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Diversified Farming Systems: Impacts and Adaptive Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, Norway and China
The COVID-19 pandemic fully exposed the vulnerability of the global agri-food system to shocks and stresses, highlighting the need for transformation and action to make it more resilient and inclusive. This paper offers a unique insight into the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining impacts and responses in...
China - Norway - United States of America
2022 - University of Bergen Norway
Hoja informativa
Soil atlas of Asia
Key messages and findings
This flyer presents key facts from the “Soil Atlas of Asia”, the first ever soil atlas for the region and an important tool to promote its sustainable soil management and preserve soil health. By targeting the general public, decisionmakers, politicians, teachers and even scientists in other disciplines, the atlas aims...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de boletín informativo
Women and Labour in Fisheries 101
Recognising the lack of clarity and therefore consensus on basic terminology, this article attempts to define some common terms used in discussions around gender and labour in fisheries. Towards a common understanding on gender and labour in fisheries, we define some basic terms commonly used when applying a gender lens to...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
COP 15: agroecological and other innovative approaches contributing to the resilience and long-term efficiency and productivity of production systems
Convened under UN auspices, chaired by China, and hosted by Canada, the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity adopted on 19 December 2022 the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF), including four goals and 23 targets for achievement by 2030.
TARGET 10 on agriculture includes agroecological and other...
2022 - Convention on Biological Diversity
Artículo de revista especializada
Fish and Fishery Products Trade by India: Trends, Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage
This study analyzes the trends and determines the comparative advantage and competitiveness of India’s fish and fishery products trade in the world market and of India’s exports to 10 major destinations over the period of 2000–2021. We use the revealed symmetric comparative advantage (RSCA) index to quantify India’s comparative advantage...
2022 - Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)
Conferencia/Reunión
Translating UNFSS commitments into actions: focus on the Coalition for Transforming Food Systems through Agroecology
n the framework of the Asia Pacific Symposium on Agrifood System Transformation that took place in Bangkok, Thailand, this hybrid side event – hosted on 6 October 2022 – fully aligns with the implementation of the new FAO Strategic Framework to support the 2030 Agenda through the transition to more...
2022
Artículo de boletín informativo
What’s New, Webby?: ICSF Archives/Digital library
ICSF’s Archives/Digital library contains ICSF’s collections of more than three decades, built up since ICSF’s documentation centre was set up in Chennai in 1999 with the twin objectives of gathering all kinds of information pertinent to small-scale fisheries and making it available to all stakeholders in an easy and rapid-access...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
Farmer-to-farmer agroecology: Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre
Nestled in a verdant valley in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, about a four-hour drive southwest of Bangalore, the agroecology learning center Amrita Bhoomi is one of dozens of farmer-to-farmer training hubs around the world focused on agroecology. The center was born out of organizing efforts of the local...
India
2022
Artículo de blog
''Grandma and the Bees: my connections to agroecosystems''
I spent my summer vacations at my grandma's after my 6th-grade examinations. Grandma lives in a small village in Kerala in India. It was always fun to be at her place, spending my days playing, helping in the kitchen and feeding the cows. I rarely visited grandma every year as...
India
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.
Artículo de blog
Empowering Rural Women and Youths in Papua New Guinea on Group Leadership & Agri-Business Management
EU-STREIT PNG addresses gender-based violence and its subsequent negative impact on inclusive participation and transformational change in seven remote villages in Sandaun Province.
Vanimo, Papua New Guinea – A 5-day intensive training workshop on establishing and organising agri-business groups, with a focus on Group Leadership and Business Management skills, was recently organised...
Papua New Guinea
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
Case studies on food waste quantification, characterization, and identification of prevention and reduction options in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Food waste (FW) is a key challenge on the sustainable development agenda of countries worldwide. The lack of FW data and insights from its analysis about quantities, causes, and characteristics is a significant obstacle in implementing adequate reduction and prevention interventions for different sectors. The primary purpose of the case...
Sri Lanka
2022 - FAO; IWMI;
Vídeo
Making cassava snacks
Cassava should have a clean, fresh scent and a pure white center when cut open. Fresh roots also have a pleasant taste.When using bitter cassava, ferment the peeled roots for 3 days to leach out the poison cyanide, Then wash the roots.
Kenya
2022 - Access Agriculture
Informe
Policy Study on Sustainable Agriculture
This study was done in collaboration with the Chief Minister's Rajasthan Economic Transformation Advisory Council (CMRETAC) to explore the suitability of natural farming in Rajasthan and propose a strategic roadmap for a successful scale-up. A combination of mixed methods was utilised that included a review of prominent state initiatives on...
India
2022 - Chief Minister's Rajasthan Economic Transformation Council
Artículo de blog
''Rediscovering Ancient Seeds and Hope''
Dilemma
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 a master’s degree, which subject should I choose, what is my field...
Nepal
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.
Estudio de caso
Bangladeshi villages turn digital
FAO Digital Villages initiative empowers farmers to access markets and improve incomes
Ever since he was about 16 years old, Ziaur Rahman has been working his family’s farm in the Rangpur district of northern Bangladesh, growing rice, potatoes and other vegetables. But Ziaur, now 34, is feeling increasingly squeezed by today’s harsh economic realities. Even with his wife Sahanaz, and his brother...
Bangladesh
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Documento técnico
Low water exchange shrimp farming: improvements in Thailand
How the implementation of heterotrophic, low water exchange shrimp-farming systems – including the use of biofloc – in Thailand has helped to limit the spread of pathogens and improved farm performance
Thailand experienced several cycles of rapid expansion and intensification of production, followed by sector-wide losses from a series of viral disease outbreaks. Farms were forced to innovate and adapt management measures to address the perceived sources, or drivers, of disease. The implementation of heterotrophic, low water exchange shrimp-farming systems –...
Thailand
2022 - FAO
Artículo de blog
''Rotti, rice or ragi? Let the women choose''
It was early February 2020. I was headed off with my camera crew, our field officer – Kumar and our NGO partner from Bagalkot to visit and film some Fiar Price shops. There were muttered rumors of a virus called COVID. WhatsApp messages, sounding the alarm of a pandemic, were...
India
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.
Artículo de blog
''Encounters during an Agrobiodiversity photo hunt''
It was the monsoon of 2019 when Stefan and I set forth on our agrobiodiversity hunt into the dense forest and other food production systems of Umsawwar community in Meghalaya. Kong Therisa Nongrum and Kong Angela Nongrum, who are custodian farmers from the community, volunteered to lead us on this...
India
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.
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Adopting anticipatory action and shock responsive social protection to strengthen disaster preparedness and resilience: Learning from the ASEAN region
The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has done an independent evaluation of a programme that aimed to promote and institutionalize AA and SRSP in the ASEAN region, including from a sustainable financing perspective.
This evaluation, which comprised a...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vídeo
#WeAreWatching: Bangladeshi Farmers Call to Action Against Climate Change
"Due to #climatechange, farmers in #Bangladesh are in a vulnerable situation. Because of the sea level rise and salinity intrusion, river erosion, etc., they are facing a massive negative blow in terms of crop productivity. In addition, poor management practices, especially those of pests and diseases, fertilizer, water, and irrigation...
2022 - Asian Farmers' Association
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