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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Ibrahima, an organic farmer from Senegal
Conventional agriculture contributes to global warming while organic enables carbon sequestration in soil. It's a powerful way to become more resilient to climate change.” Meet Ibrahima working with over 157,000 people to promote organic agriculture in Senegal
Senegal
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
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SOIL AND CIVILIZATION: SUSTAINING FARMING FOR THE FUTURE
The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography invites you to join the 2020 Vega Symposium, on the topic of Soil and Civilization.
Soil is a defining characteristic of physical geography. It’s presence, absence, and character helps shape landscapes around the world. And though soil is the foundation for both ecology and human civilizations,...
Sweden
2020 - The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
Article de blog
Call for adaptation of COVID-19 measures in pastoral areas
7 May 2020: During the current coronavirus crisis, many African governments have enforced lockdowns: halting public life, disrupting supply chains and closing markets. The governments want to flatten the curve of infection with the virus so as to prevent the public healthcare systems from being completely overwhelmed by huge flows of...
2020 - Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)
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Measuring the return on investment into agricultural technologies for disaster risk reduction: rice cultivation with guano fertilizer
This technology describes the outcomes of a cost-benefit analysis on rice cultivation with guano fertilizer that was conducted based on quantitative data collected during a monitoring period in both the 2015 wet season and the 2016 dry season.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Document technique
Legal considerations in responses to COVID-19 to mitigate the risk of disruption to fisheries and aquaculture food systems
This brief identifies some of the areas that governments have intervened through emergency law to strengthen a resilient fisheries and aquaculture food supply chains and illustrates how these regulatory measures can be adopted by other countries thereby contribute to ensuring food security and economic development for all especially the indigenous...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
Management of self-recruiting species in aquaculture
In farmer-managed aquatic systems, poor people do not always have the resources to stock ponds with different fish species. Furthermore, in the dry season, water bodies dry out and access to food sources becomes limited. Self-recruiting species (SRS) are animals that do not require repeated stocking in farmer-managed systems and...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Trainer's guide to control blowfly infestation of traditionally processed fish
Blowfly infestation of traditionally processed fish is a serious problem that results in significant physical and economic losses. It also leads to the unregulated use of inappropriate and hazardous insecticides by fish processors in some developing countries. This manual provides guidance on the biology of blowfly infestation and its control....
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Rattan pole steam bending
Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrate poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. The following technology covers the advantages of using the steam-bending technique instead of the...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Smallholders and family farms in Armenia
The background for conducting country studies on the challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in seven countries has been a wish to further strengthen the Regional Initiative and develop the initiative towards a stronger programmatic approach at both the regional and country levels. To provide support to...
Armenia
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
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Ganadería y Agricultura Regenerativa
Considerando el estado actual e importancia de América Latina, nuestra estrategia trabaja en la transformación de paisajes agropecuarios.
Los sistemas agrícolas regenerativos buscan mejorar las condiciones de la naturaleza al tiempo que garantizan la demanda de agua y alimento para las personas, genera beneficios como una mayor resiliencia climática de los...
2020 - The Nature Conservancy
Article de blog
Global organic area continues to grow
Over 71.5 million hectares of farmland are organic
2018 was another record year for global organic agriculture. According to the latest FiBL survey on organic agriculture worldwide, organic farmland increased by 2.0 million hectares, and organic retail sales also continued to grow, reaching another all-time high, as shown by the data from 186 countries (data as of the...
2020 - FIBL
Article de blog
Land consolidation is the missing link for farmers in North Macedonia
Coming from a family with a long tradition in agriculture, Ljupco Angelovski, a young family farmer in the village of Egri, North Macedonia, wanted to modernise his farm when he took it over from his parents. His land, however, was fragmented into 15 tiny plots scattered in different locations.
North Macedonia
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
Towards an Observatory of Agriculture within the Indian Ocean region
06/04/2020: Defining and implementing a regional observatory of agricultures within the Indian Ocean is one of the key projects of the PRéRAD-OI (Plateforme Régionale de Recherche en Agronomie pour le Développement dans l’Océan Indien – Regional platform of Agricultural Research for the Indian Ocean development). This project is supported by the Indian...
Madagascar - Mauritius - Réunion
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Covid Response
Overview
In a state of crisis, there is a tipping point which either breaks us or transforms us. It's the difference between surviving and thriving. There is perhaps no other time in our recent history where we have had a collective need to move towards resilience. Resilience is a skill we...
2020 - Development in Gardening (DIG)
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Family farmers key agents of sustainable development (UNDFF, 2019–2028)
The Family Farming Initiative (FFI), developed under the UNDFF framework, builds on the premise that appropriate investment, policies and programmes are needed to support family farming as a concrete way to achieve national SDG targets and indicators. The FFI will help countries to: improve family farming policies, programmes and investments...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Guía para el funcionamiento de Huertos Escolares
El Programa Integral de Nutrición Escolar (PINE-MINED) en conjunto con el programa en el marco de la Seguridad Alimentaria Nutricional Nacional (FAO/PESANN), Nicaragua, desde junio 2006, han validado la metodología de Huertos Escolares con enfoque educativo de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN), de los escolares y sus familias. Este material...
Nicaragua
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Shortened bush-fallow rotations and sustainable rural livelihood
In Ghana, increased population pressure and the need to cultivate greater land area have resulted in reduced fallow periods. As a consequence, the restoration of soil fertility is insufficient to allow recovery of secondary forest and rejuvenation of exhausted soils. Fallows are of ecological, economic and social importance to rural...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
Malnutrition surges among young children in Yemen as conditions worsen
Acute malnutrition rates among children under five are the highest ever recorded in parts of Yemen, with more than half a million cases in southern districts, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Malnutrition analysis released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
Yemen
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Article de blog
Alternatives aux pesticides chimiques : 24 organismes de recherche européens s’engagent sur une feuille de route ambitieuse
Mobiliser les efforts de recherche pour accélérer la transition agroécologique répond à une forte demande des pouvoirs publics, des professionnels et de la société, en France comme en Europe. Pour faire face à ce défi majeur, repenser la manière dont la recherche doit être conduite et développer une stratégie commune...
2020 - INRA
Pratiques
La gestion des mauvaises herbes en agriculture biologique
Les agriculteurs biologiques accordent la priorité absolue à la prévention de l'introduction et de la multiplication des mauvaises herbes. Les pratiques de gestion visent à garder la population de mauvaises herbes à un niveau qui n'entraîne pas une perte économique de la culture et ne nuit pas à sa qualité....
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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