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Artículo de revista
Hidden harvests
There are certain crop plants that are not cropped but edible, containing high nutrients and medicinal value. These crops also called as hidden harvests are capable of providing essential nutrients to our diets besides contributing to household income.
2016 - Leisa India
Proyecto
“Goodies village” in Lithuania
Pociūnėliai is a small town in Šiauliai County, Lithuania. In recent years its population has been decreasing as young people are leaving for the city and businesses have declined. Men typically work in the farming or forestry sector doing physical labour. The women however have very limited work opportunities. The...
Lithuania
2016 - THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (ENRD)
Artículo de blog
La FAO inicia un nuevo proceso de asistencia técnica a las políticas nacionales dirigidas al sector cafetalero
El presidente del Estado, Evo Morales, garantizó una inversión de 250 millones de bolivianos para la producción y promoción del café boliviano. Este apoyo está dirigido a concretar el Programa Nacional de Café presentado ayer en ocasión del Lanzamiento del 2do.Torneo Nacional Taza de Calidad “Café presidencial Evo Morales Ayma...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Prácticas
Raised beds for improving crop water productivity and water efficiency in irrigated dryland agriculture
Irrigation is crucial for agricultural activities, however, if not managed well, it entails high water losses and can be inefficient. The raised bed system is an improved surface irrigation strategy, which enhances productivity and makes the application of water in irrigated systems more efficient. It can be easily implemented by...
Egypt
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Estudio de caso
Inspirational ideas: Birch sap tapping in Finland
Birch sap tapping is an ancient tradition in Finland. There are many Finnish folk tales about the extraction of birch sap and it is believed to have medicinal properties. At exactly the right moment at the beginning of spring, a small hole is drilled into the tree trunk and this...
European Union
2016 - Eip Agri
Vídeo
Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure in Sierra Leone
Since February 2014 Sierra Leone, with support from the Government of Germany and FAO is implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT). This video interviews a wide range of engaged national stakeholders from the land, fisheries and forestry sectors and documents best practices and lessons learned....
Sierra Leone
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Inauguran exhibición en reconocimiento a la labor de Norman E. Borlaug
En homenaje por su contribución científica en el mundo, se inauguró la exhibición “Legado de Norman Borlaug, a 50 años de la Fundación del CIMMYT”, que estuvo abierta al público en las instalaciones de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa).
En el marco de este evento,...
Mexico
2016 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Manual
Guía: Secador de frutas y hortalizas a nivel familiar
Esta guía describe como construir tu propio secador y los pasos para realizarlo de manera simple y fácil.
Argentina
2016 - Instituto Nacional Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Documento técnico
Rural-urban linkages and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa
The rural dimension
Given the context of transitions related to rapid urbanization, the roles that rural economies and societies will have to play (particularly smallholder farmers and other rural producers) in creating sustainable and inclusive food systems, in generating employment and incomes and in contributing to more balanced, equitable and mutually reinforcing patterns...
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Libro
Sistemas territoriales de agricultura familiar
El propósito de este texto es explorar el concepto de sistemas territoriales de agricultura familiar (STAF) en el marco de procesos que promuevan, de manera integrada, iniciativas de desarrollo de nuestros territorios rurales y de fortalecimiento de las agriculturas familiares, en el marco de políticas nacionales articuladas o complementarias entre...
2016 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Conferencia/Reunión
Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: Policies, Sustainability, Marketing and Trade
The aim of this seminar is to bring together experts and researchers from the agriculture and food sectors to debate over methodological and empirical issues regarding relationships among Euro-Mediterranean countries on topics such as food policy, trade and marketing.
This seminar will also focus on the topics of food security and...
2016 - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (CIHEAM - MAICH)
Prácticas
Tecnologías para el ahorro de mano de obra: agricultura de conservación
Este documento incluye aspectos de la agricultura de conservación, laboreo de conservación, aperos para laboreo de conservación incluyendo la plantadora manual (jab planter) y de los cultivos de cobertura. Todas esas tecnologías ahorran mano de obra.
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Informe
Benefits of landscape features for arable crop production
This report is the result of the work of the EIP AGRI Focus Group (FG) on Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) and more specifically on how landscape features (LFs) contribute to the profitability of arable crop production. The scientific literature shows that LFs provide habitats for beneficial insects and other arthropods,...
2016 - EIP-AGRI Agriculture & Innovations
Documento/nota de orientación
Regional perspectives of family farming
The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF2014) aimed to raise the profile of smallholder and family farmers by focusing global attention on their important role in alleviating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment and enabling sustainable development.
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Syrian Food Crisis Aggravates as War Chokes Farming
According to the FAO, farming infrastructure, together with irrigation canals and grain depots, has been destroyed. It said the storage facilities of the state seeds body across the country had also been damaged, so it had distributed just a tenth of the 450,000 tons of seeds that farmers needed to...
Syrian Arab Republic
2016
Estudio de caso
Water security and Agroecology transform lives in the Drylands of Kenya
Drylands represent 40% of the Earth's surface, produce 44% of the world’s food and are home to 80% of the world’s poor. Eighty per cent of Kenya comprises arid or semi-arid lands. Rainfall occurs in just one or two short, intense seasons. Because the land is so dry, when rain...
Kenya
2016 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Artículo
Shiyan Smallholder Agribusiness Development Project
This project's goal is to sustainably reduce poverty and improve livelihoods for small farmers involved in agricultural value chains in the target areas. Its specific objectives are to empower the rural poor to participate in commercial farming and to increase farm family incomes while decreasing income variability.
China
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Boletín informativo
Revista Mundo Rural n°14, julio 2016: INDAP mejora sus políticas con comunidades indígenas.
Este número de Mundo Rural incluye artículos sobre:
Los aportes de INDAP a la agenda nacional,
Nuevo ciclo del Programa de Desarrollo Indígena,
Se dio inició a las actividades de conmemoración,
Puesta al día y mayor visbilidad de la agricultura familiar,
INFOR sale al rescate del quiscal en La Araucanía,
Con una agricultura sustentable y saludable:...
Chile
2016 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Libro
Introducción al proceso de gestión del desarrollo de los territorios rurales y de los sistemas territoriales de agricultura familiar
Este fascículo, en su versión actual, es el primero de una serie inicial de textos y recursos del Sistema de Gestión Estratégica para el Desarrollo Territorial y la Agricultura Familiar (SiGET), cuya finalidad es compartir un conjunto de orientaciones metodológicas sobre los procesos de gestión social del desarrollo de los...
2016 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Prácticas
Construcción de cobertizo para llamas en situaciones de olas de frío
La presente tecnología describe la construcción de un cobertizo semi-techado para llamas o alpacas y sus crías que permite proteger al ganado ante las inclemencias del tiempo, como heladas, lluvias, granizadas, nevadas y vientos, que provocan índices altos de mortandad en el ganado camélido.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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