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Local tools and equipment technologies for processing bamboo and rattan in Asia
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. The following, is an overview of simple, traditional technologies and tools for processing...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Bamboo treadle pump
Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrate 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. The following technology describes how to use Bamboo as a material for treadle pump...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Rural entrepreneurs use videos to become changemakers
Mori Gouroubera from Benin, Boazi Winston from Tanzania and Neeraj Kumar from India are budding entrepreneurs. Although they come from diverse cultural, social and educational backgrounds, they are closely bound by a common link.
All three of them are part of a network of passionate young entrepreneurs spanning Africa and Asia,...
Benin - India
2020 - Access Agriculture
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300 million Hindi speaking farmers to benefit from new video platform
In honour of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (17 June), Access Agriculture is proud to announce the launch of the Hindi version of its video platform www.accessagriculture.org/hi, which offers a rich resource of multilingual training videos on agroecological principles and rural entrepreneurship for the Global South.
Access Agriculture,...
India
2020 - Access Agriculture
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Bamboo match sticks production
Wood is the major raw material for manufacturing matchsticks. However, the match industry has been dependent on only a few wood species for making match splints and these species are now in short supply. Therefore, bamboo, one of the faster growing plants, is a sustainable raw material source for manufacturing...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Production of bamboo mat board
Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrates poverty reduction and environmental sustainability, and the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan- INBAR priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. Therefore, bamboo mat board, a plywood-like...
China - India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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India: At Sea, Out of Sight
A first-of-its-kind survey in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, revealed the peculiar vulnerabilities and demands of fishworkers who migrate regularly to Odisha, Karnataka and Gujarat. When the authorities enforced large-scale lockdowns to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vulnerabilities of migrant workers were thrown into high relief. Other than the...
India
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Sustainable impact generation and technology promotion to manage Bemisia Tabaci and tomato leaf curl virus disease
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...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Trying it yourself
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.
India
2020 - Agroinsight
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Water management in the mountain: Kuhl irrigation
In mountain areas, water continues to be a scarce commodity not only for irrigation purposes but even for drinking and other domestic uses. These challenges are encountered very frequently in India. These difficulties are present, inspite of the fact that important rivers namely the Sutlez, Beas, Ravi and their tributaries...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Income earning by Community Livestock Volunteers (CLVs) by distribution of herbal preparations for livestock
SEVA in association with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), IFAD assisted Post Tsunami Sustainable Livelihood Project trained women, self-help group members on herbal treatment for animals upto 21 days. Selected women members were trained intensively to work as Community Livestock Volunteers (CLVs). Then they train local village...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India
In early 2020, the unprecedented nature of COVID-19 prompted India, among many other countries, toput in place stark measures to stem the virus’ spread and the cost of human lives. We analyze data fromphone-based surveys on disruptions to agricultural production and food security, administered with1515 smallholder producers in the states...
India
2020 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Report/Fisheries Policy: Chewing the Policy Cud
Reflections on the ICSF workshop and recommendations to India’s draft National Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy (NIFAP), September 2019. The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) organized a national workshop to discuss the draft National Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy (NIFAP), being finalized by India’s Union Ministry of Agriculture...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Pepsee micro-irrigation system
A grassroots innovation that offers most of the advantages of conventional micro-irrigation at a much lower establishment cost. Pepsee micro-irrigation systems slowly and regularly apply water directly to the root zone of plants through a network of economically designed plastic pipes and low-discharge emitters. Technically speaking pepsee systems use low-density...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Sunken streambed structure
This practice consists of rectangular excavations in streambeds, named dohs, to provide temporary storage of runoff to enhance groundwater recharge, increasing water yields from shallow wells for supplementary irrigation. They also collect and impound subsurface flow. The technology is used in conjunction with shallow wells (odees), which enable farmers to...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Sustainable Agriculture in India: Why does it not Scale Up?
Despite decades of work by various non-governmental organizations, most of the initiatives on agro-ecological farming and organic farming practices have either stagnated or sometimes fallen out. While a niche of farmers is able to reap the benefits of agro-ecological farming, there is a need to understand the barriers that stop...
India
2020 - VikasAnvesh Foundation
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SSF Guidelines/Gender: A Platform for Women
Women in fisheries can utilize the SSF Guidelines to advance their interests, even as they relate to one another and build up solidarity and a common vision. Over the last several years, many fishworker organizations have been engaged in spreading awareness among the fishing communities on the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Milestones: Pulled Backward
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SDG 5. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. How has progress towards...
India
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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From the editor
The 60th issue of Yemaya, being brought out after a gap of a year, coincides with a time of global crisis, when nations and communities across the world are battling the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic. It is a time for sombre thought and reflection.
This pandemic has also locked...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Bio-écoles en Inde du Sud
Ce livret pédagogique est le fruit des enseignements d’un projet mené pendant 5 ans, entre 2013 et 2018, avec 50 écoles primaires du bloc de Marakanam, dans l’état du Tamil Nadu en Inde du Sud : le projet Bio-écoles mené par SOL en partenariat avec Solidarité India. Ce projet est...
India
2020 - SOL, Alternatives Agroécologiques et Solidaires
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