The project has supported the Volta Mango Growers Association (VOMAGA). This report presents the results of a survey among a sample of the mango farmers on the impact of the...
The FAO project “Increasing incomes and food security of small farmers in West and Central Africa through exports of organic and fair-trade tropical products” has supported the Ekumfi Atwia WAD...
The project has supported the cocoa farmers association Kpeya Agricultural Enterprise (KAE). This report presents the results of a survey among a sample of the cocoa farmers on the impact...
This sixth and last volume in our publication series features the final results of the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF). The ITF worked from...
. Given the future scenarios challenging the agricultural sector such as crippling food demand, climate shock and water scarcity, additional research capacity is needed in order to realize the full...
La granja integral es una guía que describe un modelo en el que la familia campesina debe usar adecuadamente los recursos disponibles (árboles, arbustos, suelo, animales, agua), para organizar la producción...
At present, agroecology can be interpreted as a scientific discipline, as a movement or as a practice. In this paper we analyse the historical evolution of the scientific discipline of...
The FAO Glossary on Organic Agriculture in English, French and Spanish contains 401 concepts and definitions, where appropriate, which have been selected from FAO and international documents and publications on...
Rice-duck and rice-fish co-culture systems are a major production systems in rice paddy fields in Southern China. Studying methane and nitrous oxide emissions and their economic value from those ecosystems...
The integrated rice-duck co-culture is a type of integrated production system used in paddy fields and a major model of planting and breeding in south China, opening a new way...
Integrated rice-duck farming system (IRDFS), an environmentally friendly eco-agricultural technique, was developed from the Chinese traditional farming method of raising ducks in paddy fields. Many studies have reported that the...
State of the art GIS and database technologies for landscape scale analysis and the modelling of land use and environmental impacts are presented. These methods have been developed at University...
The rice cropping practices, yields and pest injuries due to pathogens, insects and weeds were surveyed in 106 individual farmers’ fields within two experimental sites (Zhanyi and Xundian counties) in...
To determine the genetic diversity and physiological races of the rice blast fungus from Hani terrace of Yuanyang county (Yunnan province), simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to estimate...
Following the basic organization hierarchy of biology, eco-agricultural models can be classified into the following fundamental classes: landscape model (at landscape level), in which agricultural land arrangement pattern is essential;...
"Al mes de diciembre de 2010, el término ‘desarrollo’ arroja más de 150 millones de entradas en uno de los buscadores más populares de Internet. A lo largo de los...
"Todo sistema de producción agrícola requiere acceder a ciertos bienes y servicios para poder reproducirse y continuar atendiendo el autoconsumo de las familias rurales y las demandas de los mercados....
To determine the effects of temperature change on photosynthesis and growth development of wheat, seedlings were subjected to UV-B radiation under different temperature. Photosynthesis parameters (photosynthesis and net photosynthesis, stomatal...
