Unallocated - Organizations

Making Rice Production More Environmentally-Friendly

Irrigated rice production is one of the most essential agricultural activities for sustaining our global population, and at the same time, one of the agricultural sectors...

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Agroecology and Sustainable Development

Understanding the cornerstones of agroecology€ requires a sustained and significant collective effort, comparable to the efforts that went into conquering space. (...) Without...

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Organic Agriculture as an Opportunity for Sustainable agricultural Development

We need drastic change in the global food system in order to achieve a more sustainable agriculture that feeds people adequately, contribute to rural development and provide...

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Ecological Intensification Management of Maize in northeast ChinaAgronomic...

Optimum field management practices need to be developed and improved to solve the challenge of increasing food production while retaining the ecological integrity of farming...

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Toward thick legitimacycreating a web of legitimacy for agroecology

Legitimacy is at the heart of knowledge politics surrounding agriculture and food. When people accept industrial food practices as credible and authoritative, they are...

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AgroecologyA global Paradigm to Challenges Mainstreams Industrial Agriculture

Considerable controversy continues to exist in scientific and policy circles about how to tackle issues of global hunger, malnutrition, and rural economic decline, as well as...

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Multiple pathwaysCase studies of sustainable agriculture in china

Chinese agriculture currently faces major environmental challenges. China’s applications of fertilizers and pesticides are among the highest in the world, which in turn has...

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Agroecological farming innovationsCase studies in Hoa Binh and Lam Dong...

Given the increasing scope and impacts of environmental pollution and food poisonings in Vietnam since its agricultural sector started with further intensification with more...

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Multiple pathwayscase studies of sustainable agriculture in China.

Chinese agriculture currently faces major challenges. China’s use of fertilisers and pesticides is among the highest in the world. Soil erosion and soil pollution are...

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NBSAP Assessment An Assessment of Lao PDR’s National Biodiversity Strategy...

In 1996, the Government of Lao PDR acceded to United Nation International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In meeting the requirements of the convention, in 2004, the...

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Decision of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry on Organic Agriculture Standards

Referred to in Agriculture Law No.1/98 LNA, dated 10 October 1998;- Referred to in Prime Minister CB (DOA) No.89/PMO, dated 22 June 1999 on the Organization and Role of Ministry...

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Institutionalizing Agroforestry as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy...

Several studies and literature have indicated the relevance of agroforestry as one of the climate change adaptation strategies of the agriculture sector, particularly those in...

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VIETNAM ORGANIC AGRICULTURE - An overview on current status and some success...

Although it is believed, as in all other countries in the world, Vietnamese farmers were growing crops organically hundred years ago, organic farming according to the...

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VIETNAM ORGANIC AGRICULTURE An overview on current status and some success...

Modern organic agriculture is new to Vietnam. Organic Information: Fewand scattered.Certified organic area and value (2010):€¢ 21.000 ha (0.2% of the total cropped area) of...

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IPM Farmer Field SchoolsA synthesis of 25 impact evaluations

The Farmer Field School is a form of adult education, which evolved from the concept that farmers learn optimally from field observation and experimentation. It was developed to...

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Agroecology concepts, principles and applications

Present the contributions of the SOCLA to FAO’s International Symposium on Agroecology for Food security and nutrition.Thanks to 15 points, this document provides the synthesis...