The magnitude and urgency of the challenges facing agriculture and food systems demand profound modifications in different aspects of human activity to achieve real transformative change and sustainability. Recognizing that the inherent complexity of achieving sustainability is commonly seen as a deterrent to decision-making, the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Fishers find their voice in the Netherlands: their traditional gear is finally recognized.

While Seychelles Blue Bond scheme for conservation funding is often portrayed in glowing terms, the initiative has several inherent contradictions

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), se encuentra volcada a apoyar a los países miembros a mitigar los diferentes efectos de la pandemia de COVID-19 sobre las sociedades rurales, la agricultura y los sistemas alimentarios. Este boletín proporciona a los tomadores de decisiones en...

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...

Across the world the COVID-19 crisis is compromising agri-enterprises’ ability to continue business as usual and, in some cases, is threatening the survival of some firms beyond the crisis, particularly small businesses comprised of farm enterprises, traders, food manufacturers, distributors and retailers across food chains. The brief highlights the critical...

This article highlights historical aspects of the origin of Colombian Creole cattle, with an emphasis on Sanmartinero (SM) cattle, which developed in the foothills and altillanura of the Colombian Orinoquia region, thanks to the work of natural selection and the zootechnical effort of the Jesuits, in the seventeenth century, with...

Organic farmers give first priority to the prevention of the introduction and multiplication of weeds. Management practices aim at keeping the weed population at a level that does not result in economic loss of the crop cultivation or harms its quality. The goal is not to completely eradicate all weeds,...

Este video ofrece sencillas recomendaciones a agricultores y agricultoras familiares para protegerse ante la COVID-19 durante el desarrollo de su trabajo y orientaciones en caso de aparición de síntomas asociados al virus en algún miembro de la familia.

En este video se explica paso a paso cómo tratar residuos domésticos y a la vez, producir un abono orgánico tipo compost para tu huerta urbana o rural.

Juan Carlos Rivera vive en el Corredor Seco de El Salvador, un área donde las altas temperaturas, las bajas precipitaciones y las sequías habituales plantean retos constantes para su vida diaria. Es un agricultor que reproduce y vende conejos y codornices, pero con el inicio de la pandemia de COVID-19,...

Anthurium andraeanum (Hort.) is an important ornamental in the tropical cut-flower industry. However, there is currently not enough information to establish a clear connection between the genetic model(s) proposed and the putative genes involved in the differentiation between colors. In this study, 18 cDNA libraries related to the spathe color and...

COVID-19 pandemic has put local food systems at risk of disruptions along the entire agri-food value chain. Cities and local governments are currently playing a major role in limiting the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and in mitigating disruptions to their local food systems.  To better understand the situation,...

Without proper implementation of the SSF Guidelines, plans for the Blue Economy and Blue Growth will come to naught for small-scale fisheries. The European Union presents the Blue Economy and Blue Growth as follows: “Europe can unlock the untapped potential for growth in its blue economy while safeguarding biodiversity and protecting...

This document presents the results of the EIP AGRI Focus Group (FG) ‘Reducing food loss on the farm’, identifying the principal on-farm practices and technologies that can minimise such losses. Addressing these losses is a major societal challenge and forms a key pillar of the UN’s Strategic Development Goals (SDGs)....

Las buenas prácticas son indispensables para que los productores agropecuarios puedan garantizar la calidad de sus productos, el bienestar de los animales y el bienestar propio. La selección adecuada del lugar para instalar el apiario es parte esencial de las buenas prácticas. Este debe ser un espacio que cuente con...

The identification of influencing factors in crop yield (kg·ha-1) provides essential information for decision-making processes related to the prediction and improvement of productivity, which gives farmers the opportunity to increase their income. The current study investigates the application of multiple machine learning algorithms for cocoa yield prediction and influencing factors...

Pest and disease management consists of a range of activities that support each other. Most management practices are long-term activities that aim at preventing pests and diseases from affecting a crop. Management focuses on keeping existing pest populations and diseases low. Control on the other and is a short-term activity...

Mori Gouroubera from Benin, Boazi Winston from Tanzania and Neeraj Kumar from India are budding entrepreneurs. Although they come from diverse cultural, social and educational backgrounds, they are closely bound by a common link. All three of them are part of a network of passionate young entrepreneurs spanning Africa and Asia,...

Social capital is a key factor that concerns the ability of people to cooperate for common goals. What we have learned over the past decades, from organizational experiences in developing countries and countries in transition, is that physical and human capital accumulation by itself is not sufficient to induce development....