Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe, with 17.4 million people now in need of food assistance and a growing portion of the population coping with emergency levels of hunger, UN agencies have warned. The humanitarian situation in the country is poised to get even...

Humanity may be on the verge of a scary new world where antibiotics no longer work. An infected wound, for example from a scratch on a rusty nail, could be potentially fatal. Surgery would become much riskier. Common diseases such as tuberculosis would once more threaten the lives of millions....

La alta acidez y baja fertilidad de estos suelos, hace necesaria la aplicación de cales y nutrientes, principalmente en las sabanas nativas y suelos poco mejorados. Para decidir cuánto, qué, cómo y de qué forma se aplican, se recomiendan algunos aspectos. (parte 2) Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google...

Goldenberry has a great potential for the development of high-quality products due to its attractive sensory attributes, bioactive compounds, and health benefits. However, postharvest losses are high due to the lack of processing technologies that can both be adapted to rural conditions in producing countries to generate high-quality products. Flash-vacuum...

Abundan las evidencias de que una inversión bien dirigida y ejecutada en investigación, desarrollo e innovación (IDi) agropecuaria pública de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) puede tener un impacto beneficioso en la economía, la seguridad alimentaria y la reducción de la pobreza de un país (Stads et al., 2016)....

El Panorama Social de América Latina 2021 examina el impacto social de la crisis provocada por la pandemia del COVID-19 y entrega las estadísticas más recientes en materia de pobreza, desigualdad y gasto social en la región. El estudio analiza también los profundos efectos de la crisis sanitaria prolongada en...

Majority of the rural women are landless. Invariably, they work as farm labourers. Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal, an NGO has helped women of Sagroli in Maharashtra in empowering them financially by providing the needed  credit support in managing their enterprises. Sagroli, located in Biloli, in Nanded district of Maharashtra, is quite a...

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society. Sustainable diets seek to minimise and mitigate the significant negative impact food production has on the environment. Simultaneously they aim to address...

The digital revolution occurring across global food systems has become undeniable. From robotic tractors and spraying drones to fully integrated data-driven strategies to manage food value chains, a host of new digital technologies are now being sold as the solution to tackle a growing population, climate change and the depletion...

El alistamiento de la cosecha, es una actividad clave en el aseguramiento de la calidad y vida útil de la lima, pues reduce las causas de deterioro de la fruta a lo largo de su cadena de acondicionamiento y comercialización. De acuerdo con los requisitos del cliente (mercado) sobre: Cantidad...

“Detrás del humo”: el documental de la UNR sobre la quema en las islas El trabajo indaga sobre las causas de los incendios que se intensificaron en 2020 y dejaron más de 400 mil hectáreas destruidas, y más de 900 especies animales afectadas. “Ahí está Rosario, pero no se ve...

El subsecretario de Salud de México, Hugo López-Gatell, convocó a “mantener el paso” de la transformación que ha emprendido el actual gobierno, y movilizarse para defender una batería de leyes que, desde su perspectiva, ayudarán a para mejorar la calidad de vida que tenemos.

The new Common Agricultural Policy, the CAP, comes into force from January the 1st next year. It’s one of the biggest, most important, longest-lasting – and often the most incendiary – of EU programmes. Co-financing and complementary national financing will bring the total public budget dedicated to farmers and rural...

Sufficient and timely availability of water is essential to irrigate crops during critical stages of crop growth. This shall ensure improved farm productivity and incomes. However, a critical prerequisite is a reliable energy-based system which enables timely extraction and distribution of water supply. Solar models have shown the way. In rural...

La agricultura familiar es una actividad esencial para el desarrollo del mundo rural y la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de los pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe. Legislar sobre agricultura familiar permite sentar bases normativas permanentes para el desarrollo de políticas propicias que fomenten la agricultura familiar como parte...

The aim of this study was to evaluate and select entomopathogenic fungi that produces insecticidal compounds for the control of adults of Anastrepha obliqua Macquart (Diptera: tephritidae), that are the main pest of mango (Mangifera indica L. Bark) in Colombia. One strain of the species Metarhizium robertsii with insecticidal activity was selected. By column fractionation,...

The European Commission launched the European CAP Network during an event in Brussels on 6 October. Around 320 CAP stakeholders (e.g. EU Member State administrations, farmers, national rural networks, researchers, advisors, NGOs), all of whom share an interest in and commitment to sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural development across the EU, attended.   ...

Amid increasing global hunger and poverty, devastating climate change impacts, the Covid-19 pandemic and the widespread effects of the war in Ukraine, small-scale producers can play a lead role in reducing hunger and poverty at country and regional levels. On 16 November 2022, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)...

Thousands of consumer products around the world contain ingredients obtained from wild plants. Wild harvest accounts for some or all the harvest of the great majority of plant species in trade (between 60-90 percent). Wild-harvested plants often come from the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth and many have been used...

FAO harnesses the power of digital technologies to pilot, accelerate and scale innovative ideas with high potential for impact in food and agriculture, transforming digital solutions and services into global public goods. It aims to explore the responsible application and adoption of existing and frontier technologies, design and scale new services,...