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Com delivery, pequenos agricultores orgânicos driblam crise e veem até aumento de vendas na pandemia
Com a pandemia, o grande problema para os agricultores rurais foi o fechamento das suas principais vitrines, as feiras livres, para conter a transmissão do vírus. Para muitos, essa era a principal forma de relacionamento com o público. Outro complicador foi a suspensão das atividades escolares. Muitos produtores que abasteciam...
Brazil
2020 - BBC Brasil
Journal article
Americans' Food Spending Patterns Explain Devastating Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service’s Food Expenditures by Outlet data provide insight as to why the lockdowns related to COVID-19 have been so devastating for U.S. farmers. In 2018, American consumers bought a total of $628bn[1] worth of food, of which $460bn was spent at grocery stores and...
2020 - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)
Conference proceedings
Organic Animal Husbandry systems – challenges, performance and potentials
The main theme of the conference is “Organic Animal Husbandry systems – challenges, performance and potentials”, taking into account the diversity of organic and sustainable animal husbandry systems. Particular attention has been given to dairy and pig systems, parasites and the replacement of inputs. The Video Pre-Conference 2020 will be...
2020 - IAHA in collaboration with FiBL, ITAB, INRA, EU Core Organic projects, Good Earth Great Food, IFOAM, ICROFS
Journal article
A New Deal with our Ocean Planet
The creation of an inclusive, equitable and sustainable ocean economy calls for bold political and social leadership, based on a holistic relationship with our ocean planet. The ocean sustains all life on our planet. Our human relationships with the ocean are diverse, complex and evolving. They represent both a time-honoured and...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Convocatoria 2020: Innovaciones para el aumento sostenible de la productividad agropecuaria en América Latina y el Caribe en el contexto del cambio climático
FONTAGRO anuncia la Convocatoria 2020 para la presentación de proyectos de “Innovaciones para el aumento sostenible de la productividad agropecuaria en América Latina y el Caribe en el contexto del cambio climático".
La fecha y hora de cierre es el día 3 de abril de 2020, a la 3:00 PM, hora del Este de EE.UU.
El...
2020 - FONTAGRO
Book
Towards Economic Empowerment, Participation and Agroecology: A Rural Youth Situationer from Six Countries in Asia
Young people are regarded as the drivers of a better future for societies. And rural youth represent the future of agriculture and sustainable farming systems now increasingly being acknowledged as key to solving some of the leading world challenges like food insecurity, livelihood dislocation, environmental destruction and widespread poverty. But...
2020 - PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and IPAM
Practices
Strip intercropping to reduce climate hazard impacts
The Philippines is among the most disaster prone countries in the world. More than 200 climate-related natural disasters were recorded in the last two decades in this country. In 2011 it was hit by 33 disasters, claiming 1 430 lives. These typhoons trigger landslides, flashfloods, mudslides, widespread flooding and cause...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Storage of seed potatoes with the Diffused Light Storage (DLS) principle
Potato is the second most important staple food in Nepal after rice and it is a source for higher income and a better diet for small-scale rural farmers. Increasing consumption of potato demonstrates its importance for food security; however, seed storage is not easy, especially because temperature fluctuations and excessive...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Diversified cropping system: strip cropping
Soil conservation is crucial to sustainable agriculture. This technology involves growing row crops, forages, small grains, or fallow in a systematic arrangement of equal width strips across a field. This arrangement of strips reduces water and wind-induced soil erosion. It also reduces the transport of sediment and other water-borne contaminants...
Grenada
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Production of banana seedlings for direct planting
This practical guide was adapted by the Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola (FHIA) and is applicable where banana trees are grown. Traditionally, the banana producer plants new areas with shoots (sprouts from the base of the mother plant) obtained from plantations intended for the production of fruit. This practice weakens...
Honduras
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
What does the UN Environment Programme bring to the table in the zero-budget natural farming debate?
Farming is the bedrock of India’s economy—43 per cent of its population are employed in agriculture. Yet, paradoxically, around 60 per cent of India’s people is likely to experience severe food shortages by 2050.
Climate change impacts—including crop losses due to global heating—unregulated use of fertilizers and pesticides leading that degrade the soils,...
India
2020 - UN Environmental Programme
Technical paper
Breeding strategies for sustainable genetic improvement of Caucasian and Carpathian Brown cattle breeds
The aim of FAO project TCP/RER/3604 was to elaborate breeding goals and plans for breeding and breed development of Caucasian Brown Cattle in Armenia and Georgia and Carpathian Brown Cattle in Ukraine. As a first step, information was collected about the breeds themselves and the environments in which they are...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
Video
Apicultura sustentable: manejos culturales de invierno
¿Qué manejos realizas en invierno para cuidar tus colmenas? Sigue las tres recomendaciones de Francisco Carvallo, investigador del programa Manejo Territorial de Insectos, y descubre alternativas sustentables para la apicultura. Más info en: https://bit.ly/3iDOmsl
Chile
2020 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura
Video
Toasting soybeans for feeding laying hens
Soybeans are an excellent source of protein for both humans and livestock. But they contain also anti-nutritive substances. These are deactivated using heat treatment. There are different procedures for this heat treatment. One of these procedures is toasting. Usually, this process is carried out externally, not on the farm itself....
2020 - FiBLFilm
Practices
Worm control in sheep
Every sheep grazing on pasture is infested with one type of worm or the other. Failure to control clinical worm infestation in sheep can result in blood loss, underweight animals, and death. In the case of hydatid disease, which is a disease related to infestation with tapeworm, failure to control...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Soil conservation: contour ploughing
Contour ploughing mitigates the impacts of floods, storms, and landslides on the crops by reducing soil erosion up to 50 percent, controlling runoff water, increasing moisture infiltration and retention and thus enhancing soil quality and composition. This practice describes contour ploughing and contour beds which can be constructed manually using...
Grenada
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Participatory approaches: client-oriented breeding of maize
The centralized 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 centralized breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) and Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB)...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Website
IFOAM International Animal Husbandry Alliance
The IFOAM International Animal Husbandry Alliance (IAHA) is an informal network of individuals and organizations interested in supporting and strengthening the development of organic animal husbandry.
2020 - Ifoam Organics International
Case study
Okavango Delta : recognizing cultural heritage in a natural site
The Okavango Delta, in northwest Botswana, is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a wetland system that is almost intact. Land rights issues came out strongly during the inscription process of the Okavango Delta as World Heritage...
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
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