Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015, has set targets for achieving zero hunger and transforming the agri-food system, amongst many other universal goals. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries.Yemaya No. 64, dated November 2021, features articles from Sri Lanka, The Gambia, Gender dialogue took place in Central America, issues of gender seafood industry, meditative reflection on gender equity...

La cacaocultura en Colombia es considerada uno de los sistemas agrícolas más importantes. Las semillas de cacao son la materia prima en la preparación de un sin número de productos de chocolatería, sin embargo estas deben ser sometidas previamente a un proceso de fermentación y secado en los cuales se...

Rice field agroecosystems produce food for more than half of the world’s population and deliver important services supporting farmers’ livelihoods. However, traditional rice field agroecosystems are facing a variety of problems, including pests or markets that are hard to access. This research explored indigenous farmers’ perceptions of the problems, their...

In Latin America, the so-called informal sector associated with family farming and the agroecology movements were instrumental at coping with and adapting to the COVID-19 challenges. The objective of this communication is to characterise the initial responses that the family farming and the agroecology movements developed to overcome the threats and...

La crise sanitaire de la Covid-19 nous a rappelé à quel point le métier d’agricultrice et d’agriculteur, partout dans le monde, est essentiel à la vie humaine. L’enjeu de la formation des prochaines générations en Afrique paraît ainsi fondamental. Mais former à quelle agriculture et à quel système de production...

The Regional Technical Platform of Family Farming is a network that brings together the most successful experiences, technical knowledge and the latest innovations to be shared throughout the world. It is available to governments, family farming organizations, the scientific and academic community, and the private sector. It works as a digital...

Potenciar y escalar los cambios que se están acelerando como respuesta al COVID-19 requiere diseñar nuevos modelos institucionales, apoyados por múltiples actores, que puedan ser aplicados en forma descentralizada. En este sentido, el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura...

La Guía rápida de trámites en la agricultura familiar –FAENA– fue elaborada con los aportes de profesionales y técnicos de la Dirección Nacional de Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria y la Coordinación de Agricultura Familiar del Senasa. Según la localidad o provincia, alguna de la información contenida en esta guía pueden...

The document is intended to provide guidance on designing and developing e-learning-based solutions for trainers and instructional designers who are new to e-learning design. The guide also provides basic concepts and information on the processes and resources involved in e-learning development, which may be of interest to human resource (HR)...

The productivity of livestock in Asia is found to be far below the global benchmark. The milk production per cattle in Bangladesh and Nepal, for instance, is only 305 kg and 459 kg per animal per year, respectively, compared to 7500 kg/animal/year in the USA and Europe (SAARC 2015). Improved...

Shanta Neupane had a vision. From Panauti Municipality, in central Nepal, she could see how hard women in the rural forest and farming communities around her worked in their family smallholdings, helping to feed their households. But although, like Shanta herself, they were members of community forest user groups, these same...

En las regiones de laderas de la República Dominicana se cultiva guandul en forma de monocultivos desde la época del descubrimiento de América. Sin embargo, los cultivares tradicionalmente cultivados (Puerto Rico, Kaki, Blanco, Barrosial, Enerito, Haitiano y Mena), presentan serios problemas cuando hay excesos de lluvias o cuando los períodos...

  Bio-inputs replaced chemical inputs on farmers fields With 11 years of experience in organic farming and 5 years working with marginalpaddy farmers (organic) at Gondeda, Tal. Chimur, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra, last season of Kharif, we (Generous Technologies Pvt Ltd) tried our hands in the high pest pressure zone of paddy area...

From 31 October, world leaders, experts, and climate activists from across the world will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, the biggest climate conference since the Paris Accords. IFAD will be there, calling for greater investments in climate adaptation – and we will be giving the floor to rural small-scale producers...

Since 2004, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have cooperated in the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) to reduce the threat from transboundary animal diseases (TADs) to food security, livelihoods and safe...

Acceso a alimentos seguros y nutritivos; cambio en los patrones de consumo; producción positiva para la naturaleza; resiliencia ante situaciones adversas; medios de vida equitativos y redistribución del valor; estas fueron las cinco áreas prioritarias identificadas por América Latina y el Caribe para aplicar el enfoque de género y avanzar...

Los enjambres son la forma natural mediante la cual las familias de abejas se reproducen y se localizan en un lugar diferente al que habitaban para utilizarlo como nuevo hogar. Este sitio generalmente ha sido inspeccionado por pecoreadoras de avanzada edad para verificar que contemple condiciones para albergar al enjambre....

En esta práctica se describe cómo reducir los daños producidos por la roya del café (Hemileia vastatrix Berk & Br) con la sustitución de variedades actuales, por variedades tolerantes a la enfermedad como son las líneas seleccionadas de las variedades Catimor y/o Sarchimor.

An interactive webinar on how to produce your own farm videos was organized by i2connect specialists – Thomas Alföldi from FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) and Reinis Mellis&Līga Cimermane, EUFRAS to introduce all interested parties to the appropriate equipment, practical tools and guidelines that can be helpful to produce...