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Practices
Intensive stall-fed system for rearing goats
Indoor housing is a convenient practice for raising livestock. If stalls are constructed in an appropriate way, they can fulfill several functions. This practice describes in detail how to construct a goat shed and a feeding trough. The feeding trough is constructed outside the stall, making it easier to clean...
India
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Workshop on Formation of Community Forestry Practitioners
Workshop on Formation of Community Forestry Practitioners' Network (CFPN) in Myanmar
Myanmar
2016
Practices
Green manuring in sugarcane production for soil improvement and water efficiency
Usually, there is a common practice to raise green manure as an intercrop in sugarcane and to incorporate it as mulch 45 to 50 days after sowing. The present practice, however, shows a modified method by introducing some practices based on close observations in a sugarcane production site in Tamil...
India
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Conference/Meeting
Farmer’s Empowerment and Solidarity
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) participated in the just concluded 6th global farmers’ forum held at the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy on February 15-16, coinciding with its tenth anniversary.
Farmer leaders, accompanied by technical staff, represented AFA as a...
2016 - IFAD
Video
Sridonoretno Coffee
On the coffee flavor is actually very Universal Indonesia, he can translate a matter of taste in every country and eventually everyone recognizes that Indonesian coffee is the best.
Indonesia
2016
Magazine article
Pulse Panchayat - Achieving self-sufficiency in pulse production
Pulse panchayat is an integrated approach in establishing a sustainable production, value addition and marketing system. The initiative implemented by a Farmer Producer Company in Tamil Nadu, is moving towards achieving self-sufficiency in pulse production.
India
2016 - Leisa India
Case study
Zero Budget Natural Farming in India
Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) is a set of farming methods, and also a grassroots peasant movement, which has spread to various states in India. It has attained wide success in southern India, especially the southern Indian state of Karnataka where it first evolved. The movement in Karnataka state was...
India
2016 - La Via Campesina
Magazine article
Uncultivated foods - The hidden treasure
The share of uncultivated foods from the forest has gradually declined in the diets of Paharia tribes in Jharkhand. Initiatives like conservation, preservation, processing of uncultivated foods has helped them regain their position and enhance the dietary diversity of the communities, also addressing the issues of hunger and malnutrition.
India
2016 - Leisa India
Blog article
New round of agricultural censuses in Asia is key to achieving SDGs
Twenty-one Asian countries are participating in a roundtable discussion as part of the FAO’s World Programme for the Census for Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020). The roundtable discussion was opened by Kundhavi Kadiresan, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific. The census, held once every ten years,...
Thailand
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Make it rain
Floods, droughts, heat waves, cold spells, and other natural disasters are large sources of risk for farmers. For instance, in semiarid areas of India, 89 percent of farming households cited drought as the largest risk to agricultural production. Climate change may make weather patterns more extreme and unpredictable, further exposing...
Ethiopia - Ghana - India - Malawi
2016 - The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI)
Case study
System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam: Doing more with less
In Vietnam rice is grown on 85% of cultivated land. Annual paddy (unmilled) rice production grew from 19.2 million metric tons in 1990 to 42.4 million metric tons by 2011, and in 2012, Vietnam exported eight million metric tons of rice. These yield increases were achieved through improved seeds, but...
Viet Nam
2016 - Oxfam
Magazine article
Climate smart crops
Tubers, pulses and millets are important for the livelihoods and nutrition of poor farmers, especially in fragile regions. These crops are not only underutilized, but are also under researched. Ama Sangathan, a women federation consisting of 1200 indigenous women, have revived these crops in two blocks in Odisha, by their...
India
2016 - Leisa India
Practices
Innovations for raising Malabar Neem (melia dubia) in Tamil Nadu, India
This practice focuses on facilitating the nursery germination and plantation of the “Malabar Neem” (Melia dubia), which is locally known as “Malaivembu”. The tree is found in forest plantations in India and is a fast growing tree crop with up to 20 m height. It produces greater bio-mass in a...
India
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
The SPOTS® Project – an innovative approach for sustainable palm sourcing
Within the SPOTS Project, L’Oréal has committed to purchasing RSPO-certified production from smallholders in the Sabah Region (Malaysia) over five years, through a partnership with the NGO Wild Asia and its suppliers. The initiative gives these smallholders a long-term access to the international market, allowing them to improve their agricultural...
Malaysia
2016
Report
A small-scale vessel registration system
for Pacific Island countries and territories
This report, achieved through a two-month consultancy, was only possible with equal financial contributions provided by the Western and Central and Pacific Commission’s Japan Trust Fund (JTF) and the Pacific Fisheries for Food Security Program funded by the Australian Government. Artisanal fisheries in Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) provide...
2016 - Pacific Community (SPC)
Technical paper
Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity into Agricultural Production and Management in the Pacific Islands
The international community is increasingly aware of the link between biodiversity and sustainable development and its direct impact on wealth, health and well-being. Biodiversity is the origin of all crops and domesticated livestock. It is also the source of vital ecosystem services and functions, including soil conservation, water cycling, pollination,...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Convention on Biological Diversity, Pacific Community, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Magazine article
Traditional crops ... the basis of our food and farming systems
Mariam Mayet is the director of the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). In a recent report, ACB turns their attention towards genetic modification of non-commercial ‘orphan crops’ and the way this technology is replacing farmer managed food systems. In this interview Mariam explains what is wrong with genetic modification of...
2016 - Leisa India
Blog article
Indonesia to issue first license certifying legal timber entering Europe
FAO welcomed an agreement by Indonesia and the European Union (EU) to issue the world's first Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) timber license as a major achievement in the fight against illegal logging.
As of 15 November, the FLEGT license can accompany shipments of timber exported from Indonesia to...
Indonesia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Practices
Innovations developed in Moringa Oleifera (Drumstick tree, horseradish tree) propagation
This practice describes how moringa plant can be propagated by air layering to promote vegetative propagation of trees and produce seedlings. Farmers nowadays might prefer propagation of moringa through air-layered cuttings rather than through seed propagation because through vegetative propagation the air layered seedlings represent the characteristics of selected mother...
India
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article
Increased consumption of dairy products in Asia-Pacific is good news for small farmers while improving child nutrition
The increased consumption of dairy products in Asia and the Pacific is playing a vital role in improving child nutrition and boosting the livelihoods of small farmers across the region, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced.
The announcement was made during the opening session of the...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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