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Roundup: news, events, briefings and more. Samudra Report No.82
The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries.
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Le contrôle du vérâtre blanc (Veratrum album)
No description
Switzerland
2020 - The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Audio
Saúde e comida de verdade em tempos de coronavirus
Diversas têm sido as estratégias de comercialização e abastecimento alimentar adotadas por organizações da agricultura familiar. Algumas delas em diálogo com órgãos de saúde dos estados e municípios. O objetivo é garantir circuitos curtos de comercialização, cuidando da saúde de todas e todos nós e, também, mantendo a renda de...
Brazil
2020 - Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia (ANA)
Report
Food Systems of the Future: A Synthesis of Reports on Food Systems Transformation
Food Systems of the Future: A Synthesis of Reports on Food Systems Transformation was commissioned from Meridian Institute by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food in order to explore the current thinking around the visions, strategies, and pathways to facilitate food system transformation.
Food systems should provide healthy food...
2020 - Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Practices
Anthracnose 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 Anthracnose. It is a very wide spread disease in humid environments, like...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Introduction to conservation agriculture: principles and benefits
This entry gives an overview of the concept, the fundamental principles and the benefits of conservation agriculture (CA). CA is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity as well as increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment. CA is...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Raised bed lotus cultivation
Cultivating lotus in raised beds is a local adaptation practice in flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Viet Nam. Communities traditionally collected lotus seeds from plants grown in common water bodies and sold them in markets. However, there was no initiative to further develop, promote...
Viet Nam
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Newsletter article
Yemaya Recommends: Practical Guide for Gender Analysis in Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture in Southeast Asia
The Practical Guide for Gender Analysis in Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture is aimed at providing guidance to SEAFDEC (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center) Departments and ASEAN Member States in the implementation of the SEAFDEC gender strategy as well as human rights-based and gender-equitable approaches in the whole value chain of...
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Uncle Wiz Farm: organic indigenous produce
Uncle Wiz is a shining example of a thriving smallscale farming and food distribution business that not only farms without chemicals but also focuses on and promotes indigenous food crops.
Owners Wisdom and Mpumi Edward live in south Johannesburg and farm on land in Vanderbijlpark. Not only do they grow...
South Africa
2020 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
Magazine article
Sistemas Agroalimentares
impactos e desafios num cenário post pandemia
A partir da II Guerra Mundial, teve início a organização dos Sistemas Agroalimentares atualmente hegemônicos. Estes sistemas deram origem a grandes corporações transnacionais que progressivamente passaram a controlar as cadeias de valor vinculadas à alimentação. Além disso, este modelo de organização do setor alimentar provocou profundos impactos ambientais, econômicos, sociais...
Brazil
2020 - P2P & INOVAÇÃO - Revista Ibict
Book
Enabling sustainable food systems - innovators' handbook
Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. Many food system activities must be reconstructed to transition towards sustainability, and myriad actors worldwide are starting to act locally. While some changes are more comfortable than others, knowing how to navigate them...
2020 - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
Case study
La agricultura urbana y periurbana en el municipio del Alto: Un panorama general
Actualmente, el 56% de la población mundial se concentra en las ciudadesi y se estima que 7 de cada 10 personas vivirá en ciudades hasta el año 2050. Este escenario conlleva a una urbanización acelerada que genera diversos desafíos, principalmente relacionados al empleo, el acceso a servicios básicos y la...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - Comité Municipal de Seguridad Alimentaria de El Alto (CMSA EA)
Video
Preparación de Almácigos
Diego Machuca, ingeniero agrónomo y encargado de la Unidad Productiva Agroecológica de centro Ceres, nos entrega una serie de recomendaciones para desarrollar en nuestras casas una almaciguera ¡Míralo y celebra con nosotros la curiosidad! #FECI2020#CienciaPública#ExploraValpo
Chile
2020 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura
Journal article
SSF: The Fishing World’s (Virtual) Oyster
A new virtual platform for knowledge sharing and engagement that collates experiences and stories from small-scale fishery actors around the world. Small-scale fisheries are vulnerable to persistent threats from climate change, overfishing and lack of representation in policy discussions and decision making processes. As we have seen over the last year,...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Europe and Central Asia call for more sustainable and innovative agriculture
On the final day of the 32nd Session of the Regional Conference for Europe, FAO Members from Europe and Central Asia reinforced their commitment to transform agri-food systems through innovation, digital technologies and sustainable practices, as well as create inclusive growth in rural areas, taking into account the impacts of the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Journal article
India: The Future is Inland
If managed sensibly, inland water bodies can go a long way to provide India with a sustainable future and food security for its population. Fish production in India registered a remarkable 16-fold increase during the last six decades to reach 12.59 mn tonnes (MT) in 2017-18, propelling the country to the...
India
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
E-learning
Conferencias Online FAO - Serie COVID-19 y Sistemas Alimentarios
La emergencia producida por la pandemia del COVID-19 genera efectos diversos en el sector de la agricultura y en el mundo rural, los cuales son todavía muy inciertos. Las principales tendencias muestran diversos grados de impacto, tanto en la oferta como en la demanda de alimentos. Como parte de los...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Miscellanea
The Haller Farmers App - improving the lives of millions of smallholder farmers
The Haller Foundation is a UK based charity that was set up in order to educate rural farmers in East Africa on sustainable pioneering farming techniques to maximise their food production and to help build self-sustaining communities. Since our launch back in 2004, we have worked with over 25,000 people...
Kenya
2020 - The Haller Foundation
Fact sheet
Infographic: How to combat hidden hunger with traditional grains
Every step in the grain’s value chain contributes to the nutritive value of the final product. We created an infographic explaining what farmers, processors, traders, transporting companies and consumers can do to preserve the highest nutritional content of traditional grains when they reach the plate.
2020 - Siani
Practices
Community based landslide treatment
Frequent landslides in mid-hill districts in Nepal have caused damage to productive land at the lower basin and affected human settlements and agriculture activities both upstream and downstream. Extensive areas of productive land were left fallow because of their vulnerability to landslides, and many settlements were displaced, mostly from the...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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