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Collective action to reduce goat mortality: a case study of interventions
Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a reputed national level Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), working in eight states of western, central and eastern India, is promoting goat-rearing through women self-help groups in four of its programme states: Rajasthan, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. PRADAN’s goat rearing interventions in Odisha are concentrated...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Potato production from True Potato Seed (TPS) for cold-tolerant and late blight resistant
Potato is a major food crop in the mid-hills and mountains in Nepal. Traditionally, most farmers use small tubers as seed, to grow potato with the minimum input. Although seed tubers are easy to plant and plants grow quickly, they are expensive and may account for more than half of...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vidéos
Food Heros: Kakani's story
In India, a grassroots movement focused on agroecological farming is spreading fast. In Karnataka's southern state, the natural farming methods were adopted first by tens, hundreds, and now hundreds of thousands of farmers across India. So, what is so special about it?
The natural methods have spread with support from the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Événement
Promoting Organic Agricultural Practices
The presentation for the workshop “Pesticides, Agriculture and Food: Multiple and Growing concerns in Cambodia”, 28th of November 2019
Cambodia
2020
Article de revue spécialisée
Analysis/SSF Guidelines: Bridging the Global with the Local
Against the backdrop of the need to operationalize the SSF Guidelines in a participatory manner, the role of the local governance system of India cannot be overemphasized. As a complement to the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed the...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Improved pit storage method for Ginger Rhizomes
Farmers in the Mahintada village, in the Surkhet District cultivate ginger as a major income generating cash crop to be used as food or medicine. Ginger rhizomes selected for seed purposes are stored in pits to be used in the next season. It has been observed that around 25 to...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Multi-storied agroforestry cropping systems for micro-climatic modification and erosion control
Natural hazards such as floods, landslides and drought occur frequently in different parts of Nepal with varying dimensions and magnitude. These hazards constitute the major causes of land degradation and deterioration of natural ecosystems. The introduction of a multi-storied agroforestry cropping system ensures the best combination use of crop-tree intercropping...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Silvopastoral and hedgerow systems in integrated farming systems
Low income farmers in semi-arid tropics, such as in the low rainfall areas of southern India traditionally combine different activities to diversify livelihoods so as to reduce the impact of natural hazards like drought. The Acacia Leucophoea and Cenchrus Ciliaris sylvi-pastoral system is an integrated sylvi-pastoral farming system that provides...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
From the Editor, Yemaya, No.61, August 2020
According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) released in July amidst the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people affected by hunger is steadily rising globally. People with higher risk of food insecurity include those with the lowest levels...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Planning an extended climate and weather forecasting system for hazard preparedness in agriculture
In Bangladesh, both in flood years and in dry years, rice crop is under growing risks of yield losses due to disasters. The three-tier weather forecasting scheme provides information on the coming weather and allows to plan agricultural activities accordingly, following the ordinary cropping pattern in case of early or...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Introduction to conservation agriculture: principles and benefits
This entry gives an overview of the concept, the fundamental principles and the benefits of conservation agriculture (CA). CA is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity as well as increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment. CA is...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Raised bed lotus cultivation
Cultivating lotus in raised beds is a local adaptation practice in flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Viet Nam. Communities traditionally collected lotus seeds from plants grown in common water bodies and sold them in markets. However, there was no initiative to further develop, promote...
Viet Nam
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Community based landslide treatment
Frequent landslides in mid-hill districts in Nepal have caused damage to productive land at the lower basin and affected human settlements and agriculture activities both upstream and downstream. Extensive areas of productive land were left fallow because of their vulnerability to landslides, and many settlements were displaced, mostly from the...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Promoting drought tolerant wheat varieties
This practice describes how water logging tolerant wheat varieties can mitigate the impact of water-logging and drought spells on wheat crops through the introduction of more hazard resilient varieties and innovative cultivation technologies. This practice aims to mitigate the impacts of drought spells on wheat crops through the introduction of...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de revue spécialisée
Economic Security Assessment of San Jorge, Samar, Philippines, as it Experiences Coronavirus
This study assesses the economic security of the city of San Jorge, Samar, Philippines, in terms of livelihood, income, and health in order to analyze the extent of the effect of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on the populace. The study evaluates the responses provided by the government, private nongovernmental organizations...
Philippines
2020 - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
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#IGrowYourFood - Meet Muhammad, an organic farmer from Pakistan
I want to tell the whole world to switch to organic farming. There is nothing to fear and you will find it highly beneficial.” Meet Muhammad, a farmer from Pakistan who has been farming organically for many years now
Pakistan
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
Vidéos
Impact of COVID-19 on small holder farmers in Laos
A video about the Impact of COVID-19 on small holder farmers in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - Asia Pacific Farmers
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Promoting drought and water logging tolerant cotton varieties
The losses caused by seasonal floods in the agricultural sector in the Juye county, in the southwest of the Shandong Province, have increased during the last decade. The Juye county is the lowest lying area of a topographical depression zone in the region. Rain water from the nearby other six...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Composting: burrow and pile methods
Northwestern Bangladesh is increasingly exposed to drought, climate variability and slowly increasing temperatures. Strategies enhancing the ability to withstand the negative impact of natural trends and hazards on agriculture are a means to strengthen the livelihoods of the two thirds of the population employed in this sector. One such strategy...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Incorporation of local knowledge into management interventions to minimize nutrient losses
Between the elevations of 1 000 and 2 000 m in the mid-hills of Nepal, over 12 million people subsist on land-holdings of less than 0.5 hectare. Farmers rely on rainfall and organic manures for soil fertility maintenance. A declining soil fertility is of increasing concern in the Bari lands...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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