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Practices for producing clean seed yam planting materials
Yam productivity in the main yam-growing belt of West Africa is reduced by losses in the growing crop, and in subsequent storage, due to diseases and pests. Many of these are either spread in, or exacerbated by, poor quality planting materials. A package of crop protection technologies was developed (based...
Nigeria
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Income earning by Community Livestock Volunteers (CLVs) by distribution of herbal preparations for livestock
SEVA in association with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), IFAD assisted Post Tsunami Sustainable Livelihood Project trained women, self-help group members on herbal treatment for animals upto 21 days. Selected women members were trained intensively to work as Community Livestock Volunteers (CLVs). Then they train local village...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Risk diversification and climate hazard resilience building through homestead gardening
Homestead gardening, which is not designed for marketing/profit-making, aims primarily to improve ongoing access to nutritious food and buffer the sudden fluctuations in prices of the major crops of the farming households during calamities and enhance family nutrition. The use of hazard tolerant crop varieties (like drought-tolerant) in homestead gardening...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory breeding of superior, mosaic disease-resistant cassava
The project has validated a participatory breeding approach for developing superior, mosaic disease-resistant cassava, demonstrating that it can provide a means by which farmers, plant breeders and plant pathologists could work together in an effective and inclusive manner. It also provided an environment whereby farmers made a significant and consistent...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Agroecological guide for onion production
Onion is a biennial vegetable grown in temperate regions as an annual crop. Onions are especially suitable for smallholder farming in many countries because they require a small amount of initial capital. Onions require a small piece of land and they take a relatively short time to mature. Onions can...
Uganda
2020 - Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
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Introduction to organic agriculture
Organic agriculture is an integrated production management system that promotes and enhances agroecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It emphasizes the use of natural inputs (i.e. mineral and products derived from plants) and the renunciation of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Slope agriculture land technology (SALT)
The objective of implementing the slope agriculture land technology (SALT) is to stabilize the slope and improve the terrace or the contours in order to control soil erosion along the slopes and improve soil fertility. This practice describes how to implement the SALT method.
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Draught animal power technologies in East Africa
The technology was developed in collaboration with farmers in the Teso farming system of Uganda. It comprises of the development of appropriate animal-drawn implements, primarily for weeding but also for ridging (sweet potatoes), line planting and lifting (groundnuts). These implements are now being manufactured locally. Impact assessments showed that adoption...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Housing for pigs
Farmers in Uganda started taking care of pigs in their sties because of problems with the pigs that were free roaming. Farmers would not know where the pigs had gone and what they had eaten or whether they had contracted any disease.
Uganda
2020 - Access Agriculture
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La fabrication de cossettes et de farine de banane
Les bananes sont l’aliment de base des populations dans de nombreuses régions d’Afrique de l’Est. Elles constituent une bonne source de potassium, lequel intervient dans l’équilibre des fluides du corps et un aliment idéal pour les enfants en bas âge, les invalides et les personnes atteintes par le VIH/sida. En...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Natural vegetative strips
Natural vegetative strips (NVS) are narrow live barriers comprising naturally occurring grasses and herbs. Wide strips are left unploughed to allow vegetation to grow and to slow surface runoff. Natural terraces form over time as a result of the eroded soil accumulation on the strips. The vegetation on the established...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Ecologically-based and sustainable rodent control strategies
Rodents consume food in the field as well as in storage. Their contamination of stored food and ability to spread diseases causes them to cut across both the natural resources and health sectors. Research in Mozambique and in South Africa found that people have little understanding of the ecology of...
Mozambique - South Africa
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Pheromone traps for the management of the cowpea pest Maruca vitrata
Maruca vitrata is a major pest of cowpea, resulting in 20 to 80 percent yield losses in West Africa. A pheromone lure and suitable trap developed in Benin and Ghana has successfully trapped male moths. From these trappings a threshold has been calculated to provide farmers with the optimum time for...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Aloe Vera living barriers
The following technology provides information on the use of aloe vera as a cross-slope barrier structure. This structure is particularly effective barrier to retain soil erosion by decreasing surface runoff and increasing soil infiltration. Aloe vera is a durable herbaceous plant, which is planted in the form of living barriers...
Cabo Verde
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Disease resistant upland maize varieties validated by and promoted to farmers
The technology addresses the issue of two maize diseases: Grey Leaf Spot (GLS), and Maize Streak Virus (MSV) on upland maize. Research focussed on identifying and breeding for genetic resistance has been conducted in the southern highlands of Tanzania. Two hybrids have been released (UH615 and UH6303) with high levels...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Honey extracted by pressing - wooden honey press of Goma (DRC)
A honey press is a tool that allows the beekeeper to extract honey from few honeycombs at the same time. The model of honey press presented here is a basic manual model that can be easily made locally as it requires only wood, a plastic bucket, screws, and the work...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Improved chicken breeds raised in chicken houses
This technology describes the cost-benefit analysis of of rearing improved chicken breeds in chicken houses in Uganda. The improved breeds are more resistant to climatic stresses and diseases. Rearing chicken in chicken houses enhances the profitability of poultry production. The transition from free range to chicken houses allows keeping track...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Soil fertility management in agroecological farming
!is section on Soil fertility management in agroecological farming is supposed to be used together with the trainings on specific commodities. !e training concept is the same as outlined for the trainings in the commodities. We provide this part on soil fertility management as a separate leaflet because it is...
Uganda
2020 - (Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
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Agriculture support to nutrition services
Malnourished children are as such because in most cases, their families are not able to feed them properly. Poor families lack the financial means to buy adequate foods in proper quantity, quality and diversity. They consequently adopt diets that lack protein, vitamins and other micro-nutrients in particular. The most affected...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Sack gardens for improved urban diets and livelihoods
The problems related to the lack of land and financial capacity to buy agricultural inputs, especially in slums can be solved by using sack gardens. Earth-filled sacks are placed on doorsteps and used to grow vegetables in. Sack gardens do not require much agricultural land nor much water. They are...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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