This practice explains the gender fundamental roles, relations and norms in the agricultural setting. It intends to clarify the concepts, understand the environment and raise awareness on gender roles, relations and norms for a better agricultural sustainable environment. This practice aims to assist extension and advisory services trainees in increasing...

The Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness offers a process and method to evaluate the performance of a fisheries co-management system and its plan in order to enhance its effectiveness in delivering benefits and in contributing to environmental, social and economic sustainability and good governance. It is to be used...

This practice shows the nutrition needs of different people and guides through some examples of healthy food sources for people in towns and cities – to grow or to buy. It includes a simple recipe of a  healthy salad with easy ingredients.

Organic farming is a farming method that uses natural substances and processes to produce food. This means that organic farming has a low environmental impact because it encourages: energy and natural resource conservation; conservation of biodiversity; regional ecological balance preservation; soil fertility improvement; water quality preservation. Furthermore, organic farming rules encourage a high standard of animal...

Did you know that the equivalent of one soccer pitch of soil erodes every five seconds? Yet it takes 1 000 years to produce just a few centimetres of topsoil. Soil is the life support of our food and agriculture. We rely on soils for 95 percent of the food we...

Image UN Women Evaluation Handbook: How to manage gender-responsive evaluation (2022) Publication year: 2022 Gender-responsive evaluation is a priority area for UN Women and serves three key purposes: To demonstrate accountability to stakeholders; To provide credible and reliable evidence for decision-making; and To contribute important lessons learned about normative, operational, and coordination work. With the aim of...

Ganadería Ovina. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

This practice shows some simple tips for harvesting and storage of different crops. The dependence of much food production on climatic fluctuations means that variability in food output can never be completely avoided. Adequate on-farm and household storage are therefore crucial, not only to enable storage of current and surplus food...

  ARC2020 is supporting a research project on ‘Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture’, led by PhD Matteo Metta. The project aims to study, and to connect, farmers, advisors, policies, nature conservationists, and critical considerations around digitalisation from the perspective of a diversified, integrated, and multifunctional agriculture. Digitalisation is increasingly expanding in agriculture...

¿Qué son los servicios ecosistémicos? Son los beneficios directos o indirectos que obtienen las personas de los ecosistemas y agroecosistemas. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

¿Qué es el bienestar animal? Designa “el estado físico y mental de un animal en relación con las condiciones en las que vive y muere” (OIE, 2018). Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

This practice describes the innovative technology that uses halophyte plants to create winter fodders reserves stocks to improve animal feed systems. The Aral-Caspian Depression, with its sharply continental arid climate, faces a severe problem in producing enough food for a rapidly growing local population. The intensive use of water and land...

Aquí se relacionan las razas o grupos genéticos predominantes en el sistema productivo de carne ovina del trópico bajo. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

This practice abstract was elaborated in the BIO4FOOD project: the project is running from November 2020 to October 2023, and is to contribute to reducing crop wastes providing natural protection products, vegetables rich in health-promoting minerals and biofertilizers.

Mantener los animales en un lugar limpio, seco, protegido de predadores y condiciones climáticas. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

In Bearn, maize is well adapted to the pedoclimatic context, with no loss of yield potential when grown as a monocrop. But, regulatory pressure and price volatility risks, as well as increasing attacks from bio-aggressors, threaten maize monocropping. It is essential to experiment with alternative cropping systems combining respect for...

The rosy apple aphid is one of the most important and dangerous pests. This is due to its short development cycle and large reproductive potential. Flower strips have a positive impact on pest management – addressing various pests. They enhance the biodiversity of orchards and promote beneficial insects, such as Hoverfly,...

Los registros son la principal fuente de información acerca del estado general del rebaño. Servirá para tomar decisiones sobre la productividad de los animales. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Ciclo reproductivo para ovinos de carne: rebaño, monta, gestación, parto, rebaño, levante y ceba. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

This practice shows the use of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) as a multipurpose salt- and drought-tolerant agricultural food crop. The practice describes how quinoa was used for increasing the food security in marginal conditions in Central Asia.