El Ministerio de Agricultura y el Patronato Nacional de Ganaderos anunciaron la celebración de la Feria Agropecuaria Nacional 2015, evento que tiene como objetivo principal la promoción de la conservación de las aguas y la producción sostenible de los alimentos. La actividad, que este año está dedicada al empresario Dr. Julio...

Released exclusively in Bangkok, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will launch its 2016 Asia-Pacific regional report on food insecurity entitled “Investing in a Zero Hunger Generation.” This substantive report, the first of its kind since the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), examines the present state of...

A 7ª Reunião Anual da Rede Latino Americana para Serviços de Extensão Rural (RELASER), realizada no período de 25 a 27 de novembro, em Puerto Vallarta no México, contou com a participação de mais de 150 extensionistas da América Latina e Caribe. O evento aconteceu em conjunto com a Reunião...

The principle of organic breeding is to adapt the cow towards the local and natural production system. The one-sided genetic selection, preferring increased milk yield, complicates feeding and management of modern Holstein genetics when confronted with the strict rules defined for organic milk production. This requires a reformulation of existing...

The Global Food Policy Report is IFPRI’s flagship publication. This year’s annual report examines major food policy issues, global and regional developments, and commitments made in 2015, and presents data on key food policy indicators. The report also proposes key policy options for 2016 and beyond to achieve the Sustainable...

El objetivo de la reunión es: establecer una agenda prioritaria y las bases para un plan de acción regional para el proceso de implementación del Marco de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres en las Américas que cuenta con el mayor respaldo político de representantes nacionales. identificar logros, retos y...

Despite strong per capita income growth, the structure of sub-Saharan Africa’s economies has not changed markedly in recent decades. In spite of a rapidly growing labour force and urbanizing populations, employment growth in rural areas in general and in non-farm sectors in particular has been slow, and poverty levels in...

Descripción y análisis de dos hechos que para el autor, resultan muy relevantes para el agro en Colombia: el Paro Nacional Agrario, Campesino, Étnico y Popular que se realizó entre el 30 de mayo y el 12 de junio de 2016 y la firma del acuerdo sobre cese al fuego...

The "La Aurora" farm is located 400 km southeast of Buenos Aires, within an area dedicated to mixed agricultural and livestock production. The combined effect of an increased use of agro-chemicals and the area under monocrops was the endangerment or the region's natural resources. From 1997, La Aurora started to use...

Pour la culture du maïs en agriculture biologique, on a d’ordinaire recours au labour en raison de son effet désherbant. Toutefois, en ce qui concerne l’érosion et le compactage du sol ainsi que le lessivage, l’utilisation de la charrue ne s’avère pas optimale, surtout dans cette culture. Le semis direct...

En este libro se presentan las técnicas de manejo de la cosecha y la poscosecha de tres hortalizas que se producen extensamente en la sabana de Bogotá y tienen importancia económica para el país: el brócoli, la lechuga y la coliflor. Se revisa la importancia del buen manejo de la...

Artisanal or small-scale fisheries (see definition in Box 9) represent an important share of the fisheries sector in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and the considerable role that they play in the region has long been recognized. Small-scale fisheries have the potential to make a significant contribution to food...

La FAO y la SECAC organizaron los días 28 y 29 de junio las “Jornadas mesoamericanas de Agricultura Familiar: Instrumentos para la planificación de políticas públicas diferenciadas”, como un espacio de intercambio de experiencias entre los países involucrados en “Mesoamérica sin Hambre”, que a su vez permitiese conocer la experiencia...

We use qualitative and quantitative information from a number of datasets to study the adoption patterns and labor productivity impacts of herbicide use in Ethiopia. We find a four-fold increase in the value of herbicides imported into Ethiopia over the last decade, primarily by the private-sector. Adoption of herbicides by...

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...

The National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods is part of the project GCP/SEC/008/TUR, which contributes to the Regional Initiative 1 for the REU Region and to the SO3 by improving knowledge for evidence-based policies. The purpose of the National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods for Tajikistan...

Horizon 2020 Thematic Network - Smart AKIS ‘European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research in Smart Farming Technology.’ Smart-AKIS is a Horizon 2020 thematic network which aims to increase the adoption of Smart Farming Technologies by the European farming community. It strives to bridge the gap between the field...

A farmers' community in India learned, through the FAO Community Animal Health Workers training programme, how to rear poultry and face the poultry diseases problems.

In Lebanon, the agricultural sector suffers from both internal and external problems that opposed its development. Relatively high production costs, unregulated use of chemicals and the absence of extension services can be considered the most important in addition to groundwater pollution, high-level migration towards cities, lack of economic policy for...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of holding time (HT) on cow milking behaviour, somatic cell counts (SCC) and bacterial counts (BC) in milk.