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Article du bulletin d’information
India: Left in the lurch
The Guhagar fishing village lies in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra state in India. It has about 450 fisher families. Earlier, the regular routine for the fisherwomen of the village centred around visiting the beach and fish landing sites early in the morning to gather and buy fish that they...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Ouvrage
Strengthening Seed Systems
Promoting Community Based Seed Systems for Biodiversity Conservation and Food & Nutrition Security in South Asia
This book is an output of a regional experts’ consultation program on “Partnership to Strengthen Community Based Seed Systems in South Asia”, organized by the SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC), Dhaka; the Asian Farmers Association (AFA), the Philippines; and the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Pakistan during 7-9 November 2019, Islamabad,...
2020 - Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA)
Article de revue spécialisée
Uso de las herramientas de la agricultura de precisión para generar mejoras de la productividad
Una experiencia sobre el uso de los mapas de rendimiento
La agricultura de precisión es un tema en debate. ¿es posible para la agricultura familiar? ¿ Para qué tipo de agricultura familiar?. En este artículo, es un ensayo a campo que aporta elementos de análisis.El cambio de milenio trajo una batería de herramientas digitales bajo un concepto muy amplio denominado...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Article de revue spécialisée
India / Fishmeal: A Twisted Trajectory
The fish-processing industry’s path of using fishmeal to grow shrimp amounts to exporting the precious nutrition that India’s children badly need. In the early morning of 25 September 2019, on the shores of Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India, the humble sardine commenced its journey. The journey of its afterlife, that is. A...
India
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Pratiques
Aerobic rice
Aerobic rice is a production system in which rice is grown under non-flooded, non-puddled, and non-saturated soil conditions. Because aerobic rice needs less water at the field level than conventional lowland rice, the system is targeted at relatively water-short irrigated or rain-fed lowland environments. Irrigation can be applied through flash-flooding,...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
Central America/Costa Rica: Critical routes
Women fishers, shrimp peelers and mollusk workers in Costa Rica identify priority areas for the recognition and formalisation of their work. Costa Rica is a country with great marine biodiversity and has an important cultural heritage in its coastal marine areas. However, recognition and opportunities for decent work for the country’s...
Costa Rica
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Vidéos
Políticas Públicas y Agroecología en la Agricultura Familiar
La reunión regional debe poner énfasis en las mejores prácticas existentes en la región desde las políticas hasta la implementación de programas, así como sobre los desafíos y estrategias, en colaboración con los actores clave de la agroecología. El evento pretende contribuir en el fortalecimiento de la agroecología a nivel...
2020 - REAFmercosur
Article de revue spécialisée
Nutrition: Fish as Food
The international democratic process has come a long way in realizing the role of fish in the right to food and nutrition–and yet, a map of the road ahead needs to be laid out. Even though the last century has seen great socioeconomic advances and improvement in human well-being worldwide, much...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Directives
COVID-19 and Food Safety: Guidance for food businesses: Interim guidance
The world is facing an unprecedented threat from the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Many countries are introducing physical distancing measures as one of the ways in which transmission of the disease can be reduced. The purpose of these guidelines is to highlight additional measures so that the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
Rice farming: saving water through Alternate Wetting Drying (AWD) method
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) is a water-saving technology that lowland (paddy) rice farmers can apply to reduce their water use in irrigated fields. In AWD, irrigation water is applied to flood the field a certain number of days after the disappearance of ponded water. Hence, the field is alternately...
Indonesia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
What’s New, Webby? : A new gender initiative
The Gender Climate Tracker (GCT) mobile app and online platform provides experts, practitioners, decision-makers, negotiators, and advocates with easy, on-the-go access to the latest and regularly updated information on policies, mandates, research, decisions, and actions related to gender and climate change.
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Site web
Agroecology Criteria Tool
The Agroecology Criteria Tool (ACT) enables the assessment of a project through the lens of agroecology: it visualizes the degree to which a project, program or policy is aligned with the various dimensions of agroecology. The methodology is based on the analytical framework by Gliessman on the 5 levels of food...
2020 - Biovision
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
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