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Bringing life back to the land: Zimbabwean farmers revive stagnant farms through agroecology
The Shashe farms in the Runde catchment area of Zimbabwe extend across three villages. Since 2010, over 500 families from the region have worked alongside ZIMSOFF (Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum) and AZTREC (Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conversationists) to revive arid cattle-ranching land into rich, abundant food forests.
At the...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Статья в блоге
Let’s increase organic EU land and consumption by 20%!
The upcoming publication of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, planned for 29 April, is an ideal opportunity to increase organic land and consumption in the EU. This target may sound at first ambitious, but in reality, it is achievable.
The new Commission’s Green Deal highlights the need to increase the environmental ambition of the EU...
2020 - IFOAM
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Market opportunities for artisanal and small-scale fisheries products for sustainability of the Mediterranean Sea Towards an Innovative Labelling Scheme
With consumers and in value chains, small-scale fisheries are struggling to get the recognition they deserve. LabMAF has detailed the factors contributing to the weak position of small-scale fishers in the markets and identified innovations that respond to existing challenges. By connecting existing various market initiatives and encouraging new ones...
European Union
2020 - Euro-Mediterranean University
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Making modern poultry markets work for the poor
This practice documents the work of the Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a leading NGO in India, in regarding the organization and support for rural women to take up poultry rearing, and develop this into a successful market-linked enterprise. Women poultry rearers have been organised into a Poultry Producers’...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Enriched compost for higher yields
In Eastern Africa, reduced soil fertility has led to declining crop yields on many small‑scale farms causing food insecurity and greater poverty. Throughout the region, soils are generally low in nitrogen and phosphorus – which are essential for crops to grow well. Soil fertility can be increased by the use...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Доклад
Boosting Organic Trade in Africa
Market analysis and recommended strategic interventions to boost organic trade in and from Africa COUNTRY MARKET BRIEF FOR TUNISIA
This Market brief series is based on a study commissioned by IFOAM – Organics International in 2020 in order to better understand possible interventions that can promote market development and trade of organic produce in Africa.
The Tunisia Market brief is part of a series with 12 specific Market briefs. They...
Tunisia
2020 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Тематическое исследование
Combating climate change with agroecology
Climate change remains the most significant challenge facing farmers in Benin. Irregular and unpredictable rains, coupled with prolonged droughts and increased incidents of high winds, are decimating crop production across many regions.
The Project for Adaptation to Climate Change (PAda-Clim-Benin), with financial support from Bread for the World (Germany) and DM...
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
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Eviter les épidémies en modifiant les pratiques agricoles et alimentaires
Connaitre les mécanismes de transmission virale entre humains et chauve-souris est incontournable pour empêcher l’émergence de foyers épidémiques. Des scientifiques ont mobilisé plusieurs disciplines pour étudier la circulation du virus Nipah au Cambodge. Ensemble, épidémiologistes, écologues, virologistes et anthropologues ont analysé la circulation du virus entre chauves-souris et humains, puis...
Cambodia
2020 - CIRAD
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Central Asia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey establish joint Food Loss and Waste Strategy Committee
FAO and the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry convened a meeting of high-level officials from Central Asia to establish a joint Food Loss and Waste Strategy Committee mandated to oversee the development and implementation of the regional food loss and waste reduction programme.
The newly launched body will also support...
Azerbaijan - Türkiye
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Доклад
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020
The 2020 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture has a particular focus on sustainability. This reflects a number of specific considerations. First, 2020 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (the Code). Second, several Sustainable Development Goal indicators mature in 2020. Third,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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La agroecología como estrategia para tiempos críticos
Durante estos días, en los que muchos gobiernos ensayan la estrategia del cierre de fronteras y límites entre regiones dentro de un mismo país en el intento de contener la expansión de la pandemia del COVID-19, es que se puede observar la fragilidad de los sistemas alimentarios dependientes.
La limitación o...
2020 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
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Securing community tenure over common lands
This good practice is aimed at addressing the growing degradation of common land in India. By controlling the use of communal lands through community participation, discussion and the creation of self-governing rules, many benefits have been noted.
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Growing maize and soybean in rotation
Soybean brings nitrogen from the air into the soil as a free source of urea. You can obtain a good maize yield after harvesting soybean with less inorganic fertilizer application due to soil improvement. Growing soybean before maize reduces Striga infestation in maize. The practice demonstrates how to plant and...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Практики
Improving the quality of parboiled rice
Parboiled rice is rice that has been boiled in the husk. Parboiling makes rice easier to process by hand, improves the nutritional value of white rice, and changes its texture. Today, it is the preferred rice of many in the southern parts of the Indian subcontinent, and elsewhere. The quality...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Статья
3D numerical analysis of the natural ventilation behavior in a Colombian greenhouse established in warm climate conditions
Global food production and availability in hot climate zones are limited by biotic and abiotic factors that affect agricultural production. One of the alternatives for intensifying agriculture and improving food security in these regions is the use of naturally ventilated greenhouses, an alternative that still requires information that allows technical...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Тематическое исследование
AQUACULTURE Overfishing threatens food security, but aquaculture provides an answer for women in Senegal
Kayar, on the west coast of Senegal, is an artisanal fishing community with livelihoods in canoe fishing, artisanal processing of fish products and fish retail. The processing side of the sector — gutting, smoking, and filling cans — is mostly occupied by women, who make up 85% of the processing...
Senegal
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Технический документ
Desafíos hídricos en Chile y recomendaciones para el cumplimiento del ODS 6 en América Latina y el Caribe
El presente documento examina los desafíos hídricos que la región de América Latina y el Caribe enfrenta para el cumplimiento del Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 6 de garantizar la disponibilidad de agua y su gestión sostenible y saneamiento para todos. Utiliza como contexto de análisis el caso chileno debido...
Chile
2020 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Доклад
The covid-19 pandemic: threats on food security in the Mediterranean region
The effects of the COVID-19 on the economy of the Mediterranean region are barely emerging but they are likely to have an unprecedented impact. As in every crisis, it is the poorest populations who will suffer the most serious consequences. The pandemic first threatened their health, then their work -...
2020 - CIHEAM
Электронные учебные курсы
Social Protection in Rural Areas: building responsive systems in the context of Covid19
Social Protection in Rural Areas: building responsive systems in the context of Covid19
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Книга
Say NO to food waste!
Food waste is a critical issue in any household. The main objective of this guide is to support households in understanding what is needed to be done in order to reduce food waste at home. This is seen through proper storage methods for each food category, how to reuse leftovers...
Egypt
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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