Ethiopia has experienced impressive agricultural growth and poverty reduction, stemming in part from substantial public investments in agriculture. Yet, the agriculture sector now faces increasing land and water constraints along with other challenges to growth. Ethiopia’s Agrifood System: Past Trends, Present Challenges, and Future Scenarios presents a forward-looking analysis of...

La pandemia de COVID-19 afecta a la vida diaria de las personas en todo el mundo, pero incluso en tiempos difíciles podemos llevar un estilo de vida saludable.  No hay alimentos ni suplementos que puedan prevenir la infección, pero la alimentación sana puede fortalecer tu sistema inmunitario.

El presente boletín muestra los indicadores de CTI 2019 que se han calculado desde su primera edición publicada en 2017, e incorpora dos nuevas secciones de análisis: la Agenda Dinámica Nacional de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación Agropecuaria (Agenta I+D+i) y el modulo de CTI de la Encuesta Nacional Agropecuaria...

The Cereal Supply and Demand Brief provides an up-to-date perspective of the world cereal market. The monthly brief is supplemented by a detailed assessment of cereal production as well as supply and demand conditions by country and region in the quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation. File replaced 26 April 2020...

Le couvain pétrifié, ou aspergillose, est causé par différentes espèces de champignons appartenant au genre Aspergillus. La maladie est identifiée par des larves dures couvertes de spores fongiques poudreuses. On la rencontre dans le monde entier mais, à moins que la colonie ne soit sérieusement affaiblie par d'autres facteurs de stress,...

This practice describes how to manage water in organic agriculture. It provides in depth techniques on how to keep water in the soil ranging from keeping soil moisture to evaporation reduction and how to make better use of seasonal rainfall. Water management also encompasses how to harvest water through a...

In India, tomato is both a high value crop, often exported to the Middle East, and an important subsistence vegetable grown mainly by women. Tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV) and its whitefly vector, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.), are two of the most serious constraints to tomato production in India. When populations...

El híbrido FHIA-21 es un plátano tipo francés, que fue desarrollado en 1987. En la actualidad, se encuentra en producción comercial en Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, entre otros países. Se consume en estado verde hervido o frito, o maduro.

In light of the uncertainties surrounding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, policy makers must ensure that national responses to the virus do not trigger a food crisis. The Covid-19 outbreak can shift the balance between food demand and supply, especially considering many countries having declared lockdowns and their borders closed. Countries...

The main target group is para-veterinarians involved in the development of small poultry farm at village level. The intention is that the paravets will extract from the manual the materials they need for training.

Small-scale fishworkers face many challenges in Peru but the government pays little attention to the informal and uncontrolled sector. Peru’s marine waters are among the world’s richest fisheries. This is mainly due to the Peruvian anchovy fishery (anchoveta), mostly run by industrial operations producing yields of 3-6 million tonnes per year...

Increasing demands for agricultural commodities are resulting in more intensely managed landscapes. This is at odds with biodiversity conservation and largely ignores farmland biodiversity’s supporting function for high and stable yields. An overhaul of agroeconomic models to account for the biodiversity-production mutualism is urgently needed to answer a question of utmost...

This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs and factors of production, their implications for food security and nutrition and their impacts on the...

Mélanie Besse, jeune viticultrice valaisanne de 26 ans, est ainsi l’une des premières professionnelles – et la seule femme - en Suisse à traiter elle-même, selon un programme bio, l’ensemble de son domaine de 4,5 hectares de vignes en terrasses au drone. Nous avons suivi ce chantier exceptionnel lors du...

Los pedidos a los productores de la economía popular aumentaron entre el 40 y el 80 por ciento, dependiendo de la organización. El caso de Mercado Territorial, una comercializadora que creció aliada a la Universidad de Quilmes, con una consigna que hoy cobra un valor extra: que la construcción de...

While the COVID-19 pandemic is devastating lives, public health systems, livelihoods and economies all over the world, populations living in food crisis contexts are particularly exposed to its effects.  Countries with existing humanitarian crises are particularly exposed to the effects of the pandemic, which is already directly affecting food systems through...

Rice is the second most important cereal crop in Tanzania after maize and the majority of rice farmers depend on it both for food and as a cash crop. However, highly competitive annual and perennial wild rice species have been identified as one of the important constraints to rice production...

Helping to write a script for a farmer training video on vermiwash triggered my interest in trying it out myself, as I began to wonder if ideas from tropical India could work in temperate Belgium.  

Argentina es el primer país exportador mundial de harina y aceite de soja, con ingresos promedio de 19.000 millones de dólares anuales. En la última campaña, 2019/2020, se sembraron 17,2 millones de hectáreas y se cosecharon 50,7 millones de toneladas de soja (https://www.bcr.com.ar /es/mercados/gea/estimaciones-naciona les-de-produccion/estimaciones). La cadena productiva de la...

Mulching is the process of covering the topsoil with plant material such as leaves, grass, twigs, crop residues, straw etc. A mulch cover enhances the activity of soil organisms such as earthworms. They help to create a soil structure with plenty of smaller and larger pores through which rainwater can...