El objetivo de este trabajo fue caracterizar tecnológica y socioeconómicamente el sistema de producción de ñame (Dioscorea spp) en la región Caribe, se usó el método descriptivo con información de una encuesta estructurada y aplicada a 98 agricultores, así como la técnica de muestreo aleatorio simple. El análisis de datos...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

On 21 March 2020, ten days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic, a voluntary closure was imposed on all fishing and fish marketing activities in Kollam in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Shot during the peak of the first wave of Covid-19 in India, this...

A recurrent controversy related to food systems and their transition toward more sustainability is the ability of organic farming to produce sufficient food for a growing world population. This long-term research from FiBL provides new and interesting insights into this policy issue. Results from long-term comparative farming systems research of FiBL in Kenya,...

This practice explains how conservation agriculture (CA) works, its limitations, and how to identify practical solutions to challenges farmers face in Timor-Leste. For the adoption of CA practices, the CA principles must be well understood by those providing advice and by those implementing it – extensionists and farmers. This practice describes...

El Programa Especial para la Seguridad Alimentaria (PESA), Nicaragua, provee de cabras lecheras a familias que viven en zonas rurales, de mayor vulnerabilidad al hambre y la pobreza. Cabras lecheras como alternativa para mejorar la alimentación conduce a un aumento de la seguridad alimentaria en estas áreas. Este material proviene...

El impacto directo de las restricciones a la movilidad- propias de la cuarentena - afectó principalmente al sector comercial y de servicios, con reducción del empleo. Se estima que una parte de la población que perdió su empleo -de muy difícil cuantificación - ha retornado a las zonas rurales, que...

Les efforts de transformation visant les forêts arides et les systèmes agrosylvopastoraux sont le plus souvent centrés sur des aspects techniques de la gestion des systèmes. Ils ciblent généralement la gestion des pâturages, la restauration ou l'ajout d'arbres et la gestion de la matière organique, de l'eau et de la...

Certification in agriculture ensures compliance with tangible standards and should generate economic opportunities for farmers. This study quantifies the variable profit and efficiency impacts of organic certification in dairy farming across Europe, using farm-level FADN data from 25 countries while accounting for heterogeneity through a class splitting model. Four distinct...

The SWOT analysis accompanying the CAP Strategic Plan in Bulgaria identified this country as one of the Member States with the highest loss of HNV farmland in the EU. Unfortunately, it digs no further to analyse the reasons behind the loss, the types of HNV farmland that suffers most, or...

Las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC) son motor de gran parte de los cambios que actualmente viven nuestras sociedades y que también generan impacto entre las juventudes, ampliando la velocidad en que se comparte la información, extendiendo las modalidades de interacción social e impulsando otras formas de...

The Greater Mahale Ecosystem (GME) with its stunning views and fascinating wildlife along the shores of Lake Tanganyika – the world's longest freshwater lake – must be an exciting region to visit in western Tanzania.

Contexto. El estudio presenta la sistematización de experiencias de un proyecto para el fortalecimiento de la cadena láctea colombiana a la luz de las prácticas de cuatro asociaciones, así como proceso de formación del equipo de extensionistas acompañante. Objetivo. Identificar el aprendizaje en términos productivos, tecnológicos, económicos y ambientales que...

El presente documento es una aproximación inicial a la situación de la agricultura nacional bajo los impactos de las restricciones impuestas para hacer frente a la pandemia de Covid-19 en el Perú. La característica principal de este escenario de crisis sanitaria es la incertidumbre respecto de su intensidad y duración, por lo...

By putting farmers at the heart of the learning and innovation process, FAO’s Farmer Field Schools (FFS) empower people, households and communities and help restore ecosystems. The discovery-learning process in FFS is ideal to support farmers’ learning and innovation on agroecology.

FAO Agroecology Newsletter #48 June 2021

12 European partners join forces in a coordination and support action to develop a framework for a European network of agroecological living labs, research infrastructure and learning spaces for farmers, research and civil society actors. European agriculture and food systems are strongly impacted by a large number of challenges such...

The initiative is located in the valley of Asni, at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains. In 2010, the family farms of the Tifawine cooperative decided to change their practices to improve the value of their orchards. Since this transition to agroecology, yields have increased by 27% and so...

A field robot autonomously hoed sugar beet for the first time in the canton of Thurgau. And FiBL filmmaker Thomas Alföldi was right there with his video camera. First he filmed the robot from all angles, sent up his drone and then interviewed the farmer about his the material into a...

Este video muestra una historia de éxito del Corredor Seco Centroamericano, localizada en El Salvador donde la Asociación Almejas del Pacifíco es la responsable.