The productivity of livestock in Asia is found to be far below the global benchmark. The milk production per cattle in Bangladesh and Nepal, for instance, is only 305 kg and 459 kg per animal per year, respectively, compared to 7500 kg/animal/year in the USA and Europe (SAARC 2015). Improved...

Shanta Neupane had a vision. From Panauti Municipality, in central Nepal, she could see how hard women in the rural forest and farming communities around her worked in their family smallholdings, helping to feed their households. But although, like Shanta herself, they were members of community forest user groups, these same...

En las regiones de laderas de la República Dominicana se cultiva guandul en forma de monocultivos desde la época del descubrimiento de América. Sin embargo, los cultivares tradicionalmente cultivados (Puerto Rico, Kaki, Blanco, Barrosial, Enerito, Haitiano y Mena), presentan serios problemas cuando hay excesos de lluvias o cuando los períodos...

  Bio-inputs replaced chemical inputs on farmers fields With 11 years of experience in organic farming and 5 years working with marginalpaddy farmers (organic) at Gondeda, Tal. Chimur, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra, last season of Kharif, we (Generous Technologies Pvt Ltd) tried our hands in the high pest pressure zone of paddy area...

From 31 October, world leaders, experts, and climate activists from across the world will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, the biggest climate conference since the Paris Accords. IFAD will be there, calling for greater investments in climate adaptation – and we will be giving the floor to rural small-scale producers...

Since 2004, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have cooperated in the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) to reduce the threat from transboundary animal diseases (TADs) to food security, livelihoods and safe...

Acceso a alimentos seguros y nutritivos; cambio en los patrones de consumo; producción positiva para la naturaleza; resiliencia ante situaciones adversas; medios de vida equitativos y redistribución del valor; estas fueron las cinco áreas prioritarias identificadas por América Latina y el Caribe para aplicar el enfoque de género y avanzar...

Los enjambres son la forma natural mediante la cual las familias de abejas se reproducen y se localizan en un lugar diferente al que habitaban para utilizarlo como nuevo hogar. Este sitio generalmente ha sido inspeccionado por pecoreadoras de avanzada edad para verificar que contemple condiciones para albergar al enjambre....

En esta práctica se describe cómo reducir los daños producidos por la roya del café (Hemileia vastatrix Berk & Br) con la sustitución de variedades actuales, por variedades tolerantes a la enfermedad como son las líneas seleccionadas de las variedades Catimor y/o Sarchimor.

An interactive webinar on how to produce your own farm videos was organized by i2connect specialists – Thomas Alföldi from FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) and Reinis Mellis&Līga Cimermane, EUFRAS to introduce all interested parties to the appropriate equipment, practical tools and guidelines that can be helpful to produce...

In YPARD, we believe in the power of young professionals within the agricultural field. Our future is in their hands and it is very important to keep our youth encouraged. Today, I would like to introduce you to Dr. Hynek Roubík, an expert in organic waste management and sustainable technologies...

The COVID-19 health crisis is having wide-reaching effects on all parts of society, including on food systems, livelihoods and food security. Timely and reliable information is essential to anticipate and mitigate its negative impacts, in particular, to identify those areas where the pandemic is generating new and unprecedented stress. Traditionally...

In order to analyze the indebtedness margins of the national construction sector to identify opportunities for improvement, a refined database of 10,708 companies arranged chronologically between 2012-2015 was consolidated and by mathematical transformation the indicators of leverage, concentration of the liabilities in the short term, indebtedness with the financial sector...

This facilitator’s guide for sheep-related Farmer Field Schools (FFS) has been developed for the FAO project UTF/AZE/009/AZE, “Development and application of sustainable sheep production and food value chains”, in Azerbaijan. In Azerbaijan, small ruminant production plays an essential role in the livestock sector as it provides income for rural families...

The main objective of the present policy brief is to evaluate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on the fishery and aquaculture sectors in Libya. It provides orientations, recommendations and mitigation measures at the national level to face with the pandemic crisis. The study was conducted by FAO sub regional office...

Burkina Faso and other countries in the Sahel are currently facing a multitude of crises. Over 12 million small scale farmers and their families in the dryland areas of the region are chronically vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. This is the result of the degradation of fragile ecosystems, population growth, and a low...

Agri-food systems transformation is urgently needed to get back on track towards the goal of eradicating hunger and malnutrition, the 49th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) heard today. According to the latest FAO estimates, the number of undernourished people in the world continues to rise. In 2020, up to 811...

Se narra la historia de una niña que se hace amiga de una abejita, la cual le es de gran ayuda en procesos de polinización. 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/

De plus en plus de producteurs adoptent des pratiques agroécologiques comme ici au Sénégal. Cette nouvelle approche de l’agriculture commence à porter ses fruits. Elle repose sur un cortège de solutions techniques adaptées à chaque territoire et à chaque culture. Le Cirad avec ses partenaires est convaincu que l’agroécologie peut...

Last 28 & 29 April, 2021 , high-level policy experts gathered at the digital event “Scaling up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together” to discuss and inspire key decision-makers on policies supporting agroecology and organic agriculture in the region. The Himalayas event was organised by IFOAM – Organics International and the...