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Artículo
Análisis de alternativas de producción de semilla vegetativa de Arracacia xanthorrhiza Bancroft en Tolima, Colombia
La propagación de material vegetal en el cultivo de arracacha se realiza comúnmente de forma vegetativa a través de semilla asexual, esta actividad ha permitido su multiplicación y conservación en el tiempo. El material vegetal disponible es de baja calidad, afectando el desarrollo y rendimiento potencial del cultivo y por...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Manual
Notas sobre cómo evaluar los riesgos del cambio climático en proyectos de cadenas de valor
Las intervenciones en cadenas de valor que alcanzan buenos resultados en relación con objetivos de reducción de la pobreza pueden traer también beneficios desde el punto de vista de la adaptación al cambio climático, puesto que permiten incrementar los activos de los agricultores y forjar vínculos institucionales.
Sin embargo, para los...
2021 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Artículo de blog
The Blue Transformation of aquatic food systems is crucial for the future of food in the Near East and North Africa region
FAO representatives and various stakeholders participate in a webinar on sustainable aquatic food systems
The Blue Transformation of the region’s aquatic food systems is crucial to ensuring food and nutrition security in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, FAO Assistant Director-General and NENA Regional Representative Abdulhakim Elwaer said today during a webinar organized by FAO on World Oceans Day.
“The Blue Transformation initiative...
Egypt
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
“Food Connects Us All” Grassroots voices from North America on the importance of building agroecology, fighting for policy, and joining global struggles
For decades, rural peoples movements of peasant farmers, indigenous people, pastoralists, and fisherfolk (to name a few) have organized at the global level for a new food system based around the concepts of the human right to food, food sovereignty, and agroecology. Increasingly, grassroots movements and frontline communities from North America...
United States of America
2021 - Actionaid USA
Vídeo
Agroecology: Grassroots Solutions to Global Crises
Agroecology Fund (AEF) launched a new video, “Agroecology: Grassroots Solutions to Global Crises”, a 7-minute short film featuring grantee partners, advisors, allies, and donors from the global AEF community.
Filmmaker and photojournalist Rucha Chitnis is in conversation with Rutendo Zendah from the African Centre for Biodiversity in South Africa, Pius Ranee from the North...
2021 - Agroecology Fund
Boletín informativo
FAO Agroecology Newsletter - #44
FAO Agroecology Newsletter - February 2021 issue, with a lot of news from the Agroecology world
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo
Hongos micorrízicos arbusculares (HMA) en bosques secos tropicales (BST) afectados por fuego y depósitos fluviovolcánicos en el departamento del Tolima, Colombia
El bosque seco tropical concentra la mayor parte de la biodiversidad del mundo y, sin embargo, es uno de los ecosistemas más degradados en Colombia. Para su conservación es importante conocer la diversidad de microorganismos del suelo que lo integran, como los hongos micorrízicos arbusculares (HMA). En este estudio se...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Artículo de blog
On World Food Safety Day, everyone from growers to supply chains to consumers across Asia and the Pacific must adopt a One Health approach to ensure food is safe to consume
More than 600 million people, or 1 in 10, fall ill and 420 000 die each year from eating food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals. Most of the deaths are among the poor and young. Low and middle-income countries could save up to USD 95 billion annually...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Two Farmers Field Schools starting soon at the El Hamiz perimeter in Algeria
FAO office in Algeria is launching, as part of the regional project on water efficiency, productivity and sustainability (WEPSRNE), two Farmers field schools in Algeria in the irrigated perimeter of El Hamiz, one of the largest perimeters of the country. The perimeter covers an area of 18,000 ha and extends...
Algeria
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Libro
La metáfora del pozo
Agroecología y desarrollo rural sustentable en Cuba
Finca Marta es reflejo de la Cuba de ayer y de hoy. Se proyecta a lo más íntimo de un país que sueña con un futuro mejor. Finca Marta es el campo cubano que ríe y llora, que se empeña en hacer algo diferente.
El libro intenta transmitir esperanza e inspiración...
Cuba
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Prácticas
Mejora de jardines flotantes tradicionales para la producción de hortalizas
La agricultura de jardines flotantes (conocida localmente como vasoman/dhap chash) es una tecnología de innovación de producción de cultivos locales para el ecosistema sumergido en las regiónes del sur de Bangladés. Tradicionalmente, los agricultores de los distritos Gopalganj, Pirojpur y Barisal han usado la práctica ya desde hace casi dos...
Bangladesh
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de revista especializada
Does it pay to switch from free grazing to stall feeding? Impact of stall feeding practice on household welfare in Tigrai Ethiopia
In this paper, efforts were made to the impact of full and seasonal stall feeding technology on households’ economic, ecological, and social welfare outcome indicators in rural Northern Ethiopia using data obtained from the survey of 518 rural farmers. In order to address our primary objective, an endogenous switching regression...
Ethiopia
2021
Informe
Agricultural Extension in South Asia - Strategic Plan 2021- 2026
About 80 per cent of South Asia’s poor live in rural areas, most of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Agriculture and rural development are the keys to eradicate poverty and create conditions for sustainable and equitable growth. South Asian agriculture faces several new challenges – ranging from a...
2021 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia
Artículo
Changement climatique : l’Afrique doit repenser ses cultures
Alors que s’ouvre la Conférence de l’ONU sur les changements climatiques (COP26) à Glasgow, le Fonds international de développement agricole (Fida) plaide pour augmenter significativement les investissements destinés à financer l’adaptation au changement climatique dans les pays en développement. L’organisation tire la sonnette d’alarme, notamment sur la situation des petits exploitants agricoles. Bien qu’ils produisent...
2021
Informe
EU agricultural outlook - for markets, income and environment 2021 - 2031
The report covers the EU in its current composition (EU-27). It presents the medium-term outlook for EU agricultural markets, income and environment to 2031, based on a set of macroeconomic assumptions deemed most plausible at the time of the analysis. Oil price, population forecasts (based on IHS Markit), the USD/EUR...
European Union
2021 - European Union
Estudio de caso
Viet Nam: business learns to engage with work in legal timber production and trade
Viet Nam, a major timber importing and processing country, has seen exponential growth of its forest-based industries over the past decade. Besides importing timber from some 80 countries across Asia, Africa and South America, Viet Nam exports timber products worth USD 7 billion (all figures 2016) to major markets worldwide....
Viet Nam
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
FAO Members call for action against food loss and waste in the world’s hungriest region – Asia and the Pacific
Food loss and waste is a major issue in the Asia and Pacific region and coordinated, strategic actions are needed to address the impact it is having on climate change, food security, and the region’s overall economy. This was the conclusion of 18 Member countries during a virtual consultation convened by the...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Europe and Central Asia agriculture actors probe options for transforming region’s food system
FAO concluded a virtual meeting to address pertinent food and agriculture issues of Europe and Central Asia, against a background of the new FAO Strategic Framework, and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The 39 FAO Member Nations were joined by the European Union, civil society, farmers’ organizations, and the private...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
Healthy Soil for Healthy Communities
An Introduction to Soil Health Practices for Africa
This publication is not a technical book. Instead, it aims to help people move towards this mindset shift. The first chapter on soil is the bedrock of the whole book. It presents the kind of understanding of soil needed if we are to have any chance of successfully regenerating soils....
2021 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)
Acto
Implementing FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022–31: Raising levels of nutrition for all
This high-level event will engage nations and international organizations to discuss how to enhance FAO’s work in nutrition in order for it to catalyze the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the Strategic Framework 2022–31Raising levels of nutrition offers one of the greatest developmental opportunities in...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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