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June 2021
Carbon sequestration
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_331583
FAO/Giulio Napolitano
Motivation: Soils are important carbon stores. The release of greenhouse gases in the soil, particularly through agricultural activities, has consequences for the global atmospheric CO2 budget. Measures that lead to long-term storage of carbon in the soil (carbon sequestration) are a key to mitigate climate change.
Conservation agriculture
November 2021
Conservation agriculture is considered as an environmentally friendly production system. It stops the degradation of the soil which is the...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_264f7edd
Livestock feed
October 2021
The production of high quality livestock feed is a growing demand of small farmers and one of the objectives of...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_12213
Food systems
September 2021
Motivation: A sustainable food system is one that delivers food security and nutrition for all in such a way that...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_bea5db85
Agrosilvopastoral systems
July 2021
Motivation: Sustainable production strategy that integrates agriculture, livestock and forestry within the same area, to obtain results which are synergic...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16096
Apiculture
May 2021
Motivation: The vernal, or spring, equinox signals the beginning of nature's renewal. It is also the time of year when...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_529
