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Key P-IRIS’ messages about rural innovation networks
P-IRIS was based on the demand from Managing Authorities (MAs) to better support rural innovation in these regions. The initiative to address the issue through a project was taken during Euromontana’s General Assembly in November 2015. P-IRIS includes several members of our network: the County of Vestland (Norway), the Province of...
2021 - EuroMontana
Blog article
ICTs as the key to farmer empowerment
According to the author Napoleon Hill, “all achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.” Mori Goroubera, Head of ISADA Consulting in Benin, would certainly agree with this statement. His enterprise model was selected as one of the 25 best ideas in an Africa-wide competition in 2020 for...
Benin
2021 - Access Agriculture
Report
Sheep and Goats in Fiji and Papua New Guinea
A Success Story
Humans domesticated sheep and goat thousands of years before the cow. Initially sheep and goat were the livelihood source mainly for meat, milk and skin and now commercial production is order of the day. Global production of sheep meat is 9 million tons and developing countries are at the top...
Fiji - Papua New Guinea
2021 - Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAAri)
Book
Coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models
A new paradigm for territorial development?
This book offers a framework with which to analyse the coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models and in so doing takes a new look at territorial development. It puts this framework to the test by subjecting it to a series of conceptual works and case studies in France...
France
2021 - Éditions Quae
Report
Public food procurement for sustainable food systems and healthy diets - Volume 2
Sustainable Public Food Procurement (PFP) represents a key game changer for food systems transformation. It can influence both food consumption and food production patterns. It can deliver multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits towards sustainable food systems for healthy diets.
This publication aims to contribute to the improved understanding, dissemination, and...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root Crops in Uganda - Luganda
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Uganda
2021
Report
Food Outlook: Biannual Report on Global Food Market
Global food trade is poised for a resilient year ahead even as international food commodity prices are set to remain high amid supply and demand uncertainties, according to a new report released today by the Food and Agricuture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The report notes that trade flows continued to reach...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Fact sheet
Manejo integrado de enfermedades: reconocimiento y manejo de elefantiasis
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.
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AGROMETRICS
CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Cuidado de la salud de ovejas y cabras y corrales mejorados
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...
Colombia
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Policy brief/paper
Climate change impact on crop production in Sri Lanka: challenges and adaptation options
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...
Sri Lanka
2021 - FAO Plant Production and Protection Division, the FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment and governmental institutions of Sri Lanka
Fact sheet
Urban Women Agripreneurship in the Gaza Strip, Facts & Challenges
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...
Palestine
2021 - Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)
Blog article
Food systems account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions
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...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
E-learning
Climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture
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.
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Organic Sri Lanka
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?
Sri Lanka
2021 - Access Agriculture
Journal article
AN OVERVIEW OF ORGANIC SUNFLOWER PRODUCTION IN ROMANIA
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...
Romania
2021 - "Gh. Zane" Institute for Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
Practices
Manejo agronómico: sistemas agroforestales
Cacao-Theobroma cacao
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.
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Noticias científicas
AGROMETRICS
CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Case study
Alimentación sabrosa y sin desperdicios
La alternativa para mejorar el uso de los recursos públicos en los Programas de Alimentación Escolar en América Latina y el Caribe
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...
Chile - Colombia - Guatemala
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Knowledge on Sustainable Farming Should be Accessible to All
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...
2021 - Organic without Boundaries
Website
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
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...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Newsletter
Give wings to women entrepreneurs in rural India
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 14 - September 2021 Newsletter
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture
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