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Filtros de aguas grises: El problema del agua
El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en algunas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.
Por esta razón, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), impulsan en Guatemala la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises....
Guatemala
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Vídeo
Filtros de aguas grises: Una alternativa para producir alimentos
El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en algunas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.
Por esta razón, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), impulsan en Guatemala la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises.
Estas estructuras...
Guatemala
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Vídeo
Killing fall armyworms naturally
In this video, we learn from farmers in Kenya how we can kill fall armyworms in a natural way. The leaf damage caused by fall armyworms often looks worse than it is. Birds, spiders, rove beetles, ants, wasps, and diseases kill the fall armyworm and can greatly reduce its damage....
2018 - AccessAgriculture
Estudio de caso
Integrated Pest Management Group for sustainable production and marketing in Iran
IPM was first proposed in 1957, as a concept that promoted biological control, good agronomic practices and the use of other means to control pests besides chemical pesticides. IPM is location specific, based on local field ecology and socio-economic conditions. IPM in the Iranian programme meant more than just “pest...
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2017
Documento técnico
TOPS Permagarden Toolkit
The permagarden method combines components of permaculture, an agricultural approach using design principles to utilize natural systems for production, and bio-intensive agriculture, an agricultural approach to maximize production on a small amount of land through sustainable practices that increase biodiversity, to create a highly productive garden using a small amount...
2017 - The TOPS Program
Manual
Chai ya Mimea
Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Hoja informativa
Measuring climate change impacts on farm income in Central Asia
Despite serious influences of climate change on food security and farm income, there is insufficient research in Central Asia on the impact of climate change on agro-ecosystems, farm incomes, and analysis of the potential adaptation strategies. There is very limited use of integrated assessments critical for analyzing environmental, economic and...
Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan - Uzbekistan
2017 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Documento de la Conferencia
Memorias de Talleres de Agroecología y Caficultura en Mesoamérica y República Dominicana
El documento contendrá un resumen de cada una de las presentaciones que se realizaron en los talleres de Agroecología y Roya del Café llevados a cabo en 7 países de la subregión Mesoamérica y Rep. Dominicana. Entre los temas que se podrán encontrar en esta publicación están la relación de...
Dominican Republic
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Informe
Línea Base del Servicio Ecosistémico de la Polinización en Paraguay
El Servicio Ecosistémico de la Polinización es uno de los “beneficios de la naturaleza a los hogares, las comunidades y las economías”(2), clasificado como un servicio de regulación y definido como el proceso de transferencia de polen de la parte masculina de la flor (ANTERA) a la parte femenina de...
Paraguay
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
Baseline of the pollination ecosystem service in Peru
Esta publicación tiene el propósito de divulgar de manera sintética la información secundaria de línea base del estado y la importancia agrícola del servicio ecosistémico de la polinización en el Perú, como contribución de información base para el segundo objetivo estratégico de la FAO de “Aumentar y mejorar el suministro...
Peru
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
Identificación de cultivos de importancia económica impactados por la zoopolinización en Chile
Esta publicación resume la información secundaria revisada y compilada sobre el impacto de la zoopolinización en cultivos agrícolas de Chile. Aportando conocimiento a los productores y los gestores de recursos naturales para adoptar prácticas que aumentan y mejoran el suministro de bienes y servicios en los sistemas de producción del...
Chile
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
Secure Livelihoods For South Sudanese Refugees And Host Communities In West Nile Region, Uganda (Migration Project)
The civil conflicts in South Sudan has since 2013 resulted into increased influx of refugees into West Nile, Uganda. As at February 2017, the FAO estimated the total refugee population in West Nile region at 628,000 people (86% women and children, 3% the elderly, and 5 people per household). While...
Uganda
2017 - AFARD and PALM Corps with funding from Austrian Development Cooperation, Bruder und Schwester in Not Innsbruck (BSI) and Caritas Kärnten through HORIZONT3000.
Documento técnico
Livestock solutions for climate change
Livestock are key to food security. Meat, milk and eggs provide 34% of the protein consumed globally as well as essential micronutrients such as vitamin B12, A, iron, zinc, calcium and riboflavin. But their contribution to food security and nutrition goes well beyond that, and includes a range of other...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Prácticas
Increasing yield of mango with selective harvest
Due to inaccurate methods of harvesting, farmers tend to destroy the quality of the mangoes and obtain reduced yields of the fruit which results in a loss of income of the farmers. Through selective harvesting techniques, mangoes are harvested in three stages from the trees based on their maturity level....
Ghana
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Revista especializada
Revista EnlACe Nº 37: Sembradoras- Fertilizadoras de Tracción Animal
Alternativa sustentable para pequeños productores
La publicación menciona que “las nuevas variedades de cultivos también a menudo mejoran el rendimiento, haciendo más productivas las tierras agrícolas existentes y reduciendo la necesidad de limpiar más tierras para la agricultura. Conservar más áreas para los hábitats de biodiversidad y reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero...
Mexico
2017 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Manual
Agroforestry Systems
In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Hoja informativa
How to make a natural pesticide
In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Estudio de caso
Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Cambodia: Impact of the Cassava Boom on Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change
Agricultural commercialisation is a process that involves the transformation of subsistence-oriented smallholder farming systems into systems that are primarily oriented toward production for the market. Agricultural production is no longer viewed merely as the means to meet household consumption requirements, drawing on local resources, but becomes the household‟s main income-generating...
Cambodia
2017 - The University of Queensland Australia
Miscelánea
Integrated Pest Management
The EIP-AGRI Focus Group on ‘Integrated Pest Management – Focus on Brassica species’ brought together 20 experts with different backgrounds (scientists, farmers and advisers), to propose innovative solutions on this topic. They concentrated on winter oilseed rape (OSR) and the three most important Brassica vegetables: cauliflower, broccoli and white cabbage....
European Union
2017 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation
Prácticas
Impact of agroecological techniques on soil fertility and productivity in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in the Sahel whose economy is highly dominated by agriculture and livestock husbandry, with more than 70% of the population living in rural areas. The prevailing farming system is smallholder agriculture based on cereal production, especially sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and pearl millet...
Burkina Faso
2017 - McKnight Foundation
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