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Free online training increases capacity of veterinary laboratories in the region
Healthy animals are the basis of successful, profitable, and sustainable livestock production. Especially in the case of poultry, the help of veterinary laboratories is essential to protect the health of flocks.
Still, several laboratories in Europe and Central Asia are using outdated and unreliable technologies, as modern and preferred diagnostic methods...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Blog article
Una Voz Fuerte – para Agricultores(as) y Mujeres
Previo al Día Internacional de la Mujer, presentamos algunas de las innumerables historias de mujeres inspiradores que trabajan en las organizaciones certificadas Comercio Justo – Fairtrade y en sus comunidades. Hoy, conozca a Wendy Rodríguez, quien, luego de huir de lo que era un ambiente violento, marcado por las drogas...
Peru
2020 - Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores y Trabajadores de Comercio Justo (CLAC)
Report
Farm to Fork Strategy
For a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal. It addresses comprehensively the challenges of sustainable food systems and recognises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet. The strategy is also central to the Commission’s agenda to achieve the United Nations’...
European Union
2020 - European Commission
Report
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos
Este documento, elaborado en el marco del Proyecto "Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala " y del "Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas CIAP", presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca...
Argentina
2020 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Practices
Beekeeping in Africa: using bees for pollination
The practice of using bees to pollinate fruit crops is as new as the beekeeping industry in most parts of tropical Africa, although the practice has started in a few places in northern and southern Africa. This technology describes how farmers could utilize bees for pollination for their advantages via...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Small-scale starch extraction: hydrocyclone for improved process efficiency
Root starch production is a long-established industry that has seen little development in recent years. In developing countries it has been estimated that five million tonnes of starch are produced annually in developing countries, half of which is produced from cassava representing a major market for small-scale root crop growers....
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Dryer construction for solar-dried fruit and vegetables production
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. This provides practical opportunities for developing small-scale enterprises, particularly in rural areas, and creating employment for...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Sustainable fishery on Lake Victoria: exploitation, gears, fishing methods and management
Fish is important for good nutrition and fishery activities generate income and employment. However, industrial and intensive fishing and also wrong fishing methods deplete fish stocks. In Uganda, the major fishing activities are on Lake Victoria, one of the African great lakes and the second largest in the world. These...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Website
Rethinking Our Food Systems - "Earth to Tables Legacies"
Since 2015, the Earth to Tables Legacies project has brought together a small group of food activists across big differences - youth/elders, rural/urban, Indigenous/settler, Canadian/Mexican for exchange around food justice, and food sovereignty. Conversations and food initiatives are filmed and culminated in a multimedia educational package that includes facilitator’s guides, resources,...
2020 - Earth to Tables Legacies project
Report
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting in a substantial downward shift of the series of the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
#IGrowYourFood - Meet George, an agroecological farmer from the United Kingdom
The farm side of agroecology is only half the picture. Food sovereignty is of vital importance; it's the right for every single person on this Earth to have access to nutritious food and the knowledge of how to prepare it.” George, an agroecological farmer from the UK, for #IGrowYourFood
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
Blog article
Food insecurity: an appetite for change
Regardless of age, gender or country of origin, we all need food to survive. Yet, globally, 820 million people are going hungry.
In the face of a rapidly changing climate, it is vital that young people are engaged in reducing food waste and creating a system in which food is distributed more equally.
According...
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Blog article
FAO event set the course for a long and nourishing life
This year tested humankind on how we score in resilience. This is also at the heart of FAO, aiding the Organization, along with two additional fundamental principles, sustainability and innovation, during an eventful 75 years of existence. The World Food Day Talks event provided an opportunity for inspiration on how...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Report
Juventud rural y territorio
El presente informe constata que, aunque persiste la desigualdad territorial en América Latina, zonas rurales conectadas a ciudades, políticamente activas y productivamente diversas, ofrecen más oportunidades de desarrollo e inclusión laboral a la población joven.
La desigualdad sigue siendo un problema crítico para América Latina, señala el “Informe Latinoamericano sobre Pobreza y...
2020 - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP)
Working paper
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos. Informe Nº 43. Febrero 2020
Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Gestión productiva y económica de pequeños y medianos emprendimientos porcinos de Argentina y Uruguay vinculados al CIAP” presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore la calidad...
Argentina
2020 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Project
SALSA – Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security
SALSA aims to provide a better understanding of the current and potential contribution of small farms and food businesses to sustainable food and nutrition security.SALSA pioneers a novel integrated multi-method approach in 30 regions in Europe and Africa, using the most recent satellite technologies, transdisciplinary approaches, food systems mapping and...
2020 - SALSA – Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security
Blog article
Information on COVID-19 and small-scale fisheries
Small-scale fishers, fish workers and their communities are currently facing the threat of the Covid-19 pandemic which is affecting the entire value chain and the livelihoods depending on it. At the same time, there may be promising practices and opportunities that may contribute to the prosperous future of the sector.
This...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book part
Conceptualización de la calidad de agua asociada a la extracción del petróleo
La explotación de hidrocarburos genera una gran cantidad de agua proveniente de los yacimientos o de la reinyección (recobro mejorado), denominada agua de producción. Este capítulo da a conocer el origen de este líquido y la cantidad que se podría extraer por cada barril de crudo. Además, se exponen los...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Storage and preservation of wet cassava
Highest grades of cassava starch are processed from freshly extracted starch. In many cassava processing factories, extracted starch is stored in tanks under wet conditions during the peak harvesting period (two to five months). Long-term storage of cassava starch under wet conditions results in adverse quality changes which reduce the...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Light attraction method to catch mukene fish on Lake Victoria
Mukene, also called Dagaa or Omena, is found in Lakes Victoria, Kyoga and Nabugabo and in the Victoria Nile. It is among the three most important commercial fish species in Lakes Victoria and Kyoga. The mukene fish is fished by light attraction. Compared to gillnetting, light fishing is relatively new...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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