Local leafy vegetables have long been an important part of people's diets in Africa. They are nutritious, affordable and adapted to local growing conditions and cultural traditions. They are cheap, readily affordable and rich in different micro-nutrients and are therefore crucial for the food and nutrition security of poor families...

Using participatory plant breeding, poor and marginal farmers in Eastern India, who previously grew old and low yielding land races, produced several new varieties of upland rice. Self-help groups produced truthful seed of these rice varieties, with production rising from 39 in 2002-2003 to 81 t in 2003-2004. It was...

Currently, vegetable farmers in Laos are not able to sell their produce because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While markets remail open, many vendors chose to close their shops and many people are also afraid to go out. Laos farmers appeal to their Laos government to help them by purchasing their vegetables...

In countries with lockdown and quarantine, the most affected sectors are the landless farmers, daily wage earners and the informal sector in the cities and rural areas as they are most worried about how to earn to buy their food and pay for their bills and utilities and as their...

En el sur de la provincia de Santa Fe prevalece la agricultura como actividad agropecuaria. Sin embargo, la ganadería se mantiene en muchos establecimientos, ocupando en la mayoría de los casos áreas con suelos de menor aptitud productiva. En la región, también persisten sistemas de producción de leche, muchos de...

The Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF), is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that works across 60 000 villages in 16 states of India, reaching out to over 4.5 million farmers. In BAIF’s programme area in the Dharwad district of India, high mortality among goat kids in the rainy season was reported...

The centralised plant breeding techniques of the green revolution have yielded good results in more favourable agricultural environments. However, most low-resource farmers in marginal areas have not benefited from these varieties. As an alternative to centralised breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Paticipatory Varietal Selection (PVS) and Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB)...

Dans l'oasis de Teyert à l'oued d'Adrar en Mauritanie, les agriculteurs ont mis en place une technique d'irrigation innovante : le système "californien". Explications. Pour diminuer l'utilisation de la nappe phréatique et mieux gérer les ressources en eau venant des pluies rares et concentrées en période hivernale, les agriculteurs pratiquent...

This Newsletter provides updated information on Agroecology, more concrete about COVID-19 and  Agroecology, successful evidences of ZBNF and other agroecology highlights.

Local and sub-national governments worldwide are taking various actions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, but these actions go often unnoticed and are not sufficiently supported.In line with the Urban Food Agenda objectives, FAO wants to raise the profile of actions by city administrations and local governments to provide support to them, aiming to...

Hoy les acercamos la reseña de un grupo de mujeres que aportan al proyecto Mujeres y ruralidad (desde sus historias, desde sus ideas y visualización de diferentes tiempos sociales), que se propone consolidar un espacio institucional en la facultad en común con las comisiones creadas. Ya hemos publicado en el...

Con la confirmación de la presencia de Foc R4T en Colombia, las ONPFs, las instituciones de investigación agropecuaria y el sector privado de la región han priorizado una serie de acciones para el manejo integral a la problemática, prevaleciendo la implementación de protocolos de prevención y bioseguridad con el acompañamiento...

Les rampes vivantes sont des bandes relativement étroites (environ 30 cm) de végétation pérenne (herbacée ou ligneuse) plantées en courbe de niveau sur les versants cultivés. Deux principaux types de rampes vivantes peuvent être utilisés pour la conservation de sols en Haïti. Si la végétation implantée est essentiellement herbacée, on...

This technology describes a combination of good practices for soil and water conservation that were introduced to coffee farmers in the central cattle corridor of Uganda. Its aim is to enhance their resilience to dry spells, pests and diseases, as part of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) project on...

This practice describes the efficacy of herbal de-wormers vis-à-vis their chemical counterparts. By means of a participatory research approach, the effectiveness of herbal de-wormers based on traditional knowledge has been tested successfully serving as a proof of the importance of local and often orally transmitted expertise to fight livestock diseases. ...

The centralised plant breeding techniques of the green revolution have yielded good results in the more favourable agricultural environments. However, most low-resource farmers in marginal areas have not benefited from these varieties. As an alternative to centralised breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) and Participatory Plant Breeding...

Bounthan Sayalath, member of the Houan Oun organic vegetable group in Xay district, Oudomxay province, Laos says that they used to sell 800 to 1,000 kilograms of vegetables per day, but nowadays, they face a serious problem because no one is buying bulk produce. Last month, their group had a...

Landfiles launched a participatory experimentation method that allows knowledge to be shared and new technical routes to be developed. This platform makes it possible to lead groups, identify their issues, collect data and disseminate summaries. Landfiles’ primary objective is to promote quality productions thanks to the identification of efficient technical itineraries. We...

La pandemia provocada por el COVID-19 requiere, además de las medidas sanitarias adoptadas por los gobiernos, respuestas coordinadas para proteger a los sectores más vulnerables; mantener los sistemas agroalimentarios eficientes, inclusivos, resilientes y sensibles a la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria y nutricional. Y, consecuentemente, poder mitigar los efectos sociales y...

Anthra, a non-profit organization working primarily on issues of livestock development in the wider context of sustainable natural resource use, worked with migratory shepherd communities in Maharashtra, India. Access to information on disease occurrence and remedial measures emerged as a constraint for shepherds on the move. Keeping in mind that...