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Aloe Vera living barriers
The following technology provides information on the use of aloe vera as a cross-slope barrier structure. This structure is particularly effective barrier to retain soil erosion by decreasing surface runoff and increasing soil infiltration. Aloe vera is a durable herbaceous plant, which is planted in the form of living barriers...
Cabo Verde
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Disease resistant upland maize varieties validated by and promoted to farmers
The technology addresses the issue of two maize diseases: Grey Leaf Spot (GLS), and Maize Streak Virus (MSV) on upland maize. Research focussed on identifying and breeding for genetic resistance has been conducted in the southern highlands of Tanzania. Two hybrids have been released (UH615 and UH6303) with high levels...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Honey extracted by pressing - wooden honey press of Goma (DRC)
A honey press is a tool that allows the beekeeper to extract honey from few honeycombs at the same time. The model of honey press presented here is a basic manual model that can be easily made locally as it requires only wood, a plastic bucket, screws, and the work...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Newsletter article
Indonesia: Yielding ground
Changing land use patterns threaten the livelihood of female crab collectors in Merauke, Papua, Indonesia. Over the years, crab collection in mangrove and wetland forests has been a major source of income for women of the indigenous Asmat and Mappi communities of the island of Papua in Indonesia. These women harvest...
Indonesia
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Tercera temporada de nacimientos de larvas de centollas en el acuario del INIDEP
Iniciaron los primeros días de septiembre los nacimientos de larvas de las centollas (Lithodes santolla) mantenidas en el acuario del Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP).Las “madres”, que corresponden a dos camadas de hembras procedentes de aguas de plataforma en el Área Central de administración de la pesquería...
Argentina
2020 - INIDEP
Journal article
Adaptation and development pathways for different types of farmers
One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is feeding the world’s human population in a sustainable, nutritious, equitable and ethical way under a changing climate. Urgent transformations are needed that allow farmers to adapt and develop while also being climate resilient and contributing minimal emissions. This paper identifies several illustrative...
2020
Blog article
Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective
Collective entrepreneurship has been found to alleviate extreme poverty by helping poor individuals integrate into their societies and overcome their multiple intertwined liabilities. We complement this line of inquiry by exploring the conditions under which group structures may instead reinforce economic and gendered poverty constraints.
We conducted grounded-theoretical interviews with 104...
Cameroon
2020
Journal article
Brazil/Oil Spills: Oil and Uncertainty
The latest Atlantic tragedy reaches thousands in Brazil and remains unsolved. Oil spill disasters in the ocean often devastate marine and coastal ecosystems, profoundly affecting fisheries resources and fishing communities. Urgent and early-warning actions are needed to avoid a tragedy in biomes and communities when such accidents occur. In late-July 2019,...
Brazil
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Pièges connectés pour surveiller des insectes ravageurs - présenté par cap2020
En raison des nouvelles techniques de culture et de la pression croissante des parasites, il devient de plus en plus important de surveiller efficacement les populations de ravageurs dans les champs. Dans cette vidéo, Cindy Lassoureille de la société cap2020 présente les pièges connectés. cap2020 utilise des pièges disponibles dans...
2020 - The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Blog article
Emergencia: sociedad, ambiente y economía. Una oportunidad para la TSE
Se está frente a una crisis compleja global que se manifiesta en un entramado de relaciones múltiples y complejas que la pandemia obliga a considerar entre la sociedad, el ambiente y la economía.
En este artículo se pretende realizar este entretejido partiendo primero del nivel mundo, para posteriormente resaltar los...
2020 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Practices
Improved chicken breeds raised in chicken houses
This technology describes the cost-benefit analysis of of rearing improved chicken breeds in chicken houses in Uganda. The improved breeds are more resistant to climatic stresses and diseases. Rearing chicken in chicken houses enhances the profitability of poultry production. The transition from free range to chicken houses allows keeping track...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Frente a la COVID-19, los agricultores urbanos bolivianos se replantean cómo trabajar
Las entregas a domicilio permiten llevar alimentos frescos a las ciudades durante la pandemia
Simón Laura y su hija se ocupan de su huerto familiar en las afueras de El Alto-La Paz, ayudando a garantizar el suministro de productos frescos a las ciudades cercanas
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
As the food supply chain breaks down, farm-to-door Community Supported agriculture (CSA) take off
During the Coronavirus crisis, it has become clear how fragile and vulnerable agro-industrial supply chains can be. However, a movement known as "Community Supported Agriculture" (CSA) is at its peak, a model of local marketing providing healthy and nutritious products from the field to the kitchen. Members buy a share...
United States of America
2020
Report
Sustainable and resilient farming: Inspiration from agroecology
European farmers are faced with increasing challenges, including the effects of climate change. Agro-ecological approaches can help them to develop more sustainable and resilient farming systems that combine stable yields with enhanced biodiversity and ecosystem services. Agro-ecological approaches are inspired by natural ecosystems. They focus on the interactions between plants,...
European Union
2020 - EIP-AGRI
Practices
Soil fertility management in agroecological farming
!is section on Soil fertility management in agroecological farming is supposed to be used together with the trainings on specific commodities. !e training concept is the same as outlined for the trainings in the commodities. We provide this part on soil fertility management as a separate leaflet because it is...
Uganda
2020 - (Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
Blog article
WAW and PAKISAMA collaborate to define a family farmers’ owned information system
WAW and PAKISAMA of Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka share common views and interest regarding the need to develop information systems to strengthen family farmers’ organizations (FOs). Indeed, information systems are a real asset for FOs since they allow to improve their own knowledge on their members: beyond just...
Philippines
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Los agricultores peruanos no se detienen
Luis Sinche, un productor de bananos del Perú, continúa recolectando sus frutos, suministrando a los pueblos cercanos productos frescos en época de la pandemia.
Peru
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
Agriculture support to nutrition services
Malnourished children are as such because in most cases, their families are not able to feed them properly. Poor families lack the financial means to buy adequate foods in proper quantity, quality and diversity. They consequently adopt diets that lack protein, vitamins and other micro-nutrients in particular. The most affected...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
YOUR LAND, MY LAND, OUR LAND
Today the Nyéléni Food Sovereignty Movement in Europe and Central Asia (Nyéléni ECA) launches a practical tool to support and strengthen land struggles for small and medium-scale food producers and local communities.
Land access issues, long since recognised in international and institutional spaces, are even more urgent in the current context: both due to the COVID-19 pandemic and with the release of the European Commission’s Farm to Fork strategy, which have highlighted the importance of local food systems which can only be...
2020 - Nyéléni Food Sovereignty Movement in Europe and Central Asia (Nyéléni ECA)
Video
How to Make Bokashi Fertilizer
Bokashi fertilizer is a fermented organic soil amendment that functions as an inoculant and a fertility builder. This video guides viewers through the 15-day process of producing a significant amount of Bokashi and provides instructions on how to apply the product. Mastering this process allows growers to produce their own...
2020 - https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/
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