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Social Protection and COVID-19 response in rural areas
Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 include strong restrictions of movement which dramatically change daily lives and impact agricultural livelihoods. These measures are particularly difficult for the rural poorest and most vulnerable, who tend to hold jobs and occupations which cannot be performed remotely. Many of the world’s poor...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Coronavirus y monoculturalidad: las pandemias para los Pueblos Indígenas
A través de este documento, nos interesa proponer una reflexión crítica en torno a la situación actual de impacto mundial de la pandemia del Coronavirus o Covid-19 y su relación con la vida y territorios indígenas, frente a la cual ha quedado en evidencia una serie de situaciones que, a...
Chile
2020 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
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La fabrication de cossettes et de farine de banane
Les bananes sont l’aliment de base des populations dans de nombreuses régions d’Afrique de l’Est. Elles constituent une bonne source de potassium, lequel intervient dans l’équilibre des fluides du corps et un aliment idéal pour les enfants en bas âge, les invalides et les personnes atteintes par le VIH/sida. En...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Natural vegetative strips
Natural vegetative strips (NVS) are narrow live barriers comprising naturally occurring grasses and herbs. Wide strips are left unploughed to allow vegetation to grow and to slow surface runoff. Natural terraces form over time as a result of the eroded soil accumulation on the strips. The vegetation on the established...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Ecologically-based and sustainable rodent control strategies
Rodents consume food in the field as well as in storage. Their contamination of stored food and ability to spread diseases causes them to cut across both the natural resources and health sectors. Research in Mozambique and in South Africa found that people have little understanding of the ecology of...
Mozambique - South Africa
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de revista especializada
Home gardens’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México
Home gardens (HGs) are hotspots of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. We conducted a case study in Tabasco, México, on HG owners’ knowledge of HG ecological, economical and socio-cultural multifunctionality and how it relates to agrobiodiversity as measured by species richness and diversity. The term multifunctionality knowledge refers to owners’ knowledge...
Mexico
2020 - Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Acto
Conversatorio mujeres y agricultura familiar Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
Las mujeres rurales enfrentan grandes brechas y barreras en la región en materia de acceso y control de activos rurales como la tierra y los capitales financieros; de distribución y de reconocimiento del trabajo productivo y reproductivo; de equidad en el nivel de ingresos; en la toma de decisiones; en...
Colombia - Ecuador - Peru
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Characteristics of smallholders’ goat production systems and effect of Boer crossbreeding on body measurements of goats in Burundi
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...
Burundi
2020
Vídeo
Discurso José Mujica en Seminario de FAO: “Proyectando una nueva agenda de políticas post COVID-19"
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...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
A systematic analysis of non-centrifugal sugar cane processing: Research and new trends
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...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Aprendizaje en línea
Launch of the FAO elearning Academy: Strengthening capacity to face global challenges
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...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Pheromone traps for the management of the cowpea pest Maruca vitrata
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...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Actas de conferencia
Proceedings of the regional symposium on organic agriculture: Youth engagement and enterprise development
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...
2020 - ICIMOD
Artículo de boletín informativo
France: Fishing in troubled waters
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...
France
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Acto
Conferencia de la Serie 2030: Agricultura Familiar y Transformación Rural
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.
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo
Acceptance of C015 Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) Variety in the Colombian Caribbean Region
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...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Documento/nota de orientación
National agricultural census operations and COVID-19
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...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Empowering women clam harvesters
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...
Tunisia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Los agricultores en El Salvador adaptan sus medios de vida a la nueva realidad de la COVID-19
El cultivo de vegetales satisface nuevas demandas durante la pandemia
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.
El Salvador
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Prácticas
Aloe Vera living barriers
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...
Cabo Verde
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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