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Join an interactive network of policy makers interested in making our food systems sustainable in the face of current global challenges. Through this network you will have the opportunity to meet, learn and get inspired by other policy makers via peer-to-peer exchanges. Share your experiences, get to know the evidence...
2020 - Biovision
Article de blog
A Delicious Story Made of Chocolate
Did you know that chocolate is obtained from beans extracted from the fruit of a tree called Theobroma cacao? The fruits are yellow or deep red pods that contain beans covered with a sweet-bitter pulp. Cacao originated in the Amazon region and, for this reason, South America has the highest...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Note/document d'orientation
Migrant workers and the COVID-19 pandemic
The policy brief reviews the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants working in agri-food systems and their families in rural areas of origin. It points out some of the policy implications and presents key policy recommendations. Measures affecting the movement of people (internally and internationally) and resulting labour shortages,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
Introduction to organic agriculture
Organic agriculture is an integrated production management system that promotes and enhances agroecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It emphasizes the use of natural inputs (i.e. mineral and products derived from plants) and the renunciation of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Slope agriculture land technology (SALT)
The objective of implementing the slope agriculture land technology (SALT) is to stabilize the slope and improve the terrace or the contours in order to control soil erosion along the slopes and improve soil fertility. This practice describes how to implement the SALT method.
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Draught animal power technologies in East Africa
The technology was developed in collaboration with farmers in the Teso farming system of Uganda. It comprises of the development of appropriate animal-drawn implements, primarily for weeding but also for ridging (sweet potatoes), line planting and lifting (groundnuts). These implements are now being manufactured locally. Impact assessments showed that adoption...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
France: A resolute mussel farmer
Amélie Dennebouy has challenged gender stereotypes to become a successful mussel entrepreneur in Pénestin, France. “ We don’t employ women!” Just how many times Amélie Dennebouy, a mussel farm worker, heard that phrase since she began working in the sector at age 17, it would be impossible to say. “Ten years...
France
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de revue spécialisée
France: Crashing the Blue Party
Confronted with plans for an offshore wind farm, the fishers of the Bay of Saint Brieuc in France are clamouring for their rights to be respected and guaranteed. It is important to highlight that the millions of people who, to this day, still rely on ocean space for their lives and...
France
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Partie d’un ouvrage
Agricultores hortícolas de la región Caribe de Colombia: perspectiva fitosanitaria
Dentro de la construcción de la línea de base tecnológica y socioeconómica de la producción de hortalizas, se consideró como uno de los elementos más importantes que afecta la competitividad y la inocuidad de los productos hortícolas la presencia de plagas en el sentido amplio, lo cual afecta la sanidad...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Article de revue spécialisée
A population-based approach to study the effects of growth and division rates on the dynamics of cell size statistics
The dynamics of the size distribution in growing and dividing rod-shaped bacteria can change depending on the perspective through which the cell population is observed. From the perspective of single-cell lineages, only one descendant is followed after each division, while in population snapshots all of the offspring is considered. In...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Note/document d'orientation
Social Protection and COVID-19 response in rural areas
Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 include strong restrictions of movement which dramatically change daily lives and impact agricultural livelihoods. These measures are particularly difficult for the rural poorest and most vulnerable, who tend to hold jobs and occupations which cannot be performed remotely. Many of the world’s poor...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Coronavirus y monoculturalidad: las pandemias para los Pueblos Indígenas
A través de este documento, nos interesa proponer una reflexión crítica en torno a la situación actual de impacto mundial de la pandemia del Coronavirus o Covid-19 y su relación con la vida y territorios indígenas, frente a la cual ha quedado en evidencia una serie de situaciones que, a...
Chile
2020 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Pratiques
La fabrication de cossettes et de farine de banane
Les bananes sont l’aliment de base des populations dans de nombreuses régions d’Afrique de l’Est. Elles constituent une bonne source de potassium, lequel intervient dans l’équilibre des fluides du corps et un aliment idéal pour les enfants en bas âge, les invalides et les personnes atteintes par le VIH/sida. En...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Natural vegetative strips
Natural vegetative strips (NVS) are narrow live barriers comprising naturally occurring grasses and herbs. Wide strips are left unploughed to allow vegetation to grow and to slow surface runoff. Natural terraces form over time as a result of the eroded soil accumulation on the strips. The vegetation on the established...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Ecologically-based and sustainable rodent control strategies
Rodents consume food in the field as well as in storage. Their contamination of stored food and ability to spread diseases causes them to cut across both the natural resources and health sectors. Research in Mozambique and in South Africa found that people have little understanding of the ecology of...
Mozambique - South Africa
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de revue spécialisée
Home gardens’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México
Home gardens (HGs) are hotspots of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. We conducted a case study in Tabasco, México, on HG owners’ knowledge of HG ecological, economical and socio-cultural multifunctionality and how it relates to agrobiodiversity as measured by species richness and diversity. The term multifunctionality knowledge refers to owners’ knowledge...
Mexico
2020 - Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Événement
Conversatorio mujeres y agricultura familiar Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
Las mujeres rurales enfrentan grandes brechas y barreras en la región en materia de acceso y control de activos rurales como la tierra y los capitales financieros; de distribución y de reconocimiento del trabajo productivo y reproductivo; de equidad en el nivel de ingresos; en la toma de decisiones; en...
Colombia - Ecuador - Peru
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Characteristics of smallholders’ goat production systems and effect of Boer crossbreeding on body measurements of goats in Burundi
As part of a national action plan to manage animal genetic resources in Burundi, we characterized smallholders’ goat production systems and assessed the effect of Boer crossbreeding on animal body measures. To that end, 319 farmers were surveyed in the five agro-ecological zones of Burundi and the zootechnical measures of...
Burundi
2020
Vidéos
Discurso José Mujica en Seminario de FAO: “Proyectando una nueva agenda de políticas post COVID-19"
En su intervención, José Mujica, Ex Presidente del Uruguay, destacó la importancia de la agricultura familiar en nuestra región, incluyendo su historia, su trayectoria y su futuro. Mujica enfatizó la importancia de la voluntad política para proteger los derechos y habilidades de los agricultores familiares e hizo un llamado a...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
A systematic analysis of non-centrifugal sugar cane processing: Research and new trends
Background
Non-centrifugal sugar cane (NCS) is currently considered a marginal natural sweetener. The nutritional and functional compound found in NCS allows it to be considered a superfood. Research on this product has been evolving from the improvement of sugar cane varieties and their energy efficiency process assessment. In this decade, the...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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