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Fabrication d’un cérificateur à vapeur artisanal
La cire est un produit de la ruche obtenu soit par récupération des vieilles cires lors du changement des cadres usés soit par les opercules lors de la désoperculation des cadres de miel lors d'une récolte. La cire est produite par les jeunes abeilles chargées des travaux de la construction...
Nicaragua
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Policy brief/paper
The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis threatening the food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world. Hundreds of millions of people were already suffering from hunger and malnutrition before the virus hit and, unless immediate action is taken, we could see a global food...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Building fodder security in rural areas
This note highlights the importance of engaging members of the community in documenting the wealth of traditional knowledge regarding feed and fodder systems across different agro-ecological regions. This process enhanced their self-respect and dignity in terms of their heritage and inspired them to revitalise and reintegrate some of these practices...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Assessing post-harvest fish losses: Informal Fish Loss Assessment Method (IFLAM)
Planning and policy-making for the development of the post-harvest fisheries sector have been hampered by the lack of practical tools to understand post-harvest fish losses. The Informal Fish Loss Assessment Method (IFLAM) is a practical, flexible way to quickly generate qualitative and indicative quantitative data on post-harvest fish losses. This...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Les bonnes pratiques oasiennes en vidéo 4/5 - Lutte phytosanitaire au naturel - Algérie
Dans les oasis de Beni-Isguen, du Ghoufi et du Ghout, les agriculteurs utilisent des méthodes ancestrales pour lutter contre les insectes et les maladies. Pour préserver la nature et l'écosystème des oasis, les agriculteurs locaux pratiquent des techniques agricoles ancestrales, comme le traitement des maladies et des insectes par le...
Algeria
2020 - RADDO
Case study
Strengthening local advocacy capacity to improve food security in the drylands of Tanzania
This initiative on strengthening policy engagement capacity to improve food security was a three-year project from 2013 to 2016. Funded by the European Union, it was implemented jointly by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) in Longido District in northern Tanzania....
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Video
Ecological Organic Agriculture - Production of Liquid Manure
Paul Kabwama, a small scale farmer from Mukono district explains to us how to produce liquid manure using animal droppings, ash, urine and other wild plants. He preserves this manure for 14 days before applying to his crops.
To learn more about our work on promoting organic agriculture, please visit:...
Uganda
2020 - ESAFF Uganda
Video
Cápsula 1 Introducción: Optimizando sistemas de riego tecnificado para la Agricultura Familiar Campesina
Esta primera cápsula es parte de la serie de 8 cápsulas audiovisuales creadas por el IICA y el Nucleo Biotecnología de Curauma de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
Para ver las otras cápsulas, pinche=> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYsiWFkJL9PtzHV9xurBVvg
Chile
2020 - Nucleo Biotecnología Curauma (NBC)
Practices
Managing a non-recirculation hydroponic unit for commercial lettuce production
Hydroponics is the most common method of soil-less culture (growing agricultural plants without the use of soil), which includes growing plants either on a substrate or in an aqueous medium with bare roots. Non-circulating hydroponic methods, importantly, do not require electricity or a pump. With the method presented in this...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Innovations in common land development
Increased availability of fodder biomass (e.g. grasses, shrub and tree leaves) is possible through protected commons. This increased availability of biomass has in turn directly resulted in improved livelihoods. This Good Practice reveals how management of village dynamics, building awareness, finding local solutions and building technical acumen can create ownership...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
LOG-IT: A tool for capturing and organising data on factory production and quality
The ability to capture, log and organise information is essential to the efficient management and control of food production factories. It is of particular importance in demonstrating control of food safety systems. Although initially developed for use in export fish processing factories in Uganda, the technology can be used by...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Why are local seeds important? This Honduran farmer uses them to help his community
Five years ago, Edwin Adonis Nolasco did not consider himself a farmer. He worked small jobs in rural Honduras, uncertain of how he would support his family. When he came across an opportunity to join a farmer-led research project with our local partner organization, the Foundation for Participatory Research with...
Honduras
2020 - SeedChange
Case study
Agricultural communities in Kenya are rehabilitating prisoners through agroecology in a bid to reduce reoffending and revive local independent coffee farms.
Kenyan prisons are full of the young and the poor. It is no surprise when you consider the high levels of unemployment and the criminal means to which many turn to survive. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and crime, former prisoners are often left stigmatised by society and...
Kenya
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Video
Cápsula 2: Acumulador o Estanque
Esta segunda cápsula es parte de la serie de 8 cápsulas audiovisuales creadas por el IICA y el Nucleo Biotecnología de Curauma de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
En esta cápsula aprenderá a calcular capacidad de riego y algunos consejos para evitar crecimiento de algas.
Para ver las otras cápsulas, pinche=> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYsiWFkJL9PtzHV9xurBVvg
Chile
2020 - Nucleo Biotecnología Curauma (NBC)
Report
Annual Report 2019
This annual report highlights the struggles and activities we had and the progress we made in 2019. These happened in the context of a world faced with many complex and interconnected challenges that heightened political crises and triggered mass mobilizations and protests broke out in all corners of the earth. What is...
2020 - La Via Campesina
Practices
Traditional floating garden practices for vegetable production
The floating garden practice is a local indigenous production system the successful in the wetland/submerged/flooded areas in the selected south and south-western districts (Pirojpur, Barisal and Gopalganj) of Bangladesh. Floating garden agricultural practices have been adopted by the local farmers for the past two centuries. This technology describes in detail...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Mitigating diseases and saving valuable assets - poultry vaccinators delivering services to the poorest
This practice describes how poultry vaccinators reached out to women poultry rearers with vaccination services, extension messages covering different aspects of poultry rearing, and provided disease surveillance.
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Controlling mango fruit fly
The mango tree suffers from numerous physiological, phytopathological and entomological problems. In West Africa, the economic importance of the damage caused by mango fruit flies (Diptera tephritidae) is growing in home garden mango trees as well as in small-scale and industrial mango orchards. The introduction and pan-African propagation of Bactrocera...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers in Bangladesh
Farmers in Bangladesh are facing serious problems during this time of crisis. Citizens are asked by the government to stay at home to avoid being infected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, farmers find it difficult to go to their farms to check on their crops. Shops including those...
Bangladesh
2020
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