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Working paper
COVID-19 Pandemic outbreak: Overview of the impact on the agricultural sector

A technical assessment of the undergoing situation
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2020 - World Farmers' Organisation (WFO)

Blog article
Fisheries Producer Organisations for Small-scale Fishers: a vital step to take

One of the problems facing the small-scale fishing sector is a lack of dedicated representation in the official bodies of the profession. This is particularly the case in France where small-scale fishers are struggling to unite to defend their interests. For Bertrand Cazalet, Secretary and Legal Adviser of the Syndicat professionnel...
2020 - Low Impact Fisheries of Europe

Practices
Elevage de mélipones dans des ruches en coques de noix de coco

Les coques de noix de coco sont utilisées pour faciliter la récolte de miel et pour diminuer la mortalité des jeunes abeilles ou du couvain. La méthode habituelle de récolte de miel issu de colonies sauvages, détruit en grande partie le nid. Les abeilles passent alors beaucoup de temps à...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Rainwater harvesting systems for cabbage growing

This technology describes utilizing rooftop water harvesting facilities to increase the availability of water for domestic use and irrigation of backyard cabbage gardens. This measure allows small-scale farmers to harvest rainwater from roofs and store it in tanks, ensuring cabbage production even during the dry season. The combination of rainwater...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Newsletter article
Asia/Southeast Asia: Fewer fish, ageing fishers

Declining incomes and ageing villages mean that women are likely to be the mainstay of families and communities in the small-scale fisheries in Southeast Asia. In the last few decades, attention on and analysis of women in fisheries and aquaculture have changed tremendously, especially in Southeast Asia. In the 1990s, just...
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Blog article
Food for All or Feeding the Data Colossus? The Future of Food in a Digital World

Food and agriculture have always been a central battleground for the deployment of new technologies. The power vested in technology to transform the global economic system has never been greater. The exponential technological changes ushered in by the so-called fourth industrial revolution can upturn all economic sectors, including food and...
2020 - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group)

Journal article
France/Report: A Richness of Exchanges

At the celebration of World Fisheries’ Day on 28 November, in Lorient, France, fishermen and students got together to recognize the wealth of fishers’ knowledge and experience. For the 21st year running, the Collectif Pêche & Développement celebratedWorld Fisheries Day (November 21, 1997) at a symposium organized with UBS university and...
France
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Book
Enabling sustainable food systems: Innovators’ handbook

Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. To transition towards sustainability, many food system activities must be reconstructed, and myriad actors around the world are starting to act locally. While some changes are easier than others, knowing how to navigate...
2020 - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment

Website
COVID-19 Agri-Information Hub

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has been declared a global health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation. This Agri-Information Hub will keep you up to date with the various issues affecting the farming community worldwide.
2020 - World Farmers' Organisation (WFO)

Practices
Les bonnes pratiques de production du riz de bas-fonds

Des bonnes pratiques de production du riz de bas-fonds au Bénin permet à une récolte plus abondante et un revenu plus important. Ce fichier explique en détail les différentes étapes pour une bonne production du riz de bas-fond. Ces étapes sont les suivantes: le choix du bas-profonds, le choix des...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Risk diversification through taro (Colocasia esculenta) cultivation in areas prone to floods and water logging

The objective of latiraj kachu cultivation is to enable small farmers to grow crops even during flooding season on seasonally flooded land, and to enhance diet diversification and food security of households during a period of the year characterized by food scarcity. This practice describes the conditions under which latiraj...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Newsletter
A first look at impact, and country response

This bulletin provides decision-makers in governments, the private sector and civil society with useful information and resources to support the design and implementation of actions against the effects of the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean. The resources and information contained in the bulletin come from FAO, as well...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Book
Transformation of our food systems – the making of a paradigm shift

Over the past decade, a new food system narrative has been established. Nothing less than a real paradigm shift for agriculture, nutrition and food systems emerged, inspired much by the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) finalized in April 2008. More than a decade has passed since the...
2020

Manual
Mantenimiento y operación de los sistemas de riego parcelario Módulo 2

El presente módulo que ponemos en sus manos, es una guía que servirá para calcular el tipo de materiales que lleva el sistema de riego parcelario; así como el costo de materiales para conocer de antemano la inversión que se realizará y de acuerdo a las posibilidades económicas se pueda...
Ecuador
2020 - INNOVA Agricultura Familiar

Video
Webinar: Using technology to increase market and finance access for smallholders

An initiative led by IIED is generating lessons on how rural producers, their associations and wider communities can best empower themselves to articulate their development priorities, make informed choices, and negotiate effectively for equitable partnerships with progressive private sector actors in commercial agriculture. This webinar, part of the 'Empowering Producers In...
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED

Magazine article
Nuevas amenazas para la fruticultura del sur de Santa Fe: (Matsumura),“mosca de las alas manchadas” y (Gupta),“mosca africana del higo” (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Drosophila suzukii Zaprionus indianus

Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), conocida comúnmente como “mosca de las alas manchadas” o “mosca del vinagre”, es una plaga endémica del sudeste asiático, que se ha expandido rápidamente en Europa, Norteamérica y Sudamérica (CABI, 2016) debido a su gran capacidad de dispersión y adaptación a diferentes condiciones ambientales. En...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias

Report
2020 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2020)

The number of people battling acute hunger and suffering from malnutrition is on the rise yet again. In many places, we still lack the ability to collect reliable and timely data to truly know the magnitude and severity of food crises gripping vulnerable populations. And the upheaval that has been...
2020 - Food Security Information Network (FSIN)

Practices
Bacterial Black Spot (BBS) identification and control for mango farmers

Growing mango is full of challenges and farmers should know about them to succeed in the mango production. The more farmers know, the better they will succeed. This short film (and its description) deals with a disease called Bacterial Black Spot (BBS). In 2010 it was first identified in West...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Collective action to reduce goat mortality: a case study of interventions

Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a reputed national level Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), working in eight states of western, central and eastern India, is promoting goat-rearing through women self-help groups in four of its programme states: Rajasthan, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. PRADAN’s goat rearing interventions in Odisha are concentrated...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Potato production from True Potato Seed (TPS) for cold-tolerant and late blight resistant

Potato is a major food crop in the mid-hills and mountains in Nepal. Traditionally, most farmers use small tubers as seed, to grow potato with the minimum input. Although seed tubers are easy to plant and plants grow quickly, they are expensive and may account for more than half of...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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