The biochar fertilizer provides not only nutrients to crops, but also microclimate favourable conditions for plants growth, mostly during the dry season. Materials used to make this biochar fertilizer is locally sourced from crop residues form beans, maize, ground nuts, coffee husks, residues of fodder, assorted plants rich in NPK...

Millions of people in Myanmar are expected to become hungry over the coming six months as food insecurity is predicted to rise sharply and plunge the country into a food crisis. In the wake of political and financial instability, an increasing number of people are facing uncertainty as job losses...

Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing its environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many of the costs of harmful foods are externalized, i.e. are not reflected in market prices. At the...

Belarus and Ukraine have high forest covers that provide a fundamental contribution to the wellbeing of rural populations and the national economy. To protect these forests for future generations, a new FAO project, launched today with a virtual inception workshop, will help increase the resilience of forest ecosystems against unfavourable...

En el marco del 2º Congreso Chileno de Agroecología 2021, Francisco Carvallo, investigador del programa Manejo Territorial de Insectos (MTI), presentó la ponencia "Experiencia en terreno sobre manejo sostenible de Varroasis en apiarios de la región de Valparaíso"; relato que compartió el acompañamiento con apicultores de Quillota y Olmué, a...

La diversidad entre individuos se debe a variaciones en las secuencias de adn entre ellos y a factores ambientales. Estas variaciones de adn son el resultado de mutaciones, inserciones, deleciones, duplicaciones o inversiones del material hereditario. Aunque en el pasado los estudios con polimorfismos bioquímicos fueron las herramientas de elección...

Los perforadores del fruto ocasionan daños en los cultivos de cacao en diferentes zonas de Colombia. El costo de establecimiento de un sistema agroforestal de cacao demanda en el primer año la mayor inversión. Estos son en mano de obra, materiales y suministros, dado que se requiere adecuar el terreno,...

Incrementa su población en los cultivos cuando hay exceso de sombrío. Temperatura y humedad altas. Mal manejo de arvenses. Los adultos y las ninfas del insecto producen lesiones necróticas circulares de color pardo oscuro. Se hunden y provocan malformaciones. Reducción del tamaño y detención del crecimiento: Sobre todo en frutos...

Specific mate communication and recognition underlies reproduction and hence speciation. Mate communication evolves during adaptation to ecological niches and makes use of social signals and habitat cues. Our study provides new insights in Drosophila melanogaster premating olfactory communication, showing that female pheromone (Z)-4-undecenal (Z4-11Al) and male pheromone cVA interact with...

Tephrosia pesticide can be used to controlling pests such as Army worm, Aphids, and Mites. Tephrosia plant grows naturally in most parts of Uganda, it is a legume with pods and seeds that are easy to germinate. The leaves of Tephrosia are quite hard in texture and even difficult to pound, therefore some water can...

Measures adopted around the world to contain the COVID-19 outbreak helped curb the spread of the virus and lowered the pressure on health systems. However, they also affected the global trading system, and the supply and demand of agricultural and food products. In response to concerns over food security and...

Small-scale farmers can play an important role in establishing long-term food systems. But, as Sabrina Elba, UN Goodwill Ambassador for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, explains, additional investment is required. She tells a story about the importance of agriculture based on her recent trips to Sierra Leone. She explained,...

This review of the agroecology debate in South Africa is part of the research project ''Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems: a case for policy support (TAFS)'' launched in 2020. Its main objective is to provide policymakers and stakeholders with convincing arguments about the importance and adapted ways of promoting agroecological transitions...

On 5 December 2017 the United Nations General Assembly, in its annual resolution on sustainable fisheries, proclaimed 5 June as the International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing. The date marks a historic event, namely the day when the Agreement on Port State Measures entered...

La tendencia hacia cambios en los regímenes hídricos, alteraciones en la estabilidad y composición de los suelos y, en general, el cambio climático han generado efectos importantes en la productividad de los sistemas agrícolas, lo que ha requerido un aumento en el uso de agroquímicos de síntesis para lograr las...

Monilia es la enfermedad más importante del cultivo de cacao. En frutos menores a 60 días, forma protuberancias conocidas como gibas. Después de tres a siete días de la aparición de la mancha: Se forma un micelio blanco o crema que cubre gradualmente esta área. Se forma una masa densa...

Highlights of the month New approvals in May: USD 86 million.  Largest approved project in May: “Support for critical Desert Locust control operations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan,” funded by the European Union for USD 9.5 million. In total 12 countries have contributed to Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF) projects so far, with an average value of USD...

La nosémose est une maladie globale qui se caractérise par une diarrhée chez les abeilles adultes. Elle semble avoir un fort impact sur le secteur apicole, surtout lorsqu'elle est associée à d'autres agents pathogènes (varroase, virose, amibiase, etc.) ou à des polluants environnementaux (pesticides). La nosémose est causée par le...

This video was developed by the Coalition on Agroecology for the UNFSS. It highlighted the essential role of adopting agroecological practices to ensure global food security. The video also stressed the importance of government's role in creating and adopting bold policies that will support agroecological conservation, help in combatting biodiversity...

Did you know that most of the world uses the same two words for tea? One variation is the one used in English (tea), French (thé), Spanish (té) and Dutch (thee). The other is a variation of chá (in Mandarin and Cantonese), such as chai in Hindi, shay in Arabic...