Voici le modèle de ruche à barrettes « la Grande » fabriqué en palmier raphia. Ce modèle est fabriqué en bois par la Plateforme des Associations des Apiculteurs des Cataractes (PLAAC), en République Démocratique du Congo (voir la technologie TECA «Comment fabriquer une ruche a barrettes « la grande » »). Le palmier...

Este artículo da cuenta de un reciente taller realizado sobre prácticas de gestión de los bancos de germoplasma en reservas comunitarias de semillas, el cual tuvo lugar en el CIMMYT y estuvo a cargo de la doctora Denise Costich, responsable del Banco de Germoplasma. El objetivo del evento fue realizar...

When water is scarce, irrigation scheduling and irrigation efficiency are especially important. New, innovative ways of obtaining real time feedback on irrigation management are currently being developed including digitally connected fruit measuring tools and online precise irrigation-scheduling algorithms.

It takes a few minutes for a fruit fly to find a suitable spot on the mango and inject her eggs under the skin of the fruit. But even in that short time, the weaver ants will have either chased her away or have captured her. Their scent also helps....

A short video about Technical Exchange Workshop on sustainable agriculture in Lao

El presente trabajo se corresponde con una reflexión realizada desde la praxis, no de la teoría o de la mera especulación; es decir, deriva de mi participación profesional en el diseño de programas y proyectos de desarrollo, desarrollo e inversión agroindustrial-agroalimentario, en países de la región, como es el caso...

The landscape in Sierra de Gredos was modelled largely by the livestock that traditionally grazed in mountain pastures in the summer and descended to the valleys when the snow came. In this video, one of the few goat farmers left in this Natura 2000 site explains their pastoral management and...

Burkina Faso ranks as the sixth poorest country in the world according to the 2015 UN Human Development Report. Recent studies estimate that 46.4% of the population in the Eastern Region lives below the poverty line. These people are caught in a vicious cycle of degrading natural resources, declining soil...

Presentación realizada sobre nuevos enfoques y conceptos sobre innovación para el desarrollo rural sostenible Arilson Favareto Universidade Federal do ABC e Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento – Brasil, realizada en el II Foro Sistemas de Innovación para el Desarrollo Rural Sostenible FAO, en Santiago de Chile – Octubre /2016...

There is huge potential for an increase in urban forests, trees and green areas to counteract the negative effects of rapid urbanization and improve livelihoods in the major cities of Asia and the Pacific, a regional meeting on urban forestry heard today. The First Asia-Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting is co-convened by...

This promo video emphasizes Africa’s booming economies and determination to invest in its own potential; we also meet beneficiaries of projects funded by the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Uganda and see how their lives have been turned around. African leaders have pledged to end hunger...

Child labour hampers children’s education, and quite often has adverse effects on their health, safety and morals. However, not all tasks performed by children are considered child labour. Some activities may help children acquire important livelihood skills and contribute to their survival and food security. But much of the work...

In this book we focus mainly on innovation opportunities for small farmers, with a particular emphasis on marginalized small farm communities. The first chapter elaborates on the concept of the ‘small farm’ and offers a synthesis of the findings of all the chapters in this volume. The contributions have reconfirmed that...

Este documento registra un proceso de innovación, a partir de un colectivo de trabajo, donde participaron diversos grupos de productores de cerdos (con diversas lógicas productivas), técnicos de los sistemas de extensión e investigadores vinculados a la temática. La decisión de traducirlo en un Paso a Paso intenta situar la...

Presentación a través de la cual se realiza una revisión de la innovación para el DRS y como los mecanismos institucionales juegan un rol innovador para el desarrollo de la agricultura familiar.

In this video Nepalese farmers explain how they learned, after an FAO training course, to use bio-pesticides instead of the chemical ones.

El proyecto se origina como un proyecto de Extensión universitaria que se propone fortalecer la producción porcina para productores/productoras de la zona de influencia de la Facultad de Ciencias. Estos son fundamentalmente productores cuya organización es familiar. La creación con diversas instituciones como el Instituto Nacional de tecnología (INTA sede...

Two huge data analysis papers from CGIAR centres and assorted partners came out recently. As far as I can see, the work was done independently of each other, and the teams looked at distinct, though related, aspects of smallholder agriculture in Africa. But, intriguingly, the results pointed in the same...

The Polyculture Market Garden Study is one of the programs currently running at Balkan Ecology Project and is a multiyear study of a 0.5 acre (2000 m2) market garden growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nuts in polycultures. The project’s mission is to develop and promote practices that provide...

A Comissão de Agricultura e Reforma Agrária (CRA) aprovou, nesta quarta-feira (30), o projeto que cria a Política Nacional de Combate ao Desperdício e à Perda de Alimentos (PLS 738/2015). Entre as novidades estão o incentivo à realização de campanhas educativas e diretrizes para a doação de alimentos sem condições...