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Journal article
Una evaluación de las propiedades fisicoquímicas de suelo en sistema productivo de maíz - algodón y arroz en el Valle del Sinú en Colombia
Los sistemas de producción agrícolas en la subregión Valle del Sinú, en Colombia, en los últimos 50 años, se han basado en la siembra de cultivos en rotación o alternancia de maíz - algodón y arroz, y se caracterizan por el uso intensivo de implementos de mecanización e insumos agrícolas....
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Blog article
Launch of the “Pregnant Women Food Scheme” in South Korea
In 2019, the South Korean organic movement in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. This was for the provision of environmentally-friendly food[1] to pregnant women and new mothers in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Jeonnam Province, and twenty-three...
Republic of Korea
2020 - IFOAM – Organics International
Video
La mejor técnica!! Zapallo Colgado!!
En este video te mostramos en detalle y paso a paso, como cultivamos nuestro Zapallo Colgado.
Desde la siembra, hasta obtener tus Zapallos Anco, viendo el crecimiento, como se conducen las ramas y como se refuerzan algunos zapallos para que luego se conserven colgados por muchisimo más tiempo, sin problemas...
2020 - Soy Ahora!
Blog article
Repurposing Farm Machinery
Many farmers in Europe and North America are burdened with debts due to the heavy investments they have made over the years to buy farm machinery. A new tractor easily costs 100,000 Euro or more. New agricultural policies often force farmers to change as well.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2020 - AgroInsight
Video
Reproducción y almacenamiento de semillas criollas
Este video muestra cómo seleccionar, reproducir y almacenar semillas criollas, a diferencias con semillas híbridas.
2020 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) de Costa Rica
Policy brief/paper
Can small farms and small food businesses in Northern Europe contribute to sustainable food security?
There is widespread acknowledgement and appreciation in Northern Europe of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity, and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage. The EU-funded SALSA project set out to examine another potentially important role of small farms – their contribution...
2020 - SALSA – Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security
Conference paper
Closing the yield gap under uncertain weather: risk analysis of cropping system intensification in family agriculture of the tropics
How far do risks related to rainfall inter-annual variability limit the shift from extensive to intensive farming systems in family agriculture of the tropics? We explored this question in the Brazilian cerrado, where high average rainfall (up to 1500mm y-1) but large inter-annual variability of weather translates into strongly varying...
2020 - HaL Archives Ouvertes
Report
Informe Anual FONTAGRO 2018-2019
Conozca las actividades más destacadas en el Informe Anual FONTAGRO del período 2017-2018.
FONTAGRO se creó 1998 con el propósito de promover el incremento de la competitividad del sector agroalimentario, asegurando el manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales y la reducción de la pobreza en la región. El objetivo de FONTAGRO...
2020 - FONTAGRO
Practices
Labour-saving technologies and practices: improved storage facilities
The following provides features of improved stores facilities for grains. It also details the advantages and disadvantages of this practice? which include labour saving, livelihood resilience strengthening, livelihood diversification, skills, equipment, cost, and risk.
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Event
Impactos, desafíos y estrategias frente al COVID-19 en la Agricultura Familiar
La pandemia provocada por el COVID-19 requiere, además de las medidas sanitarias adoptadas por los gobiernos, respuestas coordinadas para proteger a los sectores más vulnerables; mantener los sistemas agroalimentarios eficientes, inclusivos, resilientes y sensibles a la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria y nutricional. Y, consecuentemente, poder mitigar los efectos sociales y...
2020 - OndaRural
Newsletter
Sistemas alimentarios y COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe: Impactos y oportunidades en la producción de alimentos frescos
El sector agroalimentario, pese a cumplir una función social de primera necesidad, no ha sido inmune al novel coronavirus, cuya retahíla de efectos ha interrumpido el normal funcionamiento de las cadenas alimentarias. En el sector agroalimentario, los inéditos problemas han dado lugar a inéditos desafíos. En América Latina y el...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Manual
Innovative Pastoralism
Achieving productivity and sustainability for food security
‘“Business as usual” is no longer an option for a food-secure future. Pastoralism can be an innovative system: a time-tested, undervalued alternative to high-input and resource-intensive farming, and a valuable lesson for the much needed evolution towards ‘farming with nature’, with largely-untapped potential for income growth and employment in marginal...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Management of the aquaponic systems
Aquaponics is the integration of recirculating aquaculture and hydroponics in one production system. Although the production of fish and vegetables is the most visible output of aquaponic units, it is essential to understand that aquaponics is the management of a complete ecosystem that includes three major groups of organisms: fish,...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Labour-saving technologies and practices: draught animal powered and motorised crop processing
The following technology provides some examples of the utilisation of animal power as an energy source for post-harvest operations. It details features of draught animal-driven equipment, motorized grain milling (plate, roller and hammer mills), motorized oil extraction (screw-auger press, cage press, and centrifugal cracker for palm oil), motorized cassava processing,...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Tsetse Muse: helping planners to design cost-effective tsetse control strategies
Tsetse flies live in 36 countries and a total area of between 9 and 10 million square kilometres in Africa. Throughout this area the disease transmitted by the tsetse fly, Trypanosomiasis (or Trypanosomosis), has a significant effect on large numbers of livestock. About 50 million cattle and tens of millions of...
Botswana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Simple techniques for production of dried meat
Drying meat under natural temperatures, humidity and circulation of the air, including the direct influence of sun rays, is the oldest method of meat preservation. It consists of gradual dehydration of pieces of meat cut to a specific uniform shape that permits the equal and simultaneous drying of whole batches...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Women’s empowerment through collective action: How forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference
Half of the 1.5 billion people globally who rely on forest landscapes for subsistence and cash income are women. Many see the benefits of participating in various forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs). These include both general community, smallholder farmer and indigenous people’s organisations and more specific women-only groups –...
Ghana - Kenya - Philippines
2020 - International Insitute for Environment and Development
Blog article
Learning Together: The Agroecology Movement Shares Strategies for Impact
In February 2020, more than 100 participants from nearly 30 countries gathered together for a week-long global learning exchange on agroecology. The practitioners work at the intersection of policy, scientific research, grassroots movement-building, and natural farming practices. They were joined by 18 donors, a half-dozen advisors, and other agroecology allies.
The...
2020 - Agroecology Fund
Report
Situating small-scale fisheries in the global struggle for agroecology and food sovereignty
This report explores the politics and practices of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the context of the global movement for agroecology and food sovereignty. It frames the policy context and explains the challenges related to SSF initiatives and communities and how they organize to address them. It shows how alternative food...
2020
Blog article
Cultivando justicia socioambiental: la memoria biocultural como fundamento de la Agroecología
En medio de la crisis socioambiental y los impactos de la agricultura intensiva, ha surgido la agroecología como una opción que propone una visión sistémica del alimento, considerando no sólo la regeneración del suelo y las relaciones ecológicas de los agroecosistemas, sino también la dignificación de las y los agricultores. El...
2020 - Ladera Sur
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