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Farmers’ adoption on potato zero-tillage and straw mulching in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh
Key messages • Potato zero-tillage and rice straw mulching (PZTM) was introduced in the fallow season as a strategy for climate adaptation in Khulna where potato is a new crop to grow.• 56% (239 HHs) of the intervention households adopted PZTM in the following cropping season without any subsidies or...
Bangladesh
2024 - International Potato Center
Informe
Key lessons and priority research and investments for Community Fish Refuge-Rice Field Fisheries
Rice field ecosystems make up the majority of the agricultural land in the Lower Mekong region (Ingalls et al. 2018). In Cambodia, WorldFish research found that one hectare of a rice field ecosystem can provide enough wild fish and other aquatic animals to feed 2.6 people for a year (Freed...
Cambodia
2024 - World Fish
Artículo de revista especializada
Women’s empowerment and intra-household diet diversity across the urban continuum: Evidence from India’s DHS
Women’s empowerment has been associated with improved nutritional outcomes in various settings. However, the gains from empowerment do not necessarily accrue to different members of the same household in the same manner. Furthermore, the relationship between empowerment and nutrition itself is likely to be shaped by the overall level of...
India
2024
Libro
Palms of New Guinea
The island of New Guinea is one of the world’s highest diversity areas in terms of its 13,600 vascular plant species. It is also one of the least botanically explored parts of the world, so documentation of the flora is very important. The documentation of palms is as important as...
Indonesia - Papua New Guinea
2024 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Libro
National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods - Pakistan
This Country Gender Assessment of the Agriculture and Rural Sectors (CGA-ARS) in Pakistan identifies several gaps, challenges, priorities, and opportunities related to gender equality and rural women’s empowerment. It offers an evidence-informed analysis of rural women’s experiences, challenges and opportunities in the context of sociocultural norms and gendered power dynamics...
Pakistan
2024 - FAO
Vídeo
Managing leaf spot disease in groundnut
Leaf spot disease is caused by fungi that live in the soil and on crop residues. Before sowing, mix Trichoderma or Pseudomonas powder with compost and spread it on the field. Coat your seeds with Trichoderma or Pseudomonas powder. To reduce the spread of the disease by wind, grow a...
India
2024 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de blog
Opportunities and challenges for coffee production in Papua New Guinea’s highlands
Coffee is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Papua New Guinea. It accounted for $156 million of export earnings, 13% of agricultural export revenues, and 1.4% of total export revenues in PNG in 2021. According to the PNG Rural Household Survey 2023, approximately 55% of sampled households in the...
Papua New Guinea
2024 - IFPRI
Documento/nota de orientación
Fostering linkages between sustainable wood supply and forest and landscape restoration in Asia and the Pacific
Demand for wood and wood products within the Asia and Pacific region, and exports of wood products from the region, are growing, particularly through rising interest in the forest-based bioeconomy. Wood supply to meet this demand needs to be sustainable, to address climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty and economic development...
2024 - FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
Factors influencing household and women’s dietary diversity in migrant households in central Nepal
Food security and dietary diversity, defined as providing either physical (availability) or economic (accessibility) access to food, are linked with access to and control over productive resources and is a highly-gendered phenomenon. In Nepal, labor out-migration has increased household income and may have increased people’s ability to access diverse food...
Nepal
2024 - International Rice Research Insitute
Artículo de revista especializada
Rural household vulnerability and COVID-19: Evidence from India
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected vulnerable households’ livelihoods in developing countries. Using high-frequency phone survey data from the World Bank, we assess rural Indian households’ vulnerability and poverty status during the pandemic. Results reveal that over three-fifths of Indian rural households are vulnerable to poverty in the...
India
2024 - International Food Policy Research Institute
Artículo de revista especializada
Krishi Updates: Digital Agriculture Model
Adequate, timely and region specific information is an important input for sustainable and profitable agriculture. Krishi Updates is providing digital extension services to the farmers, facilitating communication and outreach activities and organising need-based trainings. Information sources are very vast, and farmers are unable to segregate the information that is most...
