Cereal stovers are widely used for feeding ruminant livestock, and in semi-arid areas sorghum stover may be an important part of livestock diets during the dry season, helping to maintain condition and increase survival. Bird-resistant varieties of sorghum have been bred for use in semi-arid zones to increase yields of...

Rhizobia are naturally occurring soil-borne bacteria, which fix nitrogen in symbiosis with legumes. In beans, an additional inoculation of seeds with such bacteria can increase nitrogen fixation. Rhizobia - based solutions are commercially available and are included in the authorized list of inputs for organic agriculture (https://www.inputs.eu/input-search.html). How to test...

In ‘The Fate of Food’, Amanda Little (professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University) takes us on a strange journey to the cutting edge of agricultural research. Little has an astonishing knack for getting quality face time with some of the most innovative (and busy) people in the...

Kazakhstan, seeking to comply with Eurasian Economic Union standards, is looking to Croatia for inspiration. Croatia successfully upgraded its dairy industry to meet stringent European Union quality and food safety standards – a move resulting in greater industry efficiency, inclusiveness, and dairy exports. FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and...

La tercera conferencia tuvo lugar el Jueves 23 de abril de 2020, 12:00 PM de Chile (GMT-4), contó con: un mensaje de apertura de Julio Berdegué, Sub-Director General y Representante Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe. Panelistas: Markova Concepción Jaramillo, Ministra de Desarrollo Social de Panamá Stella Guillén, Directora de...

Improved grazing land management is vital to increasing food security and alleviating poverty. It also provides environmental benefits. To address these problems, the national Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) programme in Ethiopia initiated a grazing land management project in 2000. Implementation of the technology includes the initial delineating of the...

The agricultural sector in the Caribbean islands such as Grenada is extremely vulnerable to storms and hurricanes. Establishing grass barriers along the contour can help in reducing water runoff and erosion during heavy rainfall. Grass barriers provide erosion control on croplands and offer a cheaper and more sustainable alternative to...

Insecticide treatment of cattle is an important method of tsetse control. However, insecticides applied to cattle have been shown to contaminate dung. This has a significant impact on insects using the dung as a resource, e.g. dung beetles. This reduces the recycling of dung and has a negative impact on...

Drying meat under natural temperatures, humidity and circulation of the air, including direct influence of sun rays, is the oldest method of meat preservation. However, various methods, typical for different regions, exist to produce dried meat with or without additional treatment. The following examples of dried meat techniques are part...

In March 2020, a regional inception workshop was held in Ghana a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) entitled Enhancing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and sustainable livelihoods through better policies, strategies and...

Grafting of tomatoes has the potential to increase tomato seed production under organic conditions. Grafting means to combine the positive characteristics of a rootstock (e.g., increased vigour, resistances to soil-borne diseases) with the positive characteristics (e.g., fruit quality, taste) of the upper part of the plant (scion).

The FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean concluded today with the agreement of all member states on three major priorities that will guide the Organization's actions over the next two years.  The three regional initiatives approved by the Conference are: Sustainable food systems to provide healthy diets for...

Agriculture ? Malnutrition ? Aujourd’hui, pour parler de ces enjeux, il est de mise de parler de « systèmes alimentaires ». La tenue d’un sommet des Nations unies sur les systèmes alimentaires l’an prochain en atteste. Mais qu’est-ce qu’on entend exactement par cette notion ? Et surtout, qu’est-ce qu’elle implique comme...

A través de este video, la FAO destaca la importante labor de los#HéroesDeLaAlimentación 🌽Agricultores 🎣Pescadores 🐄Ganaderos 🐝Apicultores 🥚Avicultores Gracias a su trabajo mantienen a la población abastecida durante la pandemia asegurando su alimentación.

 The following explains the basic technical aspects of a motorised single-axle mower and a reaper. It also details their advantages and disadvantages.    Description 1. Features of motorized single-axle mowers and reapers  Single-axle mowers and reapers generally range in power from around 1.5 kW to 10 kW. The operator usually walks behind them, although some...

The availability of feed resources is, in many areas, a major limiting factor to smallholder milk production. Storage and transport of conserved fodder is an integral component of solutions to this constraint. Using farmer-evaluated strategies, a low-cost, practical and economical method for transporting animal feed material was developed. The technique,...

The meat dryers are constructions of wood, metal and/or concrete, stationary or mobile, without or with a roof. For strips suspended by hooks or with a loop attached or fixed by clips, removable horizontal bars, either made of wood or metal or horizontal wire strings are needed. The following description...

The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) of Argentina organizes a cycle of 11 virtual meetings on agroecology through Instagram. The meetings are happening every Thursday from 18:00 to 19:30 (GMT-3). A special issue on "Agroecology at FAO" will be held on 30 June 2020 at 16:00 (GMT-3) with the participation of Anne Mottet...

Este curso busca reforzar y complementar los esfuerzos nacionales para llevar adelante una gestión eficiente de prevención. Este curso se dirige a todos los actores de la cadena alimentaria y otorga una certificación.

Como práctica, la agroecología propone el diseño y manejo sostenible de los agroecosistemas con criterios ecológicos (Altieri 1995, Gliessman, 2002) a través de formas de acción social colectiva y propuestas de desarrollo participativo que impulsan formas de producción y comercialización de alimentos y demás productos agroganaderos que contribuyen a dar...