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Ministros y Secretarios de Agricultura de 34 países de las Américas coordinan acciones para garantizar la alimentación frente al COVID-19
FAO e IICA facilitaron una inédita reunión hemisférica para fortalecer la respuesta de 34 países de las Américas a la pandemia del coronavirus COVID-19.
Ministros y Secretarios de Agricultura de 34 países de las Américas se reunieron hoy de forma remota para compartir sus políticas, acciones y planes para enfrentar el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en la seguridad alimentaria de sus poblaciones, en la agricultura, los sistemas alimentarios y el mundo rural.
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2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Documento técnico
El impacto del COVID-19 en los pueblos indígenas de América Latina-Abya Yala
Entre la invisibilización y la resistencia colectiva
El presente documento tiene como principal objetivo informar sobre los efectos más significativos del COVID-19 en los medios y las formas de vida de los pueblos indígenas, así como brindar recomendaciones técnicas a los Gobiernos de la región para visibilizar y fortalecer sus mecanismos de contención, mitigación y recuperación ante...
2020 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Prácticas
Stonebrood (aspergillosis): a fungal disease of the brood and adult honeybees
Stonebrood, or aspergillosis, is caused by different species of fungi belonging to the Aspergillus genus. The disease is identified by hard larvae covered with powdery fungal spores. It is found worldwide but, unless the colony is seriously weakened by other stresses, it is usually asymptomatic (it has no visible symptoms). Following...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Cost-benefit analysis of cultivating early maturing rice
Early maturing rice can be harvested before local rice varieties, thereby reducing the vulnerability of farmers to extreme events and enhancing the resilience of livelihoods. This technology describes the cost-benefit analysis of growing early maturing rice in Lao PDR and provides information on how to grow this rice variety in...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Documento de trabajo
The pollination services of forests
A review of forest and landscape interventions to enhance their cross-sectoral benefits
Most flowering plants, including wild species and many food crops, are pollinated by animals and are vital, therefore, for biological production and the maintenance of biodiversity. Pollinators benefit from diverse natural habitats for forage and nesting, especially when these are limited in plant production systems. Landscape and forest management practices...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
The Green Basket: So much more than a farm shop
Marie-Odile Smets, current president of 'The Green Basket' (Au Panier Vert), and member of CUMA, uses this video to share an insight into the functioning of this successful local food production and short supply chain farmer collective in the North of France.
The Video was used as a teaching exercise as...
France
2020 - The BOND Project
Informe
The potential of agroecology to build climate-resilient livelihoods and food systems
This study highlights the links between agroecology and climate change, by providing evidence on the technical (i.e. ecological and socio-economic) and policy potential of agroecology to build resilient food systems. The report aims to answer the following question:
How can agroecology foster climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience through practices and...
Kenya - Senegal
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Receitas com histórias do campo
Parafraseando o chefe de cozinha francês JeanFrançois Piège, aprendemos a cozinhar com a memória dos outros e em algum momento constituímos a nossa memória gastronômica. Todos os cozinheiros de profissão ou vocação aprenderam as técnicas básicas de culinária na cozinha de casa, observando a mãe, a avó, preparando as refeições...
Brazil
2020 - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural
Vídeo
Trasplante de semilla de aguacate
En este video, técnico de #DICTA Arlex Amador habla sobre el trasplante de semilla de aguacate. #honduras
2020 - Dirección de Ciencia y Tecnología (DICTA)
Documento técnico
Los efectos de la COVID-19 en la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición: elaboración de respuestas eficaces en materia de políticas para abordar la pandemia del hambre y la malnutrición
Documento temático del Grupo de expertos de alto nivel
La finalidad del presente documento temático, solicitado por el Presidente del Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA), es contribuir a abordar las repercusiones para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de la pandemia de la COVID-19 y fundamentar los preparativos para la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios...
2020 - Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial
Documento/nota de orientación
Mitigating risks to food systems during COVID-19: Reducing food loss and waste
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc globally, generating significant challenges that could result in risks to food security and nutrition in many countries. Countries are ordering lockdowns, restricting movement and observing physical distancing to curb the pandemic. Disruptions in supply chains resulting from blockages on transport routes, transport restrictions...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Prácticas
Propagation of stingless bees using coconut shells
Coconut shells are used to make honey harvesting easy and to decrease the mortality rate of young bees or the brood. The usual way of harvesting honey from wild colonies destroys a large portion of the nest. The bees spend long time to mend the damaged nest. This problem is...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Improving rice quality: video from Africa Rice Center
African Rice Center: “The quality is very important for us to push back the dumping from outside, if we don’t do it; whether its from Africa, whether it’s from my mother’s kitchen, people are not going to buy it, so we have to become competitive, we have to develop competitive...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de boletín informativo
Whats New, Webby?: Covering COVID-19
While there is little doubt that the COVID pandemic will eventually be conquered, it has left the world to cope with long lasting damage. The damage has not been uniform. Rather, pre-existing inequalities have determined who will be hit the hardest. As a new report puts it, “Women and girls...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Parte de un libro
Capítulo II: Descripción agroclimática de las zonas productoras de lima ácida Tahití
La lima ácida Tahití tiene su centro de origen en Asia, y en el mundo se ha adaptado a latitudes entre los 20o N y los 35o S, lo que ha asegurado la conservación de la especie. En Colombia, el cultivo se encuentra en altitudes que van desde el nivel...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Prácticas
Improved chicken breeds raised with vaccination
Chicken diseases can cause significant loss for farmers. Due to the frequency in which diseases affect chickens at nearly every change of season, farmers get discouraged to raise chickens. The most common diseases often infecting chickens in rural areas are Newcastle disease and fowl cholera. This practice includes instructions on...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Producing animals and milk for market
This short practical guide describes how pastoralists can produce strong, healthy animals and good-quality milk that will fetch a good price. It goes into detail on how to produce for different markets, how to keep animals healthy, the specificities on how and what to feed them, choosing the right breeds...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Rice seedbed preparation (Africa Rice Center video on rice advice)
In this video, Malian farmers show us how to prepare a seedbed. Establishing a good seedbed is needed to obtain strong seedlings and giving crop a good start.
Mali
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de revista especializada
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale
Achieving food and nutrition security for all in a changing and globalized world remains a critical challenge of utmost importance. The development of solutions benefits from insights derived from modelling and simulating the complex interactions of the agri-food system, which range from global to household scales and transcend disciplinary boundaries....
2020 - Global Environmental Change
Vídeo
Gestion de la maladie de Newcastle
Dans cette vidéo, nous allons apprendre à reconnaître la maladie de Newcastle, et les signes, les causes, les moyens de prévention, de contrôle et de gestion de cette maladie dévastatrice.
Malawi
2020 - Access Agriculture
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