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Partnering with agri-enterprises to support cocoa business in Papua New Guinea in sustainable approach
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under EU-STREIT PNG Programme, in its mission to increase the production of high-quality cocoa that will improve the agribusiness of rural communities in the Sepik, signed agreements with over 30 registered nurseries and now these enterprises are distributing (CPB) pest-tolerant...
Papua New Guinea
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Hoja informativa
Link between agrobiodiversity, livelihood and climate resilience
SIANI’s Expert Group in Nepal, led by Oxfam Novib and the Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), has produced an infographic to highlight ten agro-biodiversity components in the farming system that contribute to secure food and nutritional needs.
Smallholder farmers and agrobiodiversity are critical and directly linked with agricultural production. However, there is...
Nepal
2022 - Siani
Audio
Quand les paysans Indiens passent au bio, le pari de l’agroécologie
Dans les campagnes de l’Andhra Pradesh, cet Etat agricole du sud-est qui a lancé depuis 2018 le plus grand programme d’agroécologie au monde. Près d’un million de paysans y sont déjà passés au "natural farming", délaissant OGM, pesticides, fongicides, et engrais chimiques.
Cette ”agriculture naturelle” veut réparer la terre et relever les...
India
2022 - La Terre au carré
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Des céréales locales pour la transition climatique et alimentaire. Pratiques paysannes et pratiques féminines sur les sorghos et les mils du Sahel sénégalais au Deccan indien
Cet article met en perspective les résultats de deux projets. L’analyse montre que l’intensification du riz dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal et celles de la révolution verte en Inde font non seulement décliner la biodiversité agricole des céréales locales, mais endommagent les capacités d’adaptation et la qualité nutritionnelle des...
India - Senegal
2022
Artículo de blog
Upskilling Papua New Guinean youths to empower rural communities in transport infrastructure works
The EU Funded UN Joint STREIT Programme continues to train more young people from rural Sepik with the skills required for decent employment opportunities in road transport infrastructure development in Papua New Guinea. In its latest step, the Programme organised a 4-day training on ‘Occupational Safety and Health Hazards.’ Delivered...
Papua New Guinea
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Informe sobre el uso del Instrumento para la Evaluación del Desempeño de la Agroecología (TAPE) en Argentina Resultados y discusión desde el Área Metropolitana de Rosario
A medida que la agroecología se ha incluido cada vez más en el diálogo internacional sobre el futuro de la alimentación y la agricultura, ha habido llamados para producir las evidencias de su desempeño en las múltiples dimensiones de la sostenibilidad y de su capacidad para lograr múltiples ODS. En...
Argentina
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Food systems profile - Bhutan
Catalysing the sustainable and inclusive transformation of food systems
The Food System Profile provides a summary of the main food system issues in Bhutan and highlights potential solutions for their sustainable and inclusive transformation. The result of a systemic analysis and stakeholders consultation, it is part of a large-scale assessment supported by the European Union, FAO and CIRAD in...
Bhutan
2022 - FAO
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Three sites in China designated FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
Using traditional practices and knowledge while preserving biodiversity and ecosystems
Three sites in China - an ancient tea-producing area, a nomadic livestock-rearing region and a rain-fed stone terrace farming system - were formally recognised as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), for their unique ways of using traditional practices and knowledge while maintaining unique biodiversity and ecosystems.
The sites were designated during...
China
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Portrait series: Faces of Organic Cotton
Eleven people give an insight into their joys, their worries and their personal values in the environment of organic cotton production. The series "Faces of Organic Cotton" shows a new portrait every week until mid-December. It was created as part of FiBL Switzerland's SysCom (Farming Systems Comparison in the Tropics)...
India
2022 - FiBL Switzerland
Manual
Asia-Pacific roadmap for primary forest conservation
The purpose of the roadmap is to delineate and inform the process by which decision makers and actors can evaluate the status, diversity and trends of primary forests in the region, identify priority areas for primary forest conservation, assess the threats they face, and explore possible ways to address them....
2022 - FAO; CIFOR; CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry;
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Community Radio: Building Trust During and Post-Covid-19 Waves
This blog, in the backdrop of World Radio Day, highlights the instrumental role Community Radio Alfaz-e-Mewat FM 107.8 played during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a country as vast and diverse as India, inclusion can only be achieved by strengthening communication that serves the people at the bottom of the pyramid,...
India
2022 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia AESA
Aprendizaje en línea
Abierta la inscripción - MOOC Agroecología 2022
Este curso descubrirá qué es la agroecología, cuáles son los diferentes enfoques y cómo se traducen en prácticas agrícolas. En una dinámica de capacitación participativa, basada en la diversidad social y geográfica de los actores, el MOOC propone construir un enfoque de la agroecología desde la perspectiva de las ciencias...
Argentina
2022 - El INTA
Estudio de caso
A thriving forest product boosts family farmers’ incomes
Forest and farm producers organizations help fuel Viet Nam’s economy
In the northern regions of Viet Nam, forestry and agriculture provide livelihoods for nearly 80 percent of the population. However, nearly half of all households own less than one hectare of land, which often prevents farmers from earning the income they need. To help smallholder farmers find ways to raise...
Viet Nam
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Regional Gender Strategy and Action Plan 2022–2025 for Asia and the Pacific
Promoting gender equality across the policy and programme framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is crucial for the Organization to realize its mandate to eradicate poverty and eliminate hunger and malnutrition. Across the Asia-Pacific region, women are well recognized as important contributors to food...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Legumes: a superfood for people and soils
Every year in September, during ‘India Nutrition Week,’ nutritionists, health gurus, development professionals, chefs, and other food and nutrition experts converge across the subcontinent to discuss and promote the benefits of a balanced diet for a healthy lifestyle. While malnutrition rates have dropped significantly in India over the past decades,...
India
2022 - ICARDA
Artículo de blog
Forests and trees can help us recover from multiple crises, new FAO report says
With the world facing multiple crises including, COVID-19, conflicts, climate crisis and biodiversity loss, our forests can help us recover from their impact, but only if we step up action to unlock their potential. In a key report launched today, the State of the World’s Forests Report 2022, the Food and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
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 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
EU Delegation inaugurates a new rural road rehabilitation project to improve accessibility for 2000 plus population in Sepik, Papua New Guinea
The EU Ambassador to PNG launched a new transport infrastructure project in East Sepik which improves access to market, business opportunities, health aids and schools for more than 2000 villagers in a ground-breaking ceremony.
Wewak, Papua New Guinea – His Excellency, Ambassador Jernej Videtič, the Head of the European Union Delegation to...
Papua New Guinea
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Estudio de caso
The smart phone app helping Fijians form healthy eating habits
Innovation in Small Island Developing States combines digital savvy with traditional approaches
Irene Chief’s words are stark as she describes what spurred her and her colleague Kama Ateca to do something about unhealthy diets in their island nation of Fiji. Seeing co-workers in their thirties or forties dying of heart attacks “will leave you traumatised,” she says. “We go to more and...
Fiji
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
Small fish, huge impact
WorldFish under MYSAP programme promoted the production of dried powder made from small indigenous fish species and piloted portable fish driers, designed to reduce contamination risks. The drier keeps the fish covered while drying them, thereby reducing the contamination risk and the pilot test demonstrated improved safety. The dried small...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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