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Silvopastoral and hedgerow systems in integrated farming systems
Low income farmers in semi-arid tropics, such as in the low rainfall areas of southern India traditionally combine different activities to diversify livelihoods so as to reduce the impact of natural hazards like drought. The Acacia Leucophoea and Cenchrus Ciliaris sylvi-pastoral system is an integrated sylvi-pastoral farming system that provides...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets
Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while most markets are braced for a major global economic downturn, the agri-food sector is likely to display more resilience to the crisis than other sectors.
Food Outlook is published by the Trade and Markets Division...
2020 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Caminho para políticas alimentares urbanas
A agenda das Políticas públicas alimentares urbanas ganhou ampla visibilidade em 2020 e estará bi centro das atenções também nos próximos anos, quando o mundo precisará compreender que pandemias podem ter impactos negativos menores se conseguirmos construir sistemas alimentares mais resilientse, justos e sustentáveis. No Brasil, o acesso ao alimento...
Brazil
2020 - Estadão
Newsletter article
From the Editor, Yemaya, No.61, August 2020
According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) released in July amidst the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people affected by hunger is steadily rising globally. People with higher risk of food insecurity include those with the lowest levels...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Event
La agricultura familiar en el marco del Plan Argentina contra el Hambre
En el marco del proyecto FONTAGRO: Agricultores Familiares, Innovación y Mercados.
El proyecto se propone contribuir al fortalecimiento de estrategias innovadoras de producción y comercialización de alimentos que permitan retener una mayor proporción del valor generado por los agricultores familiares. El propósito es comprender y visibilizar las innovaciones productivas y comerciales de...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - INTA Argentina
Practices
Planning an extended climate and weather forecasting system for hazard preparedness in agriculture
In Bangladesh, both in flood years and in dry years, rice crop is under growing risks of yield losses due to disasters. The three-tier weather forecasting scheme provides information on the coming weather and allows to plan agricultural activities accordingly, following the ordinary cropping pattern in case of early or...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Newsletter article
Gender/FWO: Revive, Renew and Re-launch!
AKTEA is the European network of women in fisheries and its main objective is to lobby at European Union level for women rights in fisheries. It was established in 2006 by fisherwomen organisations from different European countries who collectively volunteered to take this movement forward. For several years AKTEA was...
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Trying it yourself
Helping to write a script for a farmer training video on vermiwash triggered my interest in trying it out myself, as I began to wonder if ideas from tropical India could work in temperate Belgium.
Belgium - India
2020 - Access Agriculture
Magazine article
Agricultura Familiar no Nordeste
Olhares a partir do Censo Agropecuário 2017
A agricultura familiar é uma forma de produção e trabalho bastante presente no campo brasileiro, embora tenha sido historicamente marginalizada. Mesmo assim, desde o final do século XX aconteceram muitos avanços em termos do reconhecimento institucional da importância econômica e social dessa categoria de produtores, tendo como marco a criação do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento...
Brazil
2020 - Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB)
Blog article
Harnessing the power of bees to benefit forest and people
Widespread deforestation, natural disasters and human-wildlife conflict are among factors that have diminished Kenya’s forests. The country’s ‘Greening Kenya’ initiative, launched last year, aims to achieve more than 10% forest cover by 2022.
The past has seen Kenya put in spirited efforts to protect its forest lands from further degradation. Nonetheless, the...
Kenya
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Video
A Film to Promote Sustainable Food System Practices
This is a film produced by ICENECDEV(International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development) to promote sustainable Food System in the Mount Cameroon Forest Region through Tradition/Indigenous Knowledge, Agroecology and Natural Farming Practices in providing healthy Food to Healthy People. This film is produced to promote cultural and traditional practices...
Cameroon
2020 - International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV )
Journal article
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)
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