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Viverismo en la Agricultura Familiar - Encuentro 2
Capacitaciones Virtuales de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, en el marco de las actividades del Programa Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA), conjuntamente con Vivero de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Disertantes: Lic. Marcelo Miranda. INTA La Plata - Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA)...
Argentina
2020 - Programa Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA)
Practices
Systèmes de plantation et de gestion durable de lots boisés
La mise en place de lots boisés consiste à repeupler d'espèces arborées un site donné. En plus de son intérêt économique pour la production de bois et l'aménagement paysager ou récréatif, le lot boisé constitue une stratégie de lutte contre l'érosion. Il a pour rôle essentiel d'augmenter la couverture protectrice...
Haiti
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Government-led integrated approach for delivery of services to smallholder poultry farmers
This practice demonstrates how simple cost effective interventions such as low cost protein rich feeding, de-worming, vaccination, low cost housing, egg-candling, use of bamboo for poultry feeders and waterers, have strengthened household poultry production systems of tribal farmers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in India. A key factor that...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Establishing a tree nursery, East Africa
Many people in Eastern Africa depend on forests and trees to meet various needs. With growing populations, these resources are being rapidly depleted. Many farmers want to plant trees but cannot readily obtain high-quality tree seedlings. Establishing a tree nursery can help to meet this demand and provide you with...
Ethiopia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Seguimiento en el mar de "Mai", la tortuga cabezona
En diciembre 2019 "Mai", una tortuga marina “Cabezona” (Caretta caretta), fue capturada de manera accidental en un lance de pesca, vinculado a una de las campañas de investigación del INIDEP, realizada en el BIP Holmberg. Los investigadores decidieron tenerla a bordo y trasladarla a Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina)...
Argentina
2020 - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)
Journal article
Participatory research for sustainable agriculture: the case of the Italian agroecological rice network
Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous external inputs of chemicals, machinery, advice, subsidies and knowledge.
The issue of sustainability has brought complexity and uncertainty to this mainly linear...
Italy
2020 - European Journal of Futures Research
Case study
Bringing life back to the land: Zimbabwean farmers revive stagnant farms through agroecology
The Shashe farms in the Runde catchment area of Zimbabwe extend across three villages. Since 2010, over 500 families from the region have worked alongside ZIMSOFF (Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum) and AZTREC (Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conversationists) to revive arid cattle-ranching land into rich, abundant food forests.
At the...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Blog article
Let’s increase organic EU land and consumption by 20%!
The upcoming publication of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, planned for 29 April, is an ideal opportunity to increase organic land and consumption in the EU. This target may sound at first ambitious, but in reality, it is achievable.
The new Commission’s Green Deal highlights the need to increase the environmental ambition of the EU...
2020 - IFOAM
Report
Market opportunities for artisanal and small-scale fisheries products for sustainability of the Mediterranean Sea Towards an Innovative Labelling Scheme
With consumers and in value chains, small-scale fisheries are struggling to get the recognition they deserve. LabMAF has detailed the factors contributing to the weak position of small-scale fishers in the markets and identified innovations that respond to existing challenges. By connecting existing various market initiatives and encouraging new ones...
European Union
2020 - Euro-Mediterranean University
Practices
Making modern poultry markets work for the poor
This practice documents the work of the Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a leading NGO in India, in regarding the organization and support for rural women to take up poultry rearing, and develop this into a successful market-linked enterprise. Women poultry rearers have been organised into a Poultry Producers’...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Enriched compost for higher yields
In Eastern Africa, reduced soil fertility has led to declining crop yields on many small‑scale farms causing food insecurity and greater poverty. Throughout the region, soils are generally low in nitrogen and phosphorus – which are essential for crops to grow well. Soil fertility can be increased by the use...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Boosting Organic Trade in Africa
Market analysis and recommended strategic interventions to boost organic trade in and from Africa COUNTRY MARKET BRIEF FOR TUNISIA
This Market brief series is based on a study commissioned by IFOAM – Organics International in 2020 in order to better understand possible interventions that can promote market development and trade of organic produce in Africa.
The Tunisia Market brief is part of a series with 12 specific Market briefs. They...
Tunisia
2020 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Case study
Combating climate change with agroecology
Climate change remains the most significant challenge facing farmers in Benin. Irregular and unpredictable rains, coupled with prolonged droughts and increased incidents of high winds, are decimating crop production across many regions.
The Project for Adaptation to Climate Change (PAda-Clim-Benin), with financial support from Bread for the World (Germany) and DM...
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Blog article
Eviter les épidémies en modifiant les pratiques agricoles et alimentaires
Connaitre les mécanismes de transmission virale entre humains et chauve-souris est incontournable pour empêcher l’émergence de foyers épidémiques. Des scientifiques ont mobilisé plusieurs disciplines pour étudier la circulation du virus Nipah au Cambodge. Ensemble, épidémiologistes, écologues, virologistes et anthropologues ont analysé la circulation du virus entre chauves-souris et humains, puis...
Cambodia
2020 - CIRAD
Blog article
Central Asia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey establish joint Food Loss and Waste Strategy Committee
FAO and the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry convened a meeting of high-level officials from Central Asia to establish a joint Food Loss and Waste Strategy Committee mandated to oversee the development and implementation of the regional food loss and waste reduction programme.
The newly launched body will also support...
Azerbaijan - Türkiye
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020
The 2020 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture has a particular focus on sustainability. This reflects a number of specific considerations. First, 2020 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (the Code). Second, several Sustainable Development Goal indicators mature in 2020. Third,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
La agroecología como estrategia para tiempos críticos
Durante estos días, en los que muchos gobiernos ensayan la estrategia del cierre de fronteras y límites entre regiones dentro de un mismo país en el intento de contener la expansión de la pandemia del COVID-19, es que se puede observar la fragilidad de los sistemas alimentarios dependientes.
La limitación o...
2020 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Practices
Securing community tenure over common lands
This good practice is aimed at addressing the growing degradation of common land in India. By controlling the use of communal lands through community participation, discussion and the creation of self-governing rules, many benefits have been noted.
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Growing maize and soybean in rotation
Soybean brings nitrogen from the air into the soil as a free source of urea. You can obtain a good maize yield after harvesting soybean with less inorganic fertilizer application due to soil improvement. Growing soybean before maize reduces Striga infestation in maize. The practice demonstrates how to plant and...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Improving the quality of parboiled rice
Parboiled rice is rice that has been boiled in the husk. Parboiling makes rice easier to process by hand, improves the nutritional value of white rice, and changes its texture. Today, it is the preferred rice of many in the southern parts of the Indian subcontinent, and elsewhere. The quality...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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