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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
Book part
Bacterias promotoras del crecimiento vegetal: filogenia, microbioma, y perspectivas
Las bacterias son extremadamente versátiles metabólicamente, pues pueden tomar diversas fuentes de carbono para su multiplicación, respirar anaeróbicamente y usar múltiples donadores orgánicos e inorgánicos de electrones, entre otras capacidades. También son capaces de interactuar con especies mayores, como hongos, animales o plantas, y estas interacciones pueden ser positivas, neutras...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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
Fact sheet
Monthly report on food price trends - May 2021
International cereal prices followed mixed trends in April. Prices of maize increased mostly on tightening supplies, but those of wheat remained steady due to generally adequate export availabilities. By contrast, international prices of barley and sorghum fell slightly, while those of rice declined further on currency movements and slow trading...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Hands on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus - A new approach to support food security and sustainable agriculture in the NENA region
Water, energy and food are essential for human well-being, poverty reduction and sustainable development.
The term ‘nexus’ has been used in a variety of contexts with the aim of advancing the understanding of how sectors are inter-linked, how sector policies impact each other and, in turn, to inform coherent cross-sectoral governance....
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book part
Caracterización geográfica y tecnologías locales de producción asociadas al sistema productivo papa en el departamento de Nariño
La variabilidad en la distribución espacial de los sistemas productivos agrícolas en genera l ha dif icultado el desarrollo de acciones institucionales, regionales y locales que permitan la gestión y la solución concreta a limitantes de cualquier orden, asociadas al desarrollo de actividades en localidades particulares (Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Fact sheet
Berenjena C029 variedad Corpoica
Variedad de berenjena con frutos de color morado - oscuro a negro, con peso promedio de fruto de 307 gramos. Obtenida de la selección directa en campo de agricultores, presenta frutos de alto valor comercial, con un inicio de floración 45,9 días después del trasplante, con un tiempo de cosecha...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
E-learning
Cómo usar la metodología de la FAO para calcular daños y pérdidas
Este curso forma parte de una serie de cursos en la que se presenta la metodología para la evaluación de daños y pérdidas de la FAO, que se ha elaborado para ayudar a los países a generar datos precisos e integrales para el sector agrícola, en respuesta a los desastres...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
Elaboración de lombricompost
Debido a los altos costos de los fertilizantes químicos, la fertilización representa una de las partes más importantes de los gastos de los agricultores. Por esta razón es fundamental la búsqueda de alternativas viables, sostenibles y sustentables que puedan ayudar a solucionar esta problemática. Una de estas alternativas es la...
Guatemala
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Miscellanea
Bio Gardening innovations
Food forests in Kenya are using modern forestry techniques to create food sovereignty and security.
The holistic gardening project in Emuhaya, Western Kenya, is attracting local and international acclaim. Bio Gardening Innovations (BIOGI) is equipping smallholder farmers to break away from monocultures and create thriving, overflowing “food forests” on their farmland.
2021 - AFSA
Book
Renewable energy for agri-food systems: Towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement
In 2021, the United Nations Secretary-General will convene the Food Systems Summit to advance dialogue and action towards transforming the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food guided by the overarching vision of a fairer, more sustainable world. The Secretary-General will also convene the High-Level Dialogue on Energy...
2021 - FAO
E-learning
Protección Social, Género y mujeres rurales
El equipo de género de la Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe ha considerado la necesidad de fortalecer las capacidades técnicas de gobiernos, sociedad civil e instituciones responsables de políticas, planes y programas de protección social para la integración efectiva del enfoque de género en...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihood
Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide. As part of the FAO efforts on generating evidence and knowledge, and in compliance with the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the purpose of the Country Gender Assessment...
Ukraine
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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