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Mapa de la Plataforma
La plataforma continental sobre la cual ejerce derechos de soberanía la República Argentina a los efectos de la exploración y de la explotación de sus recursos naturales, comprende el lecho y subsuelo de las áreas submarinas que se extienden más allá de su mar territorial y a todo lo largo de la prolongación natural...
Argentina
2020 - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)
Aprendizaje en línea
Training course on Leadership and Organic Farming on Agroecology
The capacity for leadership is based on talent, vision and commitment, but it also depends on the ability to understand the functioning of sectors and to interact with people in various contexts, with different points of view. The ‘Leadership in Agroecology and Organic Farming’ training course offers the opportunity to...
Sao Tome and Principe
2020 - IFOAM Organics International
Prácticas
Tomato production manual
Tomato is an annual plant, which can reach a height of over two metres. Three di"erent types of tomato plants can be distinguished:
• tall or indeterminate type
• semi-bush or semi-indeterminate type
• bush or determinate type The tall varieties are the best choice for a long harvest period. They keep growing...
Uganda
2020 - Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
Informe
National agrifood systems and COVID-19 in Kenya
Effects, policy responses, and long-term implications
This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the Government of Kenya to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food...
Kenya
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Indonesia
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Indonesia
2020
Documento/nota de orientación
Food Safety in the time of COVID-19
Specific information about the virus responsible for COVID-19 is and remains scant; however, the behaviour and characteristics of the virus can be predicted based on data from similar viruses such as those responsible for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Despite the hypothesis that the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Prácticas
Comment lutter contre la mouche des mangues
En Afrique de l’Ouest, l’importance économique des dégâts des mangues causés par les mouches des fruits s’accroît. Le manguier doit faire face à de nombreux problèmes phytosanitaires. L’introduction et la dispersion en Afrique d’une espèce de mouche originaire du Sri Lanka pourrait remettre en question les succès commerciaux engrangés récemment...
Sri Lanka
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Pepsee micro-irrigation system
A grassroots innovation that offers most of the advantages of conventional micro-irrigation at a much lower establishment cost. Pepsee micro-irrigation systems slowly and regularly apply water directly to the root zone of plants through a network of economically designed plastic pipes and low-discharge emitters. Technically speaking pepsee systems use low-density...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Revista especializada
EAFRD Projects Brochure 'Vibrant Rural Areas'
This edition of the EAFRD Projects Brochure presents EAFRD-supported projects from the 2014-2020 RDPs that have successfully improved services, jobs or social inclusion in rural areas – sometimes achieving more than was initially planned.
The publication shows how social objectives can go hand in hand with economic and environmental sustainability and...
European Union
2020 - European Network for Rural Development
Artículo
Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture
The COVID-19 crisis has created a moment where existing calls for agroecology acquire new relevance. Agroecology provides a path to reconstruct a post-COVID-19 agriculture, one that is able to avoid widespread disruptions of food supplies in the future by territorializing food production and consumption. There are five main areas in...
2020
Informe
National agrifood systems and COVID-19 in Myanmar
Effects, policy responses, and long-term implications
This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the Government of Myanmar to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food...
Myanmar
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Acto
A European Rural Agenda is urgently needed for rural areas after COVID crisis
Rural and intermediate areas account for 88% of the EU’s territory, are home to 55% of its population, generate 43% of its gross value added and host 56% of its jobs. Rural development is therefore extremely important and a vital tool for achieving the territorial cohesion objective enshrined in the...
European Union
2020 - Euromontana
Libro
Agrosavia Primavera 11: nueva variedad de soya para suelos mejorados de la altillanura plana y el piedemonte llanero
El objetivo de la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA) es generar estrategias tecnológicas que mejoren la competitividad y sostenibilidad del cultivo de soya en la región. Dentro de dichas estrategias está la generación de nuevos recursos genéticos adaptados a las condiciones del suelo y a la variabilidad climática, con...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Prácticas
Planting pits and stone lines
Rehabilitation of degraded land can be achieved through manured planting pits, in combination with contour stone lines. Planting pits are used to prevent water runoff and thereby increase infiltration and reduce erosion. This method is suitable on soil with low permeability, such as silt and clay and applicable for semi-arid...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Informe
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Five years after the world committed to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, we are still off track to achieve this objective by 2030. Data tell us that the world is progressing neither towards SDG target 2.1, of ensuring access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food for all...
2020 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Vídeo
Irrigate like it’s 2000 BC with these easy DIY terracotta watering pots called ollas
Ollas have been used for thousands of years in agriculture and gardening practices and are traditionally unglazed terracotta “jugs” filled with water and buried into the soil, with their necks protruding slightly. Once the porous terracotta olla is in contact with the soil, water begins to seep into the surrounding...
2020 - Gardening Australia
Artículo de revista especializada
Chile/Constitution No More Blood and Fire
For the first time in Chile, a new type of autonomous social movement, including fishworker organizations, seeks to create a democratic and representative constitution. Three major organizations in Chile have rejected the Social Agenda for Artisanal Fishers that President Sebastián Piñera’s government had proposed. (The proposal is called ‘Agenda social para...
Chile
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo
Open consultation process for the Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2021–2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, through its Resolution A/RES/73/284, following a proposal for action by over 70 countries from all latitudes. The UN Decade positions the restoration of ecosystems as a major nature-based solution towards meeting a wide range of global development goals and...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Prácticas
Tip-taps for improved hygiene and water management
A Tip-tap is a simple water conserving hand-washing device, which helps to diminish the risks of infection contamination, improves hygiene, and reduces disease spreading. Tip-taps reduce water usage and can be operated by foot, avoiding the risk of picking up germs from tap handles. It is used to clean hands...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Furrow-enhanced runoff harvesting for olives
Runoff collection has been used to plant olive orchards in north-west Syria in areas, which are considered too dry for olives. In one trial, trees were planted 8 m apart, within and between rows. Around individual trees ‘fish-bone’ shaped furrows were dug to harvest runoff water. The furrows were constructed...
Syrian Arab Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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