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On World Food Day, Asia-Pacific countries consider bold plan to recover from COVID-19 and eradicate hunger
Every year, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific celebrates the importance of World Food Day. This year, given the COVID-19 global pandemic and the disruptions it has caused to livelihoods and food security, our celebrations are muted, yet within this context, today’s World Food Day itself has become...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Practices
Improved cassava fufu processing methods
The commercialisation of traditional processed products from cassava, such as fufu, potentially offers new opportunities for income generation to rural households in Nigeria, Ghana and other parts of West Africa. Several options exist for the commercialisation of fufu, including the production of a shelf-stable product? This minimises the use of...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Producing solar dried fruit and vegetables for micro- and small-scale rural enterprise development: processing aspects
The preservation of fruit and vegetables by simple sun drying is practiced widely throughout arid and semi-arid areas, for example in Uganda. The use of low cost, solar drying technologies, can significantly improve product quality thereby providing practical opportunities for developing small-scale enterprise, particularly in rural areas, and creating employment...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Raising Calliandra tree seedlings
This practice describes how Calliandra tree can be planted and grown in Uganda. First starting by seed collection and pre-treatment, then construction of seeds bed, seed sowing, and finally filling of polyethene pots with soil.
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
E-learning
Curso: Gestión de riesgos sanitarios e invasiones biológicas para la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN)
Una emergencia provocada por una enfermedad animal o por la presencia de una especie exótica invasora (EEI) puede generar graves consecuencias socioeconómicas, medioambientales, sobre la salud humana y los valores culturales, que incluyen formas tradicionales de uso de los recursos.
En este sentido, es importante identificar el riesgo e implementar medidas...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Un Billón de Agaves, un proyecto de Vía Orgánica y Regeneración Internacional
Ronnie Cumins, uno de los fundadores de Vía Orgánica y director de Regeneración Internacional, nos explica detalladamente esta gran iniciativa que significa un futuro brillante para el planeta.
Mexico
2020 - Vía Orgánica
Blog article
Using technology to overcome challenges for farmers in value chains
Value chains are structured in ways that are unfavourable to smallholder farmers who often struggle to access finance, inputs and markets. An IIED webinar discussed how smallholders in East Africa can use technology to overcome those challenges and negotiate with buyers and input and finance providers from a position of...
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Report
Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?
This report responds to heightened concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. We assess the quantitative evidence behind this general impression and review the explanations in the scientific literature, in the light of known issues with long-standing attitudes towards pastoralism and mobile populations....
Chad - Ethiopia - Kenya - Mali - Senegal - Uganda
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Policy brief/paper
Regional Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea - RPOA-SSF
The RPOA-SSF is a political commitment setting forth an ambitious roadmap for the ten years from 2018-2028. It prescribes concrete and coherent measures to address challenges and reinforce opportunities for small-scale fisheries, including by giving fishers a voice in the decisions that affect their livelihoods, by safeguarding environmentally sustainable fishing...
2020 - GFCM
Video
Ecological Organic Agriculture - Rain Water Harvesting
A small scale farmer shows us how she manages to grow crops in a dry area. She harvests rain water which she uses for irrigating the crops. This has helped her to adapt to the effects of climate change.
To learn more about our work on promoting organic agriculture, please...
Uganda
2020 - ESAFF Uganda
Practices
Beekeeping in Africa: choosing and rearing a queen
The queen bee is the sole reproductive female in the honey bee colony. That’s why the queen is very important to the colony due to her main task of laying eggs. If the queen's ability to lay eggs is disturbed, a new queen is needed for the colony. This technology...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Book
Living Landscapes - Embracing Agro-Biodiversity in Northern Laos
In 2009, the Laos government’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation entered into a bilateral agreement for the implementation of "The Agro-Biodiversity Initiative (TABI)" in upland Laos. The initiative sought to conserve, enhance, manage, and sustainably utilize the biological diversity found in upland farming landscapes to improve the...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020
Blog article
Hundreds of millions of family farmers in Asia-Pacific need help to ensure food security in the face of pandemic
Asia-Pacific’s smallholder family farmers produce most of the world’s food, yet they are facing a disproportionate impact on their livelihoods and food security due to the present coronavirus pandemic, a collaboration of FAO and advocacy groups warned today.
The COVID-19 impact on the region’s rural communities, and particularly those in developing...
2020 - AFA
Manual
Deconstructing the gender gap in rural financial inclusion
The cases of Mozambique and Tanzania
In recent years, along with the growing recognition of the rural gender gap in financial access as a key constraint to rural development, research has focused increasingly more towards analysing in depth the financial habits and patterns followed by women in rural areas, in order to produce observations and insights...
Mozambique - United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
La Filière Dattes Dans La Région Du Tidikelt Dans Le Sud De L’algérie, Entre Le Passé Et Le Présent
In Salah est une des oasis du sud-est de l’Algérie. Capitale de la région du Tidikelt, elle était historiquement le district le plus important du Touat. La production de dattes y était très diversifiée. En effet, la région était considérée comme l’un des marchés commerciaux les plus importants, notamment pour...
Algeria
2020
Video
United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 - Video
In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on...
2020 - United Nations
Practices
Beekeeping in Africa: responding to common bee diseases
The honeybee suffers from diseases. In many parts of the world, research is underway for means of combating or preventing them. However the African bee industry is in its infant stage and not much research has been carried out on bee diseases in Africa. It is believed that some of...
Gabon
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Supplementary feeding for farmed fish
Most fish farmers believe that a fish is a wild animal. They think that once put in pond water, it will survive naturally without adding any food supplement. This has resulted in pond fish taking a long period to reach a reasonable size. Most farmers add manure like cow dung and...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Certificaciones agroecológicas: sin veneno y con justicia social
La producción agroecológica empieza a tener certificaciones que son gratuitas y que por eso no encarecen las producciones. Cuál es la diferencia con la certificación orgánica, y cómo se llegó a una victoria histórica del movimiento agroecológico que contó con apoyo e investigación de INTA y Senasa, tomando experiencias de...
Argentina
2020
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