El impacto directo de las restricciones a la movilidad- propias de la cuarentena - afectó principalmente al sector comercial y de servicios, con reducción del empleo. Se estima que una parte de la población que perdió su empleo -de muy difícil cuantificación - ha retornado a las zonas rurales, que...

Les efforts de transformation visant les forêts arides et les systèmes agrosylvopastoraux sont le plus souvent centrés sur des aspects techniques de la gestion des systèmes. Ils ciblent généralement la gestion des pâturages, la restauration ou l'ajout d'arbres et la gestion de la matière organique, de l'eau et de la...

Certification in agriculture ensures compliance with tangible standards and should generate economic opportunities for farmers. This study quantifies the variable profit and efficiency impacts of organic certification in dairy farming across Europe, using farm-level FADN data from 25 countries while accounting for heterogeneity through a class splitting model. Four distinct...

The SWOT analysis accompanying the CAP Strategic Plan in Bulgaria identified this country as one of the Member States with the highest loss of HNV farmland in the EU. Unfortunately, it digs no further to analyse the reasons behind the loss, the types of HNV farmland that suffers most, or...

Las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC) son motor de gran parte de los cambios que actualmente viven nuestras sociedades y que también generan impacto entre las juventudes, ampliando la velocidad en que se comparte la información, extendiendo las modalidades de interacción social e impulsando otras formas de...

Contexto. El estudio presenta la sistematización de experiencias de un proyecto para el fortalecimiento de la cadena láctea colombiana a la luz de las prácticas de cuatro asociaciones, así como proceso de formación del equipo de extensionistas acompañante. Objetivo. Identificar el aprendizaje en términos productivos, tecnológicos, económicos y ambientales que...

El presente documento es una aproximación inicial a la situación de la agricultura nacional bajo los impactos de las restricciones impuestas para hacer frente a la pandemia de Covid-19 en el Perú. La característica principal de este escenario de crisis sanitaria es la incertidumbre respecto de su intensidad y duración, por lo...

By putting farmers at the heart of the learning and innovation process, FAO’s Farmer Field Schools (FFS) empower people, households and communities and help restore ecosystems. The discovery-learning process in FFS is ideal to support farmers’ learning and innovation on agroecology.

FAO Agroecology Newsletter #48 June 2021

12 European partners join forces in a coordination and support action to develop a framework for a European network of agroecological living labs, research infrastructure and learning spaces for farmers, research and civil society actors. European agriculture and food systems are strongly impacted by a large number of challenges such...

The initiative is located in the valley of Asni, at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains. In 2010, the family farms of the Tifawine cooperative decided to change their practices to improve the value of their orchards. Since this transition to agroecology, yields have increased by 27% and so...

A field robot autonomously hoed sugar beet for the first time in the canton of Thurgau. And FiBL filmmaker Thomas Alföldi was right there with his video camera. First he filmed the robot from all angles, sent up his drone and then interviewed the farmer about his the material into a...

Este video muestra una historia de éxito del Corredor Seco Centroamericano, localizada en El Salvador donde la Asociación Almejas del Pacifíco es la responsable.

The recent upsurge in agricultural input prices has triggered considerable alarm about rising costs of food production, which in a free market economy will be typically passed onto consumers through higher food prices. Already, the impacts on prices are captured by the rising FAO Food Price Index (FFPI), which reached...

The Organic Farm Knowledge Platform provides practical information for organic farmers and advisors. Initially, the platform was set up to cover tools and information on organic arable farming, addressing current bottlenecks. In the past two years, materials on the feeding of monogastrics and seeds/breeding were added. Now the platform has...

The objective of this study was to characterize the Zaragoza pink bean production system in the Colombian Caribbean from the technical and economic point of view. A survey was randomly applied to 32 farmers in producing areas. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, measurements of central tendency and contingency...

The initiative is taking place in the Rabat region. The Zirâa Al Hayate "Seed of Life" cooperative in the Rabat region distributes plant products from 10 farms with agroecology practices. The cooperative's farms started their activities with agroecology techniques in 2017.  The 10 participating farms of the cooperative are labeled Participatory...

Over the past decades, agriculture has become increasingly dependent on the use of herbicides and of pesticides. While they have contributed to boosting yields, herbicides can have negative effects on the environment, on biodiversity and also on human health. Therefore, the EU has more recently created policies which seek non-chemical...

En estudios previos, realizamos una colecta de raíces y suelos asociados a cultivos de ñame (Dioscorea rotundata Poir) en la región Caribe de Colombia, de los cuales se lograron aislar e identificar varias cepas de Azotobacter chroococcum y Azotobacter vinelandii, que en estudios de laboratorio y casa de malla mostraron...

The region of Europe and Central Asia is an economic and agricultural powerhouse that boasts diverse cultures, agri-food systems and climatic zones, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today. This diversity, he added, provides opportunities to share experience and good practices within the region and beyond, but to tap this potential...