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Herbal treatment of chronic diarrhoea in cattle and small ruminants
Chronic diarrhoea in grazing animals is common in tropical livestock. Infection by bacteria and virus lead to diarrhoea. Use of antibiotics is costly and has residual effects through milk and meat. The traditional use of Chebulic myrobalan (Terminali chebula) along with curd from cow or goat milk is an effective...
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Conférence/Réunion
Building farmers capacity in the context of urbanization - Political pedagogies for urban agroecology
Farmer-to-farmer learning is a pillar of the food sovereignty and agroecology movements, enabling territorially-specific learning and alliance-building to support farmers’ livelihoods and broader socio-political transformations. Most accounts of experiences in this field are based on rural contexts and rural farm models. However, the broadening food sovereignty and agroecology movement is...
2021 - Urbanising in place project
Rapport
The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas: A Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean 2021-2022
The health, economic and social crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic also offers opportunities for rebuilding and transformation that will strengthen resilience and reduce or prevent future crises. Transformative actions will need to take into account the central role and importance of ensuring prosperous and inclusive AFSs and rural territories, given...
2021 - Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
Note/document d'orientation
UN and humanitarian partners scale up life-saving response to crisis in Afghanistan and call on all donors to urgently turn pledges into reality
UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs in Afghanistan are in a race against time to deliver lifesaving aid to crisis-affected people and preposition supplies ahead of winter.
Millions of people in Afghanistan have been deeply affected by decades of conflict and displacement, chronic poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic, a severe drought, a failing...
Afghanistan
2021 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Article de blog
How sustainable farms in Italy are improving animal welfare and our food systems
More than 40 million tonnes of meat is produced in the continent each year for human consumption.
As a result, animals can pay a tough price in the system to meet demand - with intensive farming conditions making livestock more prone to diseases.
At least 20% of livestock production is lost globally,...
European Union
2021 - EuroNews
Rapport
Los pueblos indígenas y tribales y la gobernanza de los bosques
Una oportunidad para la acción climática en América Latina y el Caribe
El informe que aquí se presenta, producto de una amplia revisión de la evidencia científica, explica esta situación y presenta un conjunto de medidas prioritarias para ser implementadas por los gobiernos y los organismos internacionales en estrecha colaboración con los pueblos indígenas y tribales. Demuestra que el conjunto de condiciones...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Leafy Greens and Vegetables in Ethiopia
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Ethiopia
2021
Fiche d'information
Componente ambiental: pasturas (Magathyrsus maximus cv. Agrosavia Sabanera)
Gramínea forrajera con adaptación a las condiciones de la región Caribe de Colombia. Alta producción y calidad nutricional del forraje y mayor preferencia animal. Agrosavia Sabanera presenta floración temprana y alta producción de semilla viable, lo que permite una mayor cobertura del suelo. En el departamento de Córdoba la producción...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Étude de cas
From the countryside with love
Combating food insecurity in Peru with ancestral solidarity during the COVID-19 crisis
Huamani Cardenas lives in Lima, but is originally from Conayca, a rural town of roughly 1 300 people in the central highlands of Peru. When he received a delivery of fresh food from his hometown, he was thrilled. “I sincerely thank the authorities of Conayca for thinking of us,” he...
Peru
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Conférence/Réunion
Localized Routes to Market - Understanding the Community Benefits of Local Organic Food
One of our food system's main challenges is the inadequate relationship between the cost of production and production factors as a whole. Therefore, food production and distribution systems are often at a disadvantage to local producers.
New research reveals the benefits for farmers and growers, local suppliers, citizens, and the environment...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2021 - New Economics Foundation (NEF), Growing Communities, Soil Association
Article de blog
Solutions to Food Insecurity Top Agenda in Meeting of Small Island Developing States
The urgency of finding solutions to the most pressing development challenges of our times has increased as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to reverse the global momentum in recent years toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And small island developing states (SIDS), with their physical remoteness, restricted land and resources...
2021 - Inter Press Service
Ouvrage
Social Panorama of Latin America 2020
This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America examines the social impact of an unprecedented crisis. The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have spread to all areas of human life, altering the way we interact, crippling economies and bringing about profound changes in societies. The pandemic has...
2021 - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Directives
The Farmer-led Irrigation Development Guide: A what, why and how-to for intervention design
Irrigation has multiple benefits for farmers. It allows for early-season planting, production of an additional crop in the dry season and crop diversification, and enables farmers to cope with dry spells in the wet season. Individually or in groups, farmers have, for centuries, introduced, expanded and optimized their irrigated production...
2021 - World Bank Group
Ouvrage
Fruits and Nuts of Ethiopia
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Ethiopia
2021
Article de revue spécialisée
South Africa: The Relic of Apartheid
A research report uncovers the historical injustice meted out to Indian-origin subsistence fishers in South Africa who have to deal with the restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, the South African government declared COVID-19 a national disaster under the Disaster Management Act No. 57 of 2002. This...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Rapport
Cómo fortalecer el agrobanco y el financiamiento agropecuario: una visión productivista
Este documento ha sido elaborado con base en el Informe final de la propuesta de fortalecimiento y modernización de la gestión del Agrobanco, con enfoque en la inclusión financiera de la agricultura familiar, que es producto de la acción de cooperación técnica entre la Representación Perú del Instituto Interamericano de...
Peru
2021 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Article
Niyat, change with a woman’s face
Niyat innovative project is financed by European Union, supported and monitored by Slow Food and implemented by Fundación Gran Chaco with its team of professionals. One of its axes is the production of food to cover the basic needs of families as well as trying to have surpluses that can be marketed and improve their livelihoods.
The food component of the Niyat project currently reaches about 40 families and will reach 120 in the next two years. Each family is a multiplying nucleus that aims to reach 2,400 families in total through trainings carried out in different formats.
Argentina
2021 - Slow Food
Audio
Prepararse para exportar, algo posible
La exportación de productos agroalimentarios de nuestra América juega un papel muy importante en la seguridad alimentaria de la Región y del mundo; y puede contribuir fuertemente a la reactivación económica post Covid-19. En este comercio internacional existen oportunidades para la producción de pequeña y mediana escala, pero hay que...
2021 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Food Plants of Guinea-Conakry
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Guinea
2021
Rapport
Big Food in Africa: Endangering people’s health
Nearly 33 million households on the African continent are involved in smallholder farming. Smallholder farmers have long supplied Africans with safe and healthy foods, making Africa's diets among the healthiest on the planet.1 The situation, however, is changing. Multinational corporations are aggressively trying to take over food systems in Africa (and...
2021 - AFSA
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