Leading the European Union-funded Programme for Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focuses on promoting fair participation of women in all nodes along three targeted value chains of Cocoa, Vanilla and Fisheries under...

The Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is the most destructive migratory pest in the world. In response to environmental stimuli, dense and highly mobile Desert Locust swarms can form. They are ravenous eaters who consume their own weight per day, targeting food crops and forage. Just a single square kilometer of...

Actores locales o regionales, privados o públicos que prestan algún servicio o suministran algún equipo requerido en la producción de plátano.

El uso de herramientas que no han sido desinfectadas y los insectos del género Xyleborus predisponen la aparición de esta enfermedad. La marchitez es el síntoma más característico, las hojas quedan colgadas en posición vertical. Seleccionar patronajes resistentes. Cicatrizar heridas con pasta bordelesa. Identificar y erradicar plantas enfermas antes de...

This video tells the story of Sireesha - one of the thousands of women and men farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India, practicing agroecology in Farmer Field Schools facilitated by the Andhra Pradesh Community managed Natural Farming Programme and FAO. Through agroecology and FFS, Sireesha and her family improved their incomes; consume healthy and...

Durante los últimos años, como consecuencia de la expansión de la frontera agrícola, el número de ejemplares arbóreos presentes en los establecimientos agropecuarios se ha visto ampliamente disminuido, ocasionando problemas de índole ambiental y productivo, viéndose afectada la sustentabilidad de los sistemas de producción. El estrés por calor en bovinos...

El estudio examina el desempeño de la producción ganadera en Bolivia y Colombia. Se trata de dos ganaderías con diferente trayectoria, madurez tecnológica, y desempeño productivo, y que tienen en común la existencia de “frontera agrícola”, es decir, cambios de uso del suelo que permiten incorporar tierras de pastoreo a...

La República Argentina tiene una superficie total de 3.761.274 km2, con un sector continental de 2.791.810 km2. Su extensión de norte a sur es de 3.694 km y de oeste a este, de 1.423 km. Su clima es diverso, varía de templado a cálido, árido y frío, y se pueden...

Across the world, more than a year since it first struck, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives, destroy livelihoods and paralyse economies with unprecedented lockdowns and supply chain disruptions. Lockdown and physical distancing measures in particular impact vulnerable small-scale fishers; the frequent disruption of economic activity is an enormous...

A study illustrates the deep influences that guide the gilded ocean economy: just 100 companies generated 60 per cent of revenues from the largest ocean-based industries in 2018. The promise and potential of the ocean as an ‘economic frontier’ in the 21st century has attracted attention from governments, the private sector,...

The UN Food Systems Summit has revealed the 15 action areas with more than 50 solution clusters that will serve as a key element to underpin discussions at the Pre-Summit gathering in Rome, Italy from July 26-28. Each action area, developed by more than 500 members of the Summit’s five Action Tracks,...

Action Aid International gathered stakeholders on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve agro-ecology and eco-restoration on the Gambia's south, middle, and north banks, with the goal of ensuring community resilience to climate change, achieving food security, climate justice, and comprehensive disaster prevention. The Agroecology, Eco-Restoration, and Resilience Building Project, according...

The digital hub ConectAgroecology is a meeting space for the members of the CPLP Agroecology Network and a tool to support the training of farmers, fishermen, and other food producers, technicians from public entities, and all people interested in developing knowledge and practices in agroecology. It is intended to contribute to the development of...

Pastoralism is a form of livestock farming based on continuous or seasonal, local or regional herd mobility. This livestock rearing strategy is geared towards meeting the herd’s nutritional needs via intermittent grazing of fodder resources of often spatiotemporally varying availability and quality. In Sahelian-Saharan areas, pastoral livestock farming is family-based,...

CSA Starts Here is an educational video series for aspiring and beginning CSA farmers. These twelve videos will help you evaluate whether or not CSA farming is the right model for you while also explaining the skills you need to nurture in order to be successful at CSA farming. CSA...

In this study, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) teamed up to investigate how transformational change (transformational change) is understood in the scientific literature. The study, the first of its kind to review academic studies on transformational change,...

A growing coalition of small-scale, community-based fishers is calling for the recognition and protection of Alaska’s invaluable coastal fisheries. Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in the industrialised world–a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far...

Drawing on the sectors of fisheries management, small-scale fisheries, seafood corporates, academia and civil society, an ongoing project attempts to define ‘destructive fishing’. The language of fisheries, conservation and sustainable development can be fraught with jargon. Of course, aquatic ecosystems are inherently dynamic and fluid; it’s easy to see why technical...

Concentrated plant liquid manure is easy to make and store. It supplies plants with nutrients which as well manage pest and diseases in crops. Plant liquid manure is made from plants rich in both micro and macro nutrients, such plants includes Russian confrey, Lantana camara, Pumpkin leaves, Calliadra, Pumpkin leaves, Tethonia, Wandering Jew and...

This study aims to assist food producers and social movements in the complicated discussion around digitization. The goal of this working paper is to provide an analytical tool to food producers and advocates regarding dangerous trends that are currently occurring in this field, which are frequently supported by a general...