The question is though – how often do I get to choose between organic and conventionally grown produce here, in Riga, Latvia? Well, it turns out that if I am very motivated, I can find quite a wide variety of products, even locally produced ones except for example exotic fruits,...

Family farms produce 80 percent of world’s food from 70.80 percent of farm land. By 2050 food grain production needs to grow 330 MT per year. The small family farms are ecological and play a big role in promoting food security and nutritional support. In the state of Kerala, the average...

This course is part of a series of three e-learning courses on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS), designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools required to apply systems thinking to complex food systems challenges in an integrated manner. The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help...

Este nuevo tiempo global nos exige la reformulación de los viejos paradigmas de la "revolución verde" y del modelo de la agricultura industrial del siglo XX. La fuerte incidencia de los proceso agroindustriales intensivos, desde los agroquímicos sistéticos y la energía involucrada hasta los objetos ultraprocesados que se ofrecen a...

CZU mobiLAB (developed at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague) represents a complex solution that enables the application of state-of-the-art molecular detection methods in remote or inaccessible areas. The principal advantage of the proposed solution is the concept of a mobile laboratory, which is unique in terms of its size...

Due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), drug-resistant infections are placing an ever-increasing burden on human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Drug-resistant infections have the potential to become leading causes of death. AMR may force tens of millions more people into extreme poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and the associated economic losses are...

The Programme is focusing on three value chains of cocoa, vanilla and fisheries (aquaculture, riverine and in shore/reef) and aims to achieve an overall objective "To increase sustainable and inclusive economic development of rural areas" through a combination of two integrated outcomes: (1) Increasing the economic returns and opportunities from...

On 16 March 2021, a digital workshop on the topic of sustainability of organic fruit orchards was held in the framework of the EU project DOMINO. Among other things, the results of trials conducted by FiBL Switzerland and six project partners over the past three years were presented. Organic fruit production...

El objetivo de esta investigación fue evaluar la aplicación del recubrimiento comestible comercial Proallium Brill® (RC) en frutos de guayaba (Psidium guajava L.) ecotipo “regional roja”. El RC no ha sido estudiado y puede ser una alternativa de conservación post cosecha. Se empleó un diseño experimental completamente al azar con...

Objetivo. Estimar la heredabilidad y las correlaciones de la para tres caracteres relacionados con el crecimiento en bovinos criollos Romosinuano, y construir un índice de selección (IS).  Materiales y métodos. Se analizó una base de datos conformada por 4079 registros de peso al nacimiento (PN), al destete (PD) y a los 16 meses...

Plan de trabajo con las Mesas de CTIA para la actualización de la Agenda I+D+i y la definición de insumos Codecti. 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/

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...

The diversity of plants, animals and microorganisms that directly or indirectly support food and agriculture is critical to achieving healthy diets and agroecosystems. Here we present the Agrobiodiversity Index (based on 22 indicators), which provides a monitoring framework and informs food systems policy. Agrobiodiversity Index calculations for 80 countries reveal...

EIP-AGRI Seminar: “CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in Member States” - Online seminar The EIP-AGRI Seminar 'CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of AKIS in Member States' was initially planned to take place in Warsaw, Poland on 22-23 April but it was postponed...

Sandeep Narayan Jamjade is a farmer residing in Jalochi Village, Baramati, Pune. He is 37 years old with a family of 11. He started his farming venture when he was 24.    It took him years of trial and error to adopt various practical solutions leading to ecologically sustainable agricultural practices. Though...

This course is part of a series of three e-learning courses on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS), designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools required to apply systems thinking to complex food systems challenges in an integrated manner. The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help...

Este documento tiene por objetivo contribuir a “alcanzar resultados concretos que se traduzcan en mejoras significativas en la calidad de vida de nuestros pueblos, dirigidas a la erradicación de la pobreza, en especial de la pobreza extrema, que garanticen la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición, con enfoque de género y...

En las últimas dos décadas, Colombia ha realizado grandes avances en la conservación de algunos de sus recursos zoogenéticos locales importantes para la producción agropecuaria y la alimentación. El propósito inicial de conservar estos recursos zoogenéticos locales fue recuperar razas de animales, principalmente bovinos, porcinos y ovinos que estaban a punto de desaparecer,...

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...

Women and youth-led agri-enterprises (WYE) (which may also be operating as family businesses) in agricultural value chains have been identified as catalysts for rural transformation given their potential for creating employment and stimulating value addition both on and off-farm. Given that agriculture and food systems are likely to remain the...