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Women’s empowerment through collective action: how can forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference
This research report explores different organisational structures and social and cultural services from a gender-equality and women’s empowerment perspective. More specifically, it examines how access to social and cultural services can facilitate women’s participation in economic and political life. The producer organisation business model provides advantages in creating job opportunities...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Marketing animals and milk
This practical guide provides advice on where pastoralists can sell their products. It explains different outcomes for milk and animal product types and identifies advantages and disadvantages of market types and market chains.
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Cashing in with parboiled rice (demonstration video)
Rice is highly nutritious, however a lot of its quality is lost during processing. This results in poor quality rice on the market. Therefore, consumers turn to imported rice. In this video you will learn about parboiling, a way to improve rice quality by treating paddy with warm water and...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Participatory approaches: client-oriented rice-breeding
High potential rice production systems have diverse biophysical and socio-economic environments, but there is a lack of rice varieties matching this diversity. A number of advanced breeding lines have recently been developed to match these production systems. Therefore, suitable varieties for diverse rice-producing environments were developed in high potential production...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Technical paper
FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme for Europe and Central Asia
The COVID-19 pandemic is jeopardizing human health and disrupting the food systems that are the foundations of health. Unless we take immediate action, we could face a global food emergency of severity and scale unseen for more than half a century.
FAO is calling for USD 1.2 billion in initial investments to finance FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Fact sheet
Managing rangelands: promoting sustainable rangeland management practices-Grazing management for improving soil stability, plant health and ecosystem integrity
Brief about the key components of grazing management, benefits of proper grazing and Effective grazing management.
Tunisia
2020 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
E-learning
Taller: “Cultiva Hortalizas de temporada”
Sonia Piña y Kristal, del equipo de Equipo Vía Orgánica nos comparte a un taller más para aprender a cultivar hortalizas en temporada de lluvias.
2020
Video
Management of Newcastle disease
In this video we will learn how to recognise Newcastle disease, and the signs, causes, prevention, control and management of this devastating disease.
Malawi
2020 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Ministros y Secretarios de Agricultura de 34 países de las Américas coordinan acciones para garantizar la alimentación frente al COVID-19
FAO e IICA facilitaron una inédita reunión hemisférica para fortalecer la respuesta de 34 países de las Américas a la pandemia del coronavirus COVID-19.
Ministros y Secretarios de Agricultura de 34 países de las Américas se reunieron hoy de forma remota para compartir sus políticas, acciones y planes para enfrentar el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en la seguridad alimentaria de sus poblaciones, en la agricultura, los sistemas alimentarios y el mundo rural.
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2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Technical paper
El impacto del COVID-19 en los pueblos indígenas de América Latina-Abya Yala
Entre la invisibilización y la resistencia colectiva
El presente documento tiene como principal objetivo informar sobre los efectos más significativos del COVID-19 en los medios y las formas de vida de los pueblos indígenas, así como brindar recomendaciones técnicas a los Gobiernos de la región para visibilizar y fortalecer sus mecanismos de contención, mitigación y recuperación ante...
2020 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Practices
Stonebrood (aspergillosis): a fungal disease of the brood and adult honeybees
Stonebrood, or aspergillosis, is caused by different species of fungi belonging to the Aspergillus genus. The disease is identified by hard larvae covered with powdery fungal spores. It is found worldwide but, unless the colony is seriously weakened by other stresses, it is usually asymptomatic (it has no visible symptoms). Following...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Cost-benefit analysis of cultivating early maturing rice
Early maturing rice can be harvested before local rice varieties, thereby reducing the vulnerability of farmers to extreme events and enhancing the resilience of livelihoods. This technology describes the cost-benefit analysis of growing early maturing rice in Lao PDR and provides information on how to grow this rice variety in...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Working paper
The pollination services of forests
A review of forest and landscape interventions to enhance their cross-sectoral benefits
Most flowering plants, including wild species and many food crops, are pollinated by animals and are vital, therefore, for biological production and the maintenance of biodiversity. Pollinators benefit from diverse natural habitats for forage and nesting, especially when these are limited in plant production systems. Landscape and forest management practices...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
The Green Basket: So much more than a farm shop
Marie-Odile Smets, current president of 'The Green Basket' (Au Panier Vert), and member of CUMA, uses this video to share an insight into the functioning of this successful local food production and short supply chain farmer collective in the North of France.
The Video was used as a teaching exercise as...
France
2020 - The BOND Project
Report
The potential of agroecology to build climate-resilient livelihoods and food systems
This study highlights the links between agroecology and climate change, by providing evidence on the technical (i.e. ecological and socio-economic) and policy potential of agroecology to build resilient food systems. The report aims to answer the following question:
How can agroecology foster climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience through practices and...
Kenya - Senegal
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Receitas com histórias do campo
Parafraseando o chefe de cozinha francês JeanFrançois Piège, aprendemos a cozinhar com a memória dos outros e em algum momento constituímos a nossa memória gastronômica. Todos os cozinheiros de profissão ou vocação aprenderam as técnicas básicas de culinária na cozinha de casa, observando a mãe, a avó, preparando as refeições...
Brazil
2020 - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural
Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #31 - January 2020
This Newsletter provides updated information on Agroecology, more concrete about the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) policy convergence process on agroecological and other innovative approaches, the outcomes of the Conference on Ecological Agriculture in Tanzania and other agroecology highlights.
2020
Video
Trasplante de semilla de aguacate
En este video, técnico de #DICTA Arlex Amador habla sobre el trasplante de semilla de aguacate. #honduras
2020 - Dirección de Ciencia y Tecnología (DICTA)
Blog article
Peruvian farmers do not stop
The COVID-19 pandemic has stopped many businesses and closed most production, but this isn’t true for the farmers and food producers who need to keep working so that the world can continue to eat. Their vital contribution to the pandemic response cannot be overlooked.
In this crisis, eating healthy with fresh...
Peru
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
Los efectos de la COVID-19 en la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición: elaboración de respuestas eficaces en materia de políticas para abordar la pandemia del hambre y la malnutrición
Documento temático del Grupo de expertos de alto nivel
La finalidad del presente documento temático, solicitado por el Presidente del Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA), es contribuir a abordar las repercusiones para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de la pandemia de la COVID-19 y fundamentar los preparativos para la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios...
2020 - Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial
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