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March 2023
Potato harvesters
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7bde518a
FAO/Sara Quinn
Potato harvesters are used to dig potatoes from the ground and collect them. Since the 1960s, these machines have saved manual labour, for example children working on the back-breaking task of manually picking up the potatoes. This is an example of how sustainable mechanization can support the agrifood chains, from production to post-harvest operations.
Gender equity in access to land
March 2022
March 8 is International Women's Day. Equal access to land has always been the cornerstone of inclusive sustainable development. We...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_f29f3106
Rangelands monitoring
February 2022
Rangeland monitoring is an important tool as it helps understand how conditions of rangelands are changing in response to the...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_218f84e4
Renewable energy
January 2022
Renewable energy, as experts assert, is a durable solution for energy security which is a vital necessity for humanity and...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_25719
Beer
December 2021
Beer is one of the ancient beverage known today the first mentions of which is ten thousand years old. After...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_864
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