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Support Family Farmers as frontliners in the fight to eradicate Covid-19
In countries with lockdown and quarantine, the most affected sectors are the landless farmers, daily wage earners and the informal sector in the cities and rural areas as they are most worried about how to earn to buy their food and pay for their bills and utilities and as their...
2020 - Asian Farmers’ Association
Magazine article
Caracterización y análisis de tambos asociados a cooperativas de la zona de Rosario
En el sur de la provincia de Santa Fe prevalece la agricultura como actividad agropecuaria. Sin embargo, la ganadería se mantiene en muchos establecimientos, ocupando en la mayoría de los casos áreas con suelos de menor aptitud productiva. En la región, también persisten sistemas de producción de leche, muchos de...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Practices
Herbal de-worming for lower goat mortality
The Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF), is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that works across 60 000 villages in 16 states of India, reaching out to over 4.5 million farmers. In BAIF’s programme area in the Dharwad district of India, high mortality among goat kids in the rainy season was reported...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Participatory varietal selection: improved maize
The centralised plant breeding techniques of the green revolution have yielded good results in more favourable agricultural environments. However, most low-resource farmers in marginal areas have not benefited from these varieties. As an alternative to centralised breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Paticipatory Varietal Selection (PVS) and Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB)...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Les bonnes pratiques oasiennes en vidéo 1/5 - système d'irrigation "californien" - Mauritanie
Dans l'oasis de Teyert à l'oued d'Adrar en Mauritanie, les agriculteurs ont mis en place une technique d'irrigation innovante : le système "californien". Explications. Pour diminuer l'utilisation de la nappe phréatique et mieux gérer les ressources en eau venant des pluies rares et concentrées en période hivernale, les agriculteurs pratiquent...
Mauritania
2020 - RADDO
Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #33 - March 2020
This Newsletter provides updated information on Agroecology, more concrete about COVID-19 and Agroecology, successful evidences of ZBNF and other agroecology highlights.
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Questionnaire: Food Systems and COVID-19 - Municipal Response to the Emergency
Local and sub-national governments worldwide are taking various actions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, but these actions go often unnoticed and are not sufficiently supported.In line with the Urban Food Agenda objectives, FAO wants to raise the profile of actions by city administrations and local governments to provide support to them, aiming to...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Magazine article
Extensionistas redes de historias actuales
Hoy les acercamos la reseña de un grupo de mujeres que aportan al proyecto Mujeres y ruralidad (desde sus historias, desde sus ideas y visualización de diferentes tiempos sociales), que se propone consolidar un espacio institucional en la facultad en común con las comisiones creadas. Ya hemos publicado en el...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Fact sheet
Agenda para la prevención y el manejo de brotes de la raza 4 tropical de Fusarium (R4T) en el cultivo de musáceas en AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE (ALC).
Con la confirmación de la presencia de Foc R4T en Colombia, las ONPFs, las instituciones de investigación agropecuaria y el sector privado de la región han priorizado una serie de acciones para el manejo integral a la problemática, prevaleciendo la implementación de protocolos de prevención y bioseguridad con el acompañamiento...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Plantation de rampes vivantes en courbes de niveau dans les zones de pente
Les rampes vivantes sont des bandes relativement étroites (environ 30 cm) de végétation pérenne (herbacée ou ligneuse) plantées en courbe de niveau sur les versants cultivés. Deux principaux types de rampes vivantes peuvent être utilisés pour la conservation de sols en Haïti. Si la végétation implantée est essentiellement herbacée, on...
Haiti
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Agroforestry coffee cultivation in combination with mulching, trenches and organic composting
This technology describes a combination of good practices for soil and water conservation that were introduced to coffee farmers in the central cattle corridor of Uganda. Its aim is to enhance their resilience to dry spells, pests and diseases, as part of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) project on...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
A study on the comparative efficacy of herbal and chemical de-wormers
This practice describes the efficacy of herbal de-wormers vis-à-vis their chemical counterparts. By means of a participatory research approach, the effectiveness of herbal de-wormers based on traditional knowledge has been tested successfully serving as a proof of the importance of local and often orally transmitted expertise to fight livestock diseases.
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India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Participatory varietal selection: improved varieties of blackgram for rainfed conditions
The centralised plant breeding techniques of the green revolution have yielded good results in the more favourable agricultural environments. However, most low-resource farmers in marginal areas have not benefited from these varieties. As an alternative to centralised breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) and Participatory Plant Breeding...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Impact of COVID-19 on organic vegetable farmers in Laos
Bounthan Sayalath, member of the Houan Oun organic vegetable group in Xay district, Oudomxay province, Laos says that they used to sell 800 to 1,000 kilograms of vegetables per day, but nowadays, they face a serious problem because no one is buying bulk produce. Last month, their group had a...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - Lao Farmer Network
Website
A participatory platform for agroecological and biocontrol practices
Landfiles launched a participatory experimentation method that allows knowledge to be shared and new technical routes to be developed. This platform makes it possible to lead groups, identify their issues, collect data and disseminate summaries.
Landfiles’ primary objective is to promote quality productions thanks to the identification of efficient technical itineraries. We...
2020 - Landfiles
Video
Primer Encuentro Virtual: Impactos, desafíos y estrategias frente al COVID-19 en la Agricultura Familiar
La pandemia provocada por el COVID-19 requiere, además de las medidas sanitarias adoptadas por los gobiernos, respuestas coordinadas para proteger a los sectores más vulnerables; mantener los sistemas agroalimentarios eficientes, inclusivos, resilientes y sensibles a la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria y nutricional. Y, consecuentemente, poder mitigar los efectos sociales y...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - Guatemala - Uruguay
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
SMS for good shepherding: providing information when and where it is needed
Anthra, a non-profit organization working primarily on issues of livestock development in the wider context of sustainable natural resource use, worked with migratory shepherd communities in Maharashtra, India. Access to information on disease occurrence and remedial measures emerged as a constraint for shepherds on the move. Keeping in mind that...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Land Policy Report
As a coalition of farmers, land is at the heart of our work. Finding secure access to land is the number one barrier preventing a generation of growers from entering the field. Land is also at the root of racial equity, food sovereignty, economic prosperity, public health, and the climate...
2020 - National Young Farmers Coalition
Website
HortiCrece
HortiCrece es un programa estratégico regional que nació con el fin de posicionar a la región de O’Higgins como el referente nacional más importante en torno al desarrollo y producción de hortalizas de nicho.
Existe un potencial de crecimiento enorme en la Región de O'Higgins, por eso buscamos empoderar a los...
Chile
2020 - HortiCrece
Journal article
Evaluación agronómica de forrajes con inclusión de enmienda dolomita en Nariño, Colombia
Objetivo
Evaluar el efecto de la enmienda dolomita en el rendimiento de forraje en época de altas y de bajas precipitaciones en Nariño, Colombia.
Materiales y Métodos
Se desarrolló un ensayo en el centro de investigación Obonuco (AGROSAVIA). Se utilizó un diseño de parcelas divididas en bloques completos al azar, con 18 tratamientos...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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