Poor farmers in marginal areas have benefited little from high yielding, "green revolution" varieties that have transformed the productivity of more favourable areas. In the states of northeastern India, farmers who cultivate upland rice on low-fertility, sloping soils continue to grow low yielding landraces that are susceptible to diseases and...

In recent years, residents of remote areas in south Kyrgyzstan have been facing a host of challenges and difficulties, including two interrelated major issues – migration and weather extremes. Through cooperation and with knowledge from FAO, they are managing to get back on track despite devastating mudslides. Despite the hot and...

Este estudio ofrece una evaluación exhaustiva del estado actual de la inclusión financiera de los jóvenes rurales en Guatemala, poniendo especial énfasis en el impacto que un mejor acceso y uso de servicios financieros de calidad puede tener sobre la capacidad de estos actores de impulsar iniciativas empresariales crear más...

An award-winning film, made on a tight budget, captures in powerful images the complexities of small-scale fishers and fish processors in West Africa. I’m in search of happiness. That’s how a young Guinean surprises us in the smoky atmosphere of a sardinella smoking oven in Casamance, Senegal, in a sequence from...

El ajonjolí es una planta importante en la producción de aceite comestible de alta calidad por su gran valor nutricional y terapéutico. La caracterización de accesiones es necesaria para la identificación de parentales con características de interés para la obtención de nuevos materiales genéticos. Se caracterizaron 160 accesiones de ajonjolí...

Floating garden agriculture (locally known as vasoman/dhap chash) is a local innovative crop production technology for the submerged ecosystems of the southern region of Bangladesh. Traditionally, farmers of the Gopalganj, Pirojpur and Barisal districts have been practising the farming technology for about two centuries as an adaptation to the flooded/submerged...

Planning and policy-making for the development of the post-harvest fisheries sector has been hampered by the lack of practical tools to understand post-harvest fish losses. The Questionnaire Loss Assessment Method (QLAM) is based on a formal questionnaire survey approach to post-harvest loss assessment. Enumerators interview a population sample using a...

This report describes the state of nature in the EU during the period from 2013 to 2018, based on Member States′ reporting under these directives and on subsequent assessments at EU or EU biogeographical and marine levels.

In the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition, FAO reported that the prevalence of undernourishment was rising in the region. The latest data shows that the deterioration has slowed, but there remain 256 million hungry people in Africa today. The report further...

Dans les oasis de Beni-Isgen, du Ghoufi (Batna) et du Ghout (El Oued) en Algérie, l'APEB favorise la valorisation les dattes de basse qualité en vinaigre. Par les effets du changement climatique, les rendements de datte sont en baisse depuis plusieurs années. La situation n'allant pas en s'améliorant, il a...

Diego Machuca, ingeniero agrónomo y encargado de Unidad Productiva Agroecológica de centro Ceres, entrega una serie de recomendaciones para el uso adecuado y forma correcta de la aplicación de Mulch. Más información en www.centroceres.cl

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all parts of society and livelihoods around the globe. It is though worth recognizing that disadvantaged segments of populations like rural young women and men will be impacted harder. Nevertheless, when proactively engaged, they have demonstrated to be innovators in their own sectors to surmount...

Many development countries are currently undergoing major demographic shifts as the percentage of young people of the total population rapidly increases. This shift is associated with high rates of migration, unemployment and instability. In policy discourses, engaging youth in commercial agricultural is often presented as a measure to control or...

Capacitaciones Virtuales de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, en el marco de las actividades del Programa Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA), conjuntamente con Vivero de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Disertantes: Lic. Marcelo Miranda. INTA La Plata - Prohuerta (MDSN/INTA)...

To enhance the knowledge base and support the uptake of good practices for ongoing work on adaptation planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of best adaptation practices, FAO organized a series of webinar sessions on “Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the Agriculture Sector” in 2017 and 2018. This document serves to...

In this video, a small scale farmer shows organic methods of pest control. He illustrates how organic pesticides are made using urine and different wild plants around his home. 

El cultivo de yuca es una alternativa forrajera para la alimentación de los bovinos en sistemas ganaderos, ya que su forraje es una fuente importante de nutrientes, especialmente de proteína. La siembra de cualquier cultivo forrajero debe de estar acompañado de prácticas de manejo que permitan obtener rendimientos aceptables para...

The Agroecology Fund’s second global Agroecology Learning Exchange, held in February 2020 in Karnataka, India, was an extraordinary gathering of more than 70 farmers and agroecology advocates from frontline organizations, researchers, allies, and donors. The Agroecology Fund’s mission, at its core, is to support a growing global agroecology movement to...

In an Oxisol in the Eastern Plains of Colombia, three varieties of sugar cane Cenicaña Colombia (CC) (CC 8475, CC 833895, CC 8592) and one from the Dominican Republic (RD 7511) were established and evaluated in order to determine the production biomass and leaf area. In a randomized complete block...

In agroecology, women’s activities, from seed saving to activism, are well documented. Less well described are the factors that support and/or hinder women’s participation in agroecology; we addressed this gap through a feminist analysis of women’s motivations and barriers to participation in agroecological production in Costa Rica. We found that...