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Enriching community pastures
This good practice note based on the experiences of BAIF Development Research Foundation (Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation - BAIF), shows the importance of restoring common property resources by involving the communities directly, as a way forward for impacting positively on their quality of life. “Protection of Commons” has led to...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Participatory approaches: client-oriented breeding of rice for rainfed, medium and low-lands of Easter India
Poor farmers in marginal areas have benefited little from high yielding, "green revolution" varieties that have transformed the productivity of more favourable areas. In the states of northeastern India, farmers who cultivate upland rice on low-fertility, sloping soils continue to grow low yielding landraces that are susceptible to diseases and...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Estudio de caso
Kyrgyz farmers learn managing multiple risks in agriculture and the food system
In recent years, residents of remote areas in south Kyrgyzstan have been facing a host of challenges and difficulties, including two interrelated major issues – migration and weather extremes. Through cooperation and with knowledge from FAO, they are managing to get back on track despite devastating mudslides.
Despite the hot and...
Kyrgyzstan
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
La inclusión financiera de los jóvenes rurales en Guatemala
Este estudio ofrece una evaluación exhaustiva del estado actual de la inclusión financiera de los jóvenes rurales en Guatemala, poniendo especial énfasis en el impacto que un mejor acceso y uso de servicios financieros de calidad puede tener sobre la capacidad de estos actores de impulsar iniciativas empresariales crear más...
Guatemala
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Film Review: Hope, Despair, Courage
An award-winning film, made on a tight budget, captures in powerful images the complexities of small-scale fishers and fish processors in West Africa. I’m in search of happiness. That’s how a young Guinean surprises us in the smoky atmosphere of a sardinella smoking oven in Casamance, Senegal, in a sequence from...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Prácticas
Improvements of traditional floating gardens for vegetable production
Floating garden agriculture (locally known as vasoman/dhap chash) is a local innovative crop production technology for the submerged ecosystems of the southern region of Bangladesh. Traditionally, farmers of the Gopalganj, Pirojpur and Barisal districts have been practising the farming technology for about two centuries as an adaptation to the flooded/submerged...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Assessing losses in the fish supply chain: questionnaire loss assessment method (QLAM)
Planning and policy-making for the development of the post-harvest fisheries sector has been hampered by the lack of practical tools to understand post-harvest fish losses. The Questionnaire Loss Assessment Method (QLAM) is based on a formal questionnaire survey approach to post-harvest loss assessment. Enumerators interview a population sample using a...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Informe
2019 Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition
Containing the damage of economic slowdowns and downturns to food security in Africa
In the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition, FAO reported that the prevalence of undernourishment was rising in the region. The latest data shows that the deterioration has slowed, but there remain 256 million hungry people in Africa today. The report further...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Les bonnes pratiques oasiennes en vidéo 3/5 - revaloriser les dattes en vinaigre - Algérie
Dans les oasis de Beni-Isgen, du Ghoufi (Batna) et du Ghout (El Oued) en Algérie, l'APEB favorise la valorisation les dattes de basse qualité en vinaigre. Par les effets du changement climatique, les rendements de datte sont en baisse depuis plusieurs années. La situation n'allant pas en s'améliorant, il a...
Algeria
2020 - RADDO
Vídeo
Aplicación de Mulch
Diego Machuca, ingeniero agrónomo y encargado de Unidad Productiva Agroecológica de centro Ceres, entrega una serie de recomendaciones para el uso adecuado y forma correcta de la aplicación de Mulch. Más información en www.centroceres.cl
Chile
2020 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura
Informe
Rural youth and the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all parts of society and livelihoods around the globe. It is though worth recognizing that disadvantaged segments of populations like rural young women and men will be impacted harder. Nevertheless, when proactively engaged, they have demonstrated to be innovators in their own sectors to surmount...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Viverismo en la Agricultura Familiar - Encuentro 1
Capacitaciones Virtuales de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, en el marco de las actividades del Programa Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA), conjuntamente con Vivero de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Disertantes: Lic. Marcelo Miranda. INTA La Plata - Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA)...
Argentina
2020 - Programa Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA)
Vídeo
Ecological Organic Agriculture - Organic Pest Control
In this video, a small scale farmer shows organic methods of pest control. He illustrates how organic pesticides are made using urine and different wild plants around his home.
Uganda
2020 - ESAFF Uganda
Informe
Scaling Agroecology Up And Out
Lessons from the agroecology learning exchange India
The Agroecology Fund’s second global Agroecology Learning Exchange, held in February 2020 in Karnataka, India, was an extraordinary gathering of more than 70 farmers and agroecology advocates from frontline organizations, researchers, allies, and donors. The Agroecology Fund’s mission, at its core, is to support a growing global agroecology movement to...
India
2020 - Agroecology Fund
Artículo
Agronomic response of four sugarcane varieties in Eastern Plains of Colombia
In an Oxisol in the Eastern Plains of Colombia, three varieties of sugar cane Cenicaña Colombia (CC) (CC 8475, CC 833895, CC 8592) and one from the Dominican Republic (RD 7511) were established and evaluated in order to determine the production biomass and leaf area. In a randomized complete block...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Prácticas
Amélioration du stockage du maïs (Zea mays L.) dans des greniers en présence de plantes biopesticides de Lippia multiflora (thé de savane) et Hyptis suaveolens (sosso tanan)
La protection du maïs stocké à l’aide de produits alternatifs biodégradables et non nocifs à la santé et à l’environnement mérite d’être valorisée afin de limiter la dépendance des producteurs à l’utilisation des pesticides chimiques pour la protection des stocks de maïs. Une combinaison de feuilles de Lippia multiflora (thé...
Côte d'Ivoire
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vídeo
Hacemos agua - Agua de Río
Este primer documental Hacemos agua, Agua de Río El Paraná es el décimo río más importante del mundo y posee una amplia biodiversidad: selvas vírgenes y humedales con extraordinaria flora y fauna. Es el que permite tener agua pura en la región. Hoy está amenazado por las prácticas del hombre.
Te invitamos a...
Argentina
2020 - UNICANAL - Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)
Prácticas
Community ownership and institutional mechanisms to develop common property resources and enhance livelihoods
Common Property Resources (CPRs) are important for the livelihoods of the rural communities, especially poor. Various INGOs, NGOs and government organisations have facilitated and successfully demonstrated the model for development of common lands. This has been done by developing village institution mechanisms to bring in a bottoms-up approach to development...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Improved practices in rearing indigenous chicken
Indigenous chickens play an important role in the livelihoods of most rural families in Eastern Africa. Despite increased use of commercial breeds by large-scale producers, around three quarters of chickens in the region are indigenous breeds. This manual gives information on improved management practices of rearing indigenous chickens. The following...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Tsetse control using Epsilon trap made in Zimbabwe
Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) infest over 11 million sq km of Africa, and are vectors of Trypanosomosis (or Trypanosomiasis) in both humans and domestic livestock. For example, it is estimated that tsetse cover over 7 percent of Zimbabwe and 60 percent of Tanzania and Trypanosomosis has an important negative impact on livestock...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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