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Innover pour la périphérie : recherche agronomique publique et développement de machinisme approprié pour l’agriculture familiale en Argentine
In Argentina in the early 2000s, the world of public agricultural research focused on the development of appropriate machinery for family farming. Family farming, which became a category of public and scientific action at the same time, refers to farmers working their land without employing paid labor. This model differs...
Argentina
2021 - HaL Archives Ouvertes
Artículo de blog
How is the development of integrated agriculture in Zambia doing?
The team from the CZU, namely Vladimír Verner, Radim Kotrba, Zbyněk Polesný, Jan Staš from FTZ and Miloslav Petrtýl from FAPPZ, is currently conducting fieldwork in the Western Province of Zambia. The activities are realized in the frame of implementation of two development projects, namely "Integrated Farming II" led by...
2021 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Artículo
Mobile laboratories CZU mobiLAB in Zambia
CZU mobiLAB to detect COVID-19
Experts from the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences launched 3 units of the CZU mobiLAB - a mobile laboratory for the detection of infectious diseases.
Mobile laboratories CZU mobiLAB were developed last year as part of the project "Prevention of Covid-19 Proliferation in Exposed Locations and Increasing the Resilience of Local Communities in Zambia...
2021 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Vídeo
Entrevista a Mercedes López, Directora de la Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos en México
El marco del segundo conversatorio Cambio transformativo agroecológico en los mercados y el consumo organizado por Comunidad de Práctica (CdP) de Agricultura Familiar y Agroecología América Latina y El Caribe, el cual busca contribuir a la reflexión sobre el rol de los mercados agroecológicos en la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios.
Se realiza...
Mexico
2021 - Comunidad de Práctica (CdP) de Agricultura Familiar y Agroecología América Latina y El Caribe
Artículo de revista especializada
Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in global food systems, as well as opening windows of opportunity for innovation and transformation. While the nature and extent of this crisis is rare, extreme climatic events will increase in magnitude and frequency, threatening similar societal impacts. It is therefore critical to identify...
2021
Artículo de blog
FAO conducts a training on utilizing GIS for improving forest fires prevention & early detection
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched today a training on the utilization of GIS for improving forest fires prevention, early detection, control and documentation.
This training falls within the activities of “Enhancing the capacity of the forestry sector to control and manage forest fires in Jordan”...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
Lebanese potato farmers find that less is more when it comes to agrochemicals
Integrated crop management reduces use of agrochemicals while still improving yields
Fix it with chemicals. That was the old belief.
Traditionally, farmers in Lebanon depended on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to manage plant nutrition or plant pests and diseases. Most farmers believed that increasing the quantity of chemical fertilizers would increase the yields of their crops.
But now the rapidly deteriorating economic and...
Lebanon
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Inspirational ideas: Sustainable farming in French Guiana
Growing sustainable tropical crops in an outermost region of the European Union: that’s what Julien Villard has been doing since 2016. He left his job as a civil engineer on the European mainland and became a farmer in French Guiana. He set up Villandia Farm, 3 hectares of land where...
French Guiana
2021 - Eip Agri, Agriculture & Innovation
Artículo de revista
Interview with first foreign deat in Czech Republic
The Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences (FTA) CZU has elected a foreign national as a new dean in an effort to expand its international positioning/ranking
INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW DEAN By Klára Jiřičná
In March 2021, Prof. Patrick Van Damme became the second dean of the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences (FTA) but the first dean ever as a foreign national in the history of the Czech University of Life Sciences. A professor in tropical agronomy, Patrick Van...
Czechia
2021 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Libro
African Coronavirus Stories: Perspectives on COVID-19 Challenges to Livelihoods and Food Systems.
The impact of COVID 19 on food security in Africa has been among the most discussed subjects of the year 2020. Most of the reports were alarming. The headlines put Africa on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Indeed, the pandemic hit Africa when the continent was already under...
