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Decenio Agricultura Familiar Latinoamérica y El Caribe
En diciembre de 2017, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas proclamó el Decenio de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura Familiar (UNDAF, 2019-2028) para servir como marco para que los países desarrollen políticas públicas, programas e inversiones para el sector.
El decenio tiene como objetivo reconocer la importancia de los...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Seed Markets for Agroecology
PCD Discussion Paper on Seeds and Food Security
With this briefing, ACT Alliance EU intends to share insights on the forthcoming reform in 2021 of EU seed legislation with partners in the global South. The new EU Organic Regulation and the recent adoption of the European Green Deal are expected to have far reaching impacts on EU seed...
2020 - ACT Alliance EU
Video
Cœur de maïs. Al rescate de la cultura gastronómica mexicana de maíz en Francia
Entrevista sobre campaña para educar a las y los consumidores franceses sobre la riqueza de la gastronomía mexicana, basada en una gran variedad de maíces criollos y productos de la milpa llenos de colores, sabores, calidad nutricional y cultura.
Entrevistadora:
Mercedes López Martínez - Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos
Entrevistadas:
Silvia Flores - Fundadora de...
Mexico
2020 - Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos
Video
Charla de compostaje 2020
Este video muestra todo sobre el compostaje, técnicas, aireación, uso de microorganismos, consejos, etc.
2020
Blog article
Un terrain d’entente
Les agriculteurs ont besoin de nouvelles idées et les chercheurs ont besoin de données. Lorsque ces deux groupes professionnels se rencontrent dans le cadre d’une recherche collaborative ou participative, il est souvent difficile de savoir qui doit évoluer dans quelle direction : les agriculteurs ont-ils besoin de connaître les protocoles...
Niger
2020 - AgroInsight, Access Agriculture
Technical paper
COVID-19 and the risk to food supply chains: How to respond?
As the COVID-19 pandemic turns into a global crisis, countries are taking measures to contain the pandemic.
Supermarket shelves remain stocked for now. But a protracted pandemic crisis could quickly put a strain on the food supply chains, which is a complex web of interactions involving farmers, agricultural inputs, processing plants,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Forest and Farm Facility - COVID-19
COVID-19 has strong impacts on rural producers. Forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) are providing immediate emergency responses – particularly in the areas of information sharing and crisis service provision. FFPOs are offering grounded solutions for resilience in building back better secure landscape-based production systems and introducing innovative solutions that...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Hardening crabs in floating cages
You can make a cage from bamboo to contain the crabs. Soft crabs must be separated so they do not fight and damage each other. Give each crab half of a tiny fish per day. If the crab has not eaten its food, it is sick and must be removed....
Bangladesh
2020 - Shushilan
Practices
The Inga tree model: regenerative agroforestry
Inga alley-cropping is a system of deep mulching using pruned green leaves from the trees which are contour-planted in hedgerows. Within about 24 months, the Inga trees will have recaptured the site from invasive grasses and will be ready for their first pruning. Following cropping, the trees are left to...
Honduras
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Biosecurity measures in beekeeping concerning main honeybee diseases of Apis mellifera
Biosecurity measures in beekeeping are all the operational activities implemented by beekeepers to reduce the risk of introduction and spread of specific honeybee disease agents. Biosecurity measures can differ between different regions due to local factors such as climatic conditions, beekeeping equipment used, or bee races, and the prevalence, virulence...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Flood-tolerant rice variety
This technology describes the performance of flood-tolerant rice varieties in flood-prone areas of Lao PDR, including a comparison with local rice varieties monitored within the same farms. Details on local and improved varieties are provided as well as a step by step description on its usage. Additionally, major costs and...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Food security under the COVID-19 pandemic
The document highlights the measures to confront the impact of the pandemic. The report points out that the main challenge in the short term is to guarantee the access to food, especially for those who have lost their source of income. The FAO report also recommends CELAC to reactivate its...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manual
The Global Action for Fall Armyworm Control: Action framework 2020–2022
Fall armyworm (FAW), or Spodoptera frugiperda, is a plant pest originating in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Over the last few years, FAW has rapidly spread around Africa, Asia and and, most recently, Oceania. Concerted action is essential to prevent this pest from threatening the food security...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Mejorando la resistencia a sequías de los cultivos de trigo
El Cantón de Juye, un área localizada en una zona de depresión, recibe 500 mm en promedio de precipitación anual. Sin embargo, durante las últimas décadas, la imprevisibilidad del cambio climático ha expuesta esta región a graves sequías, sobre todo en primavera e invierno. Por otro lado, China es el...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Website
THE BARN - A repository of collective action stories
Inside the Barn you’ll find different examples of collective action in sustainable agriculture, marketing and the environment. Some are works in progress, some are works concluded, others are just at the start or even a plan of a project with an expected impact. They are united by a common objective...
2020 - The BOND Project
Blog article
Europe's Agroecology Movement – Progressing in Times of COVID-19
In a series of webinars organized by Forum Synergies and ARC2020, four innovative and committed agroecology initiatives gave an insight into how they strengthened to the challenge at the time of COVID-19. Dozens of people from across Europe and beyond took part in the conversation. The event provided a moment of reflection, some...
2020 - Forum Synergies and ARC2020
Journal article
Ethnic and cultural diversity amongst yak herding communities in the Asian highlands
Ethnic and cultural diversity amongst yak herding communities in the Asian highlands
Yak (Bos grunniens L.) herding plays an important role in the domestic economy throughout much of the Asian highlands. Yak represents a major mammal species of the rangelands found across the Asian highlands from Russia and Kyrgyzstan in the west to the Hengduan Mountains of China in the east. Yak...
2020 - ICIMOD
E-learning
Taller: “Control de chapulines en tu huerto”
Germán Palacios, parte del equipo Vía Orgánica, nos da estas increíbles explicaciones de cómo lidiar con las plagas de chapulines, hay plagas que podrían ser tus aliadas, siempre y cuando actúes a tiempo o sepas identificar el momento preciso.
2020 - Vía Orgánica
Case study
A community of farmers and fisherfolk, a community of heroes
The resilience of Valencia’s “L’Horta” in times of COVID-19
Amparo Aleixandre's routine is no longer the same. These days, she receives orders through text messages, most of them come from her neighbors in the town of El Palmar, an island with about 700 inhabitants, surrounded by the Albufera lagoon, rice crops and orchards. El Palmar is several kilometers away...
Spain
2020 - FAO
Practices
Good beekeeping practices (GBP): extensive list of GBP classified according to the general management operations in the apiary
Good beekeeping practices (GBPs) are a set of integrative activities that beekeepers apply to obtain optimal health for humans, honeybees and the environment. They are general measures valid for beekeeping activities and are globally accepted. They are a tool for beekeepers to successfully address the challenges face in day-to-day apiary...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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