During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

The leader of the Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) programme Vijay Kumar explains the Social Capital side of the story, and how women’s groups were a central part of the success of CMNF, now recognised worldwide as a model of agricultural transformation. The CMNF initiative has mobilised over a million...

Este documento fue elaborado a partir del trabajo de dos plataformas regionales que impulsa la  International Land Coalition en América Latina y el Caribe: Agricultura Familiar y Tierra y ODS. El mismo es resultado de una revisión de 5 informes nacionales sobre Agricultura Familiar en la región de América Latina, y de 10 informes...

A counter-mobilization event in July 2021 united social movements, indigenous peoples and civil society organizations opposed to the UN Food Systems Summit. From 2019 until 2020, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 report, the number of those suffering from hunger increased by 161 mn...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed approval from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for five FAO-led projects in eight countries, totaling more than $46.6 million in funding.  The decision was made during the 60th GEF Council Meeting and the 30th Least Developed Countries Fund Council...

Muitas experiências de promoção da agroecologia no Brasil e no conjunto da América Latina estão baseadas em conhecimentos tradicionais sobre a produção agrícola em harmonia com a natureza, assim como no consumo de alimentos saudáveis que se apresentam de várias formas: nas refeições cotidianas, em festas e rituais, em determinadas...

The biochar fertilizer provides not only nutrients to crops, but also microclimate favourable conditions for plants growth, mostly during the dry season. Materials used to make this biochar fertilizer is locally sourced from crop residues form beans, maize, ground nuts, coffee husks, residues of fodder, assorted plants rich in NPK...

Millions of people in Myanmar are expected to become hungry over the coming six months as food insecurity is predicted to rise sharply and plunge the country into a food crisis. In the wake of political and financial instability, an increasing number of people are facing uncertainty as job losses...

Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing its environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many of the costs of harmful foods are externalized, i.e. are not reflected in market prices. At the...

Belarus and Ukraine have high forest covers that provide a fundamental contribution to the wellbeing of rural populations and the national economy. To protect these forests for future generations, a new FAO project, launched today with a virtual inception workshop, will help increase the resilience of forest ecosystems against unfavourable...

En el marco del 2º Congreso Chileno de Agroecología 2021, Francisco Carvallo, investigador del programa Manejo Territorial de Insectos (MTI), presentó la ponencia "Experiencia en terreno sobre manejo sostenible de Varroasis en apiarios de la región de Valparaíso"; relato que compartió el acompañamiento con apicultores de Quillota y Olmué, a...

La diversidad entre individuos se debe a variaciones en las secuencias de adn entre ellos y a factores ambientales. Estas variaciones de adn son el resultado de mutaciones, inserciones, deleciones, duplicaciones o inversiones del material hereditario. Aunque en el pasado los estudios con polimorfismos bioquímicos fueron las herramientas de elección...

Los perforadores del fruto ocasionan daños en los cultivos de cacao en diferentes zonas de Colombia. El costo de establecimiento de un sistema agroforestal de cacao demanda en el primer año la mayor inversión. Estos son en mano de obra, materiales y suministros, dado que se requiere adecuar el terreno,...

Incrementa su población en los cultivos cuando hay exceso de sombrío. Temperatura y humedad altas. Mal manejo de arvenses. Los adultos y las ninfas del insecto producen lesiones necróticas circulares de color pardo oscuro. Se hunden y provocan malformaciones. Reducción del tamaño y detención del crecimiento: Sobre todo en frutos...

Specific mate communication and recognition underlies reproduction and hence speciation. Mate communication evolves during adaptation to ecological niches and makes use of social signals and habitat cues. Our study provides new insights in Drosophila melanogaster premating olfactory communication, showing that female pheromone (Z)-4-undecenal (Z4-11Al) and male pheromone cVA interact with...

Tephrosia pesticide can be used to controlling pests such as Army worm, Aphids, and Mites. Tephrosia plant grows naturally in most parts of Uganda, it is a legume with pods and seeds that are easy to germinate. The leaves of Tephrosia are quite hard in texture and even difficult to pound, therefore some water can...

Measures adopted around the world to contain the COVID-19 outbreak helped curb the spread of the virus and lowered the pressure on health systems. However, they also affected the global trading system, and the supply and demand of agricultural and food products. In response to concerns over food security and...

Small-scale farmers can play an important role in establishing long-term food systems. But, as Sabrina Elba, UN Goodwill Ambassador for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, explains, additional investment is required. She tells a story about the importance of agriculture based on her recent trips to Sierra Leone. She explained,...

This review of the agroecology debate in South Africa is part of the research project ''Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems: a case for policy support (TAFS)'' launched in 2020. Its main objective is to provide policymakers and stakeholders with convincing arguments about the importance and adapted ways of promoting agroecological transitions...

On 5 December 2017 the United Nations General Assembly, in its annual resolution on sustainable fisheries, proclaimed 5 June as the International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing. The date marks a historic event, namely the day when the Agreement on Port State Measures entered...