Pour le FIDA, l’accès sécurisé à l’eau des populations rurales pauvres est essentiel pour atteindre les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement, et en particulier l'objectif de réduire de moitié la proportion de personnes vivant dans la pauvreté extrême et la faim d'ici à 2015. Dans cette perspective, la Division...

This report documents the first recorded presence of Syneura cocciphila (Diptera: Phoridae) as a natural predator of the invasive fluted scale insect Crypticerya multicicatrices (Hemiptera: Monophlebidae) in Colombia. The scale insect has become a serious pest on the islands of San Andrés and Providencia, affecting palms, fruit trees, and ornamentals....

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Provinces of eastern D.R. Congo are going through a period of political instability which has impacted negatively on the way smallholder farmers manage natural resources. This has contributed to increased degradation of Lake Kivu water and its productivity. The Lake supports a range of pelagic fish species that provides currently...

Una planta está sana cuando cumple todas sus funciones fisiológicas y expresa todo su potencial genético. Cuando una o algunas de esas funciones fisiológicas son interferidas por patógenos o por ciertas condiciones ambientales la planta se encuentra enferma, y la enfermedad pudo haber sido ocasionada por factores bióticos o abióticos,...

La ganadería bovina de la Orinoquía tiene una población aproximada de cinco millones de cabezas, que representan el 23% de la ganadería nacional y el 40% del hato de carne del país (Minagricultura, 2009). Los Llanos Orientales de Colombia comprenden los departamentos de Meta, Vichada, Casanare y Arauca; es una...

The Syrian Arab Republic is a dry country that is prone to drought, with large areas of desert or semi-desert that are too fragile to be cultivated but will support grazing for a restricted number of livestock. These areas of ecological fragility, if overgrazed and poorly managed, can quickly become...

El establecimiento de la simbiosis planta-hongos formadores de micorrizas Arbusculares (HFMA) requiere procesos armóni-cos a nivel espacio-temporal, que dependen de señales para el reconocimiento, colonización e intercambio bidireccional de nutrientes. Las plantas presentan respuestas de defensa frente a posibles organismos invasores; sin embargo, frente a HFMA estas son débiles, localizadas...

This issue of Baobab focuses on Farmers’ Organisations. The theme is informed by the reality that farmers are able to achieve better outcomes for themselves and for national and global aspirations of food security and food sovereignty when they are well organised and able to speak in one voice. Globally,...

In this paper the authors argue that it is essential to recover a concept with vast experience in rural studies. This is problematized the ways in which this concept was characterized both from academia and from state intervention programs. Also proposes an epistemic change which recognizes the subject peasant in...

NESFAS stands for the North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society. The organisation attempts to bring together partners from different sectors that can help in the enhancement of agrobiodiversity, leading to food sovereignty. As a platform, NESFAS believes that traditional ecological knowledge is equally important to modern science and therefore facilitates a mutually respectful dialogue for...

A study was conducted to categorize harvest stage, maximun dry weigth and tolerance to desiccation at low temperature storage of seeds of the promising species “andean blueberry”, Vaccinium meridionale Swartz. The aim was to determine the long term conservation possibility of a duplicate of the current Colombian Andean Highland field...

Increasing awareness of risks associated with climate change and variability among smallholder farmers is critical in building their capacity to develop the necessary adaptive measures. Using farmer participatory research approaches and formal questionnaire surveys, interaction has been made with >800 farmers in two distinct smallholder farming systems of Makoni and...

La trazabilidad puede ser concebida como una tecnología en el sentido de una práctica social destinada a modificar el mundo social o físico según rutinas o métodos identificables. Esta tecnología consiste en un sistema de seguimiento de los bienes de consumo durante su producción y comercialización hasta que llegan al...

Presenta los indicadores que permiten evaluar el bienestar de los animales en fincas del sistema de producción lechera especializada en el trópico alto colombino de la región de la Sabana de Bogotá, en cuanto a la alimentación, instalaciones, condiciones ambientales, enfermedades y reproductivas del ganado de leche.

The Asia Regional Organic Standard (AROS) was developed by a public-private partnership of stakeholders in East, South-East and South Asia under the auspices of the GOMA project, led by the Food and Agriculture Program of the United Nations (FAO), the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and the United...

El diseño y desarrollo de un plan de manejo de plagas adecuado y eficiente en un cultivo requiere de vastos conocimientos, no solamente de las plagas y los aspectos agronómicos de la plantación sino de todas las interacciones que surgen en la dinámica de las poblaciones de los organismos involucrados...

For mass plant growth-promoting inoculant production, a high-yield culture medium is fundamental. sequential application of statistical designs was used to optimize Azospirillum brasilense c16 biomass production. six nutritional (glycerol, glutamate, mannitol, citric acid, yeast extract and K2HPO4 3H2O) and three mineral sources (MgsO47H2O, Fecl3 and NaCl) were evaluated using five...

Grassland-based systems are no longer seen exclusively as livestock production enterprises but as multiple use systems with important consequences for the global environment. They are crucial for the protection of ecosystem goods and services, for tourism and for mitigating climate change. Well-managed grasslands provide important benefits such as increased water...

For ten years, FAO, IFOAM and UNCTAD have worked in partnership to address and reduce barriers to trade of organic products resulting from the global proliferation of organic standards and technical regulations. Our partnership began with sponsorship of a conference in Nuremberg in 2002 called “The Organic Guarantee System: the...