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Book (stand-alone)General interest bookGood agricultural practices (GAP)
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
2024Also available in:
Groundnut, a significant oilseed crop in Myanmar, is predominantly cultivated by subsistence farmers in all the three regions of the Central Dry Zone. However, it has untapped potential for increased productivity, quality, and market competitiveness through improved crop technologies and the adoption of good agricultural practices (GAP). The adoption of GAP techniques, harmonious with natural agroecosystems and Indigenous Peoples' knowledge, including organic manuring, integrated pest management (IPM), and climate-resilient crop varieties, can be easily adopted by resource-poor farmers. Effective management of limited resources is achievable by careful selection and use of high-quality, environmentally safe inputs like seeds and fertilizers. The current emphasis on consumer awareness necessitates safe, quality food production and resource efficiency, emphasizing the need for better organization of groundnut growers through project-guided marketing to sustain productivity and increase income.Under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Global Agriculture and Food Security Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chain (FAO-GAFSP-CFAVC) Programme, GAP dissemination for target crops, including groundnut, is a priority. This involves upgrading existing GAP standards based on Myanmar's and ASEAN's practices. The enhanced GAP version focuses on food safety, produce quality, worker health and safety, and environmental management. Implementing GAP will not only enhance food safety and quality but also promote ecological sustainability in groundnut production cropping systems.Validation and contextualization were achieved through comprehensive research, stakeholder discussions, and insights from relevant stakeholders, including FAO experts.GAP rollout involves capacity building among lead farmer organizations, public–private partners, and value chain actors. The framework covers pre- and post-harvest practices for safe, quality groundnut production tailored to small and medium farmers. Key messages facilitate agronomic management practices, supported by farmer organizations, sensitization, technical assistance, and market linkages. On-farm demonstrations, Farmer Field Schools (FFS), training, and information and communications technology (ICT) tools supplement GAP promotion.Existing user-friendly integrated pest management (IPM) handbooks and FFS curriculum for groundnut support the framework, leveraging farmers' capacity building and complementing affiliated GAP initiatives. -
Book (stand-alone)Guidelineစိုက်ပျိုးရေးဆိုင်ရာ အလေ့အကျင့်ကောင်းများ (GAP) သင်တန်းလက်စွဲ
အတွဲ ၁+၂
2023Also available in:
အစားအစာ ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကင်းရှင်းရေးသည် အလွန်အရေးကြီးပြီး အာဟာရတန်ဖိုးနှင့် အရည်အသွေးထက် စားသုံးသူများ ပိုမိုအလေးထားသော အချက်တစ်ခု ဖြစ်လာခဲ့ပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံတကာ စားနပ်ရိက္ခာ ကုန်စည်ရောင်းဝယ်မှုတွင် အစားအစာ ဘေးကင်းရေး၊ တစ်ကိုယ်ရေ သန့်ရှင်းရေးနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ရေးတို့ကို လိုက်နာရန် လိုအပ်လာပါ သည်။ စိုက်ပျိုးရေးဆိုင်ရာအလေ့အကျင့်ကောင်းများ၊ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ဆိုင်ရာ စံချိန်စံညွှန်းများနှင့်အညီ ရာသီဥတုနှင့်လိုက်လျောညီထွေသည့် နည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် ထုတ်လုပ်သောအစားအစာ ကုန်စည်များသည် ပြည်တွင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဈေးကွက်များ တွင် လယ်ယာထွက်ကုန်/ထုတ်ကုန် ယှဉ်ပြိုင်နိုင်စွမ်းကို မြှင့်တင်ပေးနိုင်မည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထို့အပြင် အစားအစာ ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ကင်းရှင်းရေးသည် ဒေသခံပြည်သူများ၏ စားနပ်ရိက္ခာနှင့်အာဟာရဖူလုံရေးတွင် အဓိကကျပါသည်။ GAP လယ်သမားများအပါအဝင် ဆက်စပ်သော ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်သူများ၏ စွမ်းဆောင်ရည် မြှင့်တင်ရေးသည် တောင်သူလယ်သမားများ၏ ကွင်းလုပ်ငန်းအဆင့်တွင် GAP မြှင့်တင်ရေး အတွက် မရှိမဖြစ်လိုအပ်ပါသည်။ လက်ရှိ သင်တန်းလက်စွဲစာအုပ်တွင် အတွဲနှစ်တွဲပါရှိပြီး ပထမအတွဲတွင် အစားအစာ ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ကင်းရှင်းရေး၊ ထုတ်ကုန် အရည်အသွေး ကောင်းမွန်ရေး၊ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးနှင့် လုပ်သားများ ကျန်းမာရေး၊ ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ကင်းရှင်းရေးနှင့် လူမှုဘဝ သာယာရေးကဏ္ဍတို့အတွက် မြန်မာနှင့် အာဆီယံ GAP အဓိက စံနှုန်းများ၊ လိုက်နာမှု စံနှုန်းများနှင့်အညီ GAP ဆိုင်ရာ ယေဘုယျလမ်းညွှန်ချက်များကိုဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ ဒုတိယအတွဲ တွင် ရိတ်သိမ်းချိန်မတိုင်မီ နှင့် ရိတ်သိမ်းချိန်လွန်ပြုပြင်ခြင်း၊ ထုပ်ပိုးပစ္စည်း/ ထုပ်ပိုးခြင်းအပါအဝင် တိကျသော စိုက်ပျိုးရေးဆိုင်ရာ အလေ့အကျင့်ကောင်းများ (GAPs) ကို ရည်မှန်းထားသော သီးနှံများ အတွက် အဓိကထားပြီး ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ GAP စံချိန်စံညွှန်းဆိုင်ရာ အခြားသော အရင်းအမြစ်များ အထူးသဖြင့် သစ်သီးဝလံနှင့် ဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်များ အတွက် FAO ၏ GAP အစီအစဉ်များကိုလည်း လက်စွဲစာအုပ်တွင်ပါရှိသော သက်ဆိုင်ရာအလေ့အကျင့်များ တွင်ပူးတွဲဖော်ပြ ထားပါသည်။ -
Book (stand-alone)General interest bookGood agricultural practices (GAP)
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
2023Also available in:
