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Managing a non-recirculation hydroponic unit for commercial lettuce production
Hydroponics is the most common method of soil-less culture (growing agricultural plants without the use of soil), which includes growing plants either on a substrate or in an aqueous medium with bare roots. Non-circulating hydroponic methods, importantly, do not require electricity or a pump. With the method presented in this...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Innovations in common land development
Increased availability of fodder biomass (e.g. grasses, shrub and tree leaves) is possible through protected commons. This increased availability of biomass has in turn directly resulted in improved livelihoods. This Good Practice reveals how management of village dynamics, building awareness, finding local solutions and building technical acumen can create ownership...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
LOG-IT: A tool for capturing and organising data on factory production and quality
The ability to capture, log and organise information is essential to the efficient management and control of food production factories. It is of particular importance in demonstrating control of food safety systems. Although initially developed for use in export fish processing factories in Uganda, the technology can be used by...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de blog
Why are local seeds important? This Honduran farmer uses them to help his community
Five years ago, Edwin Adonis Nolasco did not consider himself a farmer. He worked small jobs in rural Honduras, uncertain of how he would support his family. When he came across an opportunity to join a farmer-led research project with our local partner organization, the Foundation for Participatory Research with...
Honduras
2020 - SeedChange
Estudio de caso
Agricultural communities in Kenya are rehabilitating prisoners through agroecology in a bid to reduce reoffending and revive local independent coffee farms.
Kenyan prisons are full of the young and the poor. It is no surprise when you consider the high levels of unemployment and the criminal means to which many turn to survive. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and crime, former prisoners are often left stigmatised by society and...
Kenya
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Vídeo
Cápsula 2: Acumulador o Estanque
Esta segunda cápsula es parte de la serie de 8 cápsulas audiovisuales creadas por el IICA y el Nucleo Biotecnología de Curauma de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
En esta cápsula aprenderá a calcular capacidad de riego y algunos consejos para evitar crecimiento de algas.
Para ver las otras cápsulas, pinche=> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYsiWFkJL9PtzHV9xurBVvg
Chile
2020 - Nucleo Biotecnología Curauma (NBC)
Informe
Annual Report 2019
This annual report highlights the struggles and activities we had and the progress we made in 2019. These happened in the context of a world faced with many complex and interconnected challenges that heightened political crises and triggered mass mobilizations and protests broke out in all corners of the earth. What is...
2020 - La Via Campesina
Prácticas
Traditional floating garden practices for vegetable production
The floating garden practice is a local indigenous production system the successful in the wetland/submerged/flooded areas in the selected south and south-western districts (Pirojpur, Barisal and Gopalganj) of Bangladesh. Floating garden agricultural practices have been adopted by the local farmers for the past two centuries. This technology describes in detail...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Mitigating diseases and saving valuable assets - poultry vaccinators delivering services to the poorest
This practice describes how poultry vaccinators reached out to women poultry rearers with vaccination services, extension messages covering different aspects of poultry rearing, and provided disease surveillance.
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Controlling mango fruit fly
The mango tree suffers from numerous physiological, phytopathological and entomological problems. In West Africa, the economic importance of the damage caused by mango fruit flies (Diptera tephritidae) is growing in home garden mango trees as well as in small-scale and industrial mango orchards. The introduction and pan-African propagation of Bactrocera...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vídeo
Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers in Bangladesh
Farmers in Bangladesh are facing serious problems during this time of crisis. Citizens are asked by the government to stay at home to avoid being infected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, farmers find it difficult to go to their farms to check on their crops. Shops including those...
Bangladesh
2020
Vídeo
Les bonnes pratiques oasiennes en vidéo 5/5 - Gestion participative de l'eau - Maroc VOSTFR
A Tighfert au Maroc, la population participe de façon active à la gestion communautaire de l'eau dans l'oasis. Pour pérenniser l'utilisation de l'eau pour toute l'oasis, la population agricole de l'oasis du Tighfert a mis en place et utilise un système ancestral de gestion de l'eau: les Khettaras. Cette technique...
Morocco
2020 - RADDO
Artículo
Social media for the organic food consumer’s behaviour and its impact upon the development of digital tools for small farmers in Romania
The small entrepreneurship on the Romanian food market is facing a series of concerns closely connected to the particular issues of an emerging economic sector. The entrepreneurial reactions are, quite often, intuitive, fall within a relation with the consumer which has been historically shaped in the zone of merchant behaviour,...
Romania
2020 - "Gh. Zane" Institute for Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
Artículo de boletín informativo
Yemaya Newsletter No.61, August 2020
The latest issue of the women-in-fisheries newsletter of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), Yemaya No.61, dated August 2020, features articles and interviews from Brazil, Costa Rica, France, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Senegal. The lead article is on small-scale fisheries and food security and the issue also carries...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Estudio de caso
Soil and water conservation on the slopes of Kilimanjaro
At over 5,000 meters, Mount Kilimanjaro’s rounded, snow-capped peak is an iconic African symbol. The National Park’s forested slopes rise up to the peak, above the plains of northern Tanzania. Slightly lower down, at altitudes between 1,000 and 1,500 meters, farmers grow crops in the fertile soil: coffee, bananas, fodder...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - Oakland Institute and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Artículo de blog
Smallholder farmers in Jharkhand come together to ensure safe food for a fair price
Over the years, Bhoomi Ka has been working to promote safe and indigenous food among farmers and consumers in India. And to achieve its objective, it was imperative for smallholder farmers to come together, get trained on ecological farming and certification processes, and meet the growing demand of organic produce....
2020 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Vídeo
Cápsula 3: Bomba
Esta tercera cápsula es parte de la serie de 8 cápsulas audiovisuales creadas por el IICA y el Nucleo Biotecnología de Curauma de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
En esta cápsula podrá conocer las características de la bomba.
Para ver las otras cápsulas, pinche=> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYsiWFkJL9PtzHV9xurBVvg
Chile
2020 - Nucleo Biotecnología Curauma (NBC)
Prácticas
Production, multiplication et diffusion de semences climato résilientes pour de meilleurs rendements en milieu rural
La production de semences climato-résilientes se fait dans l'objectif de soutenir l'intensification de la production agricole de manière à ce qu'elle soit plus économique et socialement durable. En effet, les techniques de production de semences climato-résilientes fournissent une alternative á l'adaptation, à la sécheresse et aux changements climatiques par leur...
Haiti
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Women resurrecting poultry biodiversity and livelihoods
The Aseel is reared under backyard poultry management systems and is a vital source of meat and income. However, this bird is threatened due to high production losses, infectious diseases and policies promoting non-local breeds. This practice describes how disease prevention and biodiversity conservation strategies helped women farmers in preserving...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Rainwater syringe: low cost technology for rainwater harvesting in coastal areas
Due to saline conditions, drinking and pure water is a major problem in coastal areas. Most of the open wells and tube wells in the coastal areas contain salty water. Rainwater harvesting is a viable option for solving the issue of drinking water. Construction of rainwater overhead tanks is a...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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