En este Segundo Boletín Informativo del proyecto ‘Ordenación Forestal Sustentable y Conservación de Bosques en una Perspectiva Ecosocial’, se muestran algunos de los resultados de las nuevas estrategias y prácticas de Manejo Forestal Sostenible y Manejo Sustentable de la Tierra implementadas en la reserva forestal Imataca, donde se destacan las...

A community-based, bottom-up regime of fisheries management, rooted in traditional ecological knowledge, is practised in the pole-and-line tuna fishery of India’s Lakshadweep Islands. India is home to a large number of small-scale fishers (SSF) using diverse craft-gear combinations along the country’s long coastline and island systems. One standout entry is the...

Through an extended study of agricultural land use and policy, Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law presents a comprehensive legal analysis of proposals for protecting natural capital stocks and the sustainable use of ecosystem services, critiquing the legal challenges in designing and operationalizing a workable natural capital approach.

Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the Rotary...

FAO  Agroecology Newsletter of May 2022

En este capítulo se presentan los procedimientos que se deben cumplir para la selección de materiales forrajeros que se utilizarán en la alimentación de bovinos. Se inicia con la evaluación agronómica en pequeñas parcelas y se continúa con la multiplicación de semilla de los materiales seleccionados en la evaluación agronómica....

Síntomas: presencia de pequeñas manchas amarillentas, alargadas y visibles por ambos lados de la hoja. En el envés de las hojas, aparece un polvillo que contiene el hongo de color naranja o café (dependiendo de la roya que este afectando) que sobresale de la superficie de ellas y es dispersado...

The notion of resilience has been applied to food systems for several years now, and "food resilience" has become an even more pronounced buzzword in scientific communities, international institutions, public policies and social movements in France. In this context, we suggest some elements of clarification of the notion and of...

The Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) Annual Conference 2021 focused on Circular Food Systems as possible solutions to reverse climate change. One of the sessions of the Conference was “Agriculture and food”. This session focused on challenges and solutions for implementing the principles of a circular economy in agriculture, in the context of climate...

A participatory, bottom-up approach will go a long way in ensuring sustainable livelihoods for communities in the small-scale fisheries sector of Nigeria. Nigeria’s small-scale fisheries are very diverse, providing livelihood and food for millions of people engaged in the fisheries value chain. Fishing activity occurs in the vast network of inland...

UC Santa Cruz Farm Garden Manager Christof Bernau explains how to influence and manage environmental conditions to ensure quality seedlings.

Farming can be remunerative even from an acre of land holding, when practiced through natural methods, utilizing natural resources to the optimum. Thammaiah, a farmer in Karnataka shows how small farmers can make a decent living adopting the multi cropping system, through his one acre model. Mr. Thammaiah of Chowdikatte village,...

La FAO a appuyé le Niger pour mettre en place un processus parti-cipatif de préparation d’une politique foncière. Cette vidéo rappelle les différentes étapes de la préparation de la politique foncière au Niger (adoptée en 2021) et détaille les moyens qui ont été mis en œuvre pour rendre le processus...

EU-STREIT PNG'S NEWS - MONTHLY UPDATES May 2022

Dentro de las plagas de importancia, las de mayor frecuencia son: Defoliador (Cerotoma arcu. Tingomariana), Defoliador (Anticarsia gemmatalis), Chupador (Bemisia tabaco). Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Insecticida biológico formulado como un polvo mojable para el control del gusano cachón Erinnyis ello en cultivos de caucho y yuca Registro de venta ICA No. 11246 Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Shrimp farms in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have proliferated despite a 1996 Supreme Court judgement to regulate coastal aquaculture. Given an option, I would move away from this village to nearby Chidambaram town because, year after year, the fertility of my agricultural land declines.” This was told to...

Animal welfare is an important topic for consideration within every livestock husbandry sector. Welfare frameworks have recently been developed for intensively and semi-intensively husbanded dromedaries. These do not fit the reality of dromedaries under pastoral husbandry, and no specific analysis exists on dromedary welfare when reared under pastoral nomadic conditions....

En Colombia, los barrenadores del género Diatraea constituyen uno de los principales problemas fitosanitarios en el cultivo de caña de azúcar. Debido al hábito de la larva que se desarrolla dentro de los tallos, se hace difícil su control, y por lo tanto, se deben buscar alternativas eficaces para su...