for ensuring the sustainability of fisheries. This literature review offers a survey of mitigation measures and techniques that have been developed and tested...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Stock-take report on agroecology in IFAD operations: An integrated approach to sustainable food systems
This report presents the results of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) stock-take on agroecology, an outcome of IFAD’s engagement in the multi-agency Scaling Up Agroecology Initiative launched in 2018. The report assesses to what degree IFAD is supporting agroecology throughout its in-country portfolio across the five IFAD regions to the benefit...
2021 - Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions (PMI) Division, IFAD
Newsletter article
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #50
Agroecology Newsletter of August 2021.
The FAO Agroecology Newsletter presents a round-up of news, events, publications, stories, innovations, activities, and initiatives on agroecology from around the world.
2021
Website
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
Globally, around 14 percent of food produced is lost between harvest and retail, while an estimated 17 percent of total global food production is wasted (11 percent in households, 5 percent in the food service and 2 percent in retail).
Food loss and waste undermine the sustainability of our food systems. When food is lost or wasted, all...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Importancia de las semillas y el patrimonio biocultural para la AFCI
Este video fue grabado por las organizaciones afiliadas a COPROFAM para el seminario "Semillas y Patrimonio Biocultural - El rol estratégico de la Agricultura Familiar, Campesina e Indígena" de la XXXIV REAF
2021 - COPROFAM
Newsletter article
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #52
Agroecology Newsletter of October 2021.
The FAO Agroecology Newsletter presents a round-up of news, events, publications, stories, innovations, activities, and initiatives on agroecology from around the world.
2021
Book
Families and Food in Hard Times European comparative research
Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic retrenchment and how those most affected are those with the least resources.
Based on...
2021
Journal article
Report: Setting the Table
A ‘counter mobilization’ to transform corporate food systems included a Global Virtual Rally that highlighted the critical role fisheries play in food security and nutrition. From 25 to 28 July 2021, civil society organizations (CSOs) from around the world participated in the Peoples’ Counter Mobilization to Transform Corporate Food Systems. The...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Savoir sous influence : créer des savoirs partagés au service de l'agriculture familiale
Vendredi 17 décembre 2021, a eu lieu le webinaire « Savoir sous influence : créer des savoirs partagés au service de l'agriculture familiale » à l'occasion de la sortie annuelle du Baromètre des agricultures familiales : https://barometre-agricultures-familiales.org/2021
Cette nouvelle édition défend la nécessité de créer des savoirs communs. Construire des systèmes alimentaires...
2021 - SOS Faim
Blog article
Transparency, Technology, and the Sea: The Story of Envisible
This is the first part of a series exploring the history, technology, and partnerships of Envisible, a sustainable food procurement company aiming to make supply chains more transparent.
It’s been a long time secret that seafood supply chains are rife with fraud and unethical labor practices. But that is, thankfully, changing...
2021 - FoodTank
Book part
Mecanismos de promoción del crecimiento vegetal por rizobios simbióticos y asimbióticos
Los rizobios son un grupo complejo de bacterias Gram-negativas que viven en el suelo como saprófitos, en asociación con plantas o en simbiosis (Benhizia et al., 2004; Rosenblueth et al., 2018). Estas bacterias son bien conocidas por establecer una relación simbiótica con plantas de la familia Fabaceae, conocidas como leguminosas,...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Report
The nutrition and health potential of geographical indication foods
Traditional foods, diets and food systems play an important role in people’s nutritional status. As the best products of traditional food systems, geographical indication (GI) foods have a great potential to contribute to healthy diets and curb non-communicable diseases.
This paper presents five case studies around the world on the nutritional...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Fact sheet
Manejo fitosanitario: Phythoptora
En frutos, los primeros síntomas se presentan como pequeñas manchas de color oscuro sobre los tejidos. Los signos aparecen de tres a cinco días después de los primeros síntomas. Aparición de esporangios y un micelio pulverulento blanco.
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Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Miscellanea
Using vis-NIRS and Machine Learning methods to diagnose sugarcane soil chemical properties
Knowing chemical soil properties might be determinant in crop management and total yield production. Traditional soil properties estimation approaches are time-consuming and require complex lab setups, refraining farmers from promptly taking steps towards optimal practices in their crops. Soil properties estimation from its spectral signals, vis-NIRS, emerged as a low-cost,...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Korangadu pastureland and promotion of fodder species for livestock
In order to promote livestock in dry land areas, farmers created “Korangadu” pastureland many centuries ago in their own private lands in Tamil Nadu. This system encourages livestock keeping and earning more income in dry land/rainfed areas. Korangadu typically consists of a mixture of grass, legumes and tree species including...
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Whose seeds are they anyway? Peasants’ call for common ownership
Peasant rights movements fear that intellectual property rights regimes are spreading across the developing world, posing a danger to their traditional seed saving and exchange practices. This is an excellent piece that explains why restrictive seed laws exclude peasant farmers, who are critical to feeding the world and establishing climate-friendly...
2021
Journal article
Aportes del ‘Buen Vivir’ para repensar el derecho humano a un nivel de vida adecuado
Este trabajo se propone ensayar un abordaje del derecho a un nivel de vida adecuado a partir del concepto de `Buen Vivir´, en tanto traducción epistemológico-académica de la cosmovisión andina Sumak Kawsay. Se parte de la hipótesis de que el `Buen Vivir´puede ofrecer una perspectiva ecológica de este derecho: mas local,...
2021
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