The use of quality seeds along with other inputs and appropriate cultural management practices is recognized as the most cost-effective way of increasing crop production and productivity. In considering interventions that are likely to reverse the trend of recurring food shortages, seed security has been recognized as having the potential...

Schola Campesina recently launched an e-learning course that will probably be of interest to some of you: "Introduction to the global governance of food and agriculture from a food sovereignty perspective" Purpose of the training This e-learning platform provides an overview of global spaces of food and agricultural governance. The...

El híbrido FHIA-18 del grupo AAAB, es un banano con sabor a manzano, agridulce, similar al Prata Anâ del Brasil. Es rústico y resistente a enfermedades. Se consume fresco y procesado. Se encuentra en producción comercial en Cuba y en el Perú.

Este artículo discute las interpretaciones de los movimientos sociales acerca de las políticas del Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Agropecuario (Indap) para la construcción de mercados alimentarios para la agricultura familiar campesina en Chile. La investigación fue realizada entre octubre de 2017 y febrero de 2018, por medio de entrevistas con...

En este sitio web, encontrarás buenas prácticas del proyecto de Ganadería Climáticamente Inteligente, tanto en carnes como pastos.

Africa is leading the world in cell phone finance. In Kenya in 2007, Vodaphone started M-Pesa for the mobile network operator, Safaricom. M-Pesa, (from “M” for mobile, and “pesa,” the Kiswahili word for money) offers simple financial services on the phone. Customers go to a small shop to exchange cash...

A first-of-its-kind survey in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, revealed the peculiar vulnerabilities and demands of fishworkers who migrate regularly to Odisha, Karnataka and Gujarat. When the authorities enforced large-scale lockdowns to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vulnerabilities of migrant workers were thrown into high relief. Other than the...

Ethiopia has experienced impressive agricultural growth and poverty reduction, stemming in part from substantial public investments in agriculture. Yet, the agriculture sector now faces increasing land and water constraints along with other challenges to growth. Ethiopia’s Agrifood System: Past Trends, Present Challenges, and Future Scenarios presents a forward-looking analysis of...

La pandemia de COVID-19 afecta a la vida diaria de las personas en todo el mundo, pero incluso en tiempos difíciles podemos llevar un estilo de vida saludable.  No hay alimentos ni suplementos que puedan prevenir la infección, pero la alimentación sana puede fortalecer tu sistema inmunitario.

El presente boletín muestra los indicadores de CTI 2019 que se han calculado desde su primera edición publicada en 2017, e incorpora dos nuevas secciones de análisis: la Agenda Dinámica Nacional de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación Agropecuaria (Agenta I+D+i) y el modulo de CTI de la Encuesta Nacional Agropecuaria...

The Cereal Supply and Demand Brief provides an up-to-date perspective of the world cereal market. The monthly brief is supplemented by a detailed assessment of cereal production as well as supply and demand conditions by country and region in the quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation. File replaced 26 April 2020...

Le couvain pétrifié, ou aspergillose, est causé par différentes espèces de champignons appartenant au genre Aspergillus. La maladie est identifiée par des larves dures couvertes de spores fongiques poudreuses. On la rencontre dans le monde entier mais, à moins que la colonie ne soit sérieusement affaiblie par d'autres facteurs de stress,...

This practice describes how to manage water in organic agriculture. It provides in depth techniques on how to keep water in the soil ranging from keeping soil moisture to evaporation reduction and how to make better use of seasonal rainfall. Water management also encompasses how to harvest water through a...

In India, tomato is both a high value crop, often exported to the Middle East, and an important subsistence vegetable grown mainly by women. Tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV) and its whitefly vector, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.), are two of the most serious constraints to tomato production in India. When populations...

El híbrido FHIA-21 es un plátano tipo francés, que fue desarrollado en 1987. En la actualidad, se encuentra en producción comercial en Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, entre otros países. Se consume en estado verde hervido o frito, o maduro.

In light of the uncertainties surrounding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, policy makers must ensure that national responses to the virus do not trigger a food crisis. The Covid-19 outbreak can shift the balance between food demand and supply, especially considering many countries having declared lockdowns and their borders closed. Countries...

The main target group is para-veterinarians involved in the development of small poultry farm at village level. The intention is that the paravets will extract from the manual the materials they need for training.

Small-scale fishworkers face many challenges in Peru but the government pays little attention to the informal and uncontrolled sector. Peru’s marine waters are among the world’s richest fisheries. This is mainly due to the Peruvian anchovy fishery (anchoveta), mostly run by industrial operations producing yields of 3-6 million tonnes per year...

Increasing demands for agricultural commodities are resulting in more intensely managed landscapes. This is at odds with biodiversity conservation and largely ignores farmland biodiversity’s supporting function for high and stable yields. An overhaul of agroeconomic models to account for the biodiversity-production mutualism is urgently needed to answer a question of utmost...

This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs and factors of production, their implications for food security and nutrition and their impacts on the...