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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Technical studyAddressing the challenges facing agricultural mechanization input supply and farm product processing
Proceedings of an FAO Workshop held at the CIGR World Congress on Agricultural Engineering Bonn, Germany, 5–6 September 2006
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ProjectFactsheetRegional E-Agriculture for the Caribbean – A Post COVID-19 Mechanism to Promote Resilient Agri-Food - TCP/SLC/3808 2024
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No results found.The Caribbean region faces significant challenges due to the shifting global economic environment and climate change. Recognizing the critical role of digital transformation in addressing these issues and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has developed a regional information and communications technology (ICT) strategy and roadmap to promote socio-economic development and resilience. Over the past two decades, the Caribbean has made notable progress in ICT infrastructure, coverage, affordability, and internet access, positioning itself well to leverage digital solutions in various sectors, including agriculture. However, the adoption of e-agriculture—ICT applications in the agricultural sector—has been slow, delayed by disparities in ICT access between urban and rural areas, a lack of regional governance frameworks, and limited awareness among farmers. Several Caribbean countries have begun developing national ICT and e-agriculture policies, such as Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Grenada, and the Commonwealth of Dominica. Despite these efforts, barriers like limited knowledge, insufficient educational capacity, and lack of pilot projects and support systems persist. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookScience and technology for sustainable food security, nutritional adequacy, and poverty alleviation in the Asia-Pacific Region 2002
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No results found.Science and technology have played a vital role in keeping agricultural production a step ahead of rapid global population growth during the past four decades. However, Green Revolution technologies did not benefit the vast rainfed and other marginal areas with high concentrations of hunger and poverty. The new farming technologies were also not friendly to the environment, often resulting in degradation of land, water and biodiversity. The region needs to step up agricultural production by 80 p ercent by the year 2030 to meet its growing food needs. However, because there is very little room for expanding the area under farm cultivation most of this increase will need to come from making existing farmland more productive. This publication examines the agrobiophysical, socio-economic and environmental status of farming systems in Asia-Pacific and the role that science and technology will be called on to play in “breaking the unholy alliance of hunger, poverty and environmental degradati on”.
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An information bulletin on Non-Wood Forest Products
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No results found.Behind the new-look Non-Wood News is the usual wealth of information from the world of NWFPs. The Special Features section covers two different aspects of NWFPs: a specific product (bamboo) and a developing market (cosmetics and beauty care). Bamboo is versatile: it can be transformed, for example, into textiles, charcoal, vinegar, green plastic or paper and can also be used as a food source, a deodorant, an innovative building material and to fuel power stations. Reports indicate that natural c osmetics and beauty care are a huge global market, with forecasts indicating an annual growth of 9 percent through 2008. The Special Feature on Forest cosmetics: NWFP use in the beauty industry builds on this and includes information industry interest and marketing strategies (consumers are being drawn to natural products and thus their content is emphasized). As can be seen from the articles on shea butter in Africa and thanakha in Myanmar, many societies have always used and benefited from nat ural cosmetics. This issue includes other examples of traditional knowledge, such as the uses of the secretions of a poisonous tree frog in Brazil and the use by the traditional healers in India of allelopathic knowledge. -
ProjectProgramme / project reportAppropriate food packaging solutions for developing countries 2011
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No results found.The study was undertaken to serve as a basis for the international congress Save Food!, taking place from 16 to 17 May 2011, at the international packaging industry fair Interpack2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Save Food! has been co organized by Interpack2011 and FAO, aiming to raise awareness on global food losses and waste. In addition, Save Food! brings to the attention of the international packaging industry the constraints faced by the small- and medium-scale food processing industries in dev eloping countries to obtain access to adequate packaging materials which are economically feasible. -
DocumentOther documentContract Farming of Swine in Southeast Asia as a Response to Changing Market Demand for Quality and Safety in Pork 2008
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