2021 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Aprendizaje en línea
How does the tropical reality concern the Czech Republic?
“What we have seen is that over time now, a number of crops that we equate with southern areas are also being at least tested in the Czech Republic.
“An obvious example which has, of course, been here for some time is grapes to make wine. In Medieval Time it was...
Czechia
2021
Artículo de blog
Agroecology or Collapse Part III – Reclaiming the ‘archaic’, ‘anarchic’, and ‘utopian’ as the language of food system transformation
Agroecology has been defined based on three interdependent dimensions: as a practice, as a scientific approach, and as a social movement. As a social practice, it is expressed in the various ways in which peasant family farming and indigenous and traditional peoples and communities organize their work for the diversified...
2021 - Agroecology Now!
Acto
Hacia una transformación agroecológica. Segundo panel: Cambio transformativo agroecológico en los mercados y el consumo
Este es el segundo conversatorio, parte del Ciclo Hacia una transformación agroecológica, el cual busca contribuir a generar claridad sobre la transformación agroecológica y cómo abordarla a partir de las experiencias locales, por medio de un diálogo abierto y horizontal con agricultores/as familiares de pequeña escala y base agroecológica, y con...
2021 - Comunidad de Práctica de Agricultura Familiar y Agroecología de Latinoamérica y El Caribe
Artículo de blog
Open FiBL Day – Organic agriculture and beyond– 27 May 2021
Experience a day full of organic and beyond – at the first digital Open FiBL Day.
Explore the diverse work done by the FiBL Group (FiBL Switzerland, FiBL Germany, FiBL Austria, FiBL France, the Hungarian ÖMKi and the Brussels based FiBL Europe) performs on both national and international level. Engage with FiBL experts, giving insights into their activities and latest developments on organic and sustainable production,...
Switzerland
2021 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
Artículo de blog
Just add water: The battle raging over ‘organic hydroponics’
One way of looking at organic and hydroponics is to see them each as valuable assets in the sustainable farming toolbox. They are both resource efficient ‘closed-loop’ growing systems, that deliver important environmental and societal benefits.
But organic farming and hydroponics (where food crops are grown without soil, usually in nutrient infused water)...
2021 - Fibl
Hoja informativa
Story of a Female Beekeeper - Gaza, Palestine
Even bees and their hives were not protected against the shells and bombs during the last aggression on the Gaza Strip in May 2021. Samar Al-Baa is a member of the Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF) and is a beekeeper. Her bee farm is the only source of income for...
Gaza Strip
2021 - Gaza Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Why should we increase the number of chromosomes in thyme?
One of the latest results is a new, autotetraploid genotype of thyme with a higher content of essential oils. The concentration of thymol, important monoterpenoid phenol found in the oil of thyme, increased by 18%.
Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L., Lamiaceae) is used as a medicinal plant in the treatment of headaches, diarrhea,...
2021 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Informe
The World of Organic Agriculture 2021
Statistics and Emerging Trends
Organic agriculture is practised in 187 countries, and 72.3 million hectares ofagricultural land were managed organically by at least 3.1 million farmers. The global sales of organic food and drink reached more than 106 billion euros in 2019.
The 22nd edition of The World of Organic Agriculture, published by the Research...
2021 - FiBL
Informe
2021 COFI Declaration for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture
The 2021 COFI Declaration for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture aims to acknowledge the achievements of the fisheries and aquaculture in the past 25 years, and to gather collective momentum in tackling the challenges and opportunities to secure the long-term sustainability of the sector. We need to take action to ensure...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Organic Farm Knowledge Platform expansion
The Organic Farm Knowledge Platform provides practical information for organic farmers and advisors.
This expansion to cover all themes of organic agriculture marks a major milestone in the development of the multilingual Organic Farm Knowledge platform, which aspires to become the European reference hub for practical knowledge on organic farming, thus contributing significantly to the goal that 25% of the European Union’s farmland...
Switzerland
2021 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
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