Disturbio común en zona cafetera desde la década de los años 60; sin embargo, en los últimos años (2010 - 2021) se ha registrado mayor incidencia, con pérdidas importantes en cultivos de banano y plátano. 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/

Un buen estado sanitario de los animales y la posibilidad de responder en eventos de emergencia buscando sustituir los recursos alimentarios de los animales que ya no están disponibles en cantidades adecuadas, son acciones prioritarias de respuesta y manejo en una situación de emergencia climática. Esto fue diseñado principalmente con...

The need to ensure farmers’ livelihoods and welfare as well as national food security urges decision-makers to effectively tackle the challenges posed by climate change. Understanding how climate change affects the crop sector is essential for identifying appropriate and effective solutions to increase the resilience of the agriculture sector to...

The aim of this fact sheet is to highlight the realities and challenges of urban women’s entrepreneurial work in the agriculture sector, or agripreneurship, in the Gaza Strip. It is an initiative by the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) & Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF), committed to enhancing...

Some two-thirds of the emissions from global food systems come from the land-based sector, comprising agriculture, land use and land use changes. That figure is higher for developing countries, but also declining significantly in step with decreasing deforestation and increasing downstream activities such as food processing and refrigeration. In terms of...

This course has been designed to support the inclusion of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approaches in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. It provides technical knowledge on these concepts and examines how implementation of CSA practices can enhance mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the sector.

We are all familiar with organic milk, organic fruit and vegetables, or organic chocolate, but when one reads “Organic Sri Lanka”, one may have difficulty grasping what this really is about. For sure, it cannot mean that the entire country is organic. Or does it?

Helianthus annuus (sunflower) is an oilseed crop with multiple food and industrial uses, such as production of edible oil, the biofuel industry, the manufacture of soap and fodder production. Sunflower is the most important honey plant, considering the large areas cultivated with sunflower and the quality of nectar. Due to...

Un sistema agroforestal integra más de una especie cultivable en la misma área, con el fin de brindar un nivel de luz adecuado al cultivo y lograr el máximo beneficio económico. 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/

La inclusión de la gastronomía en los Programas de Alimentación Escolar (PAE) de América Latina y elCaribe constituye una forma de fortalecer dichos programas, al mejorar su eficiencia a través del incremento en la aceptación e ingesta en los menús y de la disminución de las pérdidas y desperdicios de...

During a field visit while working for Greenpeace Africa, Claire came face-to-face with the reality of the farmers in Kenya who were struggling with conventional agricultural practices. These challenges ranged from an unhealthy dependency on chemical inputs, to not being able to exchange or share seeds amongst farmers. This meant that...

We all depend on healthy ecosystems for food and energy security, water supplies and biodiversity. Their continued degradation contributes to climate change and enhances the risk of an ecological collapse. The widespread loss of functioning ecosystems would be catastrophic for our planet and a huge setback on all the progress...

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The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) regularly calls for proposals to support global and regional apex forest and farm producers’ organizations. In 2019, FFF focused on ways organizations can improve service delivery to their members. Three organizations, the Network of Farmers Organizations and Agricultural Producers of West Africa (ROPPA), the...

The number of women in farming has been slowly increasing in recent years. The most recent data (Eurostat 2016) suggests that, on average, 29% of farms across the EU are managed by a woman. But this data masks some considerable differences between countries. In Lithuania and Latvia, nearly half of all...

Se considera el problema sanitario más importante en el país, con una amplia distribución a nivel nacional. De fácil disperción a través de: fuentes de agua, escorrentía, suelo contaminado, animales domésticos, insectos plaga, herramientas y material de propagación. 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/ ...

The Book gathers fourteen inspiring stories from six countries as evidence to the transformative power of biodiversity-based ecological agriculture on the economic, social and cultural life of farming communities. The case studies demonstrate how diversified  agricultural systems helped farmers abandon chemical inputs, increase income from organic methods, improve soil health...

I f agroecology, local seed systems, and indigenous livestock breeding practices in Africa were not resilient, they would not have survived the hundreds of years of infiltration from imports. Stories in this publication demonstrate how local seed systems continue to be a fundamental component of agroecology and African food systems....

Modern high-performance cultivars need fertile soils and have high nitrogen requirements in particular. FiBL, Agroscope and Agridea tested little-used cereal crops under less intensive conditions and investigated how a high level of quality can be ensured all the way from crop production to milling and to the bakeries. The production of...

A regional virtual workshop marked the launch of an FAO project that aims to increase the effectiveness of small ruminant production and reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity. Funded by Turkey, the project is designed to increase knowledge on efficient small ruminant production systems in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan...