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Three sites in China designated FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
Using traditional practices and knowledge while preserving biodiversity and ecosystems
Three sites in China - an ancient tea-producing area, a nomadic livestock-rearing region and a rain-fed stone terrace farming system - were formally recognised as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), for their unique ways of using traditional practices and knowledge while maintaining unique biodiversity and ecosystems.
The sites were designated during...
China
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Shexian dryland stone terraced system
Shexian dryland stone terraced system is a rain-fed agricultural system in the mountains, developed by the local ancestors through adapting to and transforming the harsh natural environment and inherited from generation to generation. The dryland terrace system has outstanding soil and water conservation abilities. This practice explains the process of...
China
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Science, technology and backyards explained- what it is, and how does it work
The following practice describes the STB model, its functions, major elements, how it works, stakeholders involved, training required, costs and outcomes, and challenges and limitations to adoption and scaling. It includes summary information on some case studies to highlight the success of this practice applied elsewhere.
China's agriculture sector is characterized...
China
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Beekeeping of the eastern honeybee (Apis cerana) using an improved traditional hive (China)
Beekeeping with Apis cerana using traditional log hives often leads to the destruction of the colony during honey harvesting because the combs are destroyed in the harvesting process and bees cannot survive. The introduction of a wooden cross in the middle of the traditional log hive can solve this problem. This practice...
China
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Webinar ''Growing agroecology in China - Challenges and Opportunities'' on 10 January 2021
China's agroecological and organic farming sector is developing rapidly as increasing numbers of consumers have the economic means to consider their food's safety and health. The market potential is vast, but many challenges remain: educating the consumer and building trust, supporting new entrants, recovering damaged ecosystems, and creating viable market...
China
2021 - Oxford Real Farming 7.18K subscribers
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Society, economy and forests: The unfolding forest transition in China and the lessons for the future
The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the changes witnessed in the forest sector in China during the last three decades and the key drivers that have contributed to the country’s forest transition. Clearly, such a transition is an outcome of the convergence of several factors, including the emergence of...
China
2021 - FAO
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Risk sharing, benefit distribution and cooperation longevity: sustainable development of dairy farmer cooperatives in China
The sustainable development of cooperatives is essential to agricultural sustainability and is determined mainly by cooperation longevity. The risk sharing and benefit distribution mechanisms are important governance arrangements that affect cooperation longevity in member-heterogeneous cooperatives. However, the relationship between cooperatives’ risk sharing and benefit distribution arrangements and cooperation longevity is...
China
2021 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
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Promocionando el desarrollo de Cooperativas de Campesinos para la gestión de riesgos a nivel local
Cuando las asociaciones locales de campesinos son debidamente capacitadas y empoderadas, pueden desempeñar un papel fundamental en la gestión de riesgos. En el 2007, la Ley Nacional de Cooperativas de Campesinos fue adoptada en China, estableciendo un marco institucional sólido para el desarrollo de cooperativas agropecuarias a nivel local. Sin...
China
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Carbon neutral tea production in China – Three pilot case studies
The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for about 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, but can also be an important part of the solution to climate change, through adaptation and mitigation efforts.
As part of its Strategy on Climate Change, FAO is developing the low...
China
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Sustainable grassland management offers a better future for Qinghai herders
China has made tremendous strides in improving food security for its population, but in certain areas, this has come at the expense of the environment. Faced with the absence of a cost-effective carbon accounting methodology, FAO together with the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, the World Agroforestry Center and the...
China
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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On-farm composting methods: large scale passive aeration
Growing concerns relating to land degradation, threats to eco-systems from over and inappropriate use of inorganic fertilizers, atmospheric pollution, soil health, soil biodiversity and sanitation have rekindled the global interest in organic recycling practices, like composting. The potential of composting to turn on-farm waste materials into a farm resource makes...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Introduction à l'agriculture de conservation des sols (AC)
Le labour constitue la principale opération dans l'agriculture conventionnelle. La charrue, l'équipement le plus usité pour réaliser cette opération, est devenue un symbole de l'agriculture. Dans le passé, le labour était considéré comme le gage de l'amélioration de la fertilité des sols, en raison de la minéralisation des éléments nutritifs...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Potential yield of South Asian small reservoir fisheries
Lack of assessment methodology for culture-based fisheries has been identified as a major problem in the development of fisheries. The optimal stocking density, size at harvesting and fishing mortality are interrelated. Over-fishing is equivalent to under-stocking, and overstocking is equivalent to under-fishing. This model of quantitative population dynamics for culture-based...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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China Pós-COVID-19
Um alerta ao agronegócio brasileiro
A Secretaria de Inteligência e Relações Estratégicas (Sire) disponibiliza a 33ª Nota Técnica da Série Diálogos Estratégicos-Mercados Internacionais, analisando a percepção de instituições internacionais quanto as estratégias em estudo, por parte do Governo chinês, para aprimorar a segurança alimentar da China, diante da possibilidade de uma segunda onda da pandemia da COVID-19. O...
China
2020 - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
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Woven bamboo products manufacturing unit
Woven bamboo products are produced from thin strips of bamboo. There exist a wide variety of such products and they have been closely associated with the development of civilizations in bamboo growing regions of the world for many millennia. The products may be primarily intended for agricultural use, such as...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Bamboo toothpick manufacturing unit
Bamboo wood is relatively soft, not particularly dense, and is ideal for the production of toothpicks. INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo. The following technology describes how to establish a toothpick manufacturing unit.
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Peatland restoration
Situated at the headwaters of the Yellow River, the sedge-dominated peatlands in the Ruoergai plateau in China store water and supply it to downstream areas. These peatlands are important grazing lands for local pastoralists and play an important role in Tibetan culture. Other uses from the peatland are fuel, medical...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Mejorando la resistencia a sequías de los cultivos de trigo
El Cantón de Juye, un área localizada en una zona de depresión, recibe 500 mm en promedio de precipitación anual. Sin embargo, durante las últimas décadas, la imprevisibilidad del cambio climático ha expuesta esta región a graves sequías, sobre todo en primavera e invierno. Por otro lado, China es el...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Improved cultivation technique for high yielding bamboo stands
Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrates poverty reduction and environmental sustainability, and INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. Bamboo culms provide excellent raw material for processing different kinds of paper and...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Bamboo splitting and slivering unit
Bamboo splits and slivers are longitudinal sections of a bamboo pole (culm). They are the primary materials used for weaving a wide range of products. On a small scale, they may be used for handicraft items and objects for daily use. On a large scale, one of the most useful...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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