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Rapport
IPBES Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics
The report by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) addresses the links between the degradation of nature and increasing pandemic risks, quantifying the economic costs of pandemics as well as the costs of preventing future pandemics, and offers evidence-informed policy options for governments and decision-makers to escape the...
2020 - The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Article de revue
Editorial: Agroecology and feminist economics – New values for new times
Contrary to what is sometimes argued, the current planetary crises have not arisen from the COVID-19 pandemic, but are rooted in an unsustainable and unjust global economic system. It is time to learn from other ways of doing things, other cosmovisions and other values. That way, we can build a...
2020 - Cultivate
Document de travail
FAO's component of the Global COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Plan
The document presents FAO's component of the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Appeal, focusing on maintaining operations in food crisis contexts, anticipating the secondary impacts of the pandemic and related containment efforts on the world's most vulnerable people and sustaining critical food supply chains to avert future food crises.
File replaced 26 April...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
How to collect drone larvae from the bee hive
Drones are male honey bees. Unlike the female worker bee, drones do not have a stinger and do not participate in nectar and pollen gathering. A drone's primary role is to mate with an infertile queen. The value of drone larvae as a nutritional supplement has been proven in many...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Zero/minimum tillage in rice-wheat system
The objective of this practice is to facilitate timely planting of the wheat crop while minimizing soil degradation and conserving residual soil moisture and energy with minimum or zero tillage in wet and marshy land, where land preparation is not possible.
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
Africa/FWO: Women marching on!
Milestones in CAOPA’s march for the rights of women in African artisanal fisheries. On 19 March 2010, in Banjul, The Gambia, men and women professionals from the artisanal fishing sector from nine West African countries presided over the formation and launch of the African Confederation of Artisanal Fishing Organisations: CAOPA. Ten years...
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Rapport
First Mapping Report of agroecology initiatives in the Europe
This mapping report is an overview of how agroecology is understood by different citizens (policymakers, farmers, members civil society, researchers, and consumers) and a rich collection of a variety of existing national agroecology initiatives that are vital, productive, and ready to pave the way for an agroecological transition of agriculture...
European Union
2020 - Agroecology Europe Youth Network, Agroecology Europe
Étude de cas
Local benefits for farmers in Tarnava Mare Natura2000 site
Agriculture in the mountains differs from the lowlands and has some inherent constraints due to geographical isolation, a low levels of infrastructure development, difficult climatic conditions and fragile ecosystems making agricultural production, marketing and development more difficult.
Agriculture and forestry are the most traditional \ work sectors in the Carpathians, shaping...
Romania
2020 - ADEPT Foundation
Article de blog
Launch of a university dedicated to small-scale fishers
The GFCM is launching a university devoted to small-scale fisheries. The SSF University will offer workshops and training courses to small-scale fishers and fish workers across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region.
Small-scale fishers represent 84 percent of the total regional fishing fleet and 60% of total onboard jobs. Yet...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Rapport
COVID 19 Overview | Expected Impacts In The Pacific
The actual incidence of COVID-19 infections in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) has been minimal, outside some of the French and US Territories. However, overall, the economic and social impact of the pandemic has been substantial and potentially catastrophic. This includes a significant effect on food security and nutrition – which...
2020 - Pacific Island Farmers Organization (PIFON)
Directives
Mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition of schoolchildren
This joint note from WFP, FAO and UNICEF intends to provide government decision makers, school administrators/staff and partners with preliminary guidance on how to support, transform or adapt school feeding (in the short term) to help safeguard schoolchildren’s food security and nutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific recommendations are provided...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
Tunnel farming for off-season vegetable cultivation
Nepal ranks among the most vulnerable countries to extreme climate events. In general, rural areas where the population heavily depends on agriculture, are the most vulnerable. High temperature during Summer months and foggy weather combined with prolonged cold temperature spells during Winter months, often affect vegetable cultivation, such as tomato...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Seed priming to improve stand establishment and yield in finger millet
Crop establishment is often poor in the semi-arid tropics. However, good crop stand establishment is essential for the efficient use of water and light, and a uniform stand is a pre-requisite for cropping success. Seeds that germinate quickly produce viable seedlings that are not dependent on rapidly declining moisture in...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
Profile: A fishing village in Kerala mourns Italian nurse Lauretta Farina of Bergamo
Did you know that there is a small fishing village called Marianad, in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India, which owes a lot of its history to a public health nurse from Bergamo – the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Italy? This nurse, Lauretta Farina, 86, passed away on 12...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Étude de cas
Agroecology and markets – stories from the field
Mostly associated with fresh fruits, vegetables, and live animals straight from production zones, African mass markets bring together many people, irrespective of class, religion, or socioeconomic backgrounds. As thriving local economies, mass markets support ecologically-sensitive trading and consumption. It is not by chance that each of the articles in this...
2020 - Alliance for food sovereignty in Africa
Article
Más familias de San Lucas, Madriz, capitalizadas a través de NICAVIDA
Continúa el Ministerio de Economía Familiar capitalizando a las familias rurales del municipio de San Lucas, en Madriz, con el programa FIDA "NICAVIDA", entregando herramientas y materiales de construcción para el campo a grupos solidarios.
Nicaragua
2020 - TN8
Pratiques
Seed priming to improve stand establishment and yield in maize
Crop establishment is often poor in the semi-arid tropics. However, good crop stand establishment is essential for the efficient use of water and light, and a uniform stand is a pre-requisite for cropping success. Seeds that germinate quickly produce viable seedlings that are not dependent on rapidly declining moisture in...
India - Pakistan - Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
Milestones: Delivered by women, led by men
A report on gender and equity in the global health and social workforce. How do we address the question of inequality in global health infrastructure, especially during the pandemic grip of COVID-19? The report, produced by the WHO Global Health Workforce Network’s Gender Equity Hub is the latest gender and equity...
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Vidéos
Webinar: Scaling Pre-Monsoon Dry Sowing with Natural farming on 3 December 19:00 IST
Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) is organizing a webinar as a part of the successful implementation of Pre-Monsoon Dry sowing in Andhra Pradesh. This initiative has started as a pilot in Anantapuram district, a semi-arid region of Andhra Pradesh to demonstrate the concept of harnessing the water vapor from...
India
2020 - Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming
Article
Vicepresidenta del FIDA pone en valor los bienes comunes como las semillas
La vicepresidenta del Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA), Marie Haga, destaca el valor de los “bienes comunes” como las semillas e invita a los países a cooperar más en un mundo tan interdependiente como el actual.
2020 - EFE-AGRO
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