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Insecticides Make High Quality Eggplant (Brinjal) Production in India Possible
Brinjal, also known as eggplant or aubergine, is native to India and has been cultivated in the country for over 4000 years. A total of 1.4 million small family farms grow brinjal on 550,000 hectares. It is an important cash crop for poor farmers, who transplant it from nurseries at...
India
2012 - CropLife Foundation
Étude de cas
Conceptual framework for economic valuation of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): The case of rice fish culture in China
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) initiative was launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in 2002 with the aim of establishing the basis for the global recognition, dynamic conservation and adaptive management of outstanding traditional agricultural systems and their associated landscapes, biodiversity, knowledge...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Kuttanad Below Sea Level Farming System
The only system in India that has been practicing rice cultivation below sea level since the past 2 centuries
Kuttanad is a delta region of about 900 sq. km situated in the west coast of Kerala State, India. The area is a larger mosaic of fragmented landscape patches and varied ecosystems such as coastal backwaters, rivers, vast stretches of paddy fields, marshes, ponds, garden lands, edges, corridors and remarkably networked water ways.
The Kuttanad Below Sea-level...
India
2012 - M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Fiche d'information
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). Agricultural Heritage: A new vision, a new hope
China has a five-thousand-year history of agricultural civilization. Diversified natural and cultural features across regions have led to a variety of agricultural heritage systems which have evolved from the co-adaptation of the local community and its environment. However, for a long period, their ecological rationality and potential economic benefits have...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Fisheries in Transition
50 Interviews with the Fishing Sector
This report provides 50 interviews from fisheries that are moving towards sustainability. It takes the approach of speaking to those who are directly involved in fishing, earn their livelihoods on a daily basis from fishing and often work at the sharp end in dangerous conditions. These are the people, together...
Australia - Bahamas - Canada - Chile - Colombia - Denmark - Ecuador - Fiji - France - Gambia - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Isle of Man - Japan - Madagascar - Mexico - Mozambique - Namibia - Nauru - New Zealand - Norway - Peru - Philippines - Russian Federation - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - South Africa - Spain - Suriname - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Viet Nam
2012 - Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit
Fiche d'information
La Colaboración España-FAO
Un nuevo enfoque de la cooperación
La colaboración entre España y la FAO se ha consolidado en el tiempo y ha experimentado un notable crecimiento, gracias a los criterios en los que se ha basado: la eficacia de las actuaciones, la mejora en la rendición de cuentas, la búsqueda de sinergias, un sistema de monitorización y...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Revue spécialisée
Caravan - Research that works for people and communities
This issue of Caravan looks to the field to present approaches and examples that have been developed through our research with partners in many dryland countries, and can be deployed to benefit smallholder farmers in many more locations. These technologies bring resistance to drought, temperature extremes, or diseases that damage and...
Afghanistan - Ethiopia - Lebanon - Uzbekistan
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Revue spécialisée
Caravan - Research integration in practice
The CRP on Dryland Systems is all about integration: between different research disciplines, between biophysical and socio-economic factors, between crop farming and pastoralism, between research and development. The program aims to develop new technologies, new livelihood opportunities, stronger local institutions, enabling policies to support technology adoption, and ultimately higher incomes...
Eritrea - Ethiopia - Libya
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Document de travail
India 1960-2010: Structural Change, the Rural Non-farm Sector, and the Prospects for Agriculture
This paper looks at past and likely future agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in the context of the overall Indian economy. The growth of India’s economy has accelerated sharply since the late 1980s, but agriculture has not followed suit. Rural population and especially the labor force are continuing to...
India
2012 - Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
Fiche d'information
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): Rice-fish culture, Qingtian county, China
Longxian is a traditional Rice-Fish Culture system (RFC) village, located in Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province, China. It spreads over 461 ha and has 50 ha of RFC that represent an ingenious agricultural rice-fish mutuality practiced by farmers over generations. Instead of using pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, fish eat plant hoppers...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Agricultural disease and insect-pest control via agroecological landscape construction
Chemical pesticides for controlling plant diseases and insect pests in farmlands cause a series of serious problems including residue effects, environmental pollution, etc. Bio-pesticides and bio-controls are, on the other hand, slowly effective, high cost, and, always with certain targets. Integrated, high-efficient and environmentally friendly disease and insect-pest control measures...
China
2012
Document technique
Globally Important Indigenous Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
extent, significance, and implications for development
GIAHS are found throughout the developing world, linked to centers of diversity. Agroecosystems cover more than one quarter of the global land area, reaching about 5 billion hectares. Agroecosystems are ecosystems in which people have deliberately selected crop plants and livestock animals to replace the natural flora and fauna.
Belize - Brazil - Malaysia - Mali - Mexico - Niger - Peru - Portugal - Spain
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Proposal of candidate system for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme: Aohan dryland farming system
Aohan Bannery is located in the southeast of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It is the interface between China’s ancient farming culture and grassland culture. From 2001 to 2003, carbonized particles of foxtail and broomcorn millet were discovered by archaeologists in the “First Village of China”, Xinglongwa in...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
ICARDA annual report 2012
Science for better livelihoods in dry areas
The report stresses progress in linking research innovations to results in farmers' fields in a number of areas. These research-for-development initiatives are testing technology and policy packages with farmers in their production situations. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa ICARDA leads the wheat component of the regional initiative on Support to...
Afghanistan - Egypt - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Pakistan - Türkiye
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Étude de cas
Format for Proposals of Candidate Systems for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme: Hani Rice Terraces System, China
Hani Rice Terraces are located in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, which is in the southeast part of Yunnan Province. People of various races, with Hani being the main minority group, has built this spectacular agriculture and nature wonders. The magnificent Hani Terrace System is a masterpiece of...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Report on Fisheries Livelihoods Baseline Survey in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste baseline survey for the Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme, against the five RFLP national level outputs namely co-management, safety at sea and vulnerability reduction, post-harvest and marketing, livelihoods enhancement and diversification and micro-finance services
Timor-Leste
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Right to survive: Turtle conservation and fisheries livelihoods
Each year, the eastern coast of India witnesses a truly spectacular occurrence of nature– the arrival en masse of hundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles in the coastal region of the State of Orissa. Last year, for instance, an estimated 240,000 adult olive ridleys congregated at Rushikulya on the...
India
2011 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article
藏族妇女组织的自主创新：农忙互助组
我在云南迪庆藏族自治州德钦县云岭乡红坡村 作调查的时候，正赶上村里种植玉米和青稞，又 逢当地政府支持村民种植葡萄。村里除了在外打 工的，老弱妇孺都在田地农忙。红坡村每家平均 每家有7亩地，本村地处山区，土地大部分都在山 上，而且每家分配到的田块也不一定靠近农舍， 有的甚至有好几里的路程，这便无形中加重了农 民的劳动强度。
China
2011 - Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
Article de blog
Community radio and rural communication services in Bangladesh
The FAO project “Enhancing Rural Communication Services for Agricultural Development through Community Rural Radio” encouraged the participation of agricultural stakeholders in Bangladesh at the national, upazila and village level and spearheaded the establishment of Krishi Radio, the first community rural radio of the country.
The project used the principles of Communication for Development and the Participatory Rural...
Bangladesh
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Vidéos
From farmer to planner and back
This video features the story of an agricultural worker from Sikkim (India) who participated in the From Farmer to Planner and Back workshop held in Rome. It documents her experience with gender-responsive participatory planning for small-scale livestock development.
India
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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