India
2024 - Krishi Updates
Libro
Good agricultural practices (GAP): Green gram
(Vigna radiata [L.] Wilczek)
Myanmar ranks as the world's third-largest pulse producer, following Canada and India, cultivating crops like black gram, pigeon pea, chickpea, and green gram. Green gram constitutes a third of total pulse exports. To enhance productivity, quality, market competitiveness, and exports, Myanmar can leverage improved crop production technologies and adopt good...
Myanmar
2024 - FAO
Prácticas
Farmer's practices in sweetpotato production in the rice-based cropping system in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Sweetpotato is considered a climate adaptation option due to its relative tolerance to heat and salinity. The Mekong Region is the largest sweetpotato producing area in Vietnam with a stable export market demand. CGIAR Asian Mega Deltas Initiative has been exploring the potential of incorporating sweetpotato production in the rice...
Viet Nam
2024 - International Potato Center, CIP
Artículo
The role of agroforestry in farmers’ strategies and its contribution to the well-being of rural people in Timor-Leste
Many countries have integrated agroforestry into their sustain-able development policies, particularly in Southeast Asia. In Timor-Leste, the national strategy to promote agroforestry has adopted a modern, technique-oriented approach focused on crop rotation, intercropping and agro-silvo-pasture. In so doing, it has largely overlooked the pre-existence, diversity and perfor-mance of traditional agroforestry...
Timor-Leste
2024
Manual
Community Shared Agriculture Manual: Growing the Future Together
A Manual on Community Shared Agriculture in the Philippines
This book is a short guide that captures the process of Good Food in setting up an alternative distribution system like Pamayanihan Community Supported Agriculture to relocalize food economies in the Philippines.
Philippines
2024 - Good Food Company
Artículo
Can organic rice certification curb the pressure of the agrarian transition in Cambodia? A farming system approach
Over the past two decades, the Mekong region has experienced significant transformation of its agricultural sector from subsistence farming to export crops driven by the expansion of agricultural land and of irrigation, plus intensification thanks to mechanization and the use of chemical inputs. In the context of agrarian transition, maintaining...
Cambodia
2024 - European Commission
Directrices
Quality Planting Material through Good Nursery Management
Key for Successful Ecological and Economic Ecosystem of Agroforestry
This document is designed to provide comprehensive guidelines for the production and management of quality planting materials for the benefit of farmers, nursery operators, agricultural extension agents, and other stakeholders. It explores the significance of using Quality Planting Material (QPM) for successful agroforestry practices and focuses an the pivotal role...
India
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Boletín informativo
Access Agriculture Panorama - April 2024
Highlights:
• Young changemakers revolutionise scaling agroecology using video. • CCDB honours Access Agriculture with plaque in appreciation of partnership. • 96 new videos added in March. • Editor's choice of video - Converting chicken waste into fertilizer• Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) at work in Cameroon. • Trash to treasure....
2024 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de revista especializada
Pastoralism in Changthang, Ladakh: Adaptations, Challenges, and Pathways for Sustainability
In the Changthang region of Ladakh, India, pastoralism serves as the cornerstone of both the local economy and the local way of life. However, recent socioeconomic shifts and environmental constraints put this economic structure, which has been expertly adapted to the difficult trans-Himalayan geography, in danger of becoming unsustainable. To...
India
2024 - Sher E Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, India
Aprendizaje en línea
Good practices to cope with soil salinization in the Asia-Pacific Region
Topic outlineThe course explores effective practices for coping with soil salinity in the Asia-Pacific Region. Some practical examples and case studies of successful salinity management practices are introduced and analysed, to identify implementation features, benefits, challenges and applicability to similar contexts.
You will learn about
Irrigation and drainage practices for soil salinity...
2024 - FAO
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