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Fuel-saving stoves for health, better nutrition and livelihoods
Fuel-saving stoves have many advantages. They save wood resources, time, money, and improve health conditions by reducing fumes in homes. Foods that are not adequately cooked can transmit food-borne diseases. Families that cannot purchase sufficient fuel might be even unable to consume their food. Farmers can increase household incomes by...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Roof top rainwater harvesting: concrete tank
The rooftop rainwater harvesting system uses a concrete tank designed to improve household access to water during the hot and dry seasons. A 16 cubic metre concrete tank situated in the shadow of the house is constructed to retain rainwater collected by the roof guttering. The purpose of the tank...
Tajikistan
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Case study
Climate smart livestock production in Ecuador
A strategic partnership between FAO and the private sector
Since 2016, Ecuador, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) and the Ministry of the Environment (MAE), with technical support from FAO and financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has implemented the Climate Smart Livestock (CSL) approach. This approach, which is a pioneering initiative in Latin America, seeks...
Ecuador
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
How do fishery resources enhance the development of coastal fishing communities: Lessons learned from a community-based sea farming project in Taiwan
Taiwan government proposes a national level Coastal Blue Economy Growth (CBEG) program to promote ocean- linked industries based on the concept of sustainable development. Sea farming development is considered an important aspect that needs to be promoted for the CBEG program. Generally, sea farming relies on artificial technologies, environmental improvement...
Taiwan Province of China
2020
Technical paper
Franchir les frontières
Dispositions juridiques et politiques pour le pastoralisme transfrontalier
Dans de nombreux pays, le pastoralisme a toujours été pratiqué dans des zones qui sont aujourd’hui cloisonnées par des frontières internationales. Cela est un obstacle majeur à la gestion durable des ressources et au développement pastoral. Cependant, il existe des exemples dans le monde entier d'efforts visant à faciliter les...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Audio
Entrevista a Marcela Villarreal sobre papel que cumple de la agricultura familiar frente a la crisis sanitaria.
Entrevista a Marcela Villarreal, Directora de Asociaciones y Encargada de la implementación de la Década de la Agricultura Familiar de la FAO quien habla sobre el papel que cumple de la agricultura familiar frente a la crisis sanitaria.
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on the livestock sector
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented emergency and grave societal threat. It is affecting key sectors that contribute to global food security, nutrition and livelihoods, including the livestock sector. This policy brief describes the observed and potential impacts of COVID-19 on the livestock sector, based on evidence from the ongoing...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Three smart ways innovation is helping reduce food loss and waste
The International Day of Awareness helps us focus on solving the problem
Tomatoes rotting on vines because there is no one to pick them. Milk curdling in jars because there are no markets to bring it to. Fruits decaying on shelves because customers don’t have access to produce like before. Lost resources, wasted food. The restrictions in movement and quarantine measures caused...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Diseño de un sistema acuapónico
Un sistema acuapónico es la integración de un sistema de recirculación en acuicultura con hidroponía en un sólo sistema de producción. En un sistema acuapónico, los efluentes de la acuicultura no se liberan en el medio ambiente, sino que se redirigen a las raíces de las plantas, al mismo tiempo...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Water harvesting from concentrated runoff for irrigation purposes
Water shortage is one of the most limiting factors for sustainable agriculture in large parts of South East Spain. Part of the solution of this problem may come from the restoration of traditional water harvesting structures. This technology describes small earthen or stone-built bund that diverts flood water, during runoff...
Spain
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Case study
Mercados de las agriculturas familiares y campesinas : un análisis institucional comparado entre Brasil y Chile
El régimen alimentario corporativo permitió el crecimiento de las escalas de producción-distribución-consumo, así como la transformación de las calidades de los alimentos por parte de las agroindustrias, pero generó una crisis civilizadora ante las externalidades negativas no contabilizadas.
Como contramovimientos desde la perspectiva Polanyiana, las agriculturas familiares y campesinas buscan...
Brazil - Chile
2020 - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
E-learning
A guide to developing a resilient watershed management plan
This course presents the basic principles and concepts related to resilient watershed management, and, through the description of a case study, practically illustrates the process for formulating a resilient watershed management plan, from the analysis of the enabling environment to the definition of the risk management measures to implement.
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter article
Senegal: Interview of Mme Diaba Diop, general secretary of Pencum Sénégal (GÉF/ Women’s Economic Group)
Interview of Mme Diaba Diop, general secretary of Pencum Sénégal (GÉF/ Women’s Economic Group). I became a fish processor when I left school. I had sat twice for the Bac (‘A’ Levels). My grandmother, who worked in that trade, was growing old. So I decided to join forces with her. By...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Fisheries/Sustainability Leaving None Behind
Artisanal fishers’ experiential knowledge contains qualities that can help the world face some of its most difficult problems including climate change. We need to value their wisdom. Most maritime countries have neglected and shunned their small-scale fisheries since the mid-1950s. This was done in the name of fisheries development, to make...
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Agroecology - the next evolution in food systems
#Agroecology is a way of farming with nature, not against it. It builds resilience to climate change and disease outbreaks by combining different plants and animals, based on farmers' knowledge of their local environments. Agroecology doesn't rely on chemicals to fertilize crops and fight pests. It relies on #diversity. And...
2020 - IPES - Food
Policy brief/paper
COVID-19 global economic recession: Avoiding hunger must be at the centre of the economic stimulus
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast in January that the global economy would grow by 3.3 percent in 2020, however its latest outlook, in April, now forecasts a contraction of 3.0 percent, with no upside scenarios and numerous risks.
The scenario presented in this brief predicts that if the anticipated global...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Hacemos agua - Agua Nuestra
Este cuarto documental Hacemos agua, Agua Nuestra, aborda el acceso al agua potable es un derecho de todo ser humano consagrado por Naciones Unidas en 2010. Rosario cuenta con la ordenanza “Derecho de jarra”, que establece que bares y restaurantes deben ofrecer agua gratuita, potable y segura a quien la solicite.
Te...
Argentina
2020 - UNICANAL - Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)
Practices
Hay Box Brooder: a milestone to increase rural households poultry production
Using the hay-box chick brooder is a simple technique which conserves the metabolic heat produced by the chicks, and thus keeping them warm. Unlike other brooders, this device does not require coal, oil, or electricity for heating. The following description gives detailed information on how to build and manage the...
Ethiopia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Shade-grown coffee
Shade-grown coffee is an agroforestry system which combines coffee with shade trees, including fruit, timber and leguminous species, in a systematic fashion. Shade-grown coffee is a traditional and complex agroforestry system where coffee is associated with various other species in different storeys (or ‘levels’). This provides ecologically and economically sustainable...
Costa Rica
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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