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Artículo de blog
The Teesta Is Dying, But These Communities Are Rallying To Keep It Alive
About 10 years ago, people in the small village of Gajoldoba on India’s stretch of the trans-boundary Teesta river started noticing significant changes in their environment.
Their fields weren’t yielding the same number of crops. The water level in the wells was dropping. And the fish – once so abundant that...
India
2017
Acto
Harnessing the Power of Data for the Sustainable Development Goals
Held for the first time in India, the 2017 ICT4D Conference: From Innovation to Impact will bring together public, private and civil society organizations from across the humanitarian and international development community to not only discuss the latest trends in digital inclusion but the wider use of data to support achievement of...
India
2017
Artículo
SALT farming is a boon for Meghalaya farmers
Growing crops is a challenge in the hilly terrain of Assam-India. To counter this, Sloping Agriculture and Land Technology (SALT) has been introduced as an alternative farming method to the farmers in place of jhum. Farmers are trained on - A-frame or making the contour line by using the A-frame;...
India
2017 - Asian Farmers' Association
Boletín informativo
FAO Viet Nam Newsletter
Swift Actions to Safeguarding Livelihoods from Potential Intrusion of H7n9 Virus
Viet Nam
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Why India's farmers want to conserve indigenous heirloom rice
While India was home to more than 100,000 rice varieties only 50 years ago, today more than 80% of the area dedicated to grow rice is planted with hybrid varities.
Thanks to the efforts of about 1,400 farmers in the Koraput region (Odisha state), traditional varieties of "desi dhaan", as they...
India
2017
Boletín informativo
FAO Ectad Newsletter - Indonesia
ECTAD’s work in the Asia-Pacific region mainly focuses on emerging pandemic threats like H7N9
Indonesia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Revista especializada
Strengthening women’s roles as risk and resource managers at the frontline of climate change
Research shows that in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) climate variability already influences water availability, ecosystem services, and agricultural production. According to downscaled climate projections, the risks of climate-induced hazards such as floods, landslides, and droughts are projected to increase significantly by 2050. To an increasing degree, rural women in...
Nepal
2017 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Libro
Innovative risk management strategies in rural and agriculture finance
The present study reviews recent trends in rural finance and investment in general, and in the agricultural sector in particular, within the Asian region. The analysis of these trends aims to offer a critical perspective on some of the main constraints to achieving more inclusive rural financial systems in developing...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Informe
Ending poverty and hunger by investment in agriculture and rural areas
While there has been an unprecedented achievement in poverty reduction in the last three decades, eradicating extreme poverty and halving poverty by 2030 are still two of our greatest challenges. Today, about 767 million people continue to live in extreme poverty. Roughly, two thirds of the extreme poor live in...
Bangladesh - Chad - Ghana - Guatemala - Malawi - Mali - South Africa - Tajikistan - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo
Small Farmer Dreams Big with Natural Farming Techniques
Hle Gu, Myanmar – Saw Htoo Baw is a young farmer from Tha Bite Kone village, Hle Gu Township in Myanmar. In 2015, the Agricultural Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) visited his area and met with him. Saw Htoo Baw expressed his concern about the increasing use of synthetic and chemical...
Myanmar
2017 - Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM)
Vídeo
Grafting mango seedlings
With grafting, a young shoot from a preferred mango variety is attached to a seedling. The seedling will develop the root and base of the tree. This is called the rootstock. The young shoot that is grafted onto the rootstock is called the scion. This will develop into the canopy....
Bangladesh
2017 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de blog
100 Women: Are rural women smashing the glass ceiling of agriculture?
BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.
With your help, they'll be coming up with real-life...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2017 - BBC
Artículo de blog
Promoting pineapple potential in Vanuatu
Those pineapples that still seem exotic on a super market shelf anywhere beyond the equator, are not just gorgeous to look at and luscious to eat or drink but this seemingly omnipresent tropical produce requires a careful and lengthy process of cultivation. In the Pacific island of Vanuatu, where pineapple production...
Vanuatu
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Pacific leaders alarmed over climate change’s negative impact on food systems and food security
Climate change poses an alarming threat to food systems and food security in the Pacific islands, warned leaders of nine small island developing states (SIDS), representatives of regional development bodies, New Zealand and Australia at a meeting chaired by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today.
The meeting took place ahead...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Libro
Promoting Indigenous Knowledge and Good Agricultural Practices in Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change is one of the most important challenges to sustainable development in the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam.
IK is also used in cultivation techniques in extreme climatic conditions. With cultivation conditions are mainly sloping land, many traditional techniques have been applied to limit soil erosion due to heavy rainfalls...
Viet Nam
2017 - ALiSEA
Artículo de blog
UN agencies host Asia-Pacific Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition
Those responsible for producing, processing and overseeing the food we eat must take more collaborative and decisive action if the Asia-Pacific region is to achieve the zero hunger target of the Sustainable Development Goals by the 2030 deadline, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and partners warned on the...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
Addressing the challenges of upland farming in southern Shan State for climate resilience
Smallholder farmers particularly in climate vulnerable developing countries such as Myanmar are facing increasing challenges related to food insecurity and climate change. Research has increasingly pointed towards agro-ecology as a movement, with the science and approach suitable to building the resilience of smallholder farmers. Since 2014, the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID) has been actively...
Myanmar
2017 - Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID)
Artículo de blog
Poor diets and ill-equipped food systems are a growing threat to nutrition in Asia-Pacific
FAO report points to pressing need to boost regional food systems, accelerate action to improve diets and nutrition
According to the findings of FAO’s 2017 Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutritionreport, there is a pressing need to tackle malnutrition alongside further promotion of the consumption of healthier foods while curbing the...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vídeo
Disaster response and strengthening the resilience of the agriculture sector in the Philippines
Natural and man-made disasters, including typhoons, flooding, drought and armed conflict threaten the livelihoods of farmers and fishers, and ultimately, food security in the Philippines. Helping communities recover and increasing the resilience of the agriculture sector is at the heart of FAO’s work in the country. The video features FAO’s...
Philippines
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
APAARI Strategic Plan 2017-2022
Pathways to Strengthened Agri-Food Research and Innovation Systems in Asia and the Pacific
The Strategic Plan 2017-2022 delivers the key pathways to strengthen agri-food research and innovation systems (AFRIS), in order to develop agri-food systems and to bring about sustainable agricultural development in Asia and the Pacific. These developments are considered fundamental requirement in the post-2015 development agenda and in realization of the...
2017 - APAARI Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
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