Investments in agriculture, including in innovation in the banana sector, are crucial to increasing the capacity for agricultural productivity and sustainable food production systems are necessary to achieve #ZeroHunger. With a general public audience in mind, the brochure Together, we can prevent the spread of TR4 seeks to explain why...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc globally, generating significant challenges that could result in risks to food security and nutrition in many countries. Countries are ordering lockdowns, restricting movement and observing physical distancing to curb the pandemic. Disruptions in supply chains resulting from blockages on transport routes, transport restrictions...

Coconut shells are used to make honey harvesting easy and to decrease the mortality rate of young bees or the brood. The usual way of harvesting honey from wild colonies destroys a large portion of the nest. The bees spend long time to mend the damaged nest. This problem is...

African Rice Center: “The quality is very important for us to push back the dumping from outside, if we don’t do it; whether its from Africa, whether it’s from my mother’s kitchen, people are not going to buy it, so we have to become competitive, we have to develop competitive...

While there is little doubt that the COVID pandemic will eventually be conquered, it has left the world to cope with long lasting damage. The damage has not been uniform. Rather, pre-existing inequalities have determined who will be hit the hardest. As a new report puts it, “Women and girls...

La lima ácida Tahití tiene su centro de origen en Asia, y en el mundo se ha adaptado a latitudes entre los 20o N y los 35o S, lo que ha asegurado la conservación de la especie. En Colombia, el cultivo se encuentra en altitudes que van desde el nivel...

Chicken diseases can cause significant loss for farmers. Due to the frequency in which diseases affect chickens at nearly every change of season, farmers get discouraged to raise chickens. The most common diseases often infecting chickens in rural areas are Newcastle disease and fowl cholera. This practice includes instructions on...

This short practical guide describes how pastoralists can produce strong, healthy animals and good-quality milk that will fetch a good price. It goes into detail on how to produce for different markets, how to keep animals healthy, the specificities on how and what to feed them, choosing the right breeds...

In this video, Malian farmers show us how to prepare a seedbed. Establishing a good seedbed is needed to obtain strong seedlings and giving crop a good start.

Achieving food and nutrition security for all in a changing and globalized world remains a critical challenge of utmost importance. The development of solutions benefits from insights derived from modelling and simulating the complex interactions of the agri-food system, which range from global to household scales and transcend disciplinary boundaries....

Dans cette vidéo, nous allons apprendre à reconnaître la maladie de Newcastle, et les signes, les causes, les moyens de prévention, de contrôle et de gestion de cette maladie dévastatrice.

Pour la conduite d’une ruche à barrette type Topbar Hive (TBH), une étape cruciale sera l’amorçage des barrettes, sur lesquelles les abeilles s'accrocheront pour construire leurs rayons de cire. Cette amorce guidera les abeilles et les forcera à construire leurs rayons de façon précise le long des barrettes. Ceci permet...

This Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) good practice technology consists in the introduction of drought-resistant fish species such as common carp for aquaculture production in dry areas of Lao PDR. These fish species grow faster than usually raised species such as Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) and tilapia. Furthermore, they can survive in...

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, many countries are adopting measures to control the spread of the virus. While the health aspects of the pandemic have not affected rural areas as much as urban centres, containment measures pose new challenges to rural women with regards to their roles in household food...

This practical guide describes services that pastoralists need to market their animals, milk and hides effectively. It covers market information, financial services, transport, market facilities, and processing plants.

In December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) to serve as a framework for developing public policies and investments to support family farming worldwide. This is an extraordinary opportunity as the UNDFF can significantly contribute to the achievement of the 2030...

CESAL, con el apoyo de la Agencia Andaluza de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AACID), ha construido una represa en la aldea “3 de Fevereiro”, en el distrito de Mecúfi, provincia de Cabo Delgado. Esta obra hidráulica forma parte del abordaje de CESAL para impulsar la cosecha tradicional de agua en la...

La calidad agronómica, genética y fitosanitaria del material de siembra empleado para el establecimiento de un huerto productivo de lima ácida Tahití determina en gran medida su éxito y sostenibilidad. Para la siembra en campo, es importante utilizar material sano, que corresponda fielmente a la variedad a la cual pertenece,...

Pour la conduite d’une ruche à barrette type Topbar Hive (TBH), une étape cruciale sera l’amorçage des barrettes, sur lesquelles les abeilles s'accrocheront pour construire leurs rayons de cire. Cette amorce guidera les abeilles et les forcera à construire leurs rayons de façon précise le long des barrettes. Ceci permet...

This brief highlights some of the identified and perceived impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on development aspects interconnected with the forest sector, with a particular emphasis on the impacts on the production and trade of forest products. It proposes a series of recommendations as a basis for policy development in...