Due to its location and geology, Dominica is highly vulnerable to many hazards, such as hurricanes, storms, heavy rainfalls, and landslides. These hazards directly affect agricultural productivity and production and increase the potential for soil erosion, which leads to a loss of productive topsoils. Therefore, careful soil management practices in...

The Philippines, due to its geographical location and physical environment, is among the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Disasters include floods, typhoons, monsoon storms and drought. The country experiences an average of 20 typhoons yearly. Natural hazards severely affect people’s livelihoods as they trigger landslides, flash floods, mudslides, widespread flooding and...

Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrates poverty reduction and environmental sustainability, and INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. Therefore, a homestead bamboo plantation can provide income-generating opportunities for family members and...

Este video te ayudará a reconocer las principales plagas y enfermedades en hortalizas, los métodos de control natural y algunos biopesticidas.

A Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Rurais Agricultores e Agricultoras Familiares (CONTAG) produziu um vídeo que resgata as primeiras lutas das mulheres do campo, da floresta e das águas do Brasil pelo direito à Previdência, à sindicalização e por participação no movimento sindical. Também destaca a trajetória de 20 anos de...

O acesso à alimentação diversificada, com produtos frescos, de qualidade e em quantidade suficiente tem impacto positivo sobre a saúde. Em conformidade com o Guia Alimentar para a População Brasileira do Ministério da Saúde, os alimentos in natura e minimamente processados devem ser a base de uma alimentação nutricionalmente balanceada, saborosa, culturalmente referenciada e...

CLACSO inaugura un observatorio para interpretar el fenómeno de la pandemia global. Con la convicción de que las ciencias sociales y las humanidades cumplen un rol central, CLACSO pone al servicio de la sociedad un conjunto de reflexiones sobre un acontecimiento que afecta todas las dimensiones de la vida en común. El conocimiento científico es...

IIMRO’s proposals to support fishing communities

En este libro los autores ofrecen al lector una descripción actualizada de las condiciones de producción de granadilla, gulupa y maracuyá en distintas regiones de Colombia. Con ese propósito se ha estructurado el documento de la siguiente forma: a) una descripción de las características generales de clima, suelos y ubicación...

Rural youth risk to disproportionately suffer from the pandemic. Already facing higher unemployment and underemployment rates compared to adults, rural youth are 40 per cent more likely to be in casual work arrangements than urban youth.[1]  Most earn their income on a daily or weekly basis, with little or no access to...

Due to inaccurate methods of harvesting, farmers tend to destroy the quality of mangoes and obtain reduced yields of the fruit, which results in a loss of income for farmers. Through selective harvesting techniques, mangoes are harvested in three stages from the trees based on their maturity level. Also, proper...

The rice duck farming system aims to facilitate environmental adaptation in the cultivation of rice, and to contribute to food and economic security in the region by reducing the use of pesticides, increasing yield and generating an additional income for farmers. Integrating ducks in rice farming have been proven to...

A community rattan nursery is a cooperative venture between community members who all play a part in running it and all benefit from it. As a larger unit than would be feasible at the individual level, the unit has more leverage in accessing inputs and selling its outputs. Collective facilities...

In August last year, the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a discussion on farmer seed systems, in Zanzibar, Tanzania. From Brazil, we were joined by two activist farmers, Severina da Silva Pereira from Paraiba and Sebastião Augusto Estevão from Minas Gerais, and researcher Gabriel Fernandes of the National Biodiversity...

Fishers are fighting the storm, locked down and chained up. 

Cette fiche technique présente la ruche Fonge qui est un modèle de ruche intermédiaire entre la ruche à barrettes modèle Kenyane et la ruche à cadres modèle Dadant. Ce modèle a été mis en place et expérimenté sur le terrain par le Groupe d'Initiative Locale Camerounais «Apiculture Lumière du Cameroun»...

In Dominica, natural hazards, such as storms and hurricanes, regularly occur and directly affect agricultural productivity and production. Heavy rainfalls, especially in the late summer and autumn months from August to December, significantly increase susceptibility to landslides and soil erosion and lead to a loss of productive top soils, among...

The Philippines is particularly prone to natural disasters due to its geographical location and physical environment. The country experiences an average of 20 typhoons yearly, which trigger landslides, flash-floods, mudslides, widespread flooding, and cause destruction and damages to homes, community buildings, communications, infrastructure, and agriculture. Within the Philippines, Bicol is...

Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrates poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. Therefore, it is important to develop Bamboo nurseries. The nursery enhances the livelihoods of...

 July FAO Gender Newsletter came with  a lot of news, papers and  reports regarding Gender and Covid-19