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La radio rural y el desarrollo agrícola: vincular a los campesinos, trabajadores de extensión e investigadores
Los medios de radiodifusión desempeñan un importante papel a la hora de difundir información sobre las novedades en tecnología y prácticas agrícolas al tiempo que buscan involucrar a los campesinos y demás partes implicadas en discusiones interactivas. John Cheburet, un periodista keniata productor de “El campesino orgánico” (The Organic Farmer) y ganador de un concurso de guiones en África sobre las novedades para agricultores a pequeña escala, ha traído el siguiente tema para un debate en el Foro FSN.
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Improving food safety and quality along the chain to protect public health, support fair food trade and contribute to food security and economic development
Ensuring food safety is a public health priority, and an essential step to achieving food security. Effective food safety and quality management systems are key not only to safeguarding the health and well-being of people but also to fostering economic development and improving livelihoods by...
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Sensibilización y comunicación: ¿Qué funciona para mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición a nivel de país?
El grado en que la información sobre la SAN producida es realmente utilizada por los tomadores de decisiones y tiene influencia en la formulación de políticas, sigue estando poco claro. Mediante este foro nos gustaría explorar los factores que contribuyen a que nuestras pruebas y conocimientos sean realmente usados en los procesos de formulación de políticas, en particular, a nivel nacional y regional.
Actas de las actividades
Using online platforms to increase access to open data and share best practices of monitoring women’s land rights
Given the rapid expansion of the internet and the increasing number of users, including in the global South, the full potential of online platforms for promoting inclusive consultation of issues of high global interest is certainly not yet realised. An online discussion is being organised to share...
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The state of broadband 2012: Achieving digital inclusion for all
High-speed affordable broadband connectivity to the Internet is essential to modern society, offering widely recognized economic and social benefits. The Broadband Commission for Digital Development promotes the adoption of broadband-friendly practices and policies for all, so everyone can take...
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Increasing Cropping System Diversity Balances Productivity, Profitability and Environmental Health
One of the key challenges of the 21st century is developing ways of producing sufficient amounts of food while protecting both environmental quality and the economic well-being of rural communities. Over the last half century, conventional approaches to crop production have relied heavily on...
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ASTI global assessment of agricultural R&D spending
Overall, global agricultural R&D spending in the public and private sectors steadily increased between 2000 and 2008. As further proof of positive development, most of this growth was driven by developing countries, since growth in high-income countries stalled. But, spending growth in developing...
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Orange Sweet Potato Makes the Case that Biofortification Works
A study published today in the Journal of Nutrition provides conclusive evidence that orange sweet potato (OSP) provided significant amounts of vitamin A to malnourished Ugandan children and women and that a modest improvement in vitamin A levels in the body was measurable in some cases.
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Agricultural technologies and innovation – Opportunities for making a difference
How can we make the best use of agricultural technology to achieve food security? Is there still a role for older technologies and for traditional approaches? Or embracing industrial production systems should be the way forward? Peter Steele from FAO Cairo is raising this topic inviting members and anyone interested to share their views. At the background of the debate lies the African context, where the challenges and potentials are huge and where, unlike Asia, a green revolution, with its pros and cons, never took place.
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Medium Grains, High Stakes: Economics of Genetically Modified Rice in California
This paper gives estimates of the potential profitability of herbicide-tolerant (HT) rice cultivation in the Sacramento Valley region of California. We estimate first-year returns for the average producer and use both deterministic and stochastic methods to perform sensitivity analysis to account...
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