As part of a national action plan to manage animal genetic resources in Burundi, we characterized smallholders’ goat production systems and assessed the effect of Boer crossbreeding on animal body measures. To that end, 319 farmers were surveyed in the five agro-ecological zones of Burundi and the zootechnical measures of...

En su intervención, José Mujica, Ex Presidente del Uruguay, destacó la importancia de la agricultura familiar en nuestra región, incluyendo su historia, su trayectoria y su futuro. Mujica enfatizó la importancia de la voluntad política para proteger los derechos y habilidades de los agricultores familiares e hizo un llamado a...

Background Non-centrifugal sugar cane (NCS) is currently considered a marginal natural sweetener. The nutritional and functional compound found in NCS allows it to be considered a superfood. Research on this product has been evolving from the improvement of sugar cane varieties and their energy efficiency process assessment. In this decade, the...

The FAO elearning Academy supports Member Countries, through capacity development interventions and elearning courses. These courses are offered free of charge, as a global public good and were created to transfer know-how,  skills and competencies using diverse methodologies such as self-paced elearning courses, blended learning programmes, massive open online courses...

Maruca vitrata is a major pest of cowpea, resulting in 20 to 80 percent yield losses in West Africa. A pheromone lure and suitable trap developed in Benin and Ghana has successfully trapped male moths. From these trappings a threshold has been calculated to provide farmers with the optimum time for...

The adoption of organic farming practices could help countries across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In December 2019, our Resilient Mountain Solutions initiative collaborated with the Agriculture Research and Development Centre, Bhutan to organize a regional symposium on “Organic agriculture: Youth engagement and enterprise...

The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on a small-scale fishing in Lorient is vividly captured in the pages of a diary maintained by a gillnetter skipper’s spouse. In March 2020, Emmanuelle Yheul-Bertin, wife of a gillnet skipper who runs a 13-metre gillnetter vessel with four men on board, began recording the...

La conferencia está asociada a la publicación de la Serie 2030: Agricultura Familiar y Transformación Rural. Debate sobre las políticas entorno a la AF y cómo se puede construir herramientas para profundizar el trabajo y el fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar.

This work aims to contribute to the knowledge about the state of acceptance of C015 Eggplant variety, generated by Agrosavia in 2011, under the participatory plant breeding approach with farmers, who selected the material for high yields, the largest number of fruits per plant and lilac color. A study was...

The COVID-19 pandemic is also affecting agricultural census activities. Currently, 62 countries are preparing (45 countries) or have conducted (17 countries) censuses of agriculture in the WCA 2020 round. A rapid appraisal and informal consultations with national agricultural census authorities reveal that some 34 countries reported delays or suspension of several...

300 kilometers south of Tunis, in the Gulf of Gabes, women have long harvested clams to generate an income. The seasonal work is often labor intensive and poorly paid. That is why FAO, in collaboration with the Tunisian government and a local women’s association, have created a pilot project to...

Con los restaurantes y eventos cancelados, Juan Carlos pasó de criar conejos y codornices a cultivar vegetales, una habilidad que aprendió el año pasado gracias a la FAO, y que ahora sirve a un nuevo propósito durante la pandemia. Conoce su historia.

The following technology provides information on the use of aloe vera as a cross-slope barrier structure. This structure is particularly effective barrier to retain soil erosion by decreasing surface runoff and increasing soil infiltration. Aloe vera is a durable herbaceous plant, which is planted in the form of living barriers...

The technology addresses the issue of two maize diseases: Grey Leaf Spot (GLS), and Maize Streak Virus (MSV) on upland maize. Research focussed on identifying and breeding for genetic resistance has been conducted in the southern highlands of Tanzania. Two hybrids have been released (UH615 and UH6303) with high levels...

A honey press is a tool that allows the beekeeper to extract honey from few honeycombs at the same time. The model of honey press presented here is a basic manual model that can be easily made locally as it requires only wood, a plastic bucket, screws, and the work...

Changing land use patterns threaten the livelihood of female crab collectors in Merauke, Papua, Indonesia. Over the years, crab collection in mangrove and wetland forests has been a major source of income for women of the indigenous Asmat and Mappi communities of the island of Papua in Indonesia. These women harvest...

Iniciaron los primeros días de septiembre los nacimientos de larvas de las centollas (Lithodes santolla) mantenidas en el acuario del Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP).Las “madres”, que corresponden a dos camadas de hembras procedentes de aguas de plataforma en el Área Central de administración de la pesquería...

One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is feeding the world’s human population in a sustainable, nutritious, equitable and ethical way under a changing climate. Urgent transformations are needed that allow farmers to adapt and develop while also being climate resilient and contributing minimal emissions. This paper identifies several illustrative...

Collective entrepreneurship has been found to alleviate extreme poverty by helping poor individuals integrate into their societies and overcome their multiple intertwined liabilities. We complement this line of inquiry by exploring the conditions under which group structures may instead reinforce economic and gendered poverty constraints. We conducted grounded-theoretical interviews with 104...

The latest Atlantic tragedy reaches thousands in Brazil and remains unsolved. Oil spill disasters in the ocean often devastate marine and coastal ecosystems, profoundly affecting fisheries resources and fishing communities. Urgent and early-warning actions are needed to avoid a tragedy in biomes and communities when such accidents occur. In late-July 2019,...