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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
Introductory Booklet
It is crucial to reconnect the UNDROP to the small-scale food producers worldwide – the same people who inspired its content, who worked on its development and whose Rights to dignified lives and livelihoods continues to be violated. This training toolkit will help us to effectively use the UNDROP in...
2021 - La Via Campesina (LVC)
Rapport
Report on monitoring schemes and data collection on biodiversity for food and agriculture in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Biodiversity protection encompasses key aspects directly related to the sustainability of our food systems: BFA provides a diverse and heterogenous biological basis for diverse and resilient production systems, for the pollination of cultures, for increased diversity of food, and is strongly linked to local and indigenous knowledge on local crops...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Partie d’un ouvrage
Estado actual de los recursos zoogenéticos en Colombia y su estrategia de consolidación
Los recursos zoogenéticos se componen de especies de animales que la sociedad utiliza o puede utilizar para la producción de alimentos, bienes o servicios. Estos recursos genéticos constituyen una parte importante y estratégica del patrimonio biológico de un país, son la materia prima para los programas de selección y mejoramiento...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Article de blog
Learn to grow vegetables in the winter: two Greenresilient factsheets published
Growing fresh winter vegetables in Central and Northern European greenhouses without heating is a good example of low-input food production, with a small environmental footprint. It utilises the frost resistance leafy crops instead of wasting energy and resources through intensive greenhouse production with heating and artificial lighting or long transportation...
2021 - CORE Organic Cofund
Rapport
Foodscapes
Toward Food System Transition
This report introduces foodscapes. Foodscapes are the geographical components of the global food system, a combination of production system and place that represents the world food system spatially. Mapping and analyzing foodscapes reveal the transitions needed on the ground to meet this century’s most pressing challenge: the threats posed by...
2021 - The Nature Conservancy
Document technique
Dock Control Combining the best methods for successful control
The two main dock species broad-leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius) and curly dock (Rumex crispus L.) are a problem for many organic farms in most areas. Although docks are not specifically an ‘organic’ problem, management on organic farms without recourse to herbicides can be particularly challenging. To date, there is no...
2021 - Fibl, Organic Research Centre
Article de blog
Letter From The Farm | Three Years In: Realism And Planning For Utopia
Back on Chiara Garini’s forest farm at the foot of the Italian Alps. Three years in, her mushroom farm and forest garden is at a crossroads: should she expand or diversify? In any case Chiara is determined to bring utopia into her business plan, and tells us about an exciting...
Italy
2021 - Arc2020
Étude de cas
The fruits and vegetables value chain: a women’s world?
The women food heroes at the core of the supply chain in Guyana
Whether it is in Anna Regina, Georgetown or Corriverton, Guyana’s markets are traditionally dominated by female vendors. Be it fresh fruits and vegetables or agro-processed products, their stalls display abundance and variety. The vendors’ melodious chants soar above the usual market hustle and bustle: A“What are you getting today, love?” floats...
Guyana
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Heritability and genetic trends for growth characteristics in Romosinuano creole cattle
The heritability and genetic trends were estimated for birth weight, weaning and 16 months of age of Colombian Creole roe cattle Romosinuano, in order to identify the genetic variability of the three characters. 4032 records from 5616 animals, including parents and descendants, obtained in the period from 1943 to 2018...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Article
Response-to-Failure Analysis of Global Food System Initiatives: A Resilience Perspective
International food system initiatives have led the efforts to combat the threats to global food security resulting from the failure of the current food systems. This study set out to investigate and assess the contributions of global food system initiatives in tackling the food system challenges. In assessing the food...
2021
Rapport
EIP-AGRI Focus Group Sustainable beef production systems
The Focus Group (FG) on sustainable beef production was launched in 2020 as part of the activities carried out under the European Innovation Partnership 'Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability' (EIP-AGRI). The main question for this Focus Group was “How can grass-based* beef production systems, based on agroecology principles, remain sustainable?”. Beef...
European Union
2021 - EIP Agri Agricultur & Innovation
Article de blog
FAO continues supporting small-scale investments in Tajikistan’s agriculture
With the aim to ensure inclusive economic growth by supporting the most vulnerable families in rural areas of Tajikistan, the signing ceremony of the matching grant agreements and cash distribution takes place these days in Tajikistan’s western Yovon district. The initiative was supported by FAO and the local authority of...
Tajikistan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Note/document d'orientation
Fall armyworm management in Southern Africa
Fall armyworm is an invasive pest that arrived in Africa in 2016, leading to extensive use of toxic chemical pesticides as an emergency response.
African smallholders’ fields already have natural enemies effectively controlling fall armyworm.
IPM strategies integrates agroecological approaches such as crop diversification and targeted pesticide use.
Governments should prioritize biological control...
2021 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Apprentissage en ligne
Small-scale agricultural mechanization hire services as a business enterprise
This course aims to present the provision of farm mechanization services as a viable business opportunity, in an environmentally sensitive and responsible way. It introduces the benefits of mechanization for smallholder farmers, the role of hire services in farm mechanization and the characteristics of a hire service business, in the...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
Working with Estonian organic dairy farmers to set goals and improve health
In Estonia, organic production has recently developed rapidly and the share of organic land in the total agricultural area is approximately 23%. However, organic milk production has not increased, and many current farmers were also the pioneers from the start. Reasons for the relatively low proportion of organic dairy herds...
Estonia
2021 - CORE Organic Cofund
Pratiques
Huerto familiar integrado
La disponibilidad de alimentos es uno de los factores que condicionan la cantidad y calidad de productos que consume la familia, donde los niños, niñas y mujeres embarazadas, requieren de una dieta más variada. El huerto familiar integrado constituye una alternativa apropiada para que la familia produzca y consuma a...
Honduras
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Partie d’un ouvrage
Experiencia Agrosavia en Algodón (Gossypium hirsutum)
Evaluación del potencial biofertilizante de bacterias f ijadoras de nitrógeno sobre el cultivo bajo condiciones de invernadero
En el Centro de Investigación (ci) Motilonia, que pertenecía al Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ica), se centró la investigación en el algodón, cuando Agustín Codazzi (Cesar) era la ciudad blanca de Colombia. Alrededor de este cultivo estaban especialistas a nivel de doctorado y maestría, en todas las áreas del conocimiento. Fue...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Étude de cas
First floods, then desert locusts
Farmers in central Somalia cope with back-to-back threats
In December 2019, Cyclone Pawan hit Ali Mahamud Rubaax’s village of Dharkeynley in Beletweyne, central Somalia. The storm’s rain caused the river levels to reach their maximum, breaking their banks and overflowing into the village and surrounding areas leaving most of the town under water. About 182 000 people from this district...
Somalia
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
Eurasia joins Committee on World Food Security dialogue on gender equality for food security and nutrition
Two half-days of intense discussions started yesterday aiming to present and receive feedback on the draft Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women's and Girls' Empowerment in the context of food security and nutrition. More than 20 countries of Europe and Central Asia joined the virtual regional consultation, organized by...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
FAA denunció que, en el caso de los productos de las economías regionales, el precio pagado a los productores es de entre el 7,8% y el 26% del valor en góndola
Federación Agraria Argentina comparó el precio por kilo de diversos productos de las economías regionales de consumo habitual en las familias argentinas, con lo que perciben los pequeños y medianos agricultores que los producen.Claramente los productores no somos formadores de precios, por el contrario, somos perjudicados, tanto como los consumidores....
Argentina
2021 - Federación Agraria Argentina
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