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ProjectFactsheetInnovación tecnológica y producción sostenible en los departamentos de frontera de Colombia - UTF/COL/140/COL 2024
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No results found.En Colombia, trece departamentos comparten fronteras con once países, donde casi cuatro millones de habitantes enfrentaban necesidades básicas insatisfechas y alto desempleo. A pesar de tener gran riqueza agropecuaria, los cultivos tenían bajo rendimiento debido a la débil productividad, manejo tecnológico y elevados costos. Las políticas de desarrollo se enfocaron en mejorar hábitos alimentarios y condiciones en zonas fronterizas descuidadas históricamente, aumentando las inversiones en tecnología, investigación y capacitación del personal. Se busca asegurar los sistemas de producción, contribuir al mantenimiento de ecosistemas y fortalecer la capacidad de adaptación ante fenómenos meteorológicos extremos. Una alianza interinstitucional ha implementado estrategias con uso sostenible de recursos naturales, aumentando los ingresos de comunidades en departamentos como Amazonas, Guainía y el Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina. -
ProjectFactsheetAgricultura Familiar Para el Desarrollo Rural y la Paz en Colombia - UTF/COL/067/COL 2019
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No results found.Colombia es considerado uno de los países con mayor tasade desigualdad de desarrollo entre los ámbitos urbanos yrurales, debido, entre otros, a factores socioeconómicos ypolíticos, añadidos a las consecuencias del conflicto armado.El proyecto surge de la necesidad de acelerar la salida dela pobreza de la población colombiana, haciendo del trabajointerinstitucional y la aplicación de medidas para el aumentode ingresos las acciones más destacadas para mejorarel rendimiento de la agricultura familiar, consiguiendo quelos territorios rurales sean autosuficientes y que Colombia logreuna mayor equidad social y económica. -
ProjectFactsheetMejoramiento de la sostenibilidad de la produccion agropecuaria mediante la reconversion productiva sostenible - UTF/COL/146/COL 2023
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No results found.La alta vulnerabilidad del sector agropecuario de Colombia ante la variabilidad climática influye en la sostenibilidad de los sistemas productivos, afectando no solo a la economía, sino también a la seguridad alimentaria de millones de campesinos y población vulnerable, situación que termina aumentando los índices de pobreza en todo el país. En los departamentos de Chocó, Boyacá, Santander y Norte de Santander, donde se implementó el proyecto, los sistemas productivos agropecuarios se caracterizan por la implementación de un modelo de producción convencional, que genera altos impactos ambientales en los ecosistemas estratégicos, y afectan la resiliencia de los productores y el ecosistema. En dicho contexto, el proyecto diseñó un plan de fortalecimiento de capacidades y acompañamiento técnico para la reducción de los impactos en las actividades agropecuarias, y el desarrollo y conformación de negocios verdes. El proyecto, tuvo como objetivo implementar practicas de agricultura sostenible y resiliente al clima, con criterios de conservación, gestión del riesgo, y uso y divulgación de información agroclimática, para fortalecer la resiliencia del sector agropecuario y de los ecosistemas estratégicos.
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
2023This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet. Since its 2017 edition, this report has repeatedly highlighted that the intensification and interaction of conflict, climate extremes and economic slowdowns and downturns, combined with highly unaffordable nutritious foods and growing inequality, are pushing us off track to meet the SDG 2 targets. However, other important megatrends must also be factored into the analysis to fully understand the challenges and opportunities for meeting the SDG 2 targets. One such megatrend, and the focus of this year’s report, is urbanization. New evidence shows that food purchases in some countries are no longer high only among urban households but also among rural households. Consumption of highly processed foods is also increasing in peri-urban and rural areas of some countries. These changes are affecting people’s food security and nutrition in ways that differ depending on where they live across the rural–urban continuum. This timely and relevant theme is aligned with the United Nations General Assembly-endorsed New Urban Agenda, and the report provides recommendations on the policies, investments and actions needed to address the challenges of agrifood systems transformation under urbanization and to enable opportunities for ensuring access to affordable healthy diets for everyone. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookFood loss analysis: causes and solutions – The Republic of Uganda. Beans, maize, and sunflower studies 2019
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No results found.This report illustrates the food loss assessment studies undertaken along the maize, sunflower and beans supply chains in Uganda in 2015-16 and 2016-17. They aimed to identify the critical loss points in the selected supply chains, the key stages at which food losses occur, why they occur, the extent and impact of food losses and the economic, social and environmental implications of the food losses. Furthermore, these studies also evaluated the feasibility of potential interventions to reduce food losses and waste. -
Book (series)Technical studyPacific oyster farming
A practical manual
2024Also available in:
No results found.The purpose of this manual is to give the reader a foundation of practical knowledge regarding all aspects of Pacific oyster cultivation. It is targeted at new entrants to the market wishing to establish a farm, and existing operators who wish to develop their farms and explore new cultivation techniques. The methodologies described can be applied both to low-tech, low budget, small-scale farming operations and to high-tech, big budget, industrial-scale aquaculture production enterprises. This guide focuses on the functional expertise and technical equipment required to construct and manage an operational farm in the diverse environmental and physical locations in which they can be situated, from the initial stages of finding and selecting a suitable site, to the conclusion of the first production cycle and harvesting the crop. The manual contains a brief introduction which describes the relevance of the species with regards to global aquaculture production figures and how it can form an important part of future food production strategies. Chapter 2 describes the anatomy and biology of Crassostrea gigas and gives an indication as to the environmental conditions in which the species thrives as well as the pathologies and predators that can result in poor health leading to potential mortalities. Chapter 3 deals with all aspects of undertaking a survey of potential oyster farming sites and what data should be collected and examined to assess a site’s suitability, but also which areas are best suited to different cultivation techniques. After this, Chapter 4 introduces the main farming techniques that will be described in detail in the following chapters, which includes off-bottom cultivation, on-bottom cultivation, and suspended cultivation, and gives details of some of the most common cultivation equipment necessary to undertake these operations. The techniques and strategies necessary to procure seed oysters and how to develop them through the nursery stage are also introduced. This includes the basic principles of upwelling, which then leads into Chapter 5, which provides a detailed description of how to build and operate one particular example of a Floating Upwelling System (Flupsy) which is suitable for use in remote but sheltered conditions. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 constitute the main body of the manual and provide an in-depth look into the three major cultivation techniques that this guide concentrates on: “Farming with trestles and bags in the intertidal zone”, “On-bottom cultivation in the intertidal or subtidal zone” and “Offshore longline cultivation”.