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Blog article
Africa: From Brazil to Kenya, Coronavirus Widows Lose Their Husbands and Then Their Land

With COVID-19, women around the world are being evicted and forced to marry male relatives hungry for land
2020 - https://allafrica.com/

Article
China Pós-COVID-19

Um alerta ao agronegócio brasileiro
A Secretaria de Inteligência e Relações Estratégicas (Sire) disponibiliza a 33ª Nota Técnica da Série Diálogos Estratégicos-Mercados Internacionais, analisando a percepção de instituições internacionais quanto as estratégias em estudo, por parte do Governo chinês, para aprimorar a segurança alimentar da China, diante da possibilidade de uma segunda onda da pandemia da COVID-19. O...
China
2020 - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)

Report
Technical manual on broodstock management of common carp and Chinese herbivorous fish

This document provides technical information on broodstock management and identifies the main problems and challenges for the application of modern techniques for breeding management of the broodstock of common carp and Chinese herbivorous fish in the Central Asia and the Caucuses.
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO

Report
Serie Sistema alimentario y los desafíos que trae el COVID-19

Los canales tradicionales de abastecimiento de alimentos en pandemia: sugerencias para su modernización
El texto hace una descripción, análisis y perspectivas de los canales tradicionales de abastecimiento y comercialización frente la pandemia. Identifica sus principales desafios, las medidas de contingencia adoptadas por los gobiernos y los propios canales. Ademas, profundiza acerca de los efectos e impactos de la pandemia sobre estos circuitos comerciales,...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
The Rural Development Report 2019

Nearly 1 billion of the world’s 1.2 billion youth aged 15-24 reside in developing countries. Their numbers are growing far more rapidly in lower income countries than in higher income countries, particularly in rural areas. In fact, rural youth make up around half of all youth in developing countries. The...
2020 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Blog article
LIFE programme: over €280 million in EU funding for environment, nature and climate action projects

The European Commission has approved an investment package of more than €280 million from the EU budget for over 120 new LIFE programme projects. This EU funding will trigger total investments of nearly €590 million to help meet these projects' ambitious goals for environment, nature, and climate action. This amount represents a 37%...
European Union
2020 - European Commission

Guidelines
Calling all foodies: this one’s for you!

https://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1198076/
Every year, June 18 marks Sustainable Gastronomy Day. This begs the questions: 1) What in the world is sustainable gastronomy? 2) Why is it important enough to have a “day” dedicated to it? and 3) Even so, why should I care? What is Sustainable Gastronomy?  Gastronomy is sometimes called the art of...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Blog article
Land conflicts flare across Asia during coronavirus lockdowns

Lockdowns to contain the novel coronavirus in Asia have made farmers and indigenous people more vulnerable to losing their land, according to land rights activists who are backing new technologies to help track the growing number of conflicts. (Shutterstock/S Curtis)
2020 - Thomson Reuters Foundation

Practices
Manejo de la babosa del frijol

La correcta realización de las labores del cultivo en el momento adecuado y el manejo integrado de las plagas que pueden dañar los cultivos, garantizan una fuente diversificada de productos alimenticios. Este material proviene de los documentos y publicaciones del Programa Especial para la Seguridad Alimentaria (PESA Centroamerica).
Honduras
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Cassava brown streak disease: control measures

This practice describes the Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD). It describes its main symptoms on cassava leaves, stems, and storage roots. It also explains how it spreads and how to manage it.
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Preservation of fruits: shelf-stable whole strawberries of high moisture

Fruits and vegetables are nutritious, valuable foods full of flavour. Therefore, fruits and vegetables represent an important and, in many cases, an under-appreciated resource that could benefit from better utilisation and exploitation in rural communities. However, in low-income countries, poor care and handling of these crops frequently result in loss...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Report
14 years of training for endogenous facilitators in agroecology in West Africa

Since 2006, Terre & Humanisme and its local partners have been training agroecology facilitators in several West African countries, the Mediterranean region and France. These facilitators in turn support farmers' organisations and farmers committed to  agroecological approach. Within the framework of the three-year program "Agroecology for Food Sovereignty and Adaptation to Climate Change in...
2020 - Terre & Humanisme

Newsletter
Mercados mayoristas: acción frente al COVID-19: Nº1

La Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe y FLAMA establecerán una estrategia conjunta para monitorear y publicitar las actividades de los mercados mayoristas regionales y centros de suministro durante este período de crisis debido a la pandemia de COVID-19. El propósito de este boletín es...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Newsletter article
Milestones: A number of significant developments in support of gender equity and equality took place in 2020, a year otherwise marked by the COVID-19 pandemic

Twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action. On 1 October 2020, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – a vision for the empowerment of women – the UN General Assembly and UN Women convened a virtual high level meeting...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Case study
Agroecological practices supporting food production and reducing food insecurity in developing countries

A study on scientific literature in 17 countries
  This report represents the initial effort to structure existing knowledge about agroecology as farming and food system in support of the EC Knowledge Centre on Food and Nutrition Security (https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/global-food-nutrition-security_en). Scientific literature has been screened on a selection of developing countries in which food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture represent...
European Union
2020 - Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

Book part
Capítulo XII: Principales enfermedades en el cultivo de lima ácida Tahití

En este capítulo se presentan las enfermedades más frecuentes en el cultivo de lima ácida Tahití en las condiciones de Colombia, agrupadas según sus agentes causales: hongos y bacterias; enfermedades sistémicas por virus y viroides, y aquellas ocasionadas por desórdenes fisiológicos. A continuación, se hace una descripción general de cada...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Project
Alimentos Bonaerenses

Alimentos Bonaerenses es un programa que promueve el desarrollo productivo de cada una de las actividades agropecuarias y de la pesca, mediante el impulso a la producción de alimentos El objetivo es generar valor agregado y empleo genuino, promoviendo el desarrollo local en cada región de la Provincia de Buenos Aires....
Argentina
2020 - Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

Practices
Vegetable growing

This is a simple guide for growing vegetables. It describes how to prepare the land and seedling for vegetables growing, additionally to different pests and diseases affecting vegetables and fertilization methods. And finally how to harvest different vegetables such as tomato and eggplants. It is meant to help farmers and...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Blog article
Encuestas sobre el impacto de la pandemia en las mujeres

La investigadora del IDAES y CLACSO, Karina Bidaseca, lidera un relevamiento online para comprender cómo se han reorganizado las vidas de las mujeres en mayor situación de vulnerabilidad en Argentina, a partir de la pandemia. La iniciativa tiene el apoyo de la Unidad COVID-19. Estudios previos muestran que han aumentado...
2020 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)

Newsletter
Mercados mayoristas: Acción frente al COVID-19: Nº2

El segundo boletín de Mercados Mayoristas es un esfuerzo del trabajo conjunto entre la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) y la Federación Latinoamericana de Mercados de Abastecimiento (FLAMA). El objetivo del documento es proporcionar recomendaciones y medidas para enfrentar la pandemia de COVID-19...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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