Agro-forestry is a collective name for land-use systems and technologies where woody perennials (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboos, etc.) are deliberately used on the same land-management units as agricultural crops and/or animals, in some form of spatial arrangement or temporal sequence. Agro-forestry is a dynamic, ecologically-based, natural resource management practice that,…
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an agro-ecosystems management approach aimed at improving and sustaining agricultural productivity, increasing profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment. CA is characterised by three interrelated principles.
Integrated agriculture provides high quality food and other products by using natural resources and regulating mechanisms rather than polluting chemical inputs to secure sustainable farming. The agronomic techniques and biological / physical / chemical methods are carefully selected and balanced taking into account the health of people (i.e. farmers and…
This section addresses integrated farming approaches that have been promoted as alternatives to Green Revolution agriculture since the 1990s for self-sufficient farming. The New Theory farming system in Thailand and the VAC system in Vietnam (VAC in Vietnamese is Vuon, Ao, Chuong which means “garden/pond/ livestock pen”) consist in highly…
Organic agriculture aims at sustaining the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and natural cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of chemical inputs with potentially adverse effects. Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote…
The System of Rice Intensification, known as SRI is an agro-ecological approach for increasing rice productivity (and more recently other crops) by changing the management of plants, soil, water and nutrients.
ALiSEA Online Library contains a wide range of agro-ecology’s documents: backgrounds, case Studies and initiatives fact sheets, presentations, policy documents, toolkits and IEC Materials. All documents are searchable via their Agro-ecological School(s), country, or type. Access now.
National Climate Smart Agriculture Center, (NCSA Center) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) cordially invite you to submit the research paper to the third national workshop of NCSA Center at the theme of “Innovative Pathways to Climate Resilient Livelihoods”, which will be virtually organized in 22 January, 2021. The 3rd National Workshop on “Innovative Pathways to Climate Resilient Livelihoods” aims to bring researchers, scholars, scientists, policymakers, environmental science community, academicians and weather scientists on one platform to showcase their research efforts and contributions. We invite you all participants to attend the virtual event on Innovative Pathways to Climate Resilient Livelihoods for a wonderful experience, knowledge sharing, networking opportunities, publishing and many more. Four sub-themes of the 3rd National Workshop on Innovative Pathways to Climate Resilient Livelihoods are Agriculture Forestry Livestock and Fishery Microenterprise Business Development Deadline for Submission: 20 December 2020 For detailed information contact us: [email protected]
World Food Day celebration in Lao PDR was organized by the Ministry of agriculture and forestry, on the 30th of October 2020 at NAFRI. The meeting was attended by a total of 210 participants from the Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, including researchers, professors, students from NUoL, and representatives from various international organizations such as representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN, ACA, CIA…The morning session is an official ceremony and the afternoon session is a Seminar for World Food Day 2020 – focusing on “Grow, Nourish, Sustain together. Our Actions are our Future”. The contents of the presentation and discussed at this meeting include: Session 1: Grow, Nourish, Sustain together Clean agriculture development for food security and nutrition in Lao PDR, Ms. Phonethip SOMMANY – DOA Gender Empowerment and Agricultural Production in Lao PDR, Dr. Keuangkham SISENGNAM – NUoL Mechanisms for rice seed production to ensure financial sustainability, quality, and quantity, Chanthakhone BOUALAPHANH – NAFRI Scaling-up Sustainable Land Management practices by smallholder