Ésta ficha técnica describe el método de tutores en el cultivo de la pitahaya recomendando los tutores vivos. De los cuales, se desarrollan las ventajas, costos, restricciones y beneficios en los ámbitos económicos, sociales y ambientales.

Agroecology has many faces and in order to scale up and remain a legitimate approach in bio-culturally diverse contexts such as Latin America, it has to keep the balance between science, practice, and social movements. The power of local networks, including children; the deconstruction of colonial perceptions toward native foods and rural...

Agriculture is an important source of employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. In rural areas, some 54.6 per cent of the labor force is engaged in agricultural production. Although much of the region shares the same language and cultural heritage, the structure and scale of the agriculture sector varies...

Women in fisheries in the North and the East region of post-war Sri Lanka continue to face serious safety and livelihood challenges. Then the war between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ended in 2009, the Northern and the Eastern province of Sri Lanka...

En Colombia, las colectas de especies con potencial agrícola iniciaron en el año 1942 con el fin de crear colecciones de trabajo para que los mejoradores del país pudieran hacer nuevos cruzamientos y crear nuevas variedades. Posteriormente, entre 1962 hasta 1994, estas colecciones fueron administradas por el ICA. En 1994,...

The vandalism of hives and theft of honey in Nigeria is a perennial problem that has led to the loss of investments and gains by beekeepers and discouraged consumers as well. Beekeepers find it difficult to securely situate their apiaries as they describe it as simply 'no-go' areas for placing...

Ésta ficha técnica explica y describe diferentes tipos posibles de injertos que es posible hacer en cultivos frutales, a través de los que se posibilitan cambios de variedades en plantaciones ya establecidas, así como también permite revitalizar y rejuvenecer árboles viejos, enfermos y caducos.  

The increase in demand for dairy products in Burkina Faso is encouraging livestock producers to develop milk production. Three types of dairy systems (pastoralists, agropastoralists and market-oriented dairy farms) have been characterised based on a sample of 60 producers operating in the West and centre of the country. Pastoralists’ dairy...

The department of Caquetá is part of the Amazon River basin and a strategic ecosystem for Colombia and the globe. Historically, it has been the region most affected by deforestation in the country due to the advancing of the agricultural frontier and the widespread presence of illicit crops. The region...

The best compost for sack mounds is the one made using poultry manure and plant remains. If you use such compost, the sack mound will yield a lot of vegetables for a long time.

The dense fumes of fishmeal factories in the Gambia are like dark clouds obscuring the future of women in the country’s fisheries. In the Gambia, 10 percent of the 2.2 million inhabitants derive their livelihoods from fisheries, with activities concentrated in the artisanal fishing communities of Kartong, GunjurSanyangTanji, Brufut, Bakau and...

El éxito de la inoculación depende tanto de la efectividad de las bacterias utilizadas como de la tecnología empleada para su aplicación. La razón del uso de inoculantes formulados es simple: con la inoculación de bacterias en suspensión aplicada directamente en el suelo, sin una formulación adecuada, la población de...

Read the opinion piece by Maryline Darmaun, Fabio Leippert and Martin Herren, published on Devex as part of the Future of Food Systems series. The article addresses the question of how we can transform food systems and strengthen their resilience to increasing external shocks and changing conditions. The authors advocate...

Pruning and mulching are traditional cultural practices in small cardamom cultivation to expose the panicles for better pollination and fruit set as well as to reduce insect pest build up. Also pruning the lower branches of shade trees in cardamom field is a cultural practice to maintain about 50 percent...

Haor ecosystem of Bangladesh plays dual roles: local economic development through agricultural income-earning activities and preserve the environment. Smallholder haor farmers face a variety of challenges that confined their access to the market. This study was undertaken to examine the determinants of smallholder's market access that plays an important role...

Esta tecnología desarrolla la idea del uso de saccharina (caña de azúcar) en la alimentación de ganado bovino como una práctica de elaboración sencilla, en la que se obtiene un producto de buena calidad nutritivo y relativamente de bajo costo.

The hive "Ruche Fonge" is an intermediate hive model which combines features of the Kenyan topbar hive and the Dadant movable frame hive. This hive model was developed and successfully tested by the "Groupe d'initiative locale camerounais "Apiculture lumière du Cameroun"" (GIC LUMICAM) and is now being promoted in Cameroun...

Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala” (vigente desde enero del 2020) presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore...

Concerns about chronic hunger, malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation have led to increased focus on the world’s food system in recent years, with various actors putting forward different plans to tackle these interconnected issues. In this context, interest in agroecology has grown significantly, and it is now...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of agri-food systems to shocks and stresses and led to increased global food insecurity and malnutrition. Action is needed to make agri-food systems more resilient, efficient, sustainable and inclusive.  The State of Food and Agriculture 2021 presents country-level indicators of the resilience of agri-food systems....