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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;
Artículo de blog
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
Artículo de revista especializada
“Central” and “peripheral” adaptation pathways of entangled agrifood systems transformations
In the agrifood systems of developing countries, local adaptation actions and pathways often interact with other climate and development responses, creating new trade-offs, uncertainties, and potentially maladaptive outcomes. While knowledge on the interacting pathways of adaptation is expanding, previous studies have focused on complex systems dynamics, and studies that address...
Philippines
2022 - University of the Philippines
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
Artículo de blog
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
Sitio web
Regional Knowledge Platform on One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) in Asia and the Pacific
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region have rich experience in Special Agricultural Products (SAPs) development and expressed strong desire to share knowledge on SAPs development. Responding to the request of Member States in the region, hosted by FAO's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the OCOP Regional Knowledge Platform aims...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
The power of ‘tech plus people’ in collective climate action
India’s rural economy, largely dependent on rainfed agriculture, is increasingly vulnerable to climate change. More frequent, intense heatwaves and unpredictable rains undermine farmers’ efforts to protect crops and sustain their families. In 2021, to support communities to cope with crises, ‘CRISP-M’ was launched: an accessible online tool that helps communities...
India
2022 - IIED
Libro
The small-scale fisheries and aquaculture sector in Asia
Small in scale, big in value
This photostory book celebrates the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 (IYAFA 2022) by showing the diversity of the small-scale fisheries and aquaculture sector in Asia, as home to the majority of the world's small-scale fishers, fish farmers, and fish workers. The photostory book pays homage to the...
2022 - FAO, INFOFISH
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Towards an agricultural land use plan to support an agro-ecological transition in the O’Kambor and O’Sakarach watershed areas in Rik Reay commune Rovieng district, Preah Vihear province
The pace and scale of agrarian changes that have taken place in Preah Vihear in the last two decades are unprecedented. The province has exhibited transformations that are characteristic of dynamics observed widely across Cambodia.
Central to these transformations is a process of agrarian expansion driven by boom crop export markets...
Cambodia
2022 - Agroecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET) project
Prácticas
Shexian dryland stone terraced system
Shexian dryland stone terraced system is a rain-fed agricultural system in the mountains, developed by the local ancestors through adapting to and transforming the harsh natural environment and inherited from generation to generation. The dryland terrace system has outstanding soil and water conservation abilities. This practice explains the process of...
China
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Libro
Fruits and Nuts of Vietnam
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2022
Libro
Good Gardening and Growing Root and Grain Crops in Vietnam
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2022
Libro
Leafy Greens and Vegetables of Vietnam
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2022
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