Recherche & vulgarisation

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Mar 2021
This publication describes the analytical process carried out under the European Union-funded SALSA project which enabled the development of a European map of the distribution of small farms at the NUTS-3 level and assessed the capabilities and usefulness of Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites for small farms monitoring, specifically in providing information about crop types, crop area extent and crop production.

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Sep 2014
Over 600 people subscribed to this 4-week long conference, which finished on 1 June 2014. They posted 109 messages which came from people living in 38 different countries - 58% were posted by people living in developing countries. Most discussions focused on issues related to micro-level impact assessment (typically looking at the impacts of a specific research project in one part of a country) rather than macro-level impact assessment (typically looking at the impacts of investments in agricultural research, or one of its sectors, at the national level).

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Jun 2011
This book represents the proceedings of the FAO international technical conference dedicated to Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries (ABDC-10) that took place in Guadalajara, Mexico on 1-4 March 2010. A major objective of the conference was to take stock of the application of biotechnologies across the different food and agricultural sectors in developing countries, in order to learn from the past and to identify options for the future to face the challenges of food insecurity, climate change and natural resource degradation.

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Jan 2011
During the period 2002-10, FAO undertook an intense activity of biosafety capacity development, largely centred on enhancing the capacities of regulators and other technical staff involved in the implementation of biosafety frameworks, along with other components. The training programme was tailored to meet the needs of a very specific audience: biosafety regulators, policy-makers and members of national biosafety committees, with diverse educational backgrounds, not necessarily well versed in all the biosafety-related fields.

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Oct 2010
The October 2010 issue of the scientific journal Biomass and Bioenergy contains this article by J. Ruane, A. Sonnino and A. Agostini, which is an abbreviated and updated version of the background document prepared for an e-mail conference hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum on the same subject.

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Aug 2009
This chapter provides an overview of the techniques, current status and issues involved in using marker-assisted selection (MAS) for genetic improvement in developing countries. Molecular marker maps, the necessary framework for any MAS programme, have been constructed for the majority of agriculturally important species, although the density of the maps varies considerably among species. Despite the considerable resources that have been invested in this field and despite the enormous potential it still represents, with few exceptions, MAS has not yet delivered its expected benefits in commercial breeding programmes for crops, livestock, forest trees or farmed fish in the developed world.

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May 2009

BIOTECHNOLOGIES ET BIOSECURITE AGRICOLE AU BELARUS

Au temps où il faisait partie de l’ancienne Union Soviétique, le Belarus en était un des principaux producteurs alimentaires pour la viande et des produits laitiers. Mais depuis qu’il a acquis son indépendance, en 1991, ce pays n’a pratiquement entrepris aucune réforme structurelle dans le secteur agricole et a conservé le vieux système basé sur des exploitations collectives subventionnées ou des fermes d’Etat. Avec ce système, la production agricole à régulièrement décliné depuis l’indépendance. On constate toutefois, depuis six ans, une stabilisation, voire une amélioration des rendements dans certains secteurs. Les petites exploitations privées apportent une contribution significative à la ...read more

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May 2009

LANCEMENT DU NOUVEAU SITE INTERNET DU FMRA

Le forum mondial de la recherche agricole (FMRA) a lancé son nouveau site Internet. Ce site comprend une importante archive de documents, constituée de plus de 1000 publications du FRMA et des forums régionaux, abordant des domaines essentiels, comme les nouvelles méthodes de recherche, l’innovation, les priorités de la recherche régionale et bien d’autres sujets encore. Les membres d’ “e-FMRA” sont actifs sur ce site : ils participent aux débats des forums, mettent de nouveaux articles en ligne, soumettent des rapports, des documents et d’autres informations relatives à la recherche agricole.

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