Using the story of a beekeeper in South Western Uganda, who started with three traditional bee hives ten years ago and now has more than 100 hives of different types, this brochure introduces to the advantages and the basic techniques of beekeeping and honey processing. It gives an overview of...

Sweet potato is a popular food in many parts of Eastern Africa. It is drought tolerant, hardy and can grow in marginal areas, thus contributing to improved food security. The young leaves and vines can be consumed as vegetables or fed to livestock. In some communities in Eastern Africa, sweet...

The economic decline of the past ten years in the Caribbean, due largely to the changes in trading arrangements for bananas, has had severe negative impacts. Fishing continues to support a significant number of households, but people have had to seek work in the manufacturing, tourism, commercial and construction sectors....

Multi-actor projects are projects in which end users and multipliers of research results such as farmers and farmers’ groups, advisers, enterprises and others, are closely cooperating throughout the whole research project period.  The EU has allocated around one billion euros to fund around 180 multi-actor projects of interest to agriculture, forestry and rural development...

"La Agricultura hecha feria", se titula este vídeo donde se comparte un poco de lo que cada viernes y sábado ocurre en Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica.. la feria del agricultor.

Breve documental grabado en la Fiesta de la Trashumancia 2019, Madrid. Un proyecto de: Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza Proyecto Dehesa y Montado en la Península Ibérica WWF España, WWF Portugal

La producción campesina y comunitaria produce más del 60% de la alimentación que se consume en Colombia, proteger a quienes parcipan de su producción y distribución para asegurar que llegue a nuestra mesa es protegernos a todos. El Coronavirus, llamado COVID19 es un virus que se transmite por las secreciones de...

Demand for rice on the global market is on a constant rise. Yet despite the Green Revolution, production levels are unable to keep up with demand. Irrigated rice production is practised by millions of farmers around the world. The technique is based on an almost permanent flooding of the paddy-fields,...

Cassava, sweet potato, papaya and pumpkin leaves are widely eaten in Africa. They are nutritious, tasty, inexpensive and can help reduce hunger and malnutrition. Fresh green leafy vegetables and fruits start to lose their quality immediately after harvest, becoming damaged, wilted and eventually rotten. Storing and drying fruits and vegetables...

The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) aims to enhance the contribution of agricultural research to sustainable agricultural productivity, economic growth, food security and poverty eradication. It aims to do this through the generation and dissemination of appropriate technologies, knowledge and information. The following technology promotes good practices for cotton culture...

Fishponds are not just a hole in the ground containing water. They are unnatural water environments that farmers must manage in order to produce profitable fish harvests. Ponds should provide a good environment for fish to live in, all requirements for fish to live a healthy life, grow well and...

Regulations to curb the indiscriminate and dangerous use of pesticides on seed and in fields must go hand in hand with other measures, such as promoting hedgerows that fulfil important ecological functions for birds and pollinators. Also, environmentally-friendly alternatives could be further investigated and promoted. Green, innovative technologies, such as...

Se pretende dar a concer la bioeconomía y sus oportunidadades, además de ayudar a posicionar en en plano estratégico, en las líneas de financiamiento de organismos supernacionales y gobiernos de la Región. El estudio da respuesta al potencial aprovechamiento de los residuos, mienstras recopila conocimientos especializados de diversas fuentes internacionales;...

La Red Ecolsierra (Red de Productores Ecológicos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta) promueve el desarrollo y el interés de los caficultores del departamento del Magdalena y de la comunidad en general para el mejoramiento de las unidades productivas. Conoce más de nosotros en redes sociales/Learn more about us...

Con el objetivo de proporcionar a los responsables de la toma de decisiones en todo el mundo información fidedigna sobre las medidas de políticas para mantener en funcionamiento los sistemas alimentarios, la FAO ha implementado una serie de medidas para contribuir en esta línea. En este sitio web usted podrá informarse...

Water availability is crucial for agricultural activities, in the dry seasons or at time of reduced rainfalls, water becomes a rare commodity. Harvesting rainwater can offer a solution to increase water availability during the dry season. This practice describes how to harvest rainwater in Kenya. Rainwater harvesting is the collection...

Stackburn in maize is heat damage characterized by a brown discoloration of the grain resulting from heat build-up in the interior of stacks held in commercial storage in sub-Saharan Africa. Affected maize may be downgraded in commercial markets or have to be diverted for animal-feed use. Where discoloration is severe,...

The Organic Agriculture Centre of Kenya (OACK) saw that by providing the right skills, information and support, they could help small-scale farmers move away from subsistence farming and into thriving livelihoods that improve their local communities and the landscapes they live in. Kangari village in Murang’a county, Kenya, has practiced mono-cropping...

Se presenta un análisis sustentado en información primaria, este se divide en tres secciones. En la primera, se sintetizan los resultados obtenidos en la consulta en la agricultura familiar y el abastecimiento agroalimentario. En la segunda se identifican los impactos de la pandemia de COVID-19 en las dinámicas productivas y...

Countries of the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region face numerous common challenges to achieving improved food security, nutrition and inclusive agricultural development. Recent conflicts and civil instability in some countries of the region, as well as rapid population growth, low growth in agricultural productivity, scarce and fragile natural...