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Production manual - For emerging commercial egg producers
This manual outlines fundamental guidance for emerging commercial egg producers managing egg production on medium sized layer farms (100 - 5000 layer birds) in tropical and subtropical regions.
This manual is not aimed at backyard egg production, although many principles within this document may apply. THe information specifically covers commercial egg...
2021 - International Egg Foundation
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
Hoja informativa
Corredor Seco en El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras
Esta publicación se abordan las principales problemáticas en el Corredor Seco, una franja de territorio clasificada como bosque seco tropical o trópico seco, que se extiende entre los países de Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala. En el Corredor Seco habitan más de diez millones de personas que...
El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Agroecology or Collapse Part II – Democratizing Food Systems and Breaking the Bonds of Food Empires
The global syndemic can be read from both poles of food systems: on the one hand, agricultural production is carried out on large scales, based on the intensive use of artificial inputs, such as agrochemicals, hormones, and antibiotics; on the other, the consumption of ultra-processed foods and the culturing of deeply unhealthy...
2021
Vídeo
Building back better and greener with agroecology
Agroecology is a farming approach that is inspired by natural ecosystems, combines local and scientific knowledge, and focuses on the interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment. Given the outsize contributions of conventional agriculture to climate change and biodiversity loss, there is a growing recognition that the global food...
2021 - Global Landscapes Forum - GLF
Artículo de blog
Call to Action: There is no Future without Food Sovereignty, Now is the Time to Transform!
Food Sovereignty is Land, Water, Seeds, Bread and Solidarity!
On October the 16th, we celebrate 25 years of envisioning food sovereignty. This 25-year celebration and reflections are happening at a time when the planet and humanity is facing unprecedented crisis upon crisis. Climate change (heat waves, droughts, floods etc.) ravages the planet and biodiversity loss at catastrophic levels. Pollution...
2021 - La Via Campesina
Acto
Regional Consultations – Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women's and Girls' Empowerment
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will hold six regional consultations between September and November 2021. These consultations will contribute to the preparation of the Voluntary Guidelines (VGs) on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment (GEWE) in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition, in anticipation of a final...
2021 - Committee on World Food Security CFS
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