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El boom de ventas de los bolsones de frutas y verduras durante la cuarentena
Crecen los pedidos a las cooperativas agroecológicas
Los pedidos a los productores de la economía popular aumentaron entre el 40 y el 80 por ciento, dependiendo de la organización. El caso de Mercado Territorial, una comercializadora que creció aliada a la Universidad de Quilmes, con una consigna que hoy cobra un valor extra: que la construcción de...
Argentina
2020 - Pagina 12
Policy brief/paper
Anticipating the impacts of COVID-19 in humanitarian and food crisis contexts
While the COVID-19 pandemic is devastating lives, public health systems, livelihoods and economies all over the world, populations living in food crisis contexts are particularly exposed to its effects.
Countries with existing humanitarian crises are particularly exposed to the effects of the pandemic, which is already directly affecting food systems through...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Development and promotion of wild rice management strategies
Rice is the second most important cereal crop in Tanzania after maize and the majority of rice farmers depend on it both for food and as a cash crop. However, highly competitive annual and perennial wild rice species have been identified as one of the important constraints to rice production...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Trying it yourself
Helping to write a script for a farmer training video on vermiwash triggered my interest in trying it out myself, as I began to wonder if ideas from tropical India could work in temperate Belgium.
India
2020 - Agroinsight
Magazine article
Análisis económico para diferentes escenarios de comercialización de semillas fiscalizadas de soja
Argentina es el primer país exportador mundial de harina y aceite de soja, con ingresos promedio de 19.000 millones de dólares anuales. En la última campaña, 2019/2020, se sembraron 17,2 millones de hectáreas y se cosecharon 50,7 millones de toneladas de soja (https://www.bcr.com.ar /es/mercados/gea/estimaciones-naciona les-de-produccion/estimaciones). La cadena productiva de la...
Argentina
2020 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Practices
Mulching in organic agriculture
Mulching is the process of covering the topsoil with plant material such as leaves, grass, twigs, crop residues, straw etc. A mulch cover enhances the activity of soil organisms such as earthworms. They help to create a soil structure with plenty of smaller and larger pores through which rainwater can...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Use of salt-tolerant rice varieties to counteract impacts of sea surges and saltwater intrusion
The objective of this practice was to focus on the suitability and replication potential of salt-tolerant rice varieties as alternatives in saline impacted areas, and thus contribute to the region’s resilience and food security. The Philippines is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. More than 200 climate-related natural...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Making farm inputs available in small size packages to increase farmers' yields
Farm inputs such as improved seeds, fertilizers, and herbicides are conventionally packaged in large bag sizes that are beyond the financial means of small farmers. The technology demonstrates ways of mobilizing the private sector to make small quantities of appropriate inputs available in mini-packs. It also demonstrates novel ways of...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Learning to teach
A really good teacher will teach you both subject matter and how to explain it to others. Elías Sánchez mentored thousands of Central Americans in organic agriculture. He started his adult life as a rural schoolteacher because he wanted to help people. But he soon realized that rural people needed...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - Agroinsight
Practices
Water management in the mountain: Kuhl irrigation
In mountain areas, water continues to be a scarce commodity not only for irrigation purposes but even for drinking and other domestic uses. These challenges are encountered very frequently in India. These difficulties are present, inspite of the fact that important rivers namely the Sutlez, Beas, Ravi and their tributaries...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Custodians of Life: Reviving Culture and Nature in Uganda’s Great Lakes
This is a story of hope and decolonisation in a time of crises.
The Indigenous Bagungu People of western Uganda have lived along the shores of Itaka Mwitanzige (Lake Albert) since time immemorial.
But for over a century, colonialism and globalisation have damaged and repressed both the Bagungu's traditional, Earth-centred culture and...
Uganda
2020 - The Gaia Foundation
Technical paper
Availability of statistical data to address the COVID-19 pandemic
Today, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are facing a health, economic and social crisis unprecedented in recent history. A crisis of such scope and depth calls for actions in response to the many challenges that arise. We have known for a long time that it is not possible to...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Kiribati: A Large Ocean State Seeks Change
Vulnerability to climate change has forced the Pacific republic to build resilience through community approaches to fisheries management. The Republic of Kiribati faces many development challenges due to its remoteness and limited resources—financial, infrastructural, institutional and environmental. With population pressure increasing, land is not only scarce but at a perilously low...
Kiribati
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Magazine article
Pobreza rural y agricultura familiar: Reflexiones en el contexto de América Latina
Este ensayo de reflexión expone la situación de la pobreza rural en América Latina y sus particularidades desde un enfoque de desarrollo rural. Conceptualiza la importancia de la agricultura familiar para la construcción de una nueva ruralidad para los países de la región, y aspira a generar insumos de sustento...
2020 - Revista Científica Semilla del Este
Video
White Lupin Resistance Breeding – Anthracnose screening
The grain legume white lupin (Lupinus albus L.) is a promising local alternative for imported soybean in Europe because of its high protein content, which is perfect for the food and feed industry. However, white lupin is almost not being cultivated because of anthracnose disease, caused by the fungal pathogen...
2020 - The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Book part
Buenas prácticas agrícolas (bpa)
Las buenas prácticas agrícolas (bpa) se definen como un conjunto de acciones o prácticas que se realizan en una explotación agrícola, tendientes a reducir los peligros químicos, físicos y microbiológicos. Están orientadas a obtener productos inocuos (sanos-limpios), mejorar las condiciones de los trabajadores (salud y bienestar) y proteger el medio...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Article
“Mal de cintura” disorder characterization of pineapple MD2 in agroclimatic conditions of flat area of Valle del Cauca, Colombia
In some localities in Colombia a physiological disorder called "Mal de cintura", is present in MD2 pineapple productive farms. It is a deformation of the fruit due to the incomplete development of contiguous flowers that produces a physical damage (external appearance); generating fruit rejection in the market. Factors that trigger...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Policy brief/paper
Responding to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on food value chains through efficient logistics
Measures implemented around the world to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have entailed a severe reduction not only in the transportation of goods and services that rely on transport, but also in the migration of labour domestically and internationally. Workers are less available reflecting both disruptions in transportation systems and restrictions...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Simple non-circulating hydroponic method for vegetables
Hydroponics is based on growing agricultural plants without the use of soil. These are methods of growing plants either on a substrate or in an aqueous medium with bare roots. Non-circulating hydroponic methods, importantly, do not require electricity or a pump. With the method presented in this practice, the entire...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Integrated Crop and Pest Management (ICPM) for smallholder coffee producers
Coffee growing is an important livelihood strategy for smallholders in East African countries, notably Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, where coffee is an important agricultural export. Smallholder production is less significant in southern countries such as Malawi and Zambia but although the smallholder sector is small, coffee is a major...
South Africa
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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