This practice demonstrates how simple cost effective interventions such as low cost protein rich feeding, de-worming, vaccination, low cost housing, egg-candling, use of bamboo for poultry feeders and waterers, have strengthened household poultry production systems of tribal farmers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in India. A key factor that...

Many people in Eastern Africa depend on forests and trees to meet various needs. With growing populations, these resources are being rapidly depleted. Many farmers want to plant trees but cannot readily obtain high-quality tree seedlings. Establishing a tree nursery can help to meet this demand and provide you with...

En diciembre 2019 "Mai", una tortuga marina “Cabezona” (Caretta caretta), fue capturada de manera accidental en un lance de pesca, vinculado a una de las campañas de investigación del INIDEP, realizada en el BIP Holmberg. Los investigadores decidieron tenerla a bordo y trasladarla a Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina)...

Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous external inputs of chemicals, machinery, advice, subsidies and knowledge. The issue of sustainability has brought complexity and uncertainty to this mainly linear...

The Shashe farms in the Runde catchment area of Zimbabwe extend across three villages. Since 2010, over 500 families from the region have worked alongside ZIMSOFF (Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum) and AZTREC (Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conversationists) to revive arid cattle-ranching land into rich, abundant food forests. At the...

The upcoming publication of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, planned for 29 April, is an ideal opportunity to increase organic land and consumption in the EU. This target may sound at first ambitious, but in reality, it is achievable. The new Commission’s Green Deal highlights the need to increase the environmental ambition of the EU...

With consumers and in value chains, small-scale fisheries are struggling to get the recognition they deserve. LabMAF has detailed the factors contributing to the weak position of small-scale fishers in the markets and identified innovations that respond to existing challenges. By connecting existing various market initiatives and encouraging new ones...

This practice documents the work of the Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a leading NGO in India, in regarding the organization and support for rural women to take up poultry rearing, and develop this into a successful market-linked enterprise. Women poultry rearers have been organised into a Poultry Producers’...

In Eastern Africa, reduced soil fertility has led to declining crop yields on many small‑scale farms causing food insecurity and greater poverty. Throughout the region, soils are generally low in nitrogen and phosphorus – which are essential for crops to grow well. Soil fertility can be increased by the use...

This Market brief series is based on a study commissioned by IFOAM – Organics International in 2020 in order to better understand possible interventions that can promote market development and trade of organic produce in Africa. The Tunisia Market brief is part of a series with 12 specific Market briefs. They...

Climate change remains the most significant challenge facing farmers in Benin. Irregular and unpredictable rains, coupled with prolonged droughts and increased incidents of high winds, are decimating crop production across many regions. The Project for Adaptation to Climate Change (PAda-Clim-Benin), with financial support from Bread for the World (Germany) and DM...

Connaitre les mécanismes de transmission virale entre humains et chauve-souris est incontournable pour empêcher l’émergence de foyers épidémiques. Des scientifiques ont mobilisé plusieurs disciplines pour étudier la circulation du virus Nipah au Cambodge. Ensemble, épidémiologistes, écologues, virologistes et anthropologues ont analysé la circulation du virus entre chauves-souris et humains, puis...

FAO and the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry convened a meeting of high-level officials from Central Asia to establish a joint Food Loss and Waste Strategy Committee mandated to oversee the development and implementation of the regional food loss and waste reduction programme. The newly launched body will also support...

El propósito de este manual técnico es orientar a los productores de arveja en el proceso de producción de semillas de óptima calidad en sus fincas, mediante el mejoramiento del sistema productivo en la región. Las indicaciones técnicas descritas en este manual constituyen una herramienta para que los pequeños productores...

La espectroscopía de reflectancia en el infrarrojo cercano (NIRS, por sus siglas en inglés), es una técnica que se fundamenta en la aplicación de métodos matemáticos sobre datos químicos y, en combinación con las ondas electromagnéticas de la región del NIR (780 a 2.500 nm), se relaciona la composición química...

América Latina es la región más urbanizada y desigual del planeta. En este contexto, la especialización en Liderazgo, Cambio Climático y Ciudades de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO Ecuador, aborda de manera directa el desafío de profundizar en la comprensión de las complejas dinámicas sociales, los conflictos ambientales...

Durante estos días, en los que muchos gobiernos ensayan la estrategia del cierre de fronteras y límites entre regiones dentro de un mismo país en el intento de contener la expansión de la pandemia del COVID-19, es que se puede observar la fragilidad de los sistemas alimentarios dependientes. La limitación o...

This good practice is aimed at addressing the growing degradation of common land in India. By controlling the use of communal lands through community participation, discussion and the creation of self-governing rules, many benefits have been noted.

Soybean brings nitrogen from the air into the soil as a free source of urea. You can obtain a good maize yield after harvesting soybean with less inorganic fertilizer application due to soil improvement. Growing soybean before maize reduces Striga infestation in maize. The practice demonstrates how to plant and...

Parboiled rice is rice that has been boiled in the husk. Parboiling makes rice easier to process by hand, improves the nutritional value of white rice, and changes its texture. Today, it is the preferred rice of many in the southern parts of the Indian subcontinent, and elsewhere. The quality...