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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
Blog article
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
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