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Bonnes pratiques de transformation du soja en fromage
Conçue au Bénin par le Programme de Promotion de l'Agriculture au Bénin (ProAgri) en partenariat avec le projet Competitive African Cotton Initiative - COMPACI, la technologie souligne les étapes nécessaires requises pour transformer le soja en fromage. L’illustration met en exergue deux étapes principales à savoir la production du lait...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Labor-saving practices and technologies: manual crop processing
The following provides information on grain milling, oil extraction, rice husk, cassava processing, and coffee processing capabilities. Advantages and disadvantages of practices are also provided, including labor savings, strengthening livelihood resilience, diversifying livelihoods, equipment, infrastructure, costs and risks.
This technology is also available in: English (ID 7317)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Improving farmers' resilience and income diversification in flood and typhoon prone areas through backyard tilapia farming
Fisheries is of paramount importance in the Bicol region in the Philippines, with its 3 100 km of coast line of various fishing grounds. The region is, however, flood and typhoon-prone and, as in most areas in the Philippines, fishing in the Bicol region is characterized by declining fish catch....
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Evergreen agriculture: the use of fertilizer trees in maize production
As supplementary technology in evergreen agriculture, agroforestry technology will focus on the concept of simultaneous intercropping of proven fertilizer trees in replenishing soil fertility and increasing crop yields. Simultaneous intercropping is an agroforestry technique whereby nitrogen fixing woody trees are simultaneously grown with annual crops on the same piece of...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Coconut leaf pruning
The Philippines are regularly exposed to extreme weather events. Due to its geographical location and physical environment Bicol Region is particularly prone to meteorological hazards such as typhoons, floods, drought, and high magnitude rainfall and related hazards such landslides. Agriculture is one of the most affected sectors especially in the...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Making banana chips and flour
Bananas are a staple food in many parts of Eastern Africa. Currently, there is very limited commercial processing of bananas. Most people consume bananas fresh, steamed or boiled. During bumper harvests, farmers sell bananas at give-away prices and many go to waste. A detailed process of making banana chips and...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory approaches: soaking seeds (seed priming) to improve crop yields
Crop establishment is often poor in the semiarid tropics. However, good crop stand establishment is essential for the efficient use of water and light, and a uniform stand is a pre-requisite for cropping success. Seeds that germinate quickly produce viable seedlings that are not dependent on rapidly declining moisture in...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory approaches: client-oriented breeding of maize
The centralized 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 centralized breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Participatory 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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Cost-benefit analysis of rain water harvesting systems: roof top rain water harvesting combined with gravity drip irrigation
This practice briefly describes the introduction of rainwater harvesting and the use of gravity drip irrigation on small vegetable farms in Jamaica to address the water scarcity problem farmers are facing. The technology was validated in the parish of St. Elizabeth, which is the leading producer of cash vegetables in...
Jamaica
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Evergreen agriculture: conservation agriculture in maize production
Evergreen Agriculture is a combination of conservation agriculture and agroforestry practices within the same spatial and temporal dimensions. In other circles, evergreen agriculture is referred to as agroforestry based conservation agriculture or Conservation Agriculture With Trees (CAWT). Evergreen agriculture is being tested by The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in conjunction...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Sand dams bring water and food security to Southeast Kenya
Sand dams are a simple and cost-effective rainwater-harvesting technique which can provide a lifetime supply of clean water within 30 minutes of people’s homes. They can save up to 11.5 hours each day (otherwise spent on collecting water) in periods of drought. A sand dam is a reinforced stone masonry...
Kenya
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
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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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Establishing a tree nursery
At present the need to plant trees on farms is on the increase. It is difficult, however, for smallholders to access – at the right time, in the right quantities and of high quality – the trees that they want to plant. In order to meet present and future demand...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Vegetative tree propagation in agroforestry
This technology describes the various stages in the vegetative propagation of trees (from tree nursery management to cuttings, grafting, and layering). It is targeted at helping field technicians and nursery managers active in tree propagation research or development. The concept of vegetative propagation is that an exact copy of the...
Kenya
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
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The role of digital agriculture in agroecology and food sovereignty
This presentation claims that innovations for family farmers must deliver improved livelihoods in rural areas. It argues that all innovation has to comply with the SDGs: more people working with more value and higher quality of life. Agroecology is an innovation based on peasant knowledge centered farming systems and innovation...
2020 - Schola Campesina
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Amibiase: une maladie parasitaire des abeilles adultes
L'amibiase est une maladie qui affecte les abeilles domestiques adultes. Les symptômes de l'amibiase sont similaires à ceux de la nosémose: abeilles avec un abdomen enflé et diarrhée. L'apiculteur peut localiser les au trou de vol et à l'avant de la ruche et observer des abeilles incapables de voler, avec...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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African Leafy Vegetables (ALV) for urban supply and sustainable diets
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...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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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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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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