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Harvesting honey from giant honey bees
Harvesting honey from colonies of giant honey bees, Apis breviligula and Apis dorsata can be a profitable village enterprise. Smoke is used to drive away the bees from their nest. The honeycomb is cut and separated from the pollen and brood. The comb is processed in a honey house to...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Fisheries stock assessment using the FMSP stock assessment tool and a simple guide to writing a management plan
Stock assessment tools and fishery management guidelines were synthesised into a framework guide. The guide assists fisheries managers in using Fisheries Management Science Programme (FMSP) stock assessment tools. It describes a process for writing and implementing a fishery management plan and shows how stock assessment tools can support fishery managers...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vídeo
Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers in India
In Gamda Bamaniya village in India, many farmers cultivate wheat. However, right now they face challenges in terms of their livelihood. It is the harvest season now, but due to the lockdown being implemented in the country to stop the spread of COVID-19, laborers from other villages cannot travel to...
India
2020 - SEWA
Vídeo
#IGrowYourFood - Meet Togia Tavita Faletoese, an organic farmer from Samoa
We’re trying to teach our young ones that there’s no rocket science to it. It’s about keeping that natural balance and it will just keep giving.” 🌱 Meet Togia Tavita Faletoese, a Samoan organic farmer who set up a youth farm to pass on traditional knowledge
Samoa
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
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Use of stingless bees for pollination
While the coconut shell technology is the easiest and cheapest way to propagate stingless bees, it may not be practical for inter-island transport for pollination of large plantation crops like mango. Thus, a suitable wooden hive was designed for this purpose. This practice describes how to build the wooden hive...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) in rice
Drought resistance in rice is physiologically and genetically complex. There are a number of traits which are thought to contribute to drought resistance mechanisms. Drought-related traits are influenced by several or many genetic loci. Molecular linkage maps allow identification of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs). Corresponding molecular markers can be used...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Flood-tolerant rice variety
This technology describes the performance of flood-tolerant rice varieties in flood-prone areas of Lao PDR, including a comparison with local rice varieties monitored within the same farms. Details on local and improved varieties are provided as well as a step by step description on its usage. Additionally, major costs and...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Mejorando la resistencia a sequías de los cultivos de trigo
El Cantón de Juye, un área localizada en una zona de depresión, recibe 500 mm en promedio de precipitación anual. Sin embargo, durante las últimas décadas, la imprevisibilidad del cambio climático ha expuesta esta región a graves sequías, sobre todo en primavera e invierno. Por otro lado, China es el...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de revista especializada
Ethnic and cultural diversity amongst yak herding communities in the Asian highlands
Ethnic and cultural diversity amongst yak herding communities in the Asian highlands
Yak (Bos grunniens L.) herding plays an important role in the domestic economy throughout much of the Asian highlands. Yak represents a major mammal species of the rangelands found across the Asian highlands from Russia and Kyrgyzstan in the west to the Hengduan Mountains of China in the east. Yak...
2020 - ICIMOD
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Participatory approaches: client-oriented rice-breeding
High potential rice production systems have diverse biophysical and socio-economic environments, but there is a lack of rice varieties matching this diversity. A number of advanced breeding lines have recently been developed to match these production systems. Therefore, suitable varieties for diverse rice-producing environments were developed in high potential production...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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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
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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
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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
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Drought-resistant aquaculture fish species
This Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) good practice technology consists in the introduction of drought-resistant fish species such as common carp for aquaculture production in dry areas of Lao PDR. These fish species grow faster than usually raised species such as Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) and tilapia. Furthermore, they can survive in...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de blog
Chicken Coop for Young Farmers in Cambodia
Contractors are finishing the construction of a chicken coop which was granted for young farmers in Cambodia who were chosen as beneficiaries of AFOSP-APFP projects
Through the Federation of Farmer Association Promoting Family Agriculture Enterprise in Cambodia (FAEC), one of AFOSP-APFP partner farmers organization, this chicken coop was granted directly to select...
Cambodia
2020 - FAEC
Artículo de blog
Fusing Himachal's Natural Farming Mission to Agro-Ecotourism
Natural Farming applied in Himachal Pradesh, India is a sustainable agroecological practice that can minimize the cost of cultivation, sustain soil fertility, reduce water requirement and enhance farmers’ income. It also bolsters a positive image of the ecologically sensitive mountain state preserving its environment and traditional systems. This will positively...
2020 - The Traveller Trails
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The Business Case for Natural Climate Solutions: Insights and Opportunities for Southeast Asia
Nature already mitigates a significant measure of human-made GHG emissions; approximately a quarter of these emissions are absorbed by trees, plants, and soil, while another quarter is absorbed into marine systems. Yet, if protected, sustainably managed, and restored, nature has the power to do even more.
Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) are climate...
2020 - Conservation International, DBS Bank, National University of Singapore (NUS), and Temasek
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SSF Guidelines Update April 2020 - Special edition: Asia and the Pacific
Special edition: Asia and the Pacific; This month a special edition of the SSF Update. Come with us to Asia and the Pacific and learn about work in the region to implement the SSF Guidelines!
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Crop protection: integrated management of fruit flies
Fruit flies are a major constraint to the production and export of fruit and vegetables in South Asia. Two techniques were developed. Bait Application Technique (BAT), in which food baits are mixed with a small amount of insecticide to attract and kill adults. Male Annihilation Technique (MAT) is where synthetic...
India - Pakistan
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de blog
Natural Farming and Agroecology Could Accelerate Inclusive Economic Growth in India
During a convention organized by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), international experts endorsed the significant efforts to boost agroecological and natural farming approaches in India.
NITI Aayog highlighted the transformation and renewal of agriculture in India, addressing agroecology and natural farming as an alternative that can ease the excessive and...
India
2020
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