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How does Conservation Agriculture work: understanding soil role, an example from Timor-Leste
This practice explains how conservation agriculture (CA) works, its limitations, and how to identify practical solutions to challenges farmers face in Timor-Leste.
For the adoption of CA practices, the CA principles must be well understood by those providing advice and by those implementing it – extensionists and farmers. This practice describes...
Timor-Leste
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Treating mastitis in cows, with low-cost and climate resilient, herbal regimen
Mastitis is an inflammation of one or more quarters of the udder (dairy herds) usually caused by bacterial infection. Several types of bacteria cause distinctly different mastitis infections. As a consequence, the udder is inflamed, swollen, and blood may come out with milk which yields to reduction in milk yields....
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Treating anoestrus cases in cattle and small ruminants
Livestock including cows, sheep and goats do not come to heat due to lack of hormones and proper nutrition. Inductions of heat by chemical hormone is costly, and their residues can be seen in milk and meat, which can be hazardous. Livestock can be induced to heat by phytohormones. There...
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Книга
Agricultural transformation in Asia
Policy and institutional experiences
Over the past few decades, some countries in Asia have been more successful than others in addressing poverty and malnutrition. The key question is what policies, strategies, legislation and institutional arrangements have led to a transformed agricultural sector, effectively contributing to poverty alleviation and addressing malnutrition. The great majority of...
Bangladesh - Republic of Korea - Thailand - Viet Nam - Yemen
2021 - FAO
Информационный сборник
Dharamitra in India
The initiative is located in Central India, encompassing the Vidarbha District and the adjoining districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Dietary-based anemia is a widespread problem, especially amongst young women. The area is facing an acute agrarian crisis. One of its causes is climate change and the increasingly unpredictable monsoon...
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)
Статья в блоге
Drought threatens the livelihoods of 7 million farmers in Afghanistan
FAO calls for urgent humanitarian assistance for the winter wheat season
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has appealed for humanitarian assistance to be scaled up as Afghanistan continues to be hit hard by an ever-worsening drought that threatens the livelihoods of more than 7 million people who rely on agriculture or livestock.
Many of these people are...
Afghanistan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Информационный сборник
Voluntary Association of Agricultural General Development Health and Reconstruction Alliance in India
The mission of the Voluntary Association of Agricultural General Development Health and Reconstruction Alliance in India (VAAGDHARA) is to create and nurture vibrant institutions of poor and tribal peoples in Western India so that they have sustainable livelihoods through scientific, indigenous and appropriate knowledge and technologies and their children are well educated...
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)
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Herbal treatment of chronic diarrhoea in cattle and small ruminants
Chronic diarrhoea in grazing animals is common in tropical livestock. Infection by bacteria and virus lead to diarrhoea. Use of antibiotics is costly and has residual effects through milk and meat. The traditional use of Chebulic myrobalan (Terminali chebula) along with curd from cow or goat milk is an effective...
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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UN and humanitarian partners scale up life-saving response to crisis in Afghanistan and call on all donors to urgently turn pledges into reality
UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs in Afghanistan are in a race against time to deliver lifesaving aid to crisis-affected people and preposition supplies ahead of winter.
Millions of people in Afghanistan have been deeply affected by decades of conflict and displacement, chronic poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic, a severe drought, a failing...
Afghanistan
2021 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Biological control of Cardamom Root Grub (Basilepta fulvicorne)
Cardamom root grub (Basilepta fulvicorne: Chrysomelidae) is a major pest damaging roots of small cardamom (Elettariacardamomum Maton) causing 29 to 66 percent crop loss under various levels of infestation. Chemical control with agrochemicals viz. Chlorpyrifos and Phorate, though help in managing the pest, repeated application of such chemicals is deleterious to...
India
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Статья в блоге
Leveraging human rights to improve the life of family farmers
Family farmers are needed for the transformation of agrifood systems. The facts speak for themselves: they produce over 80% of the food in the world and occupy up to 80% farmland, mostly operate at small-scale level, since 95% of existing farm units are less than 5 hectares big and more than...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Видеоматериал
Family Farmers - the Future of Asia and the Pacific
Video about Family Farmers: the Future of Asia and the Pacific.
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Статья в блоге
CTCF ENHANCES YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE
In Nepal, agriculture is not the priority sector of the youth farmers. There are many policies and strategies targeted to youth, but the youths are unable to sustain in their business as they lack productive assets, mainly capital assets. The youths are not trusted by the financial institutions and are...
2021 - Asian Farmers' Association
Газетная статья
From Torrents to Trickles: Irrigation's Future in Africa and Asia
Irrigation has been a key component of agricultural intensification and transformation in Asia and has the potential to take on the same role in Sub-Saharan Africa. Irrigation has contributed to increased food production, lower food prices, higher rural employment, and overall agricultural and economic growth. At the same time, irrigation—through...
2021 - IFPRI
Доклад
Agriculture, food and nutrition security: a study of availability and sustainability in India
This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India. The book discusses a broad range of vital issues concerning the production and consumption of food during the era of climate change,...
India
2021
Информационный сборник
Renuka Bio Farms in India
The initiative is located in the Chittoor district in the Rayalaseema region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With a tropical climate, Chittoor is one of the most drought prone districts in the country, a problem exacerbated by depletion of natural resources, global warming, increasing population pressure, pollution, loss...
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)
Мероприятие
SIDS Solution Forum - Pacific leaders from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) consider solutions for major push to achieve SDGs as COVID-19 batters economies
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum will enhance information exchange to facilitate development. It will gather Heads of Governments, UN agencies, and representatives from a wide spectrum of farmers organizations, NGOs, civil society and innovators to incubate, promote and scale-up home-grown and imported solutions to accelerate the achievement of the...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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A step-by-step approach toward a gradual adoption of the full conservation agriculture technology: an example from Timor-Leste
This practice describes the step-by-step approach to promote conservation agriculture implemented in Timor-Leste. It also describes the conservation agriculture (CA) principles and steps in adopting the CA package.
After several years of promoting CA in Timor-Leste by various actors, the adoption of the CA package is rarely fully implemented by farmers....
Timor-Leste
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Статья в блоге
Samoa scientific research boosts COVID-19 and zoonotic disease detection
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague economies and societies across the globe, the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa (SROS) maintains its commitment to strengthening and enhancing its contributions to Samoa’s nation-wide response.
SROS’s COVID-19 diagnostic testing and research work have received critical reinforcement through the generous assistance from the International...
Samoa
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Информационный сборник
Agriculture Man Ecology Foundation in India
The initiative is located on the Deccan Plateau of India. The climate is semi-arid in the north but tropical elsewhere. The majority of the farming population own less than one hectare of land and live and work in fragile environments, with little capital for investment and few off-farm employment opportunities....
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)
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