En el presente número se analiza el comportamiento del comercio de productos agrícolas y pesqueros durante la crisis, especialmente de los destinados a la alimentación, e intentaremos identificar las razones de esta evolución. De la misma manera, se identifican las principales recomendaciones para fortalecer una tendencia positiva en la comercialización....

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries. Yemaya No. 62, dated December 2020, features articles from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Ghana, Mexco and the conversation between Meryl Williams, Danika Klieber and Kate Bevitt. The article from Bangladesh by Md. Mujibul...

West Africa has all the ingredients to become the epicenter of the global agroecology movement, and one of the frontrunners in transition to sustainable and equitable food systems. Through a three-year participatory research process, IPES-Food identified eight key obstacles to agroecology in West Africa, but also four leverage points where sustained action could...

En el marco del Programa de Intercambios del FRM,  el 17 de junio vamos a analizar el rol que queremos para el cooperativismo agrario en la “nueva realidad” que se avecina. Esta pandemia, que ha derivado en crisis social y económica mundial (y, en algunas regiones del mundo, también en una crisis alimentaria), ha puesto...

Farmers all over the world incur serious losses to stored produce because of insect damage and are frequently forced to sell prematurely. Many use traditional storage protectant practices or, when they can afford it, purchase synthetic chemical pesticides. The effectiveness of traditional practices is variable. Using synthetic pesticides also has...

Growing concerns relating to land degradation, threats to eco-systems from over and inappropriate use of inorganic fertilizers, atmospheric pollution, soil health, soil biodiversity and sanitation have rekindled the global interest in organic recycling practices, like composting. The potential of composting to turn on-farm waste materials into a farm resource makes...

The Mediterranean fruit fly is a worthy enemy. This pest, also known as the medfly, is widespread over the tropics, attacking and spoiling oranges, mangos and many other fruits. Each female can lay 200 eggs in her brief lifetime—allowing rapid population growth. The medfly damages so much high value fruit,...

Esta edición del boletín pone a disposición de sus usuarios un resumen de las principales fuentes y objetivos del financiamiento que se están implementando y discutiendo en el mundo y la región.

The new Commission starts its mandate with high ambitions thanks to the new European Green Deal. Our first objective is to make Europe climate neutral by 2050. But, this must be accompanied by much wider environmental initiatives, starting with a new EU Biodiversity Strategy. Adopted in April 2017, the EU...

It is estimated that the total number of small farms in Southern European (SE) countries has decreased by 33% between 2010 and 2019. This loss is despite the widespread acknowledgement and appreciation of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity and maintaining traditional landscapes,...

América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) es una región gran exportadora de alimentos, los que se destinan en un 87% a otras regiones del mundo. El comercio intra-regional es mínimo. Las exportaciones de alimentos del Caribe ascienden a USD 1 300 y menos del 4% permanece dentro de la subregión, en...

El flyer sobre las “Reseñas de Agricultura Familiar” proporcionan información útil sobre implementación de políticas públicas, perspectiva de las organizaciones de productores y desarrollo de innovaciones. El flyer quiere presentar las Reseñas de Agricultura Familiar que han sido producido por los varios paises.

La mise en place de pépinières d’arbres, des terrains où l’on plante de jeunes arbres qu’on cultive jusqu’à ce qu’ils puissent être transplantés, pourraient satisfaire la demande croissante de populations en Afrique orientale qui se trouvent confronter à l’épuisement de ressources arbustes. Ces populations dépendent de forêts et d’arbres pour...

Most farmers in Bangladesh depend on subsistence farming with extremely small landholdings. Great parts of Bangladesh are flooded every year and to a large extent agriculture systems have been adapted to this normal flooding. However, besides normal peak floods in July and August and late floods extending in September, early...

Urea Molasses Blocks (UMB) are a high protein concentrated feed source that supplies Non-Protein Nitrogen (NPN) to rumen microbes. The blocks also contain important minerals and vitamins. UMB are a good way of providing readily degradable protein and fermentable energy to ruminant animals. They help increase the protein supply to...

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of today’s global food systems, and the risk of a food crisis is higher than ever. Yet the failures of industrial food production have long been clear; manifest in persistent global hunger and malnutrition as well as environmental destruction that is driving the...

Tomato production can be time consuming especially when it is done to produce and keep small amounts of seeds from several varieties. It is nevertheless important to produce and preserve seeds from interesting varieties which are well adapted to your production system and environment. In a trial conducted over two...

Las pérdidas y desperdicio de alimentos impactan en la sostenibilidad de los sistemas agroalimentarios, la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. El equipo de docentes de la Cátedra de Sistemas Cultivos Intensivos, del Área Horticultura de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la UNR, estudió para el cinturón hortícola de Rosario, los...

Ante la crisis global generada por la COVID-19, la organización de los agricultores y agricultoras familiares en cooperativas (o figuras colaborativas similares) puede ser clave para hacer frente a los retos del futuro. El Foro Rural Mundial - FRM lanza una nueva iniciativa con el objetivo de promover el cooperativismo y asociativismo agrario,...

La última información disponible, a partir de un proveedor de datos privado, muestra que en la mayoría de los países de América Latina y el Caribe el cambio porcentual de los precios de los alimentos, entre el 10 de abril y el 10 de mayo, no ha sido homogéneo. En...