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Pratiques
Water management in organic agriculture
This practice describes how to manage water in organic agriculture. It provides in depth techniques on how to keep water in the soil ranging from keeping soil moisture to evaporation reduction and how to make better use of seasonal rainfall. Water management also encompasses how to harvest water through a...
Thailand
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Sustainable impact generation and technology promotion to manage Bemisia Tabaci and tomato leaf curl virus disease
In India, tomato is both a high value crop, often exported to the Middle East, and an important subsistence vegetable grown mainly by women. Tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV) and its whitefly vector, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.), are two of the most serious constraints to tomato production in India. When populations...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Plátano FHIA-21, un plátano para mercados nacionales
El híbrido FHIA-21 es un plátano tipo francés, que fue desarrollado en 1987. En la actualidad, se encuentra en producción comercial en Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, entre otros países. Se consume en estado verde hervido o frito, o maduro.
Honduras
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Rapport
Preserving African food value chains in the midst of the coronavirus crisis
In light of the uncertainties surrounding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, policy makers must ensure that national responses to the virus do not trigger a food crisis. The Covid-19 outbreak can shift the balance between food demand and supply, especially considering many countries having declared lockdowns and their borders closed. Countries...
2020 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Pratiques
Local poultry programmed hatching management trainer’s guide
The main target group is para-veterinarians involved in the development of small poultry farm at village level. The intention is that the paravets will extract from the manual the materials they need for training.
Uganda
2020
Article de revue spécialisée
Peru: Reboot Overdue
Small-scale fishworkers face many challenges in Peru but the government pays little attention to the informal and uncontrolled sector. Peru’s marine waters are among the world’s richest fisheries. This is mainly due to the Peruvian anchovy fishery (anchoveta), mostly run by industrial operations producing yields of 3-6 million tonnes per year...
Peru
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de blog
Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate
Increasing demands for agricultural commodities are resulting in more intensely managed landscapes. This is at odds with biodiversity conservation and largely ignores farmland biodiversity’s supporting function for high and stable yields.
An overhaul of agroeconomic models to account for the biodiversity-production mutualism is urgently needed to answer a question of utmost...
2020
Ouvrage
World Food and Agriculture - Statistical Yearbook 2020
This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs and factors of production, their implications for food security and nutrition and their impacts on the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Traitement bio des vignes par drone (Cave Florian Besse, Martigny Croix VS)
Mélanie Besse, jeune viticultrice valaisanne de 26 ans, est ainsi l’une des premières professionnelles – et la seule femme - en Suisse à traiter elle-même, selon un programme bio, l’ensemble de son domaine de 4,5 hectares de vignes en terrasses au drone. Nous avons suivi ce chantier exceptionnel lors du...
France
2020 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
Article
El boom de ventas de los bolsones de frutas y verduras durante la cuarentena
Crecen los pedidos a las cooperativas agroecológicas
Los pedidos a los productores de la economía popular aumentaron entre el 40 y el 80 por ciento, dependiendo de la organización. El caso de Mercado Territorial, una comercializadora que creció aliada a la Universidad de Quilmes, con una consigna que hoy cobra un valor extra: que la construcción de...
Argentina
2020 - Pagina 12
Note/document d'orientation
Anticipating the impacts of COVID-19 in humanitarian and food crisis contexts
While the COVID-19 pandemic is devastating lives, public health systems, livelihoods and economies all over the world, populations living in food crisis contexts are particularly exposed to its effects.
Countries with existing humanitarian crises are particularly exposed to the effects of the pandemic, which is already directly affecting food systems through...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
Development and promotion of wild rice management strategies
Rice is the second most important cereal crop in Tanzania after maize and the majority of rice farmers depend on it both for food and as a cash crop. However, highly competitive annual and perennial wild rice species have been identified as one of the important constraints to rice production...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
Trying it yourself
Helping to write a script for a farmer training video on vermiwash triggered my interest in trying it out myself, as I began to wonder if ideas from tropical India could work in temperate Belgium.
India
2020 - Agroinsight
Article de revue
Análisis económico para diferentes escenarios de comercialización de semillas fiscalizadas de soja
Argentina es el primer país exportador mundial de harina y aceite de soja, con ingresos promedio de 19.000 millones de dólares anuales. En la última campaña, 2019/2020, se sembraron 17,2 millones de hectáreas y se cosecharon 50,7 millones de toneladas de soja (https://www.bcr.com.ar /es/mercados/gea/estimaciones-naciona les-de-produccion/estimaciones). La cadena productiva de la...
Argentina
2020 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Pratiques
Mulching in organic agriculture
Mulching is the process of covering the topsoil with plant material such as leaves, grass, twigs, crop residues, straw etc. A mulch cover enhances the activity of soil organisms such as earthworms. They help to create a soil structure with plenty of smaller and larger pores through which rainwater can...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Use of salt-tolerant rice varieties to counteract impacts of sea surges and saltwater intrusion
The objective of this practice was to focus on the suitability and replication potential of salt-tolerant rice varieties as alternatives in saline impacted areas, and thus contribute to the region’s resilience and food security. The Philippines is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. More than 200 climate-related natural...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Making farm inputs available in small size packages to increase farmers' yields
Farm inputs such as improved seeds, fertilizers, and herbicides are conventionally packaged in large bag sizes that are beyond the financial means of small farmers. The technology demonstrates ways of mobilizing the private sector to make small quantities of appropriate inputs available in mini-packs. It also demonstrates novel ways of...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
Learning to teach
A really good teacher will teach you both subject matter and how to explain it to others. Elías Sánchez mentored thousands of Central Americans in organic agriculture. He started his adult life as a rural schoolteacher because he wanted to help people. But he soon realized that rural people needed...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - Agroinsight
Pratiques
Water management in the mountain: Kuhl irrigation
In mountain areas, water continues to be a scarce commodity not only for irrigation purposes but even for drinking and other domestic uses. These challenges are encountered very frequently in India. These difficulties are present, inspite of the fact that important rivers namely the Sutlez, Beas, Ravi and their tributaries...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vidéos
Custodians of Life: Reviving Culture and Nature in Uganda’s Great Lakes
This is a story of hope and decolonisation in a time of crises.
The Indigenous Bagungu People of western Uganda have lived along the shores of Itaka Mwitanzige (Lake Albert) since time immemorial.
But for over a century, colonialism and globalisation have damaged and repressed both the Bagungu's traditional, Earth-centred culture and...
Uganda
2020 - The Gaia Foundation
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