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Smallholder farmers in Jharkhand come together to ensure safe food for a fair price
Over the years, Bhoomi Ka has been working to promote safe and indigenous food among farmers and consumers in India. And to achieve its objective, it was imperative for smallholder farmers to come together, get trained on ecological farming and certification processes, and meet the growing demand of organic produce....
2020 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Women resurrecting poultry biodiversity and livelihoods
The Aseel is reared under backyard poultry management systems and is a vital source of meat and income. However, this bird is threatened due to high production losses, infectious diseases and policies promoting non-local breeds. This practice describes how disease prevention and biodiversity conservation strategies helped women farmers in preserving...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers in Fiji
In Fiji, establishments such as hotels and restaurants have closed to adhere to the government's measures to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In effect, farmers in the country can no longer sell their products anywhere. Thus, they appeal to the Fijian government for support so they can sell...
Fiji
2020 - PIFON
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This is a farm: Agroforestry feeds communities in Timor-Leste
To the untrained eye it might look like a scruffy forest with a messy understory of weeds. But on closer inspection, Tomas Pinto has created a multilayered ecosystem rich in biodiversity. Under Tomas’s careful stewardship, this forest feed communities in Timor-Leste.
Timor-Leste
2020 - SeedChange
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Replicas of native chicken in rural poultry production: the Satpuda
A well organized pro-poor initiative from a private company, Yashwant Agritech Pvt Ltd (YAPL), has produced and sold a productive synthetic hybrid bird suitable for rearing in harsh agro-climatic rural environments. It has proved to be a valuable source of income for the poor households. This practice has promoted participatory,...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Government-led integrated approach for delivery of services to smallholder poultry farmers
This practice demonstrates how simple cost effective interventions such as low cost protein rich feeding, de-worming, vaccination, low cost housing, egg-candling, use of bamboo for poultry feeders and waterers, have strengthened household poultry production systems of tribal farmers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in India. A key factor that...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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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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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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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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Raising chicken without grain: the integrated compost and poultry system
The integrated compost and poultry system is a farming method that combines composting, poultry raising, and egg production. It is a low-cost method to raise chickens while producing good quality compost. Feed costs are almost eliminated because food scraps, manure, and mulch are used for feed – all of which...
Australia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Backyard poultry farming through self-help groups
This practice highlights the positive outcomes of the promotion of backyard poultry farming in West Bengal. In addition to improving the production and supply of eggs and poultry meat, interventions generated self-employment leading to a reduction in rural poverty and the empowerment of rural women. The practice documents one of...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Pineapple as alternate cropping to control soil erosion
This practice shows that pineapple cultivation not only minimizes soil erosion but also promotes the rehabilitation of degraded sloppy lands for additional income. Technical details are provided for the implementation of this practice including pit preparation and seedling plantation. The economic advantages of this practice include local labour generation and...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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FAO Myanmar Newsletter
Welcome to the fourth edition of our newsletter in 2020 which, as usual, provides information about our work in Myanmar. Since the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in late August, the government has set more protective measures in force in almost every state and region. This reaches you therefore as the...
Myanmar
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Young entrepreneur brings smart farmer learning to Bihar, India
When 27-year old Neeraj Kumar heard about the Access Agriculture “Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund 2019” announcement, he was excited to learn that winners would receive a Digisoft portable smart projector. Neeraj is co-founder of Khetee, an NGO based in Durdih village in Bihar, a state in eastern India.
What impressed him most...
India
2020 - Access Agriculture
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Cutting edge agroecology
the Andhra Pradesh Community managed Natural Farming (AP-CNF), formerly known as AP ZBNF, programme in India is a breath of fresh air. As AP-CNF says on its website, the programme “is based on the latest scientific discoveries in Agriculture, and, at the same time it is rooted in Indian tradition.” AP-CNF is...
India
2020 - Access Agriculture
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Forty-Six FAO Member Nations in Asia and the Pacific to chart a course for securing food systems and mitigating the effects of COVID-19 and climate change on agricultural sectors
Supply chains have been disrupted, demand has dropped for certain foods, resulting in damage to nutrition, health and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people in this, the world’s most populous region.
In response, 46 Member Nations, along with private sector and civil society organizations, will discuss a way forward...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
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COVID-19 and Food Security in Bangladesh
A Chance to Look Back at What Is Done and What Can Be Done
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global health crisis, and the long-term impact of the pandemic is predicted to reach far beyond today. In a lower-middle-income country with upward economic growth, such as Bangladesh, it is essential first to understand the present situation in order to create a proper recovery...
Bangladesh
2020 - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)
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Sustainable Development for Resilient Blue Growth of Fisheries and Aquaculture
This is the report of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) Regional Consultative Forum Meeting (RCFM) on Sustainable Development for Resilient Blue Growth of Fisheries and Aquaculture. The meeting was convened in Cebu, Philippines from 7 May to 9 May 2018 at the Bai Hotel and was attended by 80...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Impact Story -- ASEAN
ASEAN is one of the most productive agricultural baskets in the world. In 2012, the region produced 129 million tons of rice, 40 million tons of corn, 171 million tons of sugarcane, 1.44 million tons of soybean, and 70.34 million tons of cassava. ASEAN is likely to increase exports to...
2020 - ASEAN Farmers’ Organisations Support Programme (AFOSP)
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Samoa weather advisory to help local farmers
he Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), University of South Pacific (USP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) are partnering to develop weather advisories aimed at helping farmers better plan their crop production. A meeting to discuss moving...
Samoa
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
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