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Camel milk products: producing butter
Camel milk can certainly play a far more important role in the prevention of malnutrition than it does today. Growing and raising foodstuffs for the rapidly increasing human population is especially precarious in the hot and arid zones of the world. These are the very areas where the camel is...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Boletín informativo
The Right to Food Newsletter December 2020
Falling in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year´s observance puts in evidence not just the need, but also our capacity to build back better by ensuring human rights are central to recovery efforts. It is a good occasion to recall the universality and indivisibility of human rights, including people's right to...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de revista
Evaluación de bienestar animal en fincas bovinas lecheras basadas en pastoreo en la Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia
Objetivos. Determinar un puntaje de bienestar animal (PBA) a nivel de hato para ganaderías lecheras utilizando un protocolo que involucrara variables basadas en los animales y en manejo/recursos, e identificar las variables que más contribuyen a la varianza del PBA. Materiales y métodos. Veinticinco fincas lecheras basadas en pastoreo (Sabana...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - Agrosavia
Proyecto
A new application encourages sustainable practices for small farmers in Africa
The Haller Foundation is a UK registered charity that launched Haller Farmers Web App in 2014. Haller Farmers is a mobile application designed to support small producers through open access to information related to agriculture and the different technologies applicable to this sector. It leverages the growing uptake of mobile technology...
2020 - The Haller Foundation
Artículo de blog
Syrian and Turkish women build a cooperative business – and self-confidence
For many Syrian refugees in Turkey, the food and agriculture sector is an entry point into the Turkish economy because of the sector’s prominence in areas hosting large numbers of Syrian refugees, particularly in the south-eastern provinces and large cities, such as Istanbul and Izmir. Many of them are engaged...
Syrian Arab Republic - Türkiye
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Declaración
CZU Prague ranked 31st in the Green Metric World University Rankings, and is thus one of the world leaders in terms of consideration for the environment.
CZU is once again the most environmentally-friendly university in the Czech Republic
Water management, education and waste management are the categories in which CZU received the highest ranking. As a result, according to a newly published ranking, the university jumped 15 places up from the previous year. “We had great success last year. The fact that we managed to move forward so much...
2020 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Prácticas
Labour-saving technologies and practices: improved hand tools for harvesting cereals
The following includes features of hand tools for harvesting and advise the change from commonly used hand tools to best fitting ones. It also highlights the advantages which include labour saving, livelihood strengthening, equipment, skills, cost, risk and infrastructure. The disadvantages include the labour and skills required.
Description
Knives and sickles are...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Methods of processing camel milk into cheese
Milk is a biological substance that is particularly susceptible to degradation through the action of microbes and enzymes. This situation mainly arises from its complex composition, where spoilage organisms can find a large variety of nutrients. The high-water content and neutral pH also facilitate undesirable changes. Cheese-making technology aims to...
Algeria
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Suplementos sólidos para ganado en pastoreo elaborados con leguminosas forrajeras
El uso de leguminosas forrajeras en complementos alimenticios sólidos o bloques multinutricionales (BMN), mejora la eficiencia de utilización del forraje consumido e incrementa la productividad animal a menor coste, especialmente en épocas críticas con una escasa disponibilidad de forraje.
Mexico
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Estudio de caso
Desafíos de la producción y comercialización de algodón orgánico en Perú
Aprendizajes de agricultores familiares de Chincha y Cañete
El estudio “Desafíos de la producción y comercialización de algodón orgánico en Perú: Aprendizajes de agricultores familiares de Chincha y Cañete” presenta la experiencia que duró casi una década, del 2000 al 2009, de un grupo de agricultores familiares, productores de algodón de los valles de Cañete y Chincha, ubicados...
Peru
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Manual
Sobreviviendo a la COVID-19 en México : el remedio olvidado
La presente guía es una adaptación al contexto mexicano de la guía original elaborada para África "Surviving COVID-19: The neglected remedy" autorizada por AFSA.
Mexico
2020 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Prácticas
Traditional floating garden practices for seedling production
The floating garden practice is a local indigenous production system most successful in the wetland/submerged areas of selected south and south-western districts (Pirojpur, Barisal and Gopalganj) in Bangladesh. Floating garden agricultural practices have been adopted by local farmers for nearly two centuries. This technology describes how to construct and use...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Labour-saving technologies and practices: conservation agriculture
This technology includes features of conservation agriculture, conservation tillage, conservation tillage equipment including the -hand-operated jab planter- and features of cover crops. All those practices are labour-saving technologies.
Description
1. Features of conservation agriculture
Conservation agriculture is the simultaneous practice of permanent soil cover, minimal soil disturbance and crop rotations. This is achieved...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Treating straw for animal feeding: the Beckmann method
The objective of straw treatment is to increase the digestibility of straw and/or the amount of it voluntarily consumed so that digestible energy intake by animals from straw is increased. Methods of treating straw may be classified broadly into physical, chemical and biological categories. Among physical methods of significance are...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vídeo
Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems
The SDG’s lay out an ambitious path for building a sustainable world and transforming the way we produce, distribute, transport and consume our food, safeguard the environment and promote social protection. Agroecology plays a key role to achieve these goals. Agroecology applies ecological principles and concepts to the study, design...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Italy – Digitalisation, Diverse Farms and Rural Resilience
Digital tools that suit the complexity of diversified farms and meet their specific needs can bring new challenges. Once these are overcome, however, they can contribute to farm resilience and viability. Meet two Italian farm enterprises and see how their stories and narratives show that digitalisation means not only access...
Italy
2020 - ARC2020
Vídeo
Cultivo de cebolla
Capacitaciones Virtuales de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, en el marco de las actividades del Programa Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA).
Argentina
2020 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Artículo de blog
FAO continues its Rapid Water Accounting activities in Minya governorate in Egypt
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented its second Rapid Water Accounting (RWA) workshop for the second site in Minya (1st workshop/site in Kafr El Sheikh), with the objective of presenting the progress made by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) so far in water...
Egypt
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Prácticas
Techniques culturales du manioc
Le manioc est une plante vivrière, arbustive pérenne pouvant atteindre un à quatre mètre de haut et ayant une ou plusieurs tiges principales avec ou sans ramification. Le mode de propagation par bouture est utilisé couramment, mais pas par germination (réservé à la recherche). Le rendement en station de recherche...
Congo
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Duckweed production
Duckweed is the common name given to the simplest and smallest flowering plant that grows ubiquitously on fresh or polluted water throughout the world. If water is not a limiting resource the most appropriate way of using the effluent from the biodigester is for the construction of duckweed ponds. FAO's...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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