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Practices
Rapid multiplication of yams
This method produces small, whole planting setts, each weighing 200 g to 800 g, from minisetts as small as 25 g. The small, whole tuber setts produced by minisett rapid multiplication are excellent planting material for farmers and researchers. Each sett has a head, which means that sprouting is early,...
Samoa
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Event
Diálogo internacional: “¿Por qué los Andes, por qué ahora? El papel de la región andina en la salud humana y del planeta”
Si la selva amazónica son los pulmones del planeta, entonces los Andes son su alma. Los ecosistemas andinos son excepcionalmente ricos en biodiversidad única, diversidad cultural y recursos naturales. Como punto de acceso mundial de la agrobiodiversidad, los Andes son el centro de origen de cultivos clave y alimentos altamente...
2020 - Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
Event
Lanzamiento del estudio “Los pueblos indígenas de América Latina – Abya Yala y la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible: tensiones y desafíos desde una perspectiva territorial”
CEPAL y FILAC, consecuentes con el compromiso y el desafío de visibilizar la realidad de los pueblos indígenas, presentan conocimiento actualizado relativo a los derechos territoriales y la situación de los bosques, la demografía y el derecho al bienestar de estos pueblos. Se espera que ello contribuya al seguimiento de...
2020 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Practices
Soil conservation through multi-purpose wind breaks/shelter belts
Properly spaced trees help provide many of the same benefits of a complete perennial cover. Fine soil particles contain most of the humus and nutrients in the soil, and if lost, soil fertility is reduced, while windbreaks help protect cropland by reducing wind velocities for a distance approximately 15 times...
Viet Nam
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Event
1º sesión bisemanal: “De la Chacra Andina a la Mesa: innovaciones para el futuro de la agrobiodiversidad”; a cargo de Alejandra Arce
La agrobiodiversidad de los Andes es excepcionalmente rica en especies y variedades de importancia global para la alimentación y la salud. Entre raíces, tuberosas, granos, legumbres, frutas y otros tipos de plantas comestibles, más de 50 especies fueron domesticadas en la región andina. Sin embargo, la mayoría permanecen marginadas de...
2020 - Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
Video
Fattening sheep and goats
Usually, farmers fatten male sheep and goats because they grow faster. To fatten the animals, it is important to find the right animals. To fatten sheep and goats, also give them protein rich feed for about 3 to 6 months. Along with good food, you must also make sure that...
Bangladesh
2020 - Access Agriculture
Video
Shrubs for Change
In the Shrubs for Change project, 300 ‘trainers of trainers’ learn how to get more milk from dairy cows by feeding them nutritious leaves from shrubs. These trainers will in turn train and support 120,000 dairy farmers in Kenya and Malawi to start growing shrubs in their own gardens.
Research has...
Kenya
2020 - Vi Agroforestry
Report
MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURE - Opportunities for harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia
Why does mountain agriculture deserve special attention in a Zero Hunger context? Firstly, because hunger remains common in many mountainous areas. While on a global scale, food insecurity has tended to go down, mountain dwellers have fared worse than people living in plains. Secondly, because mountains cover a large part...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch - Women's Power in Food Struggles
In today’s context of rising hunger and ecological collapse, women and all those who seek to reimagine food, environment and economies, face ever-increasing attacks. This edition of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch addresses key issues of power, and expose the structural violence that degrades both women and the...
2019 - Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition,
Conference/Meeting
The Global Launch of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028)
27-29 May, 2019
Provisional AgendaThe Global Launch of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028)27-29 May, 2019FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy
Italy
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Sustaining the traditional production and conservation of Creole rice seeds in Guinea Bissau
In order to preserve their tradition, the Manjaq communities have embarked on a process of preserving local rice varieties essential for the organization of certain traditional ceremonies. Faced with these challenges, they have rebuilt their seed capital by making an inventory of all traditional seeds and their importance in traditional...
Guinea-Bissau
2019 - Cooperativa agro-pecuária de jovens quadros (COAJOQ), Guinea-Bissau
Journal article
Eau et changement climatique : quelles stratégies d’adaptation pour la gestion de l’eau d’irrigation dans le sud-est Tunisien
L'objectif de cet étude est d’étudier les différentes types de stratégies adoptées par les agriculteurs pour faire face à une crise d’accès à l’eau souterraine et d’analyser la rentabilité économique des systèmes de production irrigués en relation avec les adaptations aux changements climatiques dans le sud-est Tunisienne, pris come zone...
Tunisia
2019
Blog article
Before this farmer harvests food, she must harvest water
Sebastiana Montan barely looks down as she takes the dirt path from the farmhouse to her field below at a gallop. Her sandaled feet avoid stones and ruts with practised ease along the steep decline, but she pulls up short when she reaches a field of leafy crops. She begins...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2019 - SeedChange
Report
EIP-AGRI Focus Group Protecting fruit production from frost damage
This report presents the results of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group on 'Protecting fruit production from frost damage'. In the European Union, the fruit and vegetable sector is particularly affected by frost and, despite global warming, the risk of frost damage in the growing season may increase. This report reflects the...
2019 - EIP Agri
Blog article
Greek olive oil producers confronting climate change
Greek olive oil producers are turning out to more sustainable production methods, whereas climate change cuts off previous year’s production in -30%.
Greece
2019 - Food Security Center (FSC)
Blog article
Digital tools for an organic farm
Investing in Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) pays off for a farmer in North Macedonia
Suzana Dimitrievska is an organic farmer in North Macedonia. Coming from a line of strong, well-educated women, she has always been comfortable embracing new technology. She is using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to increase the efficiency of her family farm.
Several years ago, she bought a farm management software that enabled...
North Macedonia
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
La Cooperación Intra-MERCOSUR (2005-2015)
Análisis de siete sectores
Con el objetivo de identificar y caracterizar las distintas formas de cooperación entre los Estados Parte del MERCOSUR en la década 2005/2015, la Unidad Técnica de Cooperación Internacional (UTCI), realizó un estudio en el ámbito de siete sectores de trabajo: agricultura familiar, ciencia y tecnología, género, educación, integración productiva, medio...
2019 - Mercosur
Guidelines
L’agriculture de conservation au Maghreb
Les agriculteurs font évoluer leurs pratiques
L’adaptation des pratiques agricoles pour répondre à des objectifs productifs autant qu’environnementaux mobilise les agriculteurs du Maghreb depuis près de 30 ans. Mobilisant instituts de recherche, organisations de producteurs et praticiens durant toutes ces années, l’action de Fert et de ses partenaires a permis de mettre en évidence des acquis...
Algeria - Morocco - Tunisia
2019 - FERT
Article
Systèmes alimentaires en danger : tendances et défis
L’accumulation des risques qui pèsent sur les systèmes alimentaires est inédite. C’est le constat d’une quarantaine de chercheurs sur les tendances et les défis des systèmes alimentaires. Ce travail collectif, réalisé à la demande de la Commission européenne, a été présenté par le Cirad en session plénière introductive du High...
2019 - Cirad
Case study
Farmers inspiring farmers to save seeds in Kenya
Food insecurity and reduced food sovereignty is rampant in Kenya. This can be attributed to a new era of industrial agriculture resulting in genetic erosion of local crops, monoculture, high seed prices, and excessive use of chemicals. As a remedy, Kenya Seed Savers Network empowers farming communities to develop a...
Kenya
2019 - Seed Savers Network, Kenya
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