Chickpeas are vital for food security, nutrition, and farmer income in Myanmar's Central Dry Zone (CDZ), ranking second in South Asia after India. Collaborative research efforts of the Department of Agriculture Reform and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (DAR-ICRISAT) have contributed to an eightfold increase in crop yield due to the introduction of more efficient varieties of chickpea in the country. Good agricultural practices (GAP) and value chain promotion of chickpea have significant potential which can further boost productivity and increase exports. The upgraded GAP standards of chickpea are inclusive of food safety, produce quality, worker health and safety, and environmental management aspects, as they were developed in a context-specific and participatory manner encompassing validation from farmers about the existing constraints in application of GAP.Dissemination and improved application of chickpea GAP is planned to be achieved through a comprehensive capacity-building programme of chickpea smallholder farmers, public–private partners, and value chain actors, at pre- and post-harvest levels. Strengthening lead farmers and crop producers’ organizations through technical support, improved demonstration and market linkages will leverage the objectives of GAP adoption and upscaling in the target regions. On-farm demonstrations, farmer field schools (FFS), training, and information and communications technology (ICT) tools will supplement GAP promotional interventions. User-friendly integrated pest management (IPM) handbooks and FFS curricula support farmers and existing GAP initiatives will foster the approach of climate-smart good agricultural practices at farmers' field level and will ensure the sustainability of farmers' income through increased productivity, product market competence and produce quality.
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A resource guide to method selection and application in low resource settings
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No results found.FAO provides countries with technical support to conduct nutrition assessments, in particular to build the evidence base required for countries to achieve commitments made at the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) and under the 2016-2025 UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. Such concrete evidence can only derive from precise and valid measures of what people eat and drink. There is a wide range of dietary assessment methods available to measure food and nutrient intakes (expressed as energy insufficiency, diet quality and food patterns etc.) in diet and nutrition surveys, in impact surveys, and in monitoring and evaluation. Differenct indicators can be selected according to a study's objectives, sample population, costs and required precision. In low capacity settings, a number of other issues should be considered (e.g. availability of food composition tables, cultural and community specific issues, such as intra-household distribution of foods and eating from shared plates, etc.). This manual aims to signpost for the users the best way to measure food and nutrient intakes and to enhance their understanding of the key features, strengths and limitations of various methods. It also highlights a number of common methodological considerations involved in the selection process. Target audience comprises of individuals (policy-makers, programme managers, educators, health professionals including dietitians and nutritionists, field workers and researchers) involved in national surveys, programme planning and monitoring and evaluation in low capacity settings, as well as those in charge of knowledge brokering for policy-making. -
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookHuman energy requirements
Report of a Joint FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation
2004Also available in:
No results found.Since 1949, FAO has convened groups of experts to evaluate current scientific knowledge in order to define the energy requirements of humans and propose dietary energy recommendations for populations. The World Health Organization (WHO) joined this initiative in the early 1950s, and the United Nations University (UNU) in 1981. New scientific knowledge generated in the 20 years since the last consultation was held prompted the assembly of a new expert consultation to make recommen dations for energy requirements of populations throughout the life cycle. This publication is the report of that consultation, which took place from 17 to 24 October 2001 at FAO headquarters in Rome. The report is not meant merely to describe the energy expenditure and requirements of population groups. It is intended also to be prescriptive in supporting and maintaining health and good nutrition, defining human energy requirements and proposing dietary energy recommendations for populations. The new concepts and recommendations set forth in the report include: calculation of energy requirements for all ages; modification of the requirements and dietary energy recommendations for infants, older children and adolescents; proposals for different requirements for populations with lifestyles that involve different levels of habitual physical activity; reassessment of energy requirements for adults, based on energy expenditure estimates expressed as multiples of basal metabolic rates; classification and recommendations of physical activity levels; an experimental approach for factorial estimates of the energy needs of pregnancy and lactation; and recommendations for additional dietary energy needs in the two last trimesters of pregnancy. The report is accompanied by a CD-ROM software program and instruction manual on calculating population energy requirements and food needs.