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...

Access Agriculture Panorama No. 14 - September 2021 Newsletter

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...

En musáceas los fitonematodos más devastadores y ampliamente distribuidos son los endoparásitos migratorios: Radopholus similis y Pratylenchus coffeae, y el semiendoparásito Helicotylenchus multicinctus. 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/

Forest and farm smallholders are fighting for their livelihoods and food security. New research shows producers’ practical measures for climate resilience have impact, but barriers remain to scaling the work up and out. In this ‘super year’ of climate and nature, the latest episode of the Make Change Happen podcast hosts...

Agro-input dealers are often thought to be only interested in making money any way that is possible, otherwise known as “making a fast buck.” But enlightened dealers can combine the profit motive with a concern for customers’ well-being to earn their trust and make a business that lasts.

Like many other economies in transition, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan face the dual challenge of promoting development and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and ruminant systems are central for achieving both goals. Given the important economic, nutritional and environmental roles that ruminant systems play in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,...

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de mora enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio...

La Sigatoka es una enfermedad producida por un hongo denominado Mycosphaerella spp. En plátano se conocen dos tipos de Sigatokas. La Sigatoka amarilla se considera endémica en todo el mundo y no es limitante, sin embargo, la Sigatoka negra, requiere de prevención y manejo, porque puede afectar gravemente el desarrollo...

FAO and the International Fertilizer Association (IFA) are pleased to announce the webinar "Fertigation – a tool to simultaneously improve water and nutrient use efficiency", as part of the new series focused on sustainable plant nutrition.Following a successful first event on microbials, this new webinar will focus on fertigation, a technique that entails...

Se trata de una prioridad política, económica, social… Pero los impactos del cambio climático son ya una realidad que afecta muy especialmente a la producción y acceso a alimentos y que, por tanto, ponen en peligro nuestra seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, sobre todo de las comunidades más vulnerables. Como contrapartida, la producción ecológica y la...

In this age of restricted travel, when webinars have taken the place of conferences, at first, I missed face-to-face meetings a lot. But virtual events do allow one to get exposed to far more ideas than before.

To become more sustainable, Europe must diversify its agri-food systems. According to one EU project, this starts with promoting the cultivation and consumption of home-grown legumes. Food systems have a substantial carbon footprint, accounting for one third of greenhouse gas emissions globally. As such, there is an urgency for the sector...

The Corona pandemic has proved that digital tools can tremendously facilitate business processes and allow for many tasks to be performed remotely. This is also true for organic audits and inspections.But some limitations persist, and many people still have reservations towards new technologies. The digital future of organic audits and inspections...