Herbal pesticide has been prepared based on farmers innovations documented by SEVA in association with Honeybee Network and National Innovation Foundation. The main objective is to disseminate low cost eco-friendly practices which are safe to human, livestock and environment. SEVA has promoted farmers experimentation and validated this practice. Now this...

Ésta ficha técnica describe la técnica de inducción floral en el cultivo de la piña (Ananas comosus) recomendando el uso de carburo de calcio. También se desarrollan las ventajas, costos, restricciones y beneficios en los ámbitos económicos, sociales y ambientales de esta técnica.

Potentially harmful contact between fisheries and marine vulnerable species represents a global conservation issue and efforts to mitigate the negative repercussions of these interactions belong in strategies for ensuring the sustainability of fisheries. This literature review offers a survey of mitigation measures and techniques that have been developed and tested...

This report presents the results of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) stock-take on agroecology, an outcome of IFAD’s engagement in the multi-agency Scaling Up Agroecology Initiative launched in 2018. The report assesses to what degree IFAD is supporting agroecology throughout its in-country portfolio across the five IFAD regions to the benefit...

Globally, around 14 percent of food produced is lost between harvest and retail, while an estimated 17 percent of total global food production is wasted (11 percent in households, 5 percent in the food service and 2 percent in retail). Food loss and waste undermine the sustainability of our food systems. When food is lost or wasted, all...

Este video fue grabado por las organizaciones afiliadas a COPROFAM para el seminario "Semillas y Patrimonio Biocultural - El rol estratégico de la Agricultura Familiar, Campesina e Indígena" de la XXXIV REAF

Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic retrenchment and how those most affected are those with the least resources.   Based on...

A ‘counter mobilization’ to transform corporate food systems included a Global Virtual Rally that highlighted the critical role fisheries play in food security and nutrition. From 25 to 28 July 2021, civil society organizations (CSOs) from around the world participated in the Peoples’ Counter Mobilization to Transform Corporate Food Systems. The...

Vendredi 17 décembre 2021, a eu lieu le webinaire « Savoir sous influence : créer des savoirs partagés au service de l'agriculture familiale » à l'occasion de la sortie annuelle du Baromètre des agricultures familiales : https://barometre-agricultures-familiales.org/2021 Cette nouvelle édition défend la nécessité de créer des savoirs communs. Construire des systèmes alimentaires...

This is the first part of a series exploring the history, technology, and partnerships of Envisible, a sustainable food procurement company aiming to make supply chains more transparent.  It’s been a long time secret that seafood supply chains are rife with fraud and unethical labor practices. But that is, thankfully, changing...

Los rizobios son un grupo complejo de bacterias Gram-negativas que viven en el suelo como saprófitos, en asociación con plantas o en simbiosis (Benhizia et al., 2004; Rosenblueth et al., 2018). Estas bacterias son bien conocidas por establecer una relación simbiótica con plantas de la familia Fabaceae, conocidas como leguminosas,...

Traditional foods, diets and food systems play an important role in people’s nutritional status. As the best products of traditional food systems, geographical indication (GI) foods have a great potential to contribute to healthy diets and curb non-communicable diseases.   This paper presents five case studies around the world on the nutritional...

En frutos, los primeros síntomas se presentan como pequeñas manchas de color oscuro sobre los tejidos. Los signos aparecen de tres a cinco días después de los primeros síntomas. Aparición de esporangios y un micelio pulverulento blanco. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Knowing chemical soil properties might be determinant in crop management and total yield production. Traditional soil properties estimation approaches are time-consuming and require complex lab setups, refraining farmers from promptly taking steps towards optimal practices in their crops. Soil properties estimation from its spectral signals, vis-NIRS, emerged as a low-cost,...

In order to promote livestock in dry land areas, farmers created “Korangadu” pastureland many centuries ago in their own private lands in Tamil Nadu. This system encourages livestock keeping and earning more income in dry land/rainfed areas. Korangadu typically consists of a mixture of grass, legumes and tree species including...

Peasant rights movements fear that intellectual property rights regimes are spreading across the developing world, posing a danger to their traditional seed saving and exchange practices. This is an excellent piece that explains why restrictive seed laws exclude peasant farmers, who are critical to feeding the world and establishing climate-friendly...

Este trabajo se propone ensayar un abordaje del derecho a un nivel de vida adecuado a partir del concepto de `Buen Vivir´, en tanto traducción epistemológico-académica de la cosmovisión andina Sumak Kawsay. Se parte de la hipótesis de que el `Buen Vivir´puede ofrecer una perspectiva ecológica de este derecho: mas local,...

Droughts need not always cause humanitarian and economic disasters. Their effects on vulnerable communities and ecosystems can be mitigated by human institutions and actions. Preparedness for drought risks and mitigation of them can involve a range of different sectors and strategic entry points from water conservation and natural resource management...

Youth have the power to transform agri-food systems. In the lead-up to the United Nations Food System Summit (UNFSS), over 80 young women and men from farmer associations, rural youth networks, youth-led organizations and agribusinesses, young policymakers and diaspora youth joined an Independent Dialogue convened by the African Youth Agripreneurs (AYA) platform and titled “The Y Factor: bringing...

An average Ukrainian generates 250-300 kilograms of waste per year; and this number is expected to rise. At that, up to 60 percent of solid municipal waste is composed of organic waste, including food waste. The current methods of waste management in Ukraine – mere collection of mixed waste and...