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Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers in Fiji
In Fiji, establishments such as hotels and restaurants have closed to adhere to the government's measures to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In effect, farmers in the country can no longer sell their products anywhere. Thus, they appeal to the Fijian government for support so they can sell...
Fiji
2020 - PIFON
Artículo de blog
This is a farm: Agroforestry feeds communities in Timor-Leste
To the untrained eye it might look like a scruffy forest with a messy understory of weeds. But on closer inspection, Tomas Pinto has created a multilayered ecosystem rich in biodiversity. Under Tomas’s careful stewardship, this forest feed communities in Timor-Leste.
Timor-Leste
2020 - SeedChange
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Comment/Editorial: Build Back, Build Forward
By reminding us of the connection between food, health systems, sustainable development and human rights, the global COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to build forward better. Even as we celebrate the contributions of small-scale fisheries to nutrition and food security within a rights-based framework, which is part of an ICSF campaign,...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
A recent workshop hosted by IIED and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew explored how the way Indigenous Peoples grow and consume food holds answers to the world’s broken food system.
Modern food and farming systems are fundamentally unsustainable. They contribute around a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and are responsible...
2020 - IIED and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
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The clod breaker: a rolling harrow
The clod breaker is a simple wooden tool made out of a cylindrical log with iron spikes. It can be pulled by animals or even by an adult person. By driving the clod breaker over your field in opposite directions, the soil will become loose, aerated and absorb more water....
2020 - AccessAgriculture
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Cápsula 4: Filtro
Esta cuarta 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, te contamos sobre la importancia de hacer un buen mantenimiento al filtro de la bomba de riego.
Para ver las otras cápsulas,...
Chile
2020 - Nucleo Biotecnología Curauma (NBC)
Prácticas
Replicas of native chicken in rural poultry production: the Satpuda
A well organized pro-poor initiative from a private company, Yashwant Agritech Pvt Ltd (YAPL), has produced and sold a productive synthetic hybrid bird suitable for rearing in harsh agro-climatic rural environments. It has proved to be a valuable source of income for the poor households. This practice has promoted participatory,...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de blog
Women’s Farmer Field School’s success in Diarb Balout, Palestine
Under the framework of the regional project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in NENA countries”, one of the key activities is implementing different Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in the eight studied countries. Palestine one of the countries under the project, suffers from a shortage in...
Palestine
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Energy Resources
Major energy resources include Coal, Natural Gas, Oil, Wood, Nuclear, Solar, Hydrogen, wind and Tidal power etc. Since the beginning of industrialization in the 17th century, the use of these energy resources has been increasing year by year. Coal which is the traditional resource of energy has slowly given way...
2020 - Balochistan Geo Studies Center Pakistan
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Viverismo en la Agricultura Familiar - Encuentro 2
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)
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Systèmes de plantation et de gestion durable de lots boisés
La mise en place de lots boisés consiste à repeupler d'espèces arborées un site donné. En plus de son intérêt économique pour la production de bois et l'aménagement paysager ou récréatif, le lot boisé constitue une stratégie de lutte contre l'érosion. Il a pour rôle essentiel d'augmenter la couverture protectrice...
Haiti
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Government-led integrated approach for delivery of services to smallholder poultry farmers
This practice demonstrates how simple cost effective interventions such as low cost protein rich feeding, de-worming, vaccination, low cost housing, egg-candling, use of bamboo for poultry feeders and waterers, have strengthened household poultry production systems of tribal farmers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in India. A key factor that...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Establishing a tree nursery, East Africa
Many people in Eastern Africa depend on forests and trees to meet various needs. With growing populations, these resources are being rapidly depleted. Many farmers want to plant trees but cannot readily obtain high-quality tree seedlings. Establishing a tree nursery can help to meet this demand and provide you with...
Ethiopia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Seguimiento en el mar de "Mai", la tortuga cabezona
En diciembre 2019 "Mai", una tortuga marina “Cabezona” (Caretta caretta), fue capturada de manera accidental en un lance de pesca, vinculado a una de las campañas de investigación del INIDEP, realizada en el BIP Holmberg. Los investigadores decidieron tenerla a bordo y trasladarla a Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina)...
Argentina
2020 - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)
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Participatory research for sustainable agriculture: the case of the Italian agroecological rice network
Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous external inputs of chemicals, machinery, advice, subsidies and knowledge.
The issue of sustainability has brought complexity and uncertainty to this mainly linear...
Italy
2020 - European Journal of Futures Research
Estudio de caso
Bringing life back to the land: Zimbabwean farmers revive stagnant farms through agroecology
The Shashe farms in the Runde catchment area of Zimbabwe extend across three villages. Since 2010, over 500 families from the region have worked alongside ZIMSOFF (Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum) and AZTREC (Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conversationists) to revive arid cattle-ranching land into rich, abundant food forests.
At the...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Artículo de blog
Let’s increase organic EU land and consumption by 20%!
The upcoming publication of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, planned for 29 April, is an ideal opportunity to increase organic land and consumption in the EU. This target may sound at first ambitious, but in reality, it is achievable.
The new Commission’s Green Deal highlights the need to increase the environmental ambition of the EU...
2020 - IFOAM
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Market opportunities for artisanal and small-scale fisheries products for sustainability of the Mediterranean Sea Towards an Innovative Labelling Scheme
With consumers and in value chains, small-scale fisheries are struggling to get the recognition they deserve. LabMAF has detailed the factors contributing to the weak position of small-scale fishers in the markets and identified innovations that respond to existing challenges. By connecting existing various market initiatives and encouraging new ones...
European Union
2020 - Euro-Mediterranean University
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Making modern poultry markets work for the poor
This practice documents the work of the Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a leading NGO in India, in regarding the organization and support for rural women to take up poultry rearing, and develop this into a successful market-linked enterprise. Women poultry rearers have been organised into a Poultry Producers’...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Enriched compost for higher yields
In Eastern Africa, reduced soil fertility has led to declining crop yields on many small‑scale farms causing food insecurity and greater poverty. Throughout the region, soils are generally low in nitrogen and phosphorus – which are essential for crops to grow well. Soil fertility can be increased by the use...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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