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Regional developments [in 2023 Global Food Policy Report]
Rethinking Food Crisis Responses
Recent global crises have led to diverse impacts across the world’s low- and middle-income regions, reflecting local conditions and differing policy responses. These effects are often compounded by more local shocks and crises, including prolonged conflict and violence, natural disasters, and fragile economic and governance systems. This section examines the...
2023 - International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI
Artículo
Towards Eradication of PPR: Disease Status, Economic Cost and Perception of Veterinarians in Karnataka, India
In this study, we assessed the PPR disease status, its economic cost, the financial viability of vaccination, and the perspectives of field veterinarians on the PPR vaccination programme implemented in Karnataka state, India. In addition to secondary data, cross-sectional surveys undertaken during 2016–17 (survey I) and 2018–19 (survey II) from...
India
2023
Libro
Integrated land use management systems in Uzbekistan – Part 1
Case studies and governance recommendations. Literature review
This is a literature review on land use and integrated land use management systems in Uzbekistan. The review aims to synthesize and examine the state of knowledge and the scope for establishing various integrated resource and land use management strategies such as types of agroforestry systems and integrated pastoral management...
Uzbekistan
2023 - FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
Agroforestry Matches the Evolving Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Agenda in Asia and Africa
Mitigadaptation, tree-based synergy between the global climate change mitigation and adaptation agendas, has been slowly emerging in the 30 years of climate science–policy interaction with its various ups and downs, false starts and ever-increasing urgency of bending the climate curve. The potential contribution of agroforestry to the climate change mitigation...
2023 - Part of the Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa book series (SAFS)
Artículo de revista especializada
Surviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia
Cassava has become a ‘must have’ crop for many Cambodian smallholders; yet, the market is volatile and yields are uneven. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Kampong Thom and Ratanakiri provinces, we analyse how farmers cope with volatility. We argue that multiple pathways have emerged: some farmers have ceased producing cassava;...
Cambodia
2023 - Massey University New Zealand
Artículo de blog
Broadening diets and growing opportunities in Mongolia
FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme supports climate-resilient agriculture in the heart of a landlocked country
Located in Central Asia, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated fully sovereign country in the world. Landlocked and far from the sea, the vast grazing lands and grassy steppe of Mongolia have for centuries been a heartland of nomadic animal husbandry. About 73 percent of agricultural land is pastureland used...
Mongolia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Women’s empowerment and market skills improve rural livelihoods
A bold business decision helps one Cambodian woman improve her farm’s production and challenge gender roles
Hos Salop’s days always began very early. She would cook breakfast for her husband and her three-year-old grandchild before working on her family farm in the village of Pongro in northwest Cambodia. She collected vegetables, fed the chickens and a pig, cleaned her house and dropped her grandchild off at...
Cambodia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Re-thinking food systems in Andhra Pradesh
Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and socialconcepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems.It seeks to optimize interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment, whiletaking into account the social aspects that need to be addressed for a sustainable and equitable food system. Natural Farming...
India
2023 - FAO
Artículo
One Health Surveillance Highlights Circulation of Viruses with Zoonotic Potential in Bats, Pigs, and Humans in Viet Nam
A One Health cross-sectoral surveillance approach was implemented to screen biological samples from bats, pigs, and humans at high-risk interfaces for zoonotic viral spillover for five viral families with zoonotic potential in Viet Nam. Over 1600 animal and human samples from bat guano harvesting sites, natural bat roosts, and pig...
Viet Nam
2023
Informe
Preparing for sand and dust storm contingency planning with herding communities
A case study on Mongolia
This report outlines the conceptual framework for sand and dust storms (SDS) hazard risk and vulnerability assessment and mapping in agriculture and provides the elements as part of SDS contingency planning process in agriculture in Mongolia. Its main purpose is to provide an applicable procedure to reduce SDS risk and...
Mongolia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
EU joins Indian Ocean groups in drive to minimize impact of fish aggregating devices
Correction: The original version of this story had a headline stating the E.U. joined South Pacific groups. The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) and Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI) are both based in the Indian Ocean, not the South Pacific.
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI),...
2023
Artículo de blog
Listen and learn: Why research needs to start with women and communities
Interviews with CIFOR-ICRAF researchers doing crosscutting work on gender equity and social inclusion
In a chronically dry region of Kenya, outside Nairobi, women are becoming farmer scientists, working with CIFOR-ICRAF researchers to find ways to make the often-parched soil produce food for their families and the market.
The women are testing different types of mulch to see which works best in their difficult conditions. Their next...
2023 - CIFOR and ICRAF
Boletín informativo
Access Agriculture Panorama - August 2023
The Access Agriculture Panorama features information on new videos, audio podcasts, blog posts, articles contributed by experts, partner highlights, voices from the field and upcoming events.
Belgium
2023 - Access Agriculture
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Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China
Rapid demographic ageing substantially affects socioeconomic development1,2,3,4 and presents considerable challenges for food security and agricultural sustainability5,6,7,8, which have so far not been well understood. Here, by using data from more than 15,000 rural households with crops but no livestock across China, we show that rural population ageing reduced farm...
China
2023
Artículo de revista especializada
Drivers and barriers in farmers’ adoption of vermicomposting as keys for sustainable agricultural waste management
The conversion of agricultural waste into organic fertilizer through vermicomposting is a sustainable waste management solution and an income source for organic fertilizer producers. Most of the agricultural waste in Iran is burned, triggering an array of negative consequences. Vermicompost production at the farm level is rarely practiced in Iran,...
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2023 - Yasouj University Iran
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Mushroom hunters: foraging mushrooms with my dad in Jhumlawang
It was a good day. Sun and cloud were playing hide and seek creating a komorebi (sunbeam) effect in the forest near Syaubaari, Jhumlawang, where my dad and I were looking for edible wild mushrooms. It had rained the night before, so the ground was damp and squishy, giving leeches...
Nepal
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Directrices
Livestock transportation and slaughter practices
Practical guidelines for Asia and the Pacific region
These guidelines cover the transportation process for cattle, pigs, goats, sheep and poultry, with an emphasis on land transportation, following two guidelines on Climate-smart livestock and Backyard farming and slaughtering (FAO, 2021a; 2021b). It also examines how pre-slaughter treatment, stunning and slaughter can compromise animal welfare by exposing livestock to...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Planting seeds of liberation: Reflections on Allyship in food systems
It was the harvest festival in January called Sankranti on the land of the Deccan Plateau in the State of Telangana in South India. We were in the office of the Deccan Development Society in Zaheerabad Block in Medak district. And since I am from the capital city of Hyderabad,...
India
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Rediscovering Ancient Seeds and Hope
It had been a year since I completed my bachelor’s degree in agriculture, but the dilemma of what to do next still continued. “Should I find a job or get a master’s degree? If I am going for master’s degree, which subject should I choose, what is my field of...
Nepal
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Over Time and Space: Hybrid Rangeland Governance in Amdo Tibet
Hybrid land governance, mosaics, polycentrism have become ways to describe contemporary rangeland settings - ways of responding to uncertainties through flexible institutions, overlapping boundaries and an assembled, plural bricolage of practices. However, this is frequently thought to be recent, often arising from more formal, regulated systems, whether state, private or...
2023
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