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In an effort to support beekeepers in the sustainable production of good quality beehive products, TECA together with its partners, have developed a set of information sheets on good beekeeping practices for the main bee diseases. They are designed following the TECA standards, to help beekeepers, and those providing advisory services to the beekeepers, correctly identify honey bee diseases, apply the correct treatment and to prevent them. The information sheets available in this catalogue can also be consulted online through the TECA Knowledge Base: http://teca.fao.org/technologies/browse
This document contains a brief report of the FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 11–13 September 2017. During the meeting FAO engaged a broad range of stakeholders from government officials and intergovernmental organizations to non-state actors, including civil society, private sector, research/academic institutions and cooperative/producer organizations in the dialogue on issues related to agricultural biotechnologies.
Upscaling Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) entails changing the behavior, strategies and agricultural practices of millions of agricultural producers. Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) can play a very important role in upscaling CSA, but they need to be better organised to do so. This paper explores how EAS should be organized to support the upscaling of CSA by drawing lessons for EAS from four successful cases namely: natural resource management, crop management, varietal improvement and weather insurance. It used the Innovation Management Framework which identifies three elements that are critical for innovation: functions, actions and tools.
Occasional papers on innovation in...
Ce fascicule fait partie d’une série d’outils pédagogiques simples concernant les activités clés des boutiques d’intrants (BI). Il permet aux organisations de producteurs (OP) et aux gestionnaires des boutiques d’utiliser des outils pour améliorer la gestion ou décider de la mise en place de l’activité. Depuis des décennies, les paysans nigériens sont confrontés aux problèmes de la faiblesse des rendements des cultures vivrières. C’est dans ce contexte que la FAO, en partenariat avec le Gouvernement nigérien, appuie l’intensification agricole par la filière des intrants agricoles au Niger et le renforcement des capacités des OP. Les BI font partie de cette...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) strongly pursue poverty and food security goals. One of its indicators calls for increased investment, including investments for agricultural research and extension services, etc. This paper is based on a model developed by the authors to calculate the investment requirements for agricultural and rural extension and advisory services (EAS) based on macro-economic data of developing countries. The model reveals significant differences in average investment requirements in different regions and shows the additional EAS costs related to climate change and other areas that currently lack investment.
Occasional papers on innovation in family farming