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Humedales: importancia y herramientas para su protección
Quienes integramos la CEPA (Comisión de Estudios de Problemáticas Ambientales) hemos desarrollado un análisis sobre la importancia de los humedales y los proyectos de ley de presupuestos mínimos para su protección que se presentaron en las Cámaras de Diputados y Senadores de nuestro país. Para llevar a cabo este proceso,...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Prácticas
Tips for smallholder silage-making
This short publication describes in a simple language the steps for appropriate silage preparation and storage. It also provides practical tips to farmers on how to increase the quality of their silage and its nutritional value. This publication is suitable for farmers all over the world.
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Leveraging climate finance for gender equality and poverty reduction: A comparative study
Climate finance, gender and poverty are not stand-alone, independent topics. Climate change affects all people in different ways. Climate finance can catalyze actions that can either alleviate or exacerbate gender equity and poverty. Mechanisms that fund climate action should be designed to enable, rather than hinder marginalized populations, notably women...
Indonesia
2020 - Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
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Beekeeping: the Kamara basket hive: an improved traditional hive
The re-designing of the original basket hive used by traditional beekeepers of Koinadugu District of Sierra Leone has enabled beekeepers to harvest honey combs in a sustainable way without destroying the entire nest of the bees. Honey and beeswax yields have improved substantially. The new Kamara basket hive has a...
Sierra Leone
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Aprendizaje en línea
Pastoralism and Uncertainty - online course
Introduces key debates and concepts about pastoralism, and explores the varying ways that pastoralists respond to uncertainty around the world.
Based on the work of the PASTRES programme, the course is aimed at students, practitioners and policy-makers. It is divided into 13 parts with a lecture, suggested readings and questions in...
2020 - Institute of Development Studies
Libro
La emergencia del cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿seguimos esperando la catástrofe o pasamos a la acción?
En este libro se presentan los resultados de más de un decenio de trabajo realizado en la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) con relación a la economía del cambio climático. Se analizan los datos concluyentes a nivel mundial y el impacto del cambio climático en la...
2020 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Artículo de revista especializada
Territorios, actores sociales y programas orientados al desarrollo rural
Presentamos en esta nota un breve resumen de un artículo realizado a partir de un proyecto ligado al estudio de los actores sociales y el desarrollo rural desde los Programas estatales Cambio Rural y Pro Huerta.
Un estudio abordado interdisciplinariamente, en los elementos que, desde la producción del conocimiento, se dan...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
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Smart irrigation – Smart wash
Solutions in response to the pandemic crisis in Africa
This discussion paper has been prepared by the Land and Water division (NSL) of FAO with the aim to motivate a discussion on the rapidly evolving situation of COVID-19 pandemic to define the most vulnerable hotspots in the African continent, and to identify the possibilities of relief measures to slow...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Prácticas
Preservation of fruits: intermediate moisture peaches
Fruits and vegetables are nutritious, valuable foods full of flavour. Therefore, fruits and vegetables represent an important and in many cases an under-appreciated resource that could benefit from better utilisation and exploitation in rural communities. However, in low-income countries, poor care and handling of these crops frequently result in loss...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de blog
Tecnología Biocarbón
Biocarbón es un tipo de carbón que ayuda a los suelos a retener nutrientes y agua, funciona como una esponja absorbente para luego liberar lentamente los nutrientes con el paso del tiempo. Es un material sólido obtenido de la carbonización de la biomasa a través de un proceso denominado pirólisis...
2020 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) Costa Rica
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Preservation of fruits: shelf-stable peach halves (dry infusion)
Fruits and vegetables are nutritious, valuable foods full of flavour. Therefore, fruits and vegetables represent an important and in many cases an under-appreciated resource that could benefit from better utilisation and exploitation in rural communities. However, in low-income countries, poor care and handling of these crops frequently result in loss...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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National agrifood systems and COVID-19 in ECOWAS
Effects, policy responses, and long-term implications
This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the governments of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) Member States to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups....
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Prospering the potential of cucumber cultivation by participation in knowledge sharing through Farmer Field Schools in Palestine.
Living in in A’aba village that lies on the west of Jenin, Palestine, Basem is the breadwinner for his wife and four children, out of which two are university students. Like the rest of Palestinians, Basem and the rest of the farmers in his community struggle with the high cost...
Palestine
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Tecnología Compost Sellado
El compost sellado es una técnica de agricultura de bajo costo, en donde se promueve el uso de insumos locales y de la propia finca. Este compost es un mejorador de la estructura del suelo y promueve los procesos biológicos y de liberación de nutrientes. Este tipo de compost sellado...
2020 - Instituto Nacional de Innovación y Transferencia en Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) Costa Rica
Artículo de blog
Seeds of a bright organic future
Interview: The EU's Liveseed project is a major initiative aimed at improving the organic seed sector for the benefit of all producers
The EU Liveseed project aims to improve the transparency and competitiveness of the organic seed and breeding sector, encouraging greater use of organic seed for fruit and vegetable production. Fruitnet's contributing editor Michael Barker caught up with project co-ordinator Agnes Bruszik to hear about the initiative’s objectives and how it...
2020 - Fresh Produce Journal
Artículo de blog
How small-scale fishers are struggling amid COVID-19 crisis
As COVID-19 affects global food systems, tremendous impacts are being felt by coastal communities and small-scale fishers, many of whom are self-employed and rely on the catch to feed their own households or local communities
2020
Prácticas
Beekeeping: how to make a top bar beehive (Kenyan top bar hive model)
This technology describes step by step how to make a top bar hive (Kenyan model). A top bar hive, or moveable comb hive, is a rectangle box covered with bars of a fixed width. Bees will build their combs from the centre of the top bar, hanging down. To attract...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Fry/seed quality and stocking
Fry is the young fish that is stocked in ponds to grow; harvested and sold. When the fish is just hatched it is called "fry". When it has grown to a size similar to human finger, it is called "fingerling". This technology describes what good quality fry is and what...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Preservation of fruits: shelf-stable peach puree
Fruits and vegetables are nutritious, valuable foods full of flavour. Therefore, fruits and vegetables represent an important and in many cases an under-appreciated resource that could benefit from better utilisation and exploitation in rural communities. However, in low-income countries, poor care and handling of these crops frequently result in loss...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Animal Health and Climate Change
Protecting the health of animals to help reduce the effects of our changing climate on hunger and poverty
Livestock support more than 750 million of the world’s poorest people. This brochure makes the case that improving animal health should be an integral part of strategies aimed at food security and sustainable development in the context of climate change.
Firstly, to reduce impacts of climate change on animal health and...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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