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Storing cowpea seed
Intercropping or rotating cereal crops with legume crops are two of the strategies of integrated striga and soil fertility management. But keeping quality legume seed has two major challenges. First, the seed easily loses its ability to germinate. And second, we are not the only ones who love legumes. Let’s...
Ghana
2016 - Access Agriculture
Article de blog
Social innovation project in mountain areas
A new four-year project founded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovative programme and coordinated by the James Hutton Institute was launched in April 2016. “Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas” (SIMRA) seeks to advance understanding of social innovation and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development,...
2016 - Montain Partnership
Étude de cas
Agroecology in Extensive Rangeland Pastoralism in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia: Below the Eternal Blue Sky
Mongolia is located in Central Asia in between Russia and China. Only 1% of the arable land in Mongolia is cultivated with crops. The agriculture sector therefore remains heavily focused on nomadic animal husbandry with 75% of the land allocated to pasture, and cropping only employing 3% of the population.
Dundgobi...
Mongolia
2016 - MANIP
Article de revue spécialisée
A Study of the use of ICT Among Rural Farmers
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can revolutionize Indian farming sector and can benefit all farmers including small landholders. Agriculture is the most important sector with the majority of the rural population in developing countries depending on it. The traditional approaches of agriculture being adapted, has numerous challenges in terms of...
2016
Article de blog
8,000 smallholder farmers benefit
“Just the thought of a drought and its effects made me shudder as the one we experienced during the 2014-2015 season left a trail of destruction among farmers. How were we expected to cope with another drought, made worse by the El Niño, as we were still reeling from the...
Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains
The OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains (the Guidance) has been developed to help enterprises observe existing standards for responsible business conduct along agricultural supply chains. These standards include the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, and the Voluntary Guidelines...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article de blog
Réduire les pertes post-capture : un enjeu pour les pêches en RD Congo
La FAO renforce les capacités de l’administration centrale des pêches et de l’aquaculture, et des parties prenantes pour minimiser les pertes après capture
L’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) appui le renforcement des capacités sur l’organisation et le fonctionnement de l’unité post-capture. Une formation a été organisée à Kinshasa à l’endroit de trente agents de l’administration nationale des pêches et aquaculture, des entités décentralisées des provinces de Kongo Central et de...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Rapid needs assessment of the agricultural sector
Floods 2016 - Serbia
Agriculture is a very important economic sector in Serbia, as it accounts for some 9 percent of the total gross national income. In comparison, in the 27 EU countries the percentage of agricultural production lies below 3 percent of the gross national product.
Serbia is highly exposed and vulnerable to natural...
Serbia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations
Article de blog
COPA chief: ‘All farmers should be connected to the worldwide web’
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) cannot make sure that a strong policy will be useful and affordable for all farmers in all countries.
That should be done on a national level, but the CAP should secure that there is a framework. This framework should make it possible and at the same...
European Union
2016 - EuroActive
Article de blog
9-е Совещание Руководящего Комитета РНИСОЦАК
9-е Совещание Руководящего Комитета Региональной сети по исследованиям и развитию овощеводства в Центральной Азии и на Кавказе (РНИСОЦАК) состоялось 25-27 октября 2016г. в Ташкенте, Узбекистан.
Цель встречи - оценка текущей совместной работы, обсуждение состояния исследований в области овощеводства и предложения по дальнейшей совместной научно-исследовательской деятельности и развития системы овощеводства в Центральной...
Uzbekistan
2016 - Ассоциация сельскохозяйственных научно-исследовательских организаций Центральной Азии и Южного Кавказа (АСНИОЦАК)
Vidéos
Striga biology
One of the major parasites is striga, a weed that sucks the juice and nutrients from cereal crops such as millet, sorghum and maize and causes great yield losses. A single striga plant can produce hundreds of thousands of seeds. The seeds are so tiny that most farmers do not...
United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Access Agriculture
Rapport
‘Local’ Level Analysis of FNS Pathways in Spain
Exploring two case studies: New initiatives of peri-urban agriculture and Food and Nutrition Security in remote rural areas
This report is focussed peri-urban agriculture and food and nutrition security remote rural areas in Spain. This report presents the interpretations of the researchers, and does not necessarily reflect the views and nuances of the initiatives and respondents themselves. In total there are nine separate ‘local’ level analysis reports from...
2016 - Universitat Politècnica de València
Ouvrage
Innovative markets for sustainable agriculture
How innovations in market institutions encourage sustainable agriculture in developing countries
The key issues that this volume addresses are innovations in organizational and institutional arrangements that have enabled the creation of local markets for sustainably farmed agricultural products or, rather, “institutional innovations”. Institutional innovations can be described as new rules and forms of interactions. They help redefine sustainable practices locally and...
Benin - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - India - Indonesia - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Namibia - Nigeria - Philippines - Thailand - Trinidad and Tobago - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Audio
Referente Agrícola: Uso y manejo responsable de productos agroquímicos
Podcast trimestral del Programa Intensificación Sustentable en América Latina del CIMMYT, donde se abordan temáticas relevantes a la implementación de prácticas y tecnologías sustentables en el campo.
Mexico
2016 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Étude de cas
A change made by women-friendly agro-markets
The building of a zinc shelter in the market at Morahang, Nepal, has helped hundreds of women farmers to trade their produce. The initiative came as a result of reform of the market management committee to be led by local women.
Nepal
2016 - ActionAid Nepal
Ouvrage
The World of Organic Agriculture 2016
Statistics & Emerging Trends 2016
Organic agriculture is practiced in 172 countries, and 43.7 million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically by approximately 2.3 million farmers. The global sales of organic food and drink reached 80 billion US dollars in 2014.
The 17th edition of The World of Organic Agriculture, published by the Research Institute...
2016 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
Article de blog
Celebrating International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2016
August 9 is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme is Indigenous Peoples and Education to highlight the importance of education and preserving indigenous knowledge.
Around the world, many indigenous people cannot access the basic right to education. Their traditional methods of teaching, learning, and cultivating food are...
2016 - FoodTank
Article de blog
Animal welfare deserves better from investment policy
International finance institutions and member state export credit agencies continue to invest in projects outside the EU involving cruel farm animal confinement systems banned in the EU. Better joined-up thinking is needed with regard to investment policy and animal welfare, writes Joanna Swabe.
European Union
2016 - EuroActive
Vidéos
Farmers’ testimonies on Conservation Agriculture in Timor-Leste
Eight small-scale Timorese farmers (four men and four women) from four municipalities explain their experiences in testing and adopting conservation agriculture in Timor-Leste.
Timor-Leste
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article de blog
La France, championne d’Europe de l’agriculture bio en circuit court, mais plus pour longtemps ?
Une fois n’est pas coutume, la France est en pointe en Europe dans le développement de circuits courts, qui associent agriculteurs et consommateurs pour des produits de qualité vendus au prix le plus juste pour chacun. L’agriculture biologique poursuit également son essor : 21 nouvelles fermes en bio se créent ou...
France
2016
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