Pastoralism is a form of livestock farming based on continuous or seasonal, local or regional herd mobility. This livestock rearing strategy is geared towards meeting the herd’s nutritional needs via intermittent grazing of fodder resources of often spatiotemporally varying availability and quality. In Sahelian-Saharan areas, pastoral livestock farming is family-based,...

CSA Starts Here is an educational video series for aspiring and beginning CSA farmers. These twelve videos will help you evaluate whether or not CSA farming is the right model for you while also explaining the skills you need to nurture in order to be successful at CSA farming. CSA...

In this study, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) teamed up to investigate how transformational change (transformational change) is understood in the scientific literature. The study, the first of its kind to review academic studies on transformational change,...

A growing coalition of small-scale, community-based fishers is calling for the recognition and protection of Alaska’s invaluable coastal fisheries. Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in the industrialised world–a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far...

Drawing on the sectors of fisheries management, small-scale fisheries, seafood corporates, academia and civil society, an ongoing project attempts to define ‘destructive fishing’. The language of fisheries, conservation and sustainable development can be fraught with jargon. Of course, aquatic ecosystems are inherently dynamic and fluid; it’s easy to see why technical...

Concentrated plant liquid manure is easy to make and store. It supplies plants with nutrients which as well manage pest and diseases in crops. Plant liquid manure is made from plants rich in both micro and macro nutrients, such plants includes Russian confrey, Lantana camara, Pumpkin leaves, Calliadra, Pumpkin leaves, Tethonia, Wandering Jew and...

Seven young entrepreneurs belonging to four teams from Uganda participated in a hands-on learning course to familiarise themselves with the solar-powered smart projector kit that they had won through the Access Agriculture Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund initiative. The smart projector contains the entire library of Access Agriculture farmer-training videos in...

This study aims to assist food producers and social movements in the complicated discussion around digitization. The goal of this working paper is to provide an analytical tool to food producers and advocates regarding dangerous trends that are currently occurring in this field, which are frequently supported by a general...

Training of Trainers: ''Introduction to Agroecology'' for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) This Training of Trainers is part of the activities of the Training Centre for Sustainable Family Farming (CCAFS) of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). As part of a broader work program of knowledge and capacity building, the main...

Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity and livestock are a significant driver of climate change, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere and triggering global warming. Climate change has both direct and indirect effects on agricultural productivity...

The unique geography of Bangladesh makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change and warrants appropriate tools and strategies to combat and mitigate negative impacts. Bangladesh has been one of the countries most affected by climate change in the last 15 years. It is the seventh most vulnerable country on the Climate...

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) agreed to work together to develop a suite of innovative tools for bolstering the resilience of the UAE’s food system. Under a cooperative agreement signed by Dr. Tarifa Alzaabi, Acting Director General of ICBA, and Professor...

De acuerdo con los lineamientos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (fao, 2013), los bancos de germoplasma deben ser unidades de conservación de recursos genéticos localizados en instalaciones delimitadas que sirvan como repositorios de material biológico y faciliten la conservación de todo material...

El presente trabajo de relevamiento y diagnóstico fue llevado a cabo por la Asociación Civil “Instituto de Intervenciones Situadas” (IN SITU) como iniciativa propia anexada a las acciones implementadas en el marco de un convenio con la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), la Universidad...

To be sustainable, agriculture must meet the needs of present and future generations, while ensuring profitability, environmental health, and social and economic equity. Sustainable food and agriculture (SFA) contributes to all four pillars of food security – availability, access, utilization and stability – and the dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social...

Costos fijos: Asistencia técnica, arriendo, análisis de suelos, costos administrativos y financieros. Costos variables: cambian en proporción a la actividad o labor del sistema productivo. Costos indirectos: son todos los demás gastos que se requieren para los productos del cultivo, como pago de administración, entre otros. Si bien el costo...

Presentación de experiencias de Sistemas Territoriales de Innovación agropecuaria: Territorios Innovadores y Socioecológicamente Resilientes, la Red de Innovación para la sostenibilidad de los Montes de María, Estrategia de Innovación Rural Participativa, el Centro de Innovación y Apropiación Social de la Caficultura – Cicaficultura Caucana y la estrategia de Conectividades Socioecosistémicas:...

In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, the office of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Kazakhstan has launched a “Call for good practices on digital agriculture in Kazakhstan”. This call will enable to identify, showcase the good practices and innovative solutions that have proven successful in advancing...

El proyecto *Sembrando Capacidades lo invita a participar en el evento virtual Presentación de resultados: Lineamientos de política pública para la agroecología en Colombia, que tiene como objetivo dar a conocer dos productos trabajados durante el desarrollo del proyecto: Algunos resultados del Mapeo de iniciativas y procesos de transición agroecológica...

Sustainable food and agriculture are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. One of the ways of achieving Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment, and Better Life, leaving no one behind, is through agroecology. Agroecology helps ensure food and nutritional security, reduce poverty, mitigate climate change and restore...