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Rencontre PELA-Méd dans le Var
Lutte contre le braconnage et la pêche illégale
France
2020 - Planète Mer
Journal article
Sri Lanka/SSF Guidelines: Action Stations
Sri Lanka’s National Fisheries Policy needs to be remodelled to incorporate the SSF Guidelines in order to attain the goal of securing sustainable small-scale fisheries. The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development (MFARD) of Sri Lanka recently prepared a White Paper on National Fisheries Policy in 2018, which was approved...
Sri Lanka
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Website
Concurso Regional: Diseño del logotipo de la Iniciativa Andina
El Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) ha lanzado el Concurso Regional: Diseño del logotipo de la Iniciativa Andina. En este sitio web encontrá toda la información necesaria para postular como las bases del concurso.
Este concurso convoca a hombres y mujeres jóvenes a sumar esfuerzos por la conservación de la agrobiodiversidad, hacer frente al cambio climático y promover la alimentación saludable, invitándoles...
2020 - Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
Policy brief/paper
SALSA Policy Brief Overview March 2020
The important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage is widely accepted. Nevertheless, they are often under the radar of the agriculture policy mechanisms, which tend to focus on the very large farms and globally driven food...
2020 - SALSA – Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security
Technical paper
El transporte del cerdo y su influencia sobre bienestar y calidad de carne
La calidad final de la carne porcina es la resultante de una serie de sistemas y procesos que componen su cadena agroalimentaria. Cada uno de los eslabones que la componen, desde las prácticas de manejo en los establecimientos hasta su expendio en los comercios, influyen de manera determinante sobre la...
Argentina
2020 - Cátedra de Zootecnia General- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Report part
Artrópodos plaga
La entomofauna del cultivo de la mora ha sido poco estudiada. La inversión en generación de conocimiento y desarrollo tecnológico para este cultivo en Colombia ha sido escasa, lo cual contribuye a que el cultivo presente una amplia brecha tecnológica. Ante el desconocimiento que se tiene de la bioecología y...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Policy brief/paper
Addressing inequality in times of COVID-19
The initial direct impact of COVID-19 is on health, in terms of morbidity and mortality, with quickly overburdened health care services. The containment measures taken to curb the impact of COVID-19 have indirectly been socially and economically devastating and will significantly set back efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda, including...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Comment récolter la propolis brute d'une ruche
La propolis, parfois comparée à de la «colle d'abeille», est une mixture résineuse que les abeilles récoltent sur les bourgeons des arbres et des résines végétales. La propolis est utilisée par les abeilles dans la ruche comme un matériel de construction ainsi que pour protéger la colonie contre les maladies....
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Crop planning and management in organic agriculture
Crop rotation provides many benefits in terms of soil structure improvement, soil fertility increase, weed and pest control, variety output production and hard labour alleviation. The following will detail the criteria for crop rotation as well as recommendations, explanations on intercropping, methods to cover crops, how the practice links with...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Crop protection: integrated management of Striga species
Striga species are noxious weeds that are widespread constraints to the production of staple cereal crops in semi-arid areas, principally attacking finger millet, maize, sorghum, and upland rice. They have been estimated to infest some 40 percent of the cereal producing areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Work by the DFID Crop...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Production of bamboo mat board
Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrates poverty reduction and environmental sustainability, and the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan- INBAR priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. Therefore, bamboo mat board, a plywood-like...
China - India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Journal article
Potential of multi-species livestock farming to improve the sustainability of livestock farms: A review
Diversified farming systems are proposed as a major mechanism to address the many sustainability issues of today's agriculture. Multi-species livestock farming, i.e. keeping two or more animal species simultaneously on the same farm, is an option that has received little attention to date. Moreover, most studies of multi-species livestock farming...
2020 - Agricultural Systems
Practices
Groundnuts production training manual
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), also known as peanut, is cultivated in the semiarid tropical and subtropical regions of nearly 100 countries in six continents between 40° N and S of the equator. In Southern and Eastern Africa, peanut is grown at an altitude of over 1500 m, with a rainfall...
Uganda
2020 - Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afri-ka, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic De-velopment and Globalization
Video
COVID-19 y riesgos para las cadenas de suministro de alimentos: ¿Cómo pueden responder los países?
La salud es la máxima prioridad de los países en la lucha contra la pandemia de COVID-19, pero también deben hacer todo lo posible para mantener en funcionamiento las cadenas de suministro de alimentos.
5 formas en que los países pueden responder
1. Ampliar y mejorar la asistencia alimentaria de emergencia...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report part
Aspectos sociales y culturales de la producción de hortalizas en la región Caribe de Colombia
En un análisis integral de la actividad agrícola, además de los aspectos tecnológicos, los elementos sociales, culturales y el entorno del productor son de gran importancia por considerar que el sujeto de estudio o el beneficiario de la tecnología son el productor y su unidad familiar, que se constituyen en...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria
Policy brief/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)
Report
Factsheets on the 21 SDG indicators under FAO custodianship
A HIGHLIGHT OF THE MAIN INDICATORS WITH THE GREATEST GAPS IN COUNTRY REPORTING
The global SDG indicators hold a central place in the global drive for timely, reliable and internationally comparable data. This core set of metrics, applicable to developed and developing countries alike, is the bedrock of the 2030 Agenda’s mutual accountability mechanism – not only measuring, but also effectively prompting countries...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Crop protection: early warning systems for improved Quelea bird management
A short-term forecasting model (now adopted and implemented by the South African Development Community- SADC), predicts the movements and breeding of the Red-billed Quelea bird in southern Africa. This is to enable better mobilization and targeting of control resources by national and regional agencies, and methods for monitoring effects of...
South Africa
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Bamboo in sericulture: a case study from India
Traditionally, bamboo equipment has been used in sericulture. The main uses of bamboo in sericulture are baskets for gathering mulberry leaves, trays for feeding leaving to larvae, mountages for production of cocoons, trays for cocoon storage, stifling baskets for steaming of cocoons and some woven mats. The present study is...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Empowering the Youth in the Philippines to Take Centre Stage in Organic Agriculture
Despite Jason’s father, Victoriano I. Tagupa, being involved in organic farming for 30 years at the time, he never imposed his beliefs on Jason, or influenced his career decisions. That is why he was supportive of Jason when he did not choose to work on the farm but instead in...
Philippines
2020 - Ifoam Organics International
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