A escala finca los indicadores sociales de sostenibilidad agrícola más comunes son las horas-labor y la estacionalidad de la mano de obra.  La magnitud del esfuerzo físico que los trabajadores invierten en las actividades agrícolas normalmente no se utiliza como un indicador de eficiencia y sostenibilidad; por esta razón, en...

This presentation claims that innovations for family farmers must deliver improved livelihoods in rural areas. It argues that all innovation has to comply with the SDGs: more people working with more value and higher quality of life. Agroecology is an innovation based on peasant knowledge centered farming systems and innovation...

Droughts affect crop production across the world. A central challenge for researchers and policymakers is to devise technologies that lend greater resilience to agricultural production under this particular environmental stress. Interdrought 2020 aims to facilitate the development of concepts, methods and technologies associated with plant production in water-limited environments. The congress will...

It has been a year since APAARI started implementing the project on Asia Pesticide Residue Mitigation through the Promotion of Biopesticides and Enhancement of Trade Opportunities funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). It is implemented in collaboration with the IR4 project, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),...

Local farmers’ markets have become the latest coronavirus casualty after France decided to close open-air markets as a further measure curb the spread of coronavirus. However, the move has proved controversial given that it stands to disproportionately affect small producers.

The greenhouse whitefly (GWF), Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is rarely associated with potato plants yet is the only known vector of the Potato yellow vein virus (PYVV). A host shift related with vector’s cognition often requires neural alterations by the virus. However, PYVV, being semi-persistent, is not supposed to directly affect vector physiology....

Los resultados de los bovinos estudiados indican un efecto del tratamiento de 100% de consumo de ATAEP en la grasa y en los sólidos totales de la leche, mientras que en la proteína y la lactosa no se encontró ninguna diferencia significativa entre tratamientos. De cualquier forma,los valores obtenidos para...

Ciencia y Agricultura Vol. 17(3): 78-94. 2020Las plantas de la familia Amaryllidaceaehan adquiridoimportancia por ser utilizadas como ornamentales, por tener flores y apariencia vistosa, además de sus amplias propiedades farmacológicas. Los géneros principalmente estudiados son Amaryllis, Crinum, Galanthus, Narcisus, Bruganvigia yLycoris. Ellos producen alcaloides teniendo como precursores primarios la L-fenilalanina...

L'amibiase est une maladie qui affecte les abeilles domestiques adultes. Les symptômes de l'amibiase sont similaires à ceux de la nosémose: abeilles avec un abdomen enflé et diarrhée. L'apiculteur peut localiser les au trou de vol et à l'avant de la ruche et observer des abeilles incapables de voler, avec...

Local leafy vegetables have long been an important part of people's diets in Africa. They are nutritious, affordable and adapted to local growing conditions and cultural traditions. They are cheap, readily affordable and rich in different micro-nutrients and are therefore crucial for the food and nutrition security of poor families...

Using participatory plant breeding, poor and marginal farmers in Eastern India, who previously grew old and low yielding land races, produced several new varieties of upland rice. Self-help groups produced truthful seed of these rice varieties, with production rising from 39 in 2002-2003 to 81 t in 2003-2004. It was...

Currently, vegetable farmers in Laos are not able to sell their produce because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While markets remail open, many vendors chose to close their shops and many people are also afraid to go out. Laos farmers appeal to their Laos government to help them by purchasing their vegetables...

In countries with lockdown and quarantine, the most affected sectors are the landless farmers, daily wage earners and the informal sector in the cities and rural areas as they are most worried about how to earn to buy their food and pay for their bills and utilities and as their...

En un pozo petrolero el mayor producto de desperdicio es lo que se conoce como agua de producción. Según Mesa et al. (2018), “el agua de la industria del petróleo en Colombia se usa y/o se genera en las fases de exploración, producción, transporte y refinación; siendo más alto su...

En el sur de la provincia de Santa Fe prevalece la agricultura como actividad agropecuaria. Sin embargo, la ganadería se mantiene en muchos establecimientos, ocupando en la mayoría de los casos áreas con suelos de menor aptitud productiva. En la región, también persisten sistemas de producción de leche, muchos de...

The Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF), is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that works across 60 000 villages in 16 states of India, reaching out to over 4.5 million farmers. In BAIF’s programme area in the Dharwad district of India, high mortality among goat kids in the rainy season was reported...

The centralised plant breeding techniques of the green revolution have yielded good results in more favourable agricultural environments. However, most low-resource farmers in marginal areas have not benefited from these varieties. As an alternative to centralised breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Paticipatory Varietal Selection (PVS) and Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB)...

Dans l'oasis de Teyert à l'oued d'Adrar en Mauritanie, les agriculteurs ont mis en place une technique d'irrigation innovante : le système "californien". Explications. Pour diminuer l'utilisation de la nappe phréatique et mieux gérer les ressources en eau venant des pluies rares et concentrées en période hivernale, les agriculteurs pratiquent...

This Newsletter provides updated information on Agroecology, more concrete about COVID-19 and  Agroecology, successful evidences of ZBNF and other agroecology highlights.

Esta publicación se ha diseñado para que el agricultor pueda aprovechar el efecto polinizador de las abejas dóciles, con el fin de aumentar la cantidad y calidad de los frutos de la mora de Castilla. Por eso, el texto incluye aspectos como: Las bondades de la polinización. La composición que...