Esta publicación describe el proceso de transformación comunitaria vivido en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, donde las dinámicas climáticas pueden oscilar entre la sequía y las lluvias torrenciales, con enfoque en la participación colectiva intergeneracional y el desarrollo de innovaciones gracias a la implementación de cisternas para cosecha de agua...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. In this section, Killeen focuses on land management that seeks to reconcile the technologies of modern agriculture with the worn-out practices of organic farming. It also...

Food systems are major contributors, but also critically vulnerable, to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. The food sector uses more natural resources than any other sector, which means that the way in which food systems are governed has direct consequences for how natural resources...

Soils that have many living organisms hold more carbon and nutrients and can better absorb and retain rainwater, all of which are crucial in these times of a disturbed climate.  But measuring life in soils can be a time-consuming activity depending on what one wants to measure. While bacteria and fungi...

El objetivo de este proyecto fue conservar in situ la agrobiodiversidad en cinco macroecorregiones, mejorar los medios de vida de la población local, y manejar y aprovechar la agrobiodiversidad de manera sostenible. Todo ello, con el fin de mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, con un acceso mejorado de las...

Para el año del 2023, serán sembradas 162 kg de semillas de algodón de la variedad nacional CCA 348 – Mandiyuti – en cinco parcelas demostrativas semilleras en el departamento de Santa Cruz, con el objetivo de apoyar su multiplicación y distribución, a partir de un análisis del Instituto Nacional...

Soil may be the basis of farming, and therefore of almost all of our food, but farmers and soil scientists see the soil in completely different, if equally valid ways. In Bolivia, I was recently making a video with Paul and Marcella on soil tests that extension agents can do...

In the 1500s, when men on sailing ships were casually spreading crop plants from one continent to the next, maize came to Africa. Fortunately, many of the maize pests stayed behind, in the Americas. But slowly, trade and travel are re-uniting maize with its pests. A caterpillar called the fall...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación (ABC), del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MRE), realizarán, del 4 al 6 de octubre, en la ciudad de Brasilia, Brasil, la “Semana del algodón en América Latina y el Caribe 2023”, con una serie...

Tengo 62 años y sigo trabajando en la artesanía. Este es nuestro arte”, se presenta la agricultora y artesana María Posiva, del Municipio de San Antonio de Lomerío, en Bolivia. Desde los 10 años aprendió el oficio del hilado con su abuela y el algodón está presente en su historia...

The international organic certification system can be bureaucratic and expensive, and beyond the reach of smallholder ecological farmers who produce for the local market. In many countries, Participatory Guarantee Systems, or PGS, are emerging as an alternative accreditation system. While PGS systems are created locally and differ from one country...

Learning by doing is one of the most powerful educational approaches, both for adults and children. Kids observe what their parents and others in the community do, and they copy it.

The best way to educate consumers is right at the start, when they are school children. In early 2021, Roxana Castellón, who works at Agrecol Andes, a Bolivian NGO, began approaching public schools around Cochabamba, asking the directors if they were interested in adding a new topic to their biology curriculum....

Smallholder, organic farmers in Bolivia struggle to sell their healthy, natural produce to an urban and peri-urban audience that is only slowly awakening to the health risks of food produced with agrochemicals.

Para los interesados en fortalecer sus capacidades en los temas relacionados a la cadena de valor del algodón, el proyecto +Algodón, del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO, con apoyo del Núcleo de Capacitaciones de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), ofrece dos cursos de...

The objectives of this project were: keeping agrobiodiversity in situ in five macro-ecoregions and improving the livelihoods of local populations; and managing and taking advantage of agrobiodiversity to sustainably improve food and nutritional security with improved access of Indigenous populations and local communities to nutritional and diversified diets. Some of...

La Plataforma de Conocimientos sobre Agricultura Familiar en colaboración con Barefoot Guide Connection organizó una serie de “talleres de escritura”, para ayudar a los profesionales a escribir sus propias experiencias, generando conocimientos que destaquen las prácticas, cambios, innovaciones e impactos de lo que hacen en apoyo a la agricultura familiar. Estos...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform in collaboration with the Barefoot Guide Connection organized a series of “writeshops”, writing classes to support practitioners to write their own experience, generating knowledge which highlight the practices, changes, innovations and impacts of what they do in support of family farming. These writeshops represented an opportunity...

El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) es una institución internacional no- gubernamental con estatus asociativo en la UNESCO, creada en 1967, actualmente, reúne 836 Centros de Investigación y posgrado en el campo de las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades en 57 países de América Latina, el Caribe y otros...

When the worm of the potato tuber moth enters the potato, in the field or in storage, it destroys it completely. Once the worm is inside the potato, nothing can kill it, not even chemicals. If there are a lot of moths, they can destroy an entire harvest in store...