This guide is specifically intended for Producer Organisations (POs) located in countries outside the European Union (EU), as well as for AVSF’s technical teams working with them.Its objective is to describe the different stages of organic certification, and to highlight the difficulties that can be encountered, in order to anticipate...

  This practice shows some simple tips for harvesting and storage of different crops. The dependence of much food production on climatic fluctuations means that variability in food output can never be completely avoided. Adequate on-farm and household storage are therefore crucial, not only to enable storage of current and surplus food...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi (AMF) are soil microorganisms that can form mutualistic relationships with most terrestrial plants. The AMF spores germinate, infect the root system, and form arbuscules structures inside the cells serving as sites for nutrient exchange between the plant and the fungi. Depending on the plant species, growing practices,...

This infographic shows the strategy used by Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal (IBIF) for an integrated fire management. IBIF designed a process of institutional strengthening in themunicipalities of Ascensión de Guarayos and Urubichá, to improve capacitiesfor risk management focused on the prevention and reduction of forest firerisks. This process included technical assistance in...

Los productores del oriente y suroeste antioqueño, han usado diferentes sistemas y arreglos de siembra, sin embargo, en fríjol, el más usado es el monocultivo con tutorado en madera. Fuente principal Modelo tecnológico para el cultivo de fríjol voluble (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) en el departamento de Antioquia Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial...

On 7 June 2022, the Access Agriculture team received the 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award in the category of Community Engagement Innovation in Toronto, Canada. The team comprised Josephine Rodgers, Executive Director; Paul Van Mele, Director for International Development; and Jane Nalunga, Coordinator of the Rural Entrepreneur Programme, who...

The pace and scale of agrarian changes that have taken place in Preah Vihear in the last two decades are unprecedented. The province has exhibited transformations that are characteristic of dynamics observed widely across Cambodia. Central to these transformations is a process of agrarian expansion driven by boom crop export markets...

Shexian dryland stone terraced system is a rain-fed agricultural system in the mountains, developed by the local ancestors through adapting to and transforming the harsh natural environment and inherited from generation to generation. The dryland terrace system has outstanding soil and water conservation abilities. This practice explains the process of...

FAO Agroecology Newsletter of October 2022

CARI is launching a dynamic Desertif’actions 2022 initiative with activities to build and carry out advocacy throughout the year. Desertif’actions 2022 aims to put agroecology at the top of the agenda in the fight against desertification and land degradation, by sharing and pooling the results of actions carried out by civil...

Boletín informativo donde enccuentra recomendaciones para la cría de porcinos en condiciones de bioseguridad, higiene, manejo sanitario y ambiental

Diseases need to be cured; this is true for people, animals and plants. In plant protection, fungicides are probably more readily seen as acceptable than insecticides, which are well known to harm the ecosystem, bees, birds and people.

The practice describes the process to build virtual innovation labs based on five principles: facilitate dialogue, encourage listening with an open mind, be inclusive, an amplifier of ideas, and promote co-solution from design to develop solutions. This practice describes the different steps for setting a virtual space for innovation while...

These insects that help us need pollen and nectar to survive, and a place where they can find shelter. Grow different kinds of flowering trees, shrubs and herbs around your field, so insects find different sources of food throughout the year.

La pudrición de la mazorca del maíz es una enfermedad causada por el hongo Stenocarpella maydis, la cual ha incrementado su incidencia y su distribución geográfica en el departamento del Meta. Esto se ha debido al aumento de áreas sembradas, de cultivares altamente susceptibles y de variaciones locales de clima...

Traditionally, inadequate delivery of agricultural support services has been, and still is, a major challenge in most parts of the world.  Since 2012, Access Agriculture has reached out to more than 90 million farmers, and is striving to reach more farmers globally, promoting agroecological principles and rural entrepreneurship through capacity development...

The following practice describes the STB model, its functions, major elements, how it works, stakeholders involved, training required, costs and outcomes, and challenges and limitations to adoption and scaling. It includes summary information on some case studies to highlight the success of this practice applied elsewhere. China's agriculture sector is characterized...

Despite a wealth of case-specific insights from agricultural adoption studies, we lack systematic evidence on which technology characteristics matter for adoption across different innovation contexts. We synthesise the results of 304 quantitative farm-level adoption studies for a wide range of agricultural innovations across more than 60 countries using multi-level meta...

Remember: healthy soil and healthy plants make healthy seed.

Este manual busca entregar información relevante a los productores de cerdo, orientando los procesos de planificación y organización para un establecimiento productor de porcinos.