| TECA
Electronic Newsletter N°
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 Welcome
to the TECA newsletter. This bulletin
is an effort to keep readers informed
on ongoing related activities on assessment,
transfer, adoption, evaluation and field
experiences on agricultural technology.
It covers agriculture, livestock, fisheries,
and forestry and contribute to the efforts
of FAO to meet the UN millennium development
goals.
The content of this newsletter includes
news, events, articles, useful links,
information about the current activities
of our partners and technology highlights.
Readers are crucial in establishing
a dialogue and in promoting the exchange
and management of agricultural information.
Articles are presented in their original
language (FAO's official languages).
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TECA, a farming systems based initiative of proven technologies for smallholders.
This article explains how the new information and communication technology (ICT) and the information and communication management (ICM) can be used to take into account the agro-ecological diversity to facilitate increaseed transferability of technologies across homogeneous zones. FAO has demonstrated that the new ICT's and ICM strategies in the field of agricultural research can be successful only if based on farming systems, with a context and an environment, to catalogue and retrieve information on proven technologies of smallholders. The initiative of Technology for Agriculture (TECA) has developed a global database of proven technologies that covers all farming systems prevalent in developing regions.
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Transfer
of Technology Models (TOTEMs)
TOTEMs are focused educational
tools providing relevant information
and distance training on one
specific area of bamboo/rattan
management, processing or utilization.
They are a means of technology
transfer between similar regions
throughout the world, with the
emphasis on South-South transfer
for livelihood development.
They enable those involved in
the management and use of bamboo
and rattan resources to more
efficiently and effectively
develop and use skills relating
to these resources.
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Cassava
chips and dried roots
The raw material for baked products
is the flour scooped up from
sedimentation tanks or tables
after the supernatant, or excess
water, has been drained and
the "yellow" flour
scraped off. Clearly the use
of moist starch, an intermediate
stage in the processing of the
Dour, is economically advantageous...
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