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Building resilience on Colombia's border
La Guajira, Colombia’s northernmost region, is dry with desert landscapes. It’s prone to drought and food insecurity particularly in rural areas. In recent years, the economic crisis in neighboring Venezuela has pushed over a million migrants across the border, including 165,000 people into La Guajira. The influx of migrants has...
Colombia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Establishing a tree nursery
At present the need to plant trees on farms is on the increase. It is difficult, however, for smallholders to access – at the right time, in the right quantities and of high quality – the trees that they want to plant. In order to meet present and future demand...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Journal article
Caracterización de las materias primas y/o alimentos empleados en las raciones utilizadas en sistemas porcinos familiares de la zona de influencia de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias (FCA) de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Según CONINAGRO (2018), son los pequeños y medianos productores porcinos (con menos de 100 cerdas madres) los que reúnen el 61% de los reproductores de dicha producción en nuestro país. El 70% del stock de porcinos se localiza en la región Centro de Argentina (Calzada et al., 2018) en concordancia...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Magazine article
Evaluación antimicrobiana de extractos obtenidos a partir de Tithonia Diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray con uso potencial en la industria lechera
El uso de antibióticos en el tratamiento de la mastitis en la industria lechera, ha acarreado una problemática con potencial impacto en la salud pública, como la resistencia antimicrobiana. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue evaluar la acción antimicrobiana del extracto alcohólico de hojas, tallos y flores de Tithonia diversifolia sobre el...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria
Report
Desigualdad digital de género en América Latina y el Caribe
La revolución tecnológica ha hecho posible que la conectividad digital también llegue a zonas rurales. Sin embargo, todavía existe un enorme trabajo pendiente para reducir las desventajas del campo frente a las ciudades y que las posibilidades que esa revolución ofrece estén al alcance de los pequeños productores. Entre los...
2020 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Report
Aportaciones de los Pueblos Indígenas a la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios
Los talleres de consulta Aportaciones de los Pueblos Indígenas a la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios se llevaron a cabo en octubre de 2020 con motivo del Foro de los Pueblos Indígenas, evento realizado por el Fondo a cada dos años.
La Cumbre tiene como objetivo lograr avances en la Agenda...
2020 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Magazine article
Adopción de la variedad de berenjena C015 (Solanum melongena L.) en la región Caribe colombiana
El objetivo del presente trabajo es contribuir al conocimiento sobre el estado de adopción de la variedad de berenjena C015, generada por Agrosavia en el año 2011, bajo el enfoque de fitomejoramiento participativo con agricultores, quienes seleccionaron el material por altos rendimientos, mayor número de frutos por planta y coloración...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Vegetative tree propagation in agroforestry
This technology describes the various stages in the vegetative propagation of trees (from tree nursery management to cuttings, grafting, and layering). It is targeted at helping field technicians and nursery managers active in tree propagation research or development. The concept of vegetative propagation is that an exact copy of the...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Soil property and fertility improvement through composting using Trichoderma
Composting improves the physical condition of soil and can thereby reduces the risk and impacts of climate variability and extreme weather events such as droughts, dry spells and heavy rains. Healthy soil systems can better respond to temperature increases, changing rainfall patterns, increase evapotranspiration rates, and alter pest and disease...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Magazine article
Aproximación a un indicador para estimar la magnitud del esfuerzo físico en las labores de cultivo
A escala finca los indicadores sociales de sostenibilidad agrícola más comunes son las horas-labor y la estacionalidad de la mano de obra. La magnitud del esfuerzo físico que los trabajadores invierten en las actividades agrícolas normalmente no se utiliza como un indicador de eficiencia y sostenibilidad; por esta razón, en...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria
Practices
The role of digital agriculture in agroecology and food sovereignty
This presentation claims that innovations for family farmers must deliver improved livelihoods in rural areas. It argues that all innovation has to comply with the SDGs: more people working with more value and higher quality of life. Agroecology is an innovation based on peasant knowledge centered farming systems and innovation...
2020 - Schola Campesina
Event
Interdrought 2020
Droughts affect crop production across the world. A central challenge for researchers and policymakers is to devise technologies that lend greater resilience to agricultural production under this particular environmental stress.
Interdrought 2020 aims to facilitate the development of concepts, methods and technologies associated with plant production in water-limited environments.
The congress will...
2020 - International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Report
KEY ISSUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD SYSTEMS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Between December 2019 and March 2020, SOS Faim Belgium undertook a brainstorming exercise, with the support of the Destrée Institute, to draw up scenarios for the next forty years (to 2060) for the development of agricultural and food systems and the role to be played by international cooperation.
2020 - SOS FAIM Belgium
Newsletter
Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions - December 2020 Newsletter
It has been a year since APAARI started implementing the project on Asia Pesticide Residue Mitigation through the Promotion of Biopesticides and Enhancement of Trade Opportunities funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). It is implemented in collaboration with the IR4 project, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),...
2020 - Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAAri)
Blog article
Open-air markets ban: Another blow to struggling small farmers
Local farmers’ markets have become the latest coronavirus casualty after France decided to close open-air markets as a further measure curb the spread of coronavirus. However, the move has proved controversial given that it stands to disproportionately affect small producers.
2020 - Euractiv
Book
Amaryllidaceae: Fuente Potencial de Alcaloides. Actividades Morfológicas y farmacológicas.
Ciencia y Agricultura Vol. 17(3): 78-94. 2020Las plantas de la familia Amaryllidaceaehan adquiridoimportancia por ser utilizadas como ornamentales, por tener flores y apariencia vistosa, además de sus amplias propiedades farmacológicas. Los géneros principalmente estudiados son Amaryllis, Crinum, Galanthus, Narcisus, Bruganvigia yLycoris. Ellos producen alcaloides teniendo como precursores primarios la L-fenilalanina...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Amibiase: une maladie parasitaire des abeilles adultes
L'amibiase est une maladie qui affecte les abeilles domestiques adultes. Les symptômes de l'amibiase sont similaires à ceux de la nosémose: abeilles avec un abdomen enflé et diarrhée. L'apiculteur peut localiser les au trou de vol et à l'avant de la ruche et observer des abeilles incapables de voler, avec...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
African Leafy Vegetables (ALV) for urban supply and sustainable diets
Local leafy vegetables have long been an important part of people's diets in Africa. They are nutritious, affordable and adapted to local growing conditions and cultural traditions. They are cheap, readily affordable and rich in different micro-nutrients and are therefore crucial for the food and nutrition security of poor families...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Participatory varietal selection: rice in eastern India
Using participatory plant breeding, poor and marginal farmers in Eastern India, who previously grew old and low yielding land races, produced several new varieties of upland rice. Self-help groups produced truthful seed of these rice varieties, with production rising from 39 in 2002-2003 to 81 t in 2003-2004. It was...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Impact of COVID-19 on smallholder farmers in Laos
Currently, vegetable farmers in Laos are not able to sell their produce because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While markets remail open, many vendors chose to close their shops and many people are also afraid to go out.
Laos farmers appeal to their Laos government to help them by purchasing their vegetables...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020
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