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Nigeria / COVID-19: A Heavy Blow
More than the COVID-19 pandemic itself, the lockdowns to prevent its spread have harder hit Nigeria’s unorganized small-scale fishers. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally struck all facets of life in affected countries and the small-scale fisheries (SSF) of Nigeria are no exception. The pandemic has hit the country’s small fishers both...
Nigeria
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Impact of COVID-19 on small holder farmers in Laos
A video about the Impact of COVID-19 on small holder farmers in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - Asia Pacific Farmers
Report
The Global Report on Food Crises - 2020
The acute food insecurity forecasts for 2020 were produced before COVID-19 became a pandemic and do not account for its likely impact in food crisis countries. The combined effects of conflict, macroeconomic crisis, climaterelated shocks and crop pests, including fall armyworm and desert locusts, were likely to ensure that Yemen...
2020 - Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
Practices
Bee viruses
Viral honeybee diseases are spread throughout the world. They can cause serious economic losses if combined with other bee diseases. Their impact is usually underestimated by beekeepers. Following is a list of the main honey bee viruses and a brief overview of the symptoms of the main viral diseases of...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Promoting drought and water logging tolerant cotton varieties
The losses caused by seasonal floods in the agricultural sector in the Juye county, in the southwest of the Shandong Province, have increased during the last decade. The Juye county is the lowest lying area of a topographical depression zone in the region. Rain water from the nearby other six...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Composting: burrow and pile methods
Northwestern Bangladesh is increasingly exposed to drought, climate variability and slowly increasing temperatures. Strategies enhancing the ability to withstand the negative impact of natural trends and hazards on agriculture are a means to strengthen the livelihoods of the two thirds of the population employed in this sector. One such strategy...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Newsletter
How to increase resilience
This topic addresses the resilience of agricultural livelihoods and the food system to COVID-19. Lessons learned by those who have had to manage disasters indicate that it is critical to understand, monitor, and anticipate the impacts of crises on agriculture and agricultural livelihoods early on. Timely and accurate monitoring enables...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Diálogos sobre os Sistemas Alimentares
O ganhador do World Food Prize concedido pela Norman Bourglow Foundation, David Nabarro, iniciou em 2018 uma iniciativa global denominada Food Systems Dialogues , pelo qual co-organiza ou dá suporte a sejam realizados Diálogos sobre os Sistemas Alimentares pelo mundo, para que, juntos, esses debates formem uma rede de tópicos e compromissos globais. Trata-se...
Brazil
2020 - Instituto Comida do Amanhã
Video
¿Qué agroecología necesitamos?
¿Sabemos cómo se producen los alimentos que consumimos diariamente? La agroecología es una propuesta que nace en los ‘80 como respuesta a los estragos provocados por la agricultura industrial, que se centraba en monocultivos y uso intensivo de agrotóxicos. Hoy en día, algunas corporaciones se están apropiando de la palabra...
2020 - Biodiversidadla
Journal article
Food systems disruptions: Turning a threat into an opportunity for local food systems
Our food system has been disrupted. Shopping at a grocery store during the COVID-19 pan-
demic is not a pleasant experience, and, for some of the most vulnerable, it can be outright
dangerous. It may become worse. How long will supply chain disruptions continue and what
are upcoming challenges? From illness in the...
2020 - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Video
Caldo Sulfocálcico
El Caldo Sulfocálcico es utilizado especialmente por sus características fungicidas y acaricidas. Éste consiste en la mezcla de una medida de azufre en polvo y media medida de cal, hervidas en agua. El uso de la cal favorece la dilución del azufre en el agua que una vez decantado y...
Chile
2020 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura
Blog article
La FAO y FONTAGRO impulsarán la innovación y la investigación en alimentación y agricultura en América Latina y el Caribe
Buscarán contribuir al desarrollo de ecosistemas alimentarios y agrícolas innovadores.
El Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (FONTAGRO), y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), acordaron cooperar y contribuir a la investigación, el desarrollo y la innovación para el sector agroalimentario.
El memorando de entendimiento fue firmado hoy por Julio Berdegué, Representante Regional de la...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Organic Poultry production in Denmark
This video has been produced as a replacement for a field trip to the farm Gothenborg that was originally planned to take place during the OK-NET EcoFeed meeting in Billund in May 2020. Due to the COVID19 situation, instead the meeting was held online. The video replaces the farm visit...
Denmark
2020 - ICROFS
Article
Primogénita FCA-INTA: Nace una nueva variedad de arveja argentina
En nuestro país, la arveja se consume principalmente como rehidratada y enlatada. Pero existen muchos productos elaborados a partir de ella, como las sopas instantáneas, snacks, productos de cereales congelados, hamburguesas, barritas energéticas, harinas y concentrados de proteínas que se utilizan para sustituir total o parcialmente sustancias de almidón; con...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Journal article
Pacific Islands: 30 by 30
Renewed calls for marine conservation must not bulldoze the democratic route that has allowed small island nations to improve fisheries and incomes without damaging the marine ecology. I wanted to share some concerns regarding the danger that threatens to disrupt the management of the Pacific Islands’ signature fisheries and main independent...
Åland Islands
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Website
Unleashing the potential of family farmers in NENA Region
Family Farming (which includes all family-based agricultural activities) is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family labour, including both women’s and men’s. The family and the farm are linked, co-evolve and combine economic,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
MEC publica orientações para distribuição de merenda escolar na quarentena
O Ministério da Educação (MEC) e o Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE) publicaram na segunda (13), no Diário Oficial da União (DOU), a Resolução nº 2/2020, que traz orientações para a distribuição de alimentos adquiridos pelo Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE).
Na última semana, o presidente da República,...
Brazil
2020 - Ministério da Educação
Event
Buenas prácticas en la agricultura: caso aguacate
Evento que forma parte de las actividades del Proyecto. Productividad y Competitividad Frutícola Andina
Las frutas tropicales son el tercer grupo de frutas más valioso a nivel mundial, detrás de las bananas y manzanas. América Latina y el Caribe, regiones en donde son principalmente cultivadas por pequeños agricultores, están bien posicionados para...
Ecuador
2020 - INIAP Ecuador
Practices
Introduction of corralones, (semi-roofed shelters) and veterinary pharmacies
In the highlands of Bolivia, recurrent cold waves and related extreme events severely increase the mortality rate of camelids, which represent the main source of livelihood for the local population. This technology describes the introduction “Corralones”, semi-roofed shelters aimed at protecting livestock from extreme weather and climate events in the...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Journal article
Text Mining National Commitments towards Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use
Capturing countries’ commitments for measuring and monitoring progress towards certain goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), remains underexplored. The Agrobiodiversity Index bridges this gap by using text mining techniques to quantify countries’ commitments towards safeguarding and using agrobiodiversity for healthy diets, sustainable agriculture, and effective genetic resource management. The...
2020 - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
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