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Pratiques
Government-led integrated approach for delivery of services to smallholder poultry farmers
This practice demonstrates how simple cost effective interventions such as low cost protein rich feeding, de-worming, vaccination, low cost housing, egg-candling, use of bamboo for poultry feeders and waterers, have strengthened household poultry production systems of tribal farmers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in India. A key factor that...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Making modern poultry markets work for the poor
This practice documents the work of the Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a leading NGO in India, in regarding the organization and support for rural women to take up poultry rearing, and develop this into a successful market-linked enterprise. Women poultry rearers have been organised into a Poultry Producers’...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
Eviter les épidémies en modifiant les pratiques agricoles et alimentaires
Connaitre les mécanismes de transmission virale entre humains et chauve-souris est incontournable pour empêcher l’émergence de foyers épidémiques. Des scientifiques ont mobilisé plusieurs disciplines pour étudier la circulation du virus Nipah au Cambodge. Ensemble, épidémiologistes, écologues, virologistes et anthropologues ont analysé la circulation du virus entre chauves-souris et humains, puis...
Cambodia
2020 - CIRAD
Pratiques
Securing community tenure over common lands
This good practice is aimed at addressing the growing degradation of common land in India. By controlling the use of communal lands through community participation, discussion and the creation of self-governing rules, many benefits have been noted.
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Raising chicken without grain: the integrated compost and poultry system
The integrated compost and poultry system is a farming method that combines composting, poultry raising, and egg production. It is a low-cost method to raise chickens while producing good quality compost. Feed costs are almost eliminated because food scraps, manure, and mulch are used for feed – all of which...
Australia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Backyard poultry farming through self-help groups
This practice highlights the positive outcomes of the promotion of backyard poultry farming in West Bengal. In addition to improving the production and supply of eggs and poultry meat, interventions generated self-employment leading to a reduction in rural poverty and the empowerment of rural women. The practice documents one of...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Pineapple as alternate cropping to control soil erosion
This practice shows that pineapple cultivation not only minimizes soil erosion but also promotes the rehabilitation of degraded sloppy lands for additional income. Technical details are provided for the implementation of this practice including pit preparation and seedling plantation. The economic advantages of this practice include local labour generation and...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Bulletin d'information
FAO Myanmar Newsletter
Welcome to the fourth edition of our newsletter in 2020 which, as usual, provides information about our work in Myanmar. Since the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in late August, the government has set more protective measures in force in almost every state and region. This reaches you therefore as the...
Myanmar
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
MEDIA ADVISORY: Forty-Six FAO Member Nations in Asia and the Pacific to chart a course for securing food systems and mitigating the effects of COVID-19 and climate change on agricultural sectors
Supply chains have been disrupted, demand has dropped for certain foods, resulting in damage to nutrition, health and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people in this, the world’s most populous region.
In response, 46 Member Nations, along with private sector and civil society organizations, will discuss a way forward...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
Article de revue spécialisée
COVID-19 and Food Security in Bangladesh
A Chance to Look Back at What Is Done and What Can Be Done
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global health crisis, and the long-term impact of the pandemic is predicted to reach far beyond today. In a lower-middle-income country with upward economic growth, such as Bangladesh, it is essential first to understand the present situation in order to create a proper recovery...
Bangladesh
2020 - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)
Rapport
Sustainable Development for Resilient Blue Growth of Fisheries and Aquaculture
This is the report of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) Regional Consultative Forum Meeting (RCFM) on Sustainable Development for Resilient Blue Growth of Fisheries and Aquaculture. The meeting was convened in Cebu, Philippines from 7 May to 9 May 2018 at the Bai Hotel and was attended by 80...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Rapport
Impact Story -- ASEAN
ASEAN is one of the most productive agricultural baskets in the world. In 2012, the region produced 129 million tons of rice, 40 million tons of corn, 171 million tons of sugarcane, 1.44 million tons of soybean, and 70.34 million tons of cassava. ASEAN is likely to increase exports to...
2020 - ASEAN Farmers’ Organisations Support Programme (AFOSP)
Article de blog
Samoa weather advisory to help local farmers
he Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), University of South Pacific (USP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) are partnering to develop weather advisories aimed at helping farmers better plan their crop production. A meeting to discuss moving...
Samoa
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
#IGrowYourFood - Meet Angelita Mangangan, an organic farmer from the Philippines
Did you know that this squash I am holding has more vitamin A than golden rice?” - Angelita Mangangan, an organic farmer from the Philippines, for #IGrowYourFood
Philippines
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
Article de blog
On World Food Day, Asia-Pacific countries consider bold plan to recover from COVID-19 and eradicate hunger
Every year, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific celebrates the importance of World Food Day. This year, given the COVID-19 global pandemic and the disruptions it has caused to livelihoods and food security, our celebrations are muted, yet within this context, today’s World Food Day itself has become...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Ouvrage
Living Landscapes - Embracing Agro-Biodiversity in Northern Laos
In 2009, the Laos government’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation entered into a bilateral agreement for the implementation of "The Agro-Biodiversity Initiative (TABI)" in upland Laos. The initiative sought to conserve, enhance, manage, and sustainably utilize the biological diversity found in upland farming landscapes to improve the...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020
Article de blog
Hundreds of millions of family farmers in Asia-Pacific need help to ensure food security in the face of pandemic
Asia-Pacific’s smallholder family farmers produce most of the world’s food, yet they are facing a disproportionate impact on their livelihoods and food security due to the present coronavirus pandemic, a collaboration of FAO and advocacy groups warned today.
The COVID-19 impact on the region’s rural communities, and particularly those in developing...
2020 - AFA
Pratiques
Small-scale starch extraction: hydrocyclone for improved process efficiency
Root starch production is a long-established industry that has seen little development in recent years. In developing countries it has been estimated that five million tonnes of starch are produced annually in developing countries, half of which is produced from cassava representing a major market for small-scale root crop growers....
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Storage and preservation of wet cassava
Highest grades of cassava starch are processed from freshly extracted starch. In many cassava processing factories, extracted starch is stored in tanks under wet conditions during the peak harvesting period (two to five months). Long-term storage of cassava starch under wet conditions results in adverse quality changes which reduce the...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
AFFM facilitates selling of farmer members’ produce to trade union members in industrial zones
YANGON, MYANMAR – “Hitting two birds with one stone” is how we can describe this initiative of the AFFM, the AFOSP-APFP partner farmers’ organization in Myanmar, to help their members during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
AFFM, one of the sectorial affiliates of CTUM, has more than 528 Basic Level Unions...
Myanmar
2020 - Asian Farmers' Association (AFA) for Sustainable Rural Development
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