Nouvelles
News 13 December 2017
A seminar on Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and Information and Communication Tecnology (ICT) was held on December 13th, at Kunming, the capital city of China's Yunnan Province. It was co-organized by National Agro-Technical Extension and Service Center, and Yunnan Plants Protection and Quarantine...
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Event 29 November 2017 - 30 November 2017
Originally applied among farmers thus labelled Farmer Field Schools (FFS) the approach has lately been applied in a large variety of contexts and among various target groups thus a number of adaptations of the approach. These include the Pastoralist Field...
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Event 30 October 2017 - 06 November 2017
Climate change is no new phenomenon. For decades changes in temperatures, precipitation, new and emergent pests, and loss of vegetative cover have been noted and documented. It is only after a direct effect on smallholder agricultural and pastoral production systems...
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Event 02 October 2017 - 07 October 2017
En Avril 2016, le Ministre de l’Agriculture de Sao Tome et Principe avait saisi le Bureau Sous-régional de la FAO pour l’Afrique Centrale (SFC) à propos d’une infestation par un insecte qui faisait beaucoup de dégâts sur la culture de...
Production system: Cereals
News 18 September 2017
Background
As a net food importing country, Saint Kitts and Nevis is relatively food-insecure and vulnerable to extreme climatic events, as well as to global economic shocks caused by increasing food or energy prices. The Government is seeking to create employment...
Production system: Vegetables and Melons