This diagnostic tool advances the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) through policy and legal frameworks. It is a key tool for use by any actor, including small-scale fishers, who is interested in contributing to...

Around the globe, fisheries managers strives to practise effective management that provides a clear path towards conserving ocean biodiversity while contributing to human well-being. A wide range of area-based fisheries management tools achieve positive biodiversity outcomes. Many also conform to the definition, criteria, and guidance on ‘other effective area-based conservation...

Strengthening agricultural advisory services to make agroecological knowledge and practices available to small and marginal farmers is critical to transition towards agroecology and organic farming. Digital learning tools are a cost-effective way to train farmers on agroecological practices, encourage farmer-led experimentation and local innovation, and upscale agroecology. Ecological farming is knowledge-intensive,...

Genetics is the study of genes and their effects in living organisms. The information in an organism’s genes provides a biological blueprint for its appearance, function and survival and largely defines its similarities and differences with other organisms. The genetics of livestock are therefore a critical factor influencing animal production...

On a working day in June 2018 under my previous organization, I visited Shibuyunji district to conduct my usual technical support to the extension staff as well as project beneficiaries. Having had a short meeting with the extension staff, we immediately proceeded into the field to conduct on-site visits. I...

Biodiversity for food and agriculture comprises all the components of biodiversity that contribute to crop and livestock production, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture – both wild and domesticated, and at genetic, species and ecosystem levels. It is vital to food security and nutrition, livelihoods and the supply of a range of...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar las características seminales y las condiciones físicas y funcionales de ovinos nativos y foráneos bajo las condiciones ambientales del Caribe Colombiano. Se evaluaron durante 14 meses a 117 carneros Santa Inés, Dorper, Katahdin y Ovinos de Pelo Colombiano (OPC) mayores de 11 meses....

Si bien aún no existen estudios de requerimientos óptimos, específicos para la variedad azúcar, se sabe que las condiciones edafoclimáticas en el departamento del Magdalena, particularmente en el municipio de Ciénaga, son deseables.Tanto es así, que el mango de azúcar proveniente de dicha región es apetecido por los comerciantes. El...

To secure technical support in developing small animal sub sector in West Nile region, in 2012, the Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Africa Institute for Strategic Animal Resource Services and Development (AFRISA) a not-For-Profit and autonomous government institution furthering Academic-Community-Private-Public Partnership (ACP3) engagement...

It all started on the day when I escorted our country director to Rufunsa District, which is located in Lusaka Province in Zambia. We were off to meet the village Chieftainess Mphashya, to talk about our intentions to build a community seed bank in her chiefdom. We were met with...

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...

Cada mes, Vía Orgánica Asociación Civil, edita un boletín donde aparte de presentar las novedades desde su rancho-escuela,  comparte noticias orgánicas, recetas y tips.

En el cultivo de mango se puede realizar la multiplicación por semilla sexual, pero las plantas resultantes son de inferior calidad y no conservan las características de las originales. El material vegetal poliembrionario, al presentar embriones adventicios de carácter vegetativo, no presenta caracteres diferentes ni degenerados en los árboles obtenidos...

Fish may not suffice to ensure global food security, but there will no global food security without fish: even as more than 800 million of us suffer from hunger, seafood products make up a fifth of the animal protein intake for nearly half of the world’s population. To eat fish...

Women-led cooperatives have played a role in improving women farmers’ technical know-how, leadership capacities, business skills, and advocacy skills. Women members of Yen Duong Cooperative in Vietnam were trained in agroforestry production, handicrafts making, and tourism and actively participated in advocacy and policy-making activities in their locality. They have successfully...

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...

The 2022 National Young Farmer Survey received 10,091 responses, including 4,344 from past, current, and aspiring farmers who self-identified as age 40 and under. Our findings reveal a new generation of farmers answering the call to provide healthy food, steward the land, and cultivate community well-being. They are building diversified...

Most of the food we find in the grocery store these days is produced as part of the industrial food system. We’re dependent on large-scale production of just a few varieties for everything from the vegetables we eat, to the cereal we feed our children.  But it wasn’t always this way!...

Agroecological approaches are highly location specific as they connect the links between the food needs, livelihoods, local culture, environment and the economics. Education on agroecology is therefore a holistic approach connecting these links, where farmers are in the centre of the entire process. With the realisation of the ill effects of...

Quelles solutions pour l’agriculture face aux épisodes de sécheresses de plus en plus récurrents ? Pour le Cirad, confronté depuis longtemps à ce problème dans ses recherches en partenariat dans les pays du Sud, la question est désormais cruciale avec le changement climatique.