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Tip-taps for improved hygiene and water management
A Tip-tap is a simple water conserving hand-washing device, which helps to diminish the risks of infection contamination, improves hygiene, and reduces disease spreading. Tip-taps reduce water usage and can be operated by foot, avoiding the risk of picking up germs from tap handles. It is used to clean hands...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Furrow-enhanced runoff harvesting for olives
Runoff collection has been used to plant olive orchards in north-west Syria in areas, which are considered too dry for olives. In one trial, trees were planted 8 m apart, within and between rows. Around individual trees ‘fish-bone’ shaped furrows were dug to harvest runoff water. The furrows were constructed...
Syrian Arab Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Видеоматериал
Rotational grazing for organic pregnant sows to replace protein components (OK Net Ecofeed)
Background • In France, 50 % of organic sows are raised in free range systems • 80 % of the production cost are feed costs The Classical feed for pregnant sows consists of 40 % Cereals, 16% Maize 20% Wheat Bran, Minerals, dried Alfalfa, and about 15 % of protein...
2020 - The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Доклад
Agricultural research in Southeast Asia.
A cross-country analysis of resource allocation, performance, and impact on productivity
Over the past three decades, strong economic growth, rising agricultural productivity and output, and the structural transformation of the agricultural sector have driven considerable advances in food security in Southeast Asia and enabled the region to become a net exporter of agricultural commodities. Whereas the vast majority of Southeast Asian...
2020 - APAARI
Политический обзор/документ
How is COVID-19 affecting the fisheries and aquaculture food systems
The full range of activities required to deliver fish and fish products from production to the final consumer is subject to indirect impacts of the pandemic through new sanitary measures, changing consumer demands, market access or logistical problems related to transportation and border restrictions. This in turn has a damaging...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Loque américaine: la plus grave maladie bactérienne du couvain
La loque américaine est considérée comme la maladie infectieuse des abeilles la plus répandue et destructrice ; elle peut causer de graves pertes économiques pour l'apiculture. Le terme «américaine» ne fait pas référence au fait que la maladie serait originaire des États-Unis d'Amérique, mais plutôt au fait qu'elle a d’abord...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Видеоматериал
#IGrowYourFood - Meet Gary, an organic farmer from Peru
By producing vegetables organically, we improve food quality both in health and nutrition.” Gary Carrasco, an organic farmer from Peru, for #IGrowYourFood
Peru
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
Тематическое исследование
Saving lives through early action
Food security and social cohesion in La Guajira, on the front line of the migration and extreme drought crisis
FAO Colombia, in response to the humanitarian emergency in the department of La Guajira caused by the migration and extreme drought crisis, implemented a series of actions in five municipalities, which had a rapid and undeniable impact on food security and social cohesion, benefitting more than 7 000 men, women...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Политический обзор/документ
Integrated agriculture water management and health
This policy brief reviews on going challenges and proposes recommendations on integrated water resources management approach that embraces the value of water in all its forms and recognizes the intrinsic role of water in protecting human, animal and ecosystem health.
This multi-sectoral approach to integrated water resources management under the One...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Sunken streambed structure
This practice consists of rectangular excavations in streambeds, named dohs, to provide temporary storage of runoff to enhance groundwater recharge, increasing water yields from shallow wells for supplementary irrigation. They also collect and impound subsurface flow. The technology is used in conjunction with shallow wells (odees), which enable farmers to...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Доклад
Sustainable Agriculture in India: Why does it not Scale Up?
Despite decades of work by various non-governmental organizations, most of the initiatives on agro-ecological farming and organic farming practices have either stagnated or sometimes fallen out. While a niche of farmers is able to reap the benefits of agro-ecological farming, there is a need to understand the barriers that stop...
India
2020 - VikasAnvesh Foundation
Статья информационного бюллетеня
Los eslabones rotos de la cadena alimentaria
La covid-19 ha profundizado las desigualdades a las que las sociedades latinoamericanas vienen enfrentándose desde mucho tiempo antes de esta pandemia. Según una encuesta realizada en 16 países de América Latina por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), cinco países consideran el acceso a alimentos como el principal...
2020 - El País
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X Encuentro INNOVAGRO
La Red de Gestión de la Innovación en el Sector Agroalimentario, Red INNOVAGRO, organiza el X Encuentro Anual para celebrar su aniversario y abordar temas relevantes en el marco de la innovación agroalimentaria. El tema que se ha definido para este Encuentro es Senderos de innovación para un sector agroalimentario...
Mexico
2020 - IICA-Red INNOVAGRO
Газетная статья
A model of farmers intentions towards organic farming: A case study on ricefarming in Thailand
Determining the factors that influence intentions towards organic farming (IOF) is a challenge. This research applied the theory of planned behaviour to determine factors which influence farmers’. There are six causal factors: attitudes towards farming behaviour, group-norm influences on farming behaviour, perceived behavioural control of farmers, comparative usefulness of behaviours,...
Thailand
2020
Доклад
Rural Women and Girls: 25 years after Beijing
Critical Agents of Positive Change
This document highlights key facts as well as some good practices from the members of the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) in the thematic areas of education; food security and nutrition; health; access to and control over land and other productive resources; leadership, decision-making and...
2020 - United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality's (IANWGE's) Working Group on Rural Women and Girls
Политический обзор/документ
Extension and advisory services: at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 to ensure food security
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is expanding daily. Governments around the globe are confronted with multiple challenges related to minimizing the devastating health impact and protecting human lives, and ensuring sufficient food supplies and the functioning of services to those most in need. All this while coping with...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Fuel-saving stoves for health, better nutrition and livelihoods
Fuel-saving stoves have many advantages. They save wood resources, time, money, and improve health conditions by reducing fumes in homes. Foods that are not adequately cooked can transmit food-borne diseases. Families that cannot purchase sufficient fuel might be even unable to consume their food. Farmers can increase household incomes by...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Roof top rainwater harvesting: concrete tank
The rooftop rainwater harvesting system uses a concrete tank designed to improve household access to water during the hot and dry seasons. A 16 cubic metre concrete tank situated in the shadow of the house is constructed to retain rainwater collected by the roof guttering. The purpose of the tank...
Tajikistan
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Тематическое исследование
Climate smart livestock production in Ecuador
A strategic partnership between FAO and the private sector
Since 2016, Ecuador, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) and the Ministry of the Environment (MAE), with technical support from FAO and financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has implemented the Climate Smart Livestock (CSL) approach. This approach, which is a pioneering initiative in Latin America, seeks...
Ecuador
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Газетная статья
How do fishery resources enhance the development of coastal fishing communities: Lessons learned from a community-based sea farming project in Taiwan
Taiwan government proposes a national level Coastal Blue Economy Growth (CBEG) program to promote ocean- linked industries based on the concept of sustainable development. Sea farming development is considered an important aspect that needs to be promoted for the CBEG program. Generally, sea farming relies on artificial technologies, environmental improvement...
Taiwan Province of China
2020
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