“Detrás del humo”: el documental de la UNR sobre la quema en las islas El trabajo indaga sobre las causas de los incendios que se intensificaron en 2020 y dejaron más de 400 mil hectáreas destruidas, y más de 900 especies animales afectadas. “Ahí está Rosario, pero no se ve...

El subsecretario de Salud de México, Hugo López-Gatell, convocó a “mantener el paso” de la transformación que ha emprendido el actual gobierno, y movilizarse para defender una batería de leyes que, desde su perspectiva, ayudarán a para mejorar la calidad de vida que tenemos.

The new Common Agricultural Policy, the CAP, comes into force from January the 1st next year. It’s one of the biggest, most important, longest-lasting – and often the most incendiary – of EU programmes. Co-financing and complementary national financing will bring the total public budget dedicated to farmers and rural...

Sufficient and timely availability of water is essential to irrigate crops during critical stages of crop growth. This shall ensure improved farm productivity and incomes. However, a critical prerequisite is a reliable energy-based system which enables timely extraction and distribution of water supply. Solar models have shown the way. In rural...

La agricultura familiar es una actividad esencial para el desarrollo del mundo rural y la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de los pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe. Legislar sobre agricultura familiar permite sentar bases normativas permanentes para el desarrollo de políticas propicias que fomenten la agricultura familiar como parte...

The aim of this study was to evaluate and select entomopathogenic fungi that produces insecticidal compounds for the control of adults of Anastrepha obliqua Macquart (Diptera: tephritidae), that are the main pest of mango (Mangifera indica L. Bark) in Colombia. One strain of the species Metarhizium robertsii with insecticidal activity was selected. By column fractionation,...

The European Commission launched the European CAP Network during an event in Brussels on 6 October. Around 320 CAP stakeholders (e.g. EU Member State administrations, farmers, national rural networks, researchers, advisors, NGOs), all of whom share an interest in and commitment to sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural development across the EU, attended.   ...

Amid increasing global hunger and poverty, devastating climate change impacts, the Covid-19 pandemic and the widespread effects of the war in Ukraine, small-scale producers can play a lead role in reducing hunger and poverty at country and regional levels. On 16 November 2022, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)...

Thousands of consumer products around the world contain ingredients obtained from wild plants. Wild harvest accounts for some or all the harvest of the great majority of plant species in trade (between 60-90 percent). Wild-harvested plants often come from the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth and many have been used...

FAO harnesses the power of digital technologies to pilot, accelerate and scale innovative ideas with high potential for impact in food and agriculture, transforming digital solutions and services into global public goods. It aims to explore the responsible application and adoption of existing and frontier technologies, design and scale new services,...

Dependence of mankind on the non-renewable sources of energy such as coal, oil and gases is increasing worldwide. It is time to switch over to readily available, economical, and environment-friendly renewable source of energy like cattle dung, which is plentily available.   Jammu, the city of temples in India, is flooded with...

En los últimos años la producción porcina y avícola ha transitado un importante proceso de transformación ligado a un incremento en la intensificación productiva. Como consecuencia de este cambio los sistemas han confinado parte o la totalidad de su producción, existiendo mayor cantidad de animales por unidad de superficie y...

A medida que la agroecología se ha incluido cada vez más en el diálogo internacional sobre el futuro de la alimentación y la agricultura, ha habido llamados para producir las evidencias de su desempeño en las múltiples dimensiones de la sostenibilidad y de su capacidad para lograr múltiples ODS. En...

La cosecha es una operación clave, ya que la separación de la fruta de la planta, causa estrés de la lima, lo cual sumado a las altas temperaturas propias de los lugares de producción, aceleran los procesos de respiración y transpiración de la fruta, llevándola rápidamente al deterioro. Por lo...

El manejo de arvenses es fundamental entre los 24 y 40 días después de la germinación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

In nature, cells face changes in environmental conditions that can modify their growth rate. In these dynamic environments, recent experiments found changes in cell size regulation. Currently, there are few clues about the origin of these cell size changes. In this work, we model cell division as a stochastic process...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) belong to all of us. But amid resurgent conflict, climate havoc, and social and health crises, we risk losing sight of them. Even so, they represent our best shot at a better future for people and planet. This publication shows how FAO and partners continue...

The social pillar of sustainable development ought to be strengthened to protect the future of lives and livelihoods in the small-scale fisheries subsector  

Through one of these international interactions, NOAN collaborated with IFOAM – Organics International and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmBH to conduct the Training of Teams of Trainers (ToToT) in Nigeria from 1 – 5 February 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic prevented the training from taking place in person as planned,...

Few of us let a day go by without enjoying European fruit and vegetables at our table. The EU’s production of fruit and veg is at the core of its Common Agricultural Policy: as well as feeding Europeans, it’s exported far and wide beyond the single market. For the episode of...