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Fallow cropping: garlic after rice
The Philippines, due to its geographical location and physical environment, is among the world’s most disaster prone countries. The country regularly experiences floods, typhoons, monsoon storms and rains, and drought. The country is hit by an average of 20 typhoons yearly. These weather events have serve impacts on the agriculture...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Soil property and fertility improvement through composting using Trichoderma
Composting improves the physical condition of soil and can thereby reduces the risk and impacts of climate variability and extreme weather events such as droughts, dry spells and heavy rains. Healthy soil systems can better respond to temperature increases, changing rainfall patterns, increase evapotranspiration rates, and alter pest and disease...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Информационный бюллетень
Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions - December 2020 Newsletter
It has been a year since APAARI started implementing the project on Asia Pesticide Residue Mitigation through the Promotion of Biopesticides and Enhancement of Trade Opportunities funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). It is implemented in collaboration with the IR4 project, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),...
2020 - Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAAri)
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Participatory varietal selection: rice in eastern India
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...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Impact of COVID-19 on smallholder farmers in Laos
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...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020
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Herbal de-worming for lower goat mortality
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...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory varietal selection: improved maize
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)...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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A study on the comparative efficacy of herbal and chemical de-wormers
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.
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India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory varietal selection: improved varieties of blackgram for rainfed conditions
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...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Impact of COVID-19 on organic vegetable farmers in Laos
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...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - Lao Farmer Network
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SMS for good shepherding: providing information when and where it is needed
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...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory varietal selection: Improved varieties of chickpea for rainfed conditions in Western India
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...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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UN Agencies among partners supporting ASEAN moves to strengthen social protection systems for inclusive and resilient COVID-19 response and recovery
Representatives from various sectoral bodies in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) met virtually Thursday for a high-level roundtable to discuss accelerated actions to leverage social protection to address COVID-19 pandemic and to officially launch the ASEAN Guidelines on Disaster Responsive Social Protection to Increase Resilience.
The ASEAN region is facing...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
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Diagnosis of rice farming systems and opportunities for agroecological transition in Cambodia
The WAT4CAM project was initiated in Cambodia in 2018 to develop irrigation networks for rice crops in Cambodia. The majority of the paddy areas are now highly dependent on rainfall, and climatic hazards and irrigation development would improve rice systems' productivity and profitability. This project concerns five provinces in Cambodia,...
Cambodia
2020 - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro
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Enriching community pastures
This good practice note based on the experiences of BAIF Development Research Foundation (Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation - BAIF), shows the importance of restoring common property resources by involving the communities directly, as a way forward for impacting positively on their quality of life. “Protection of Commons” has led to...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory approaches: client-oriented breeding of rice for rainfed, medium and low-lands of Easter India
Poor farmers in marginal areas have benefited little from high yielding, "green revolution" varieties that have transformed the productivity of more favourable areas. In the states of northeastern India, farmers who cultivate upland rice on low-fertility, sloping soils continue to grow low yielding landraces that are susceptible to diseases and...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Improvements of traditional floating gardens for vegetable production
Floating garden agriculture (locally known as vasoman/dhap chash) is a local innovative crop production technology for the submerged ecosystems of the southern region of Bangladesh. Traditionally, farmers of the Gopalganj, Pirojpur and Barisal districts have been practising the farming technology for about two centuries as an adaptation to the flooded/submerged...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Scaling Agroecology Up And Out
Lessons from the agroecology learning exchange India
The Agroecology Fund’s second global Agroecology Learning Exchange, held in February 2020 in Karnataka, India, was an extraordinary gathering of more than 70 farmers and agroecology advocates from frontline organizations, researchers, allies, and donors. The Agroecology Fund’s mission, at its core, is to support a growing global agroecology movement to...
India
2020 - Agroecology Fund
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Community ownership and institutional mechanisms to develop common property resources and enhance livelihoods
Common Property Resources (CPRs) are important for the livelihoods of the rural communities, especially poor. Various INGOs, NGOs and government organisations have facilitated and successfully demonstrated the model for development of common lands. This has been done by developing village institution mechanisms to bring in a bottoms-up approach to development...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Food security and food consumption in Samoa
The high rate of adult obesity observed in Samoa (almost 46 percent in 2016) points to access to an amount of dietary energy that is well above the minimum amount of dietary energy needed by the population to be in good health and to be socially active. The analysis of...
Samoa
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
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