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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
Vídeo
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
Artículo de revista especializada
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)
Artículo de blog
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
Vídeo
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
Vídeo
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)
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