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Current best practice farmers and their techniques
This technical report series captures and documents the work in progress of the Iraq Salinity Project, in its seven research themes, working at the regional, farm and irrigation system scales. Technical reports feed into the Iraq Salinity Assessment, a synthesis and solutions to solving the problem: Situation Analysis (Report 1);...
Iraq
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Hoja informativa
Good practices in building rural institutions to increase food security
Continued population growth, urbanization and rising incomes are likely to continue to put pressure on food demand. International prices for most agricultural commodities are set to remain at 2010 levels or higher, at least for the next decade (OECD-FAO, 2010). Small-scale producers in many developing countries were not able to...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Good Environmental Practices in Bioenergy Feedstock Production
Making Bioenergy Work for Climate and Food Security
Building on FAO’s work on good practices in agriculture and forestry, the BEFSCI project (see box below) has compiled a set of good environmental practices that can be implemented by bioenergy feedstock producers in order to minimize the risk of negative environmental impacts from their operations, and to ensure that...
2012
Documento/nota de orientación
Opportunities and challenges facing farmers in transitioning to a Green Economy agriculture practice
This policy paper has been prepared to highlight the key opportunities and challenges confronting farmers throughout the world as they consider and adopt practices that contribute to green economic development, poverty eradication and improved food security. It focuses on the role of farmers in green economic development and how a...
2012 - United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
Artículo
Sistema Normativo Argentino de Trazabilidad Bovina
La trazabilidad puede ser concebida como una tecnología en el sentido de una práctica social destinada a modificar el mundo social o físico según rutinas o métodos identificables. Esta tecnología consiste en un sistema de seguimiento de los bienes de consumo durante su producción y comercialización hasta que llegan al...
Argentina
2012 - 9o Encuentro de Colegios de Abogados sobre temas de Derecho Agrario
Prácticas
Fientes de volailles
Les fientes de volailles constituent un très faible apport potentiel en matières organiques. Il faut plutôt considérer les fientes de volailles comme un engrais organique azoté bien que la teneur en azote total des fientes brutes soit inférieure à 3 %. L’apport en phosphore avec les fientes est également important....
2012 - Chambre d'Agriculture Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Prácticas
Rôles des matières organiques dans le sol
Bien qu’elles ne représentent que quelques pourcents de la masse des terres cultivées, les matières organiques (MO) du sol ont des rôles extrêmement importants à jouer : construction et stabilité de la structure, maintien ou augmentation de la capacité à retenir l’eau ou les éléments minéraux, etc. Les différents types...
2012 - Chambre d'Agriculture Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Estudio de caso
Case study of the technical, socio-economic and environmental conditions of small-scale fisheries in the estuary of Patos Lagoon, Brazil
A methodology for assessment
This document presents an assessment of small-scale fisheries of the Patos Lagoon estuary, Brazil, using a custom-designed fisheries census methodology. Complementary information was sourced from a literature review, secondary data and in-depth semi-structured interviews. The assessment provides a complete picture of the technical, environmental and socio-economic conditions of these fisheries, including information on the...
Brazil
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Kuttanad Below Sea Level Farming System
The only system in India that has been practicing rice cultivation below sea level since the past 2 centuries
Kuttanad is a delta region of about 900 sq. km situated in the west coast of Kerala State, India. The area is a larger mosaic of fragmented landscape patches and varied ecosystems such as coastal backwaters, rivers, vast stretches of paddy fields, marshes, ponds, garden lands, edges, corridors and remarkably networked water ways.
The Kuttanad Below Sea-level...
India
2012 - M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Manual
Insectos y Agricultores ¿amigos o enemigos?
Los agricultores suelen ser conscientes de la enorme diversidad de especies de insectos en sus campos, y de las funciones que estos cumplen como parte de un ecosistema. La agricultura tiene gran influencia en el equilibrio de la población de insectos. Sin embargo, en todo el mundo, las evidencias muestran...
Peru
2012 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes
Manual
Manual técnico de apicultura: abeja (Apis mellifera)
La apicultura es un sistema competitivo, equitativo y sostenible por el bajo uso de insumos e impacto ambiental, y por ser promotor del desarrollo tecnológico, debido a que es generador de empleo, productor de alimentos y mejorador de la calidad de vida de sus trabajadores.
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Colombia
2012 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Manual
Produzcamos nuestra semilla de papa de buena calidad
Guía para agricultoras y agricultores
El Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), el Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP) y el Consorcio de Pequeños Productores de Papa (CONPAPA), como parte del proyecto “Fortalecimiento de los sistemas de semilla de papa nativa en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú” se complacen en presentar la publicación Produzcamos nuestra...
Ecuador
2012 - Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
Artículo de revista especializada
Concepts of Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Livestock Systems
In 2005, The International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) developed four new ethical principles of organic agriculture to guide its future development: the principles of health, ecology, care, and fairness. The key distinctive concept of animal welfare in organic agriculture combines naturalness and human care, and can be linked...
2011 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Informe
Strategies to reduce the emerging wheat stripe rust disease
Synthesis of a dialog between policy makers and scientists from 31 countries at: International Wheat Stripe Rust Symposium, Aleppo, Syria, April 2011
Aggressive new strains of wheat rust diseases – stem rust and stripe rust – have decimated wheat yields in recent harvests. Key areas affected are East Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Rust diseases have reduced the wheat harvests is in Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya...
2011
Documento de trabajo
Enhancing farmers’ access to markets for certified products
A comparative analysis using a business model approach
Certified products are those differentiated on the basis of specific quality attributes that can be certified under various schemes. Participation in markets for certified products can represent a good income generation opportunity for small farmers in developing countries. However, to avail of this opportunity they would have to comply with...
Argentina - Chile - Colombia - India
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Prácticas
Labour saving technologies and practices: Conservation agriculture
This document includes features of conservation agriculture, conservation tillage, conservation tillage equipment including the -hand operated jab planter- and features of cover crops. All those practices are labour saving technologies.
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Prácticas
Labour saving technologies and practices: Improved use of hoes for land preparation, planting and weeding
This manual contains guidelines on how to better use hoes, and how to improve them.
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Prácticas
Labour saving technologies and practices: Row planting, hand seeders and planters
This text includes features of hand seeders and planters including jab planters to plant in rows.
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Smallholder irrigation schemes in South Africa
A review of knowledge generated by the Water Research Commission
The status and characteristics of the 302 smallholder irrigation schemes found in South Africa are discussed and knowledge on South African smallholder irrigation schemes generated by the Water Research Commission (WRC) over a period of nearly 20 years is reviewed. Themes covered include planning, design and technology; plot-holders and their...
South Africa
2011 - Tshwane University of Technology
Libro
Integrated Crop Management Vol.12-2010
Green manure/cover crops and crop rotation in Conservation Agriculture on small farms
The objective of this publication is to offer a reference material for extensionists, professors, agronomy students, technicians in general, and for farmers themselves. Through information that is up-to-date and richly illustrated, it strives to facilitate the adoption and diffusion of No-Tillage, the use of green manures, and the practice of...
Paraguay
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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