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Rice transplanting (Africa Rice Center video on rice advice)
“Yields are much higher when rice is transplanted. Compared to broadcasting, yields are two or three times higher.” This video presents methods of transplanting rice and explains the effect of planting depth, distance and age of seedlings on rice tillering.
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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How PGS Changed the Law on Organic Agriculture in the Philippines!
The Senate in the Philippines has approved a bill recognizing Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) and amending the current legal framework for organic agriculture in the country. PGS are locally focused quality assurance systems of organic products certification which small farmers can afford, and which provides access to healthy and safe...
Philippines
2020 - Organic Without Boundaries
Справочник
EU Code of conduct on agricultural data sharing by contractual agreement
The EU code of conduct on agricultural data-sharing constitutes a document that will look at general principles for sharing agricultural data within the agro-food chain. To this end, the co-signatory organisations hereby have been working together to produce a non-binding code that sheds greater light on contractual relations and provide...
2020 - COPA & COGECA
Справочник
New trainers’ guide "Participatory On-Farm Breeding of Organic Cotton" published
The "Manual for Participatory On-Farm Breeding of Cotton" aims to assist trainers in conducting instructional and practical training courses on Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) in their communities and focus areas. It serves as a facilitator handbook to train farmers and help organise their cotton breeding programmes in a participatory manner.
The...
2020 - FiBL
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The European Green Deal – mountain communities can make a big difference claims the CoR
In February 2020, during the first plenary session of the recently renewed European Committee of the Regions (CoR) members adopted the opinion “Towards sustainable neighborhoods and small communities – Environment policy below municipal level” by rapporteur Gaetano Armao (IT/EPP). Euromontana is pleased to see that the rapporteur integrated its suggestions...
European Union
2020 - Euromontana
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COVID-19: Voices of young agripreneurs in Rwanda
The Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (RYAF) adhered to the youth engagement initiative launched by FAO ICA programme by launching a special Youth Knowledge Exchange session on April 2, 2020 addressing the key consequences and potential implications of COVID-19 for youth-led agribusinesses. The online consultation was conducted both in English and Kinyarwanda using RYAF social media...
Rwanda
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Using urine and ash to control crop pests and diseases
Pests and diseases cause substantial economic loss to crop farmers. Other than reducing yield and lowering harvest quality, pest and disease control increases production costs in terms of buying the chemicals to control them. Besides chemicals being expensive and not readily available, they also have adverse effects on the environment,...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Rice seed preservation (Africa Rice Center video on rice advice)
Based on hard real-life experience, the women of the Maria village have devised some very effective techniques for seed preservation. The video describes the importance of storing seeds in airtight containers, using insecticidal plants and other clever practices that Bangladeshi women apply to preserve rice seeds. This video presents the...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Beekeeping in Asia: honey flow
Although all the colonies of Apis Mellifera in Asia belong to the same racial group, no unified colony-management scheme exists which is suitable for the entire continent. How a beekeeper handles his colonies at a given time of year depends on the bees, their environment and how they react to changes in...
Thailand
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Газетная статья
Beyond Sustainability in Food Systems: Perspectives from Agroecology and Social Innovation
Food security faces many multifaceted challenges, with effects ranging far beyond the sectors of agriculture and food science and involving all the multiscale components of sustainability. This paper puts forward the point of view about more sustainable and responsible approaches to food production research underlying the importance of knowledge and...
2020
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Civil Society Consultation for the 31st Session of FAO Regional Conference for Africa
The most recent estimates of the prevalence of undernourishment (POU), presented in the joint report by FAO, UNECA and African Union Commission “2019 Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition” shows that the trend of deterioration in 2014-2018 has slowed in 2017–2018. However, there remain 256 million hungry people in Africa today, or...
2020 - Food and agriculture organization of the Unied Nations FAO
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EBRD, FAO continue raising food safety standards in Serbia while preserving traditions
The Serbian Government has recently approved hygiene bylaws on food products of plant origin, in line with EU legislation, that include flexibility measures and derogations for traditional food products.
Under this new legislation, Serbian producers can continue following traditional methods for making and selling food products based on fruits, vegetables and...
Serbia
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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The challenges of being a female farmer in Uganda
Nambiro Fatuma is a single mother of 4 kids that fully depend on her. She, on the other hand, depends on her income that comes from a family farm owned by her father. “I produce bananas, maize, beans, cassava, sweet potatoes, mangoes and avocados…” she says. “I once thought about starting a poultry...
Uganda
2020 - Food Security Center
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La préparation et le travail du sol en agriculture biologique
La culture du sol comprend toutes les mesures mécaniques pour assouplir, retourner ou mélanger le sol, telles que le labour, le creusage, le binage, le hersage, etc. Une culture du sol prudente peut améliorer sa capacité de rétention d'eau, son aération, sa capacité d'infiltration, de réchauffement, d'évaporation, etc. La culture...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Labour-saving technologies and practices: seeds and crops
The following technology provides features about the use of improved seeds and less labour-intensive crops. It also details the advantages and disadvantages of their use. The advantages include labour-saving, livelihood resilience strengthening, livelihood diversification, inputs, skills, cost and infrastructure. Disadvantages include inputs, costs, infrastructure and risk.
Description
Plant seeds are saved from...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Rice seed drying (Africa Rice Center video on rice advice)
Farmers face great difficulties with drying their seeds because seed absorbs moisture from the soil. As a result, seed quality deteriorates, and no-one can expect good yields by using poor quality seed. In this video you can see how farmers of the Maria village in Bangladesh solved this problem by...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Homestead gardens in drought prone areas
Homestead gardening is a well-known practice in the rural areas of Bangladesh, creating opportunities for year-round income, even when other income sources fail particularly due to water scarcity and drought. Homestead gardens use the small raised areas (chalas) around the homesteads. The management of close by homestead gardens benefits from...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Фотогалерея
Formations en agriculture écologique et biologique
Le Centre de recherche et de formation en agriculture biologique et écologique (SAHEL VERT), propose une formation en ligne innovante sur l'agriculture biologique et écologique.
2020 - SAHEL VERT
Доклад
Interactions with stakeholders on farm typology
Interactions with stakeholders on farm typology presented in this deliverable D1.2 are part of Task 1.2 in LIFT workpackage (WP) 1. WP1 aims to provide the framework for farm typologies to be used in the LIFT project and beyond, and to develop a user-friendly typology tool assigning farms to specific...
2020 - HaL Archives Ouvertes
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COVID-19: Voices of young agripreneurs in Senegal
In Senegal, the COVID-19 youth engagement initiative promoted by FAO was launched through various groups of young agripreneurs across the country and through the national youth council, Conseil National de la Jeunesse du Sénégal (CNJS).
The CNJS gathers youth organizations with its regional and departmental chapters, and serves as the interface between young people,...
Senegal
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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