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Газетная статья
Home gardens’ agrobiodiversity and owners’ knowledge of their ecological, economic and socio-cultural multifunctionality: a case study in the lowlands of Tabasco, México
Home gardens (HGs) are hotspots of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. We conducted a case study in Tabasco, México, on HG owners’ knowledge of HG ecological, economical and socio-cultural multifunctionality and how it relates to agrobiodiversity as measured by species richness and diversity. The term multifunctionality knowledge refers to owners’ knowledge...
Mexico
2020 - Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Мероприятие
Conversatorio mujeres y agricultura familiar Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
Las mujeres rurales enfrentan grandes brechas y barreras en la región en materia de acceso y control de activos rurales como la tierra y los capitales financieros; de distribución y de reconocimiento del trabajo productivo y reproductivo; de equidad en el nivel de ingresos; en la toma de decisiones; en...
Colombia - Ecuador - Peru
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Газетная статья
Characteristics of smallholders’ goat production systems and effect of Boer crossbreeding on body measurements of goats in Burundi
As part of a national action plan to manage animal genetic resources in Burundi, we characterized smallholders’ goat production systems and assessed the effect of Boer crossbreeding on animal body measures. To that end, 319 farmers were surveyed in the five agro-ecological zones of Burundi and the zootechnical measures of...
Burundi
2020
Видеоматериал
Discurso José Mujica en Seminario de FAO: “Proyectando una nueva agenda de políticas post COVID-19"
En su intervención, José Mujica, Ex Presidente del Uruguay, destacó la importancia de la agricultura familiar en nuestra región, incluyendo su historia, su trayectoria y su futuro. Mujica enfatizó la importancia de la voluntad política para proteger los derechos y habilidades de los agricultores familiares e hizo un llamado a...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Газетная статья
A systematic analysis of non-centrifugal sugar cane processing: Research and new trends
Background
Non-centrifugal sugar cane (NCS) is currently considered a marginal natural sweetener. The nutritional and functional compound found in NCS allows it to be considered a superfood. Research on this product has been evolving from the improvement of sugar cane varieties and their energy efficiency process assessment. In this decade, the...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Электронные учебные курсы
Launch of the FAO elearning Academy: Strengthening capacity to face global challenges
The FAO elearning Academy supports Member Countries, through capacity development interventions and elearning courses. These courses are offered free of charge, as a global public good and were created to transfer know-how, skills and competencies using diverse methodologies such as self-paced elearning courses, blended learning programmes, massive open online courses...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Практики
Pheromone traps for the management of the cowpea pest Maruca vitrata
Maruca vitrata is a major pest of cowpea, resulting in 20 to 80 percent yield losses in West Africa. A pheromone lure and suitable trap developed in Benin and Ghana has successfully trapped male moths. From these trappings a threshold has been calculated to provide farmers with the optimum time for...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Видеоматериал
Proper handling of baobab fruits at harvest
Baobab fruit juice made from the pulp is very healthy, and can be added to porridge and sauces. However, the quality of the pulp can be greatly affected if fruits are not handled well during and after harvest. When baobab pods are damaged and have splits in the shell, moisture...
Mali
2020 - Access Agriculture
Работа конференции
Proceedings of the regional symposium on organic agriculture: Youth engagement and enterprise development
The adoption of organic farming practices could help countries across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In December 2019, our Resilient Mountain Solutions initiative collaborated with the Agriculture Research and Development Centre, Bhutan to organize a regional symposium on “Organic agriculture: Youth engagement and enterprise...
2020 - ICIMOD
Статья информационного бюллетеня
France: Fishing in troubled waters
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on a small-scale fishing in Lorient is vividly captured in the pages of a diary maintained by a gillnetter skipper’s spouse. In March 2020, Emmanuelle Yheul-Bertin, wife of a gillnet skipper who runs a 13-metre gillnetter vessel with four men on board, began recording the...
France
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Мероприятие
Conferencia de la Serie 2030: Agricultura Familiar y Transformación Rural
La conferencia está asociada a la publicación de la Serie 2030: Agricultura Familiar y Transformación Rural.
Debate sobre las políticas entorno a la AF y cómo se puede construir herramientas para profundizar el trabajo y el fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar.
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Тематическое исследование
The contribution of public investment in the agricultural sector to economic growth and rural poverty reduction
A high-level dialogue in Nicaragua based on a prospective analysis
In 2018, the government of Nicaragua requested technical assistance from FAO to carry out a prospective analysis of the Nicaraguan economy and the evolution of rural poverty, in the context of the restrictive economic conditions experienced in the country that year. Thus, the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) in...
Nicaragua
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Статья
Acceptance of C015 Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) Variety in the Colombian Caribbean Region
This work aims to contribute to the knowledge about the state of acceptance of C015 Eggplant variety, generated by Agrosavia in 2011, under the participatory plant breeding approach with farmers, who selected the material for high yields, the largest number of fruits per plant and lilac color. A study was...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Политический обзор/документ
National agricultural census operations and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is also affecting agricultural census activities.
Currently, 62 countries are preparing (45 countries) or have conducted (17 countries) censuses of agriculture in the WCA 2020 round. A rapid appraisal and informal consultations with national agricultural census authorities reveal that some 34 countries reported delays or suspension of several...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Аудиоматериал
Empowering women clam harvesters
300 kilometers south of Tunis, in the Gulf of Gabes, women have long harvested clams to generate an income. The seasonal work is often labor intensive and poorly paid. That is why FAO, in collaboration with the Tunisian government and a local women’s association, have created a pilot project to...
Tunisia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Статья в блоге
Los agricultores en El Salvador adaptan sus medios de vida a la nueva realidad de la COVID-19
El cultivo de vegetales satisface nuevas demandas durante la pandemia
Con los restaurantes y eventos cancelados, Juan Carlos pasó de criar conejos y codornices a cultivar vegetales, una habilidad que aprendió el año pasado gracias a la FAO, y que ahora sirve a un nuevo propósito durante la pandemia.
Conoce su historia.
El Salvador
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Практики
Aloe Vera living barriers
The following technology provides information on the use of aloe vera as a cross-slope barrier structure. This structure is particularly effective barrier to retain soil erosion by decreasing surface runoff and increasing soil infiltration. Aloe vera is a durable herbaceous plant, which is planted in the form of living barriers...
Cabo Verde
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Практики
Disease resistant upland maize varieties validated by and promoted to farmers
The technology addresses the issue of two maize diseases: Grey Leaf Spot (GLS), and Maize Streak Virus (MSV) on upland maize. Research focussed on identifying and breeding for genetic resistance has been conducted in the southern highlands of Tanzania. Two hybrids have been released (UH615 and UH6303) with high levels...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Практики
Honey extracted by pressing - wooden honey press of Goma (DRC)
A honey press is a tool that allows the beekeeper to extract honey from few honeycombs at the same time. The model of honey press presented here is a basic manual model that can be easily made locally as it requires only wood, a plastic bucket, screws, and the work...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Статья информационного бюллетеня
Indonesia: Yielding ground
Changing land use patterns threaten the livelihood of female crab collectors in Merauke, Papua, Indonesia. Over the years, crab collection in mangrove and wetland forests has been a major source of income for women of the indigenous Asmat and Mappi communities of the island of Papua in Indonesia. These women harvest...
Indonesia
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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