The Mediterranean fruit fly is a worthy enemy. This pest, also known as the medfly, is widespread over the tropics, attacking and spoiling oranges, mangos and many other fruits. Each female can lay 200 eggs in her brief lifetime—allowing rapid population growth. The medfly damages so much high value fruit,...

Esta edición del boletín pone a disposición de sus usuarios un resumen de las principales fuentes y objetivos del financiamiento que se están implementando y discutiendo en el mundo y la región.

The new Commission starts its mandate with high ambitions thanks to the new European Green Deal. Our first objective is to make Europe climate neutral by 2050. But, this must be accompanied by much wider environmental initiatives, starting with a new EU Biodiversity Strategy. Adopted in April 2017, the EU...

It is estimated that the total number of small farms in Southern European (SE) countries has decreased by 33% between 2010 and 2019. This loss is despite the widespread acknowledgement and appreciation of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity and maintaining traditional landscapes,...

América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) es una región gran exportadora de alimentos, los que se destinan en un 87% a otras regiones del mundo. El comercio intra-regional es mínimo. Las exportaciones de alimentos del Caribe ascienden a USD 1 300 y menos del 4% permanece dentro de la subregión, en...

El flyer sobre las “Reseñas de Agricultura Familiar” proporcionan información útil sobre implementación de políticas públicas, perspectiva de las organizaciones de productores y desarrollo de innovaciones. El flyer quiere presentar las Reseñas de Agricultura Familiar que han sido producido por los varios paises.

La mise en place de pépinières d’arbres, des terrains où l’on plante de jeunes arbres qu’on cultive jusqu’à ce qu’ils puissent être transplantés, pourraient satisfaire la demande croissante de populations en Afrique orientale qui se trouvent confronter à l’épuisement de ressources arbustes. Ces populations dépendent de forêts et d’arbres pour...

Most farmers in Bangladesh depend on subsistence farming with extremely small landholdings. Great parts of Bangladesh are flooded every year and to a large extent agriculture systems have been adapted to this normal flooding. However, besides normal peak floods in July and August and late floods extending in September, early...

Urea Molasses Blocks (UMB) are a high protein concentrated feed source that supplies Non-Protein Nitrogen (NPN) to rumen microbes. The blocks also contain important minerals and vitamins. UMB are a good way of providing readily degradable protein and fermentable energy to ruminant animals. They help increase the protein supply to...

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of today’s global food systems, and the risk of a food crisis is higher than ever. Yet the failures of industrial food production have long been clear; manifest in persistent global hunger and malnutrition as well as environmental destruction that is driving the...

Tomato production can be time consuming especially when it is done to produce and keep small amounts of seeds from several varieties. It is nevertheless important to produce and preserve seeds from interesting varieties which are well adapted to your production system and environment. In a trial conducted over two...

Las pérdidas y desperdicio de alimentos impactan en la sostenibilidad de los sistemas agroalimentarios, la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. El equipo de docentes de la Cátedra de Sistemas Cultivos Intensivos, del Área Horticultura de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la UNR, estudió para el cinturón hortícola de Rosario, los...

Ante la crisis global generada por la COVID-19, la organización de los agricultores y agricultoras familiares en cooperativas (o figuras colaborativas similares) puede ser clave para hacer frente a los retos del futuro. El Foro Rural Mundial - FRM lanza una nueva iniciativa con el objetivo de promover el cooperativismo y asociativismo agrario,...

La última información disponible, a partir de un proveedor de datos privado, muestra que en la mayoría de los países de América Latina y el Caribe el cambio porcentual de los precios de los alimentos, entre el 10 de abril y el 10 de mayo, no ha sido homogéneo. En...

Despite the raise of awareness on the use of pesticides during the last 30 years, pesticide industries grew up thanks to the lack of information about the real damage these products could cause on the environment, human health and on producers’ incomes. The lack of knowledge using large and small...

The following describes the preservation by solar drying of perishable fruits and vegetables. It highlights the features of solar drying as well as its advantages and disadvantages. These include labour saving, livelihood resilience strengthening, equipment, cost, skills, risk and infrastructure.   Description Many perishable fruits and vegetables, such as raisins, prunes, and yams...

Small-stocks play a particularly important role in many forest margin farming systems. A range of simple management strategies, techniques and interventions allow for improved productivity and better integration of animals into these farming systems. In particular, these interventions benefit poorer farmers. In addition to on-farm participatory research activities, a series...

Growing concerns relating to land degradation, threat to eco-systems from over and inappropriate use of inorganic fertilizers, atmospheric pollution, soil health, soil biodiversity, and sanitation have rekindled the global interest in organic recycling practices, like composting. The potential of composting to turn on-farm waste materials into a farm resource makes...

Publicación virtual de un nuevo número de Yemaya, la revista del CIAPA sobre el género en la pesca, en castellano. El último número de Yemaya (núm.61), la revista del Colectivo Internacional de Apoyo al Pescador Artesanal (CIAPA) sobre temas de género en la pesca, publicado en inglés en agosto de 2020,...

Our well-being is highly dependent on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides. Yet the loss of soil biodiversity is considered one of the main global threats to soils in many regions of the world. If an enabling environment is built, soil biodiversity could be a nature-based solution to many...