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Practices
Fodder management: hay and silage making
Hay-making is the most important method of preserving forage in many countries, including tropical ones. Silage-making is highly developed in temperate countries, especially in Europe, and goes with intensification. In tropical countries, plant growth coincides with the rainy season, which sometimes makes hay-making difficult. The objective of this technology is...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Book part
Passiflora spp. Passionfruit
The Passifloraceae family has a pantropical distribution inthe neotropics with a very large number of species and wide variation in leaves, flowers and fruits. There is a diversified range of use within the genus due to is importance ass an ornamental, for industrial precessing, fresh fruit comsumption and medicinal purposes:...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Newsletter
Risks threatening international trade
This edition addresses the risks threatening international agrifood trade in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the previous issue we reviewed the lessons learned by those who have had to manage disasters. We presented a methodology for analysing and managing the crisis in food systems from a disaster risk reduction...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Step by step conversion to organic agriculture
This practice describes, step by step, how to convert traditional agricultural practices to organic agriculture practices. The information provided showcases how first and foremost knowledge on the functioning and the possibilities of the management of natural processes is important. Familiarization with organic practices is also recommended such as mulching, intercropping,...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Use of Early-Maturing Rice Variety (EMRV) to reduce typhoon impacts
The Philippines is among the most disaster prone countries in the world. More than 200 climate-related natural disasters were recorded in the last two decades. Alone in 2011 the country was hit by 33 disasters, claiming 1 430 lives. Typhoons trigger landslides, flashfloods, mudslides, widespread flooding, and cause significant destruction...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Practices for producing clean seed yam planting materials
Yam productivity in the main yam-growing belt of West Africa is reduced by losses in the growing crop, and in subsequent storage, due to diseases and pests. Many of these are either spread in, or exacerbated by, poor quality planting materials. A package of crop protection technologies was developed (based...
Nigeria
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Europe and Central Asia Regional Synthesis for The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
The Europe and Central Asia Regional Synthesis for The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture summarizes the state of biodiversity for food and agriculture in the region, based largely on information provided in nineteen country reports submitted to FAO as part of the reporting process for the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Construccion del concepto de la Agricultura Familiar
Este video da cuenta del proceso de construcción del concepto de la Agricultura Familiar en Paraguay.
Paraguay
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Future of EU livestock
How to contribute to a sustainable agricultural sector ? : final report
The physical and financial scale of EU livestock production means that it has far-reaching environmental, economic and social consequences. Livestock production is an important part of the economy and vitality in many regions including some marginal rural areas. Its social importance extends beyond employment; many of the valued landscapes and...
European Union
2020 - European Commission
Guidelines
Acciones para el mejoramiento genético de la raza bovina criolla Sanmartinero
A través de las propuestas del plan de fomento, muchos ganaderos han reconocido las bondades y los atributos de las razas bovinas criollas para la producción de carne y leche en el país. Una de estas razas es el Sanmartinero (sm), la cual se destaca por su fertilidad y adaptación...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Report
Implementation of the UNDFF 2019-2028 through National and Regional Action Plans
Lessons Learned, Good Practices, Challenges & Opportunities
This document presents the results of the study conducted by the World Rural Forum (WRF) with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to monitor the progress in the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) through National and Regional/Sub-regional Action Plans. The study,...
2020 - World Rural Forum (WRF)
Conference paper
Hand-in-Hand towards prosperous and inclusive rural societies
Without prosperous and inclusive rural territories, Latin America and the Caribbean will not be able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Despite the enormous natural potential of the region, half of the rural inhabitants live in poverty and 20 percent in extreme poverty (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
Indigenous Youth and Women of the Americas Unite their Voices
The Indigenous Terra Madre Pueblos de América coming to Tlaola from February 21-24 will focus on the important role women and youth have in the future of indigenous communities, and the preservation of land and biodiversity for future generations.
“This gathering of indigenous delegates from communities around the Americas is a way to dignify our cultures and our identity. Our youth is being bombarded by the globalization of the world and the message from multinational companies telling us what to eat, how to think and act. However, our vision...
Mexico
2020 - Slow Food
Book part
Lactogénesis
La lactogénesis es la habilidad de producir lactosa y consiste en un período de transición caracterizado por la diferenciación funcional de las células del tejido mamario, las cuales cambian de un estado no lactante (no secretorio) a lactante (secretorio) (McManaman & Neville, 2003; Tru-chet & Honvo-Houéto, 2017).
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Colombia
2020 - Universidad de Antioquía
Policy brief/paper
Impact of COVID-19 on informal workers
The COVID-19 pandemic is a major economic and labour market shock, presenting significant impacts in terms of unemployment and underemployment for informal workers. In rural areas, the livelihoods of especially the self-employed and wage workers are at risk, because agri-food supply chains and markets are being disrupted due to lockdowns...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Income earning by Community Livestock Volunteers (CLVs) by distribution of herbal preparations for livestock
SEVA in association with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), IFAD assisted Post Tsunami Sustainable Livelihood Project trained women, self-help group members on herbal treatment for animals upto 21 days. Selected women members were trained intensively to work as Community Livestock Volunteers (CLVs). Then they train local village...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
A small act of kindness during COVID-19 helps Ecuadorian families in need
In Ecuador, for a large portion of the population, the “stay at home” measures implemented to halt the spread of COVID-19 have meant losses of income and limited access to food or even clean water. These restrictions have also put a strain on smallholder producers’ access to markets, in turn...
Ecuador
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Risk diversification and climate hazard resilience building through homestead gardening
Homestead gardening, which is not designed for marketing/profit-making, aims primarily to improve ongoing access to nutritious food and buffer the sudden fluctuations in prices of the major crops of the farming households during calamities and enhance family nutrition. The use of hazard tolerant crop varieties (like drought-tolerant) in homestead gardening...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Participatory breeding of superior, mosaic disease-resistant cassava
The project has validated a participatory breeding approach for developing superior, mosaic disease-resistant cassava, demonstrating that it can provide a means by which farmers, plant breeders and plant pathologists could work together in an effective and inclusive manner. It also provided an environment whereby farmers made a significant and consistent...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Eating bricks
In Belgium we have an expression: “all Belgians are born with a brick in their stomach”, meaning that all citizens aspire to build their own house someday. But when bricks are literally eaten, something has gone seriously wrong.
Belgium
2020 - Agroinsight
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