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Introducing a mechanical press for making Shea butter
In the northern Republic of Ghana, a manually operated press for shea butter extraction is successful and popular among rural women. Shea butter production is an important income earning activity for women in rural areas and for many, it is their only source of income. Shea butter is used for...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Management of cotton bollworns using predators ants
Insect pests are the most important production constraints in Uganda. American bollworms, spiny boll worms and pink boll worms are among the ten insect pests, which are feeding and damaging flower buds, flowers, and young and maturating bolls. This is causing plant abortions, amounting to up to 87 percent resulting...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Tsetse control with a "Nzi" trap
Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) infest over 11 million sq km of Africa, and are vectors of Trypanosomosis (or Trypanosomiasis) in both man and domestic livestock. For example, it is estimated that tsetse cover over 7 percent of Zimbabwe and 60 percent of Tanzania and Trypanosomosis has an important negative impact on livestock...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Grow epuripur sorghum
Sorghum is the third most important staple cereal food crop in Uganda after maize and millet occupying 285 000 ha of arable land. It is mainly used for food and brewing. In an attempt to improve food security and incomes among the rural poor households, The Serere Agricultural and Animal...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Informe
Impact Assessment of Zero Budget Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh, India
The Government of Andhra Pradesh introduced Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) in 2016 as an alternative to chemical-based and capital intensive agriculture through its implementing agency Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS). The main objective of the ZBNF is to make agriculture economically viable, agrarian livelihoods profitable, thereby reducing agrarian distress through cost reduction and...
India
2020 - Centre for Economic and Social Studies Nizamiah Observatory Campus,
Prácticas
Labour-saving technologies and practices: woodlots, agroforestry and improved fallow
The following practice provides information on features of woodlots, agroforestry and improved fallow as means to use wood resources more efficiently and prevent deforestation, environmental degradation and firewood supply shortages. The advantages and disadvantages of these practices are also detailed which include labour saving, livelihood resilience strengthening, livelihood diversification, use...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Reducing natural hazard impacts on bananas: integrated practices
Farmers in Haiti traditionally apply a number of actions before and after natural hazards hit in order to reduce the impacts particularly on high-market value products. For example, farmers can anticipate banana harvesting to mitigate the losses in case of natural hazards occurrence. The integrated package of practices to reduce...
Haiti
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Improved cattle breeds zero grazing with drought tolerant fodder
This technology describes the introduction of improved cattle breeds in Uganda. The improved breeds are more productive and resistant to diseases and are managed by applying the zero grazing production system. This is a type of production system where the animals are kept in an enclosure to control input use...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Libro
Climate change: Unpacking the burden on food safety
Climate change is causing unprecedented damage to our ecosystem. Increasing temperatures, ocean warming and acidification, severe droughts, wildfires, altered precipitation patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea levels and amplification of extreme weather events have direct implications for our food systems. While the impacts of such environmental factors on food security are...
2020 - FAO
Prácticas
Double transplanting of (t. aman) rice to reduce impacts of drought spells during monsoon (Kharif II) season
In Bangladesh, rice, and variations in its yield, is the key staple crop. It is critical to the livelihoods of that part of the population depending on agriculture. Transplanted aman (t. aman) is the second rice crop grown in the wet kharif II season, between July and November. However it...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Rapid multiplication of yams
This method produces small, whole planting setts, each weighing 200 g to 800 g, from minisetts as small as 25 g. The small, whole tuber setts produced by minisett rapid multiplication are excellent planting material for farmers and researchers. Each sett has a head, which means that sprouting is early,...
Samoa
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Soil conservation through multi-purpose wind breaks/shelter belts
Properly spaced trees help provide many of the same benefits of a complete perennial cover. Fine soil particles contain most of the humus and nutrients in the soil, and if lost, soil fertility is reduced, while windbreaks help protect cropland by reducing wind velocities for a distance approximately 15 times...
Viet Nam
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vídeo
Fattening sheep and goats
Usually, farmers fatten male sheep and goats because they grow faster. To fatten the animals, it is important to find the right animals. To fatten sheep and goats, also give them protein rich feed for about 3 to 6 months. Along with good food, you must also make sure that...
Bangladesh
2020 - Access Agriculture
Vídeo
Shrubs for Change
In the Shrubs for Change project, 300 ‘trainers of trainers’ learn how to get more milk from dairy cows by feeding them nutritious leaves from shrubs. These trainers will in turn train and support 120,000 dairy farmers in Kenya and Malawi to start growing shrubs in their own gardens.
Research has...
Kenya
2020 - Vi Agroforestry
Documento/nota de orientación
Becoming an agroecologist – fostering social learning and responsible action for sustainable food systems
This brief is based on experience gained from the Master’s Programme in Agroecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in particular, and on contributions from our partner programmes at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and Martyrs University in Uganda (UMU). The brief provides an overview of agroecology,...
Ethiopia - Uganda
2019 - Stockholm Environment Institute, Master’s Programme in Agroecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI)
Libro
Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design
There is wide agreement on the need to change the prevalent agricultural models, given their negative impacts and their incompatibility with current societal issues. Agroecological transition has been promoted as a potential solution to the ecological, social and economic problems generated by these models. It however involves a systemic, multi-scale...
2019 - Springer
Artículo de revista especializada
Defining agroecology: Exploring the circulation of knowledge in FAO’s Global Dialogue
This article traces how ‘agroecology’ is co-produced as a global socio-technical object. The site of co-production, the Global Dialogue on Agroecology, was convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in different cities around the world between 2014 and 2018 (Rome 2014; Brasilia, Dakar, Bangkok 2015;...
2019
Directrices
Monitoring and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from healthy food animals intended for consumption
Regional antimicrobial resistance monitoring and surveillance guidelines - Volume 1
This Regional Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Monitoring and Surveillance Guidelines Volume 1 provides guidance in the development of AMR surveillance plan for food-borne bacteria, underscoring the key elements for harmonized AMR data generation, data collation and reporting of findings, while taking into consideration the standing context of the region. It aims...
2019 - FAO
Vídeo
Date palm management
Some practical advice on the management of date palms with suggestions for reducing humidity levels, trimming, intercropping and weeding.
Iraq
2019 - Access Agriculture
Estudio de caso
Agroecological alternatives to industrial livestock production
Case studies compiled recently by Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members and allies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay underline the role of agribusiness in peasant farmers´ and Indigenous Peoples´ lives. These examples help to deconstruct the myth that large-scale, industrial agriculture is "feeding the world", and that it is compatible with other...
Brazil - Chile - Mexico - Paraguay
2019 - Global Forest Coalition (GFC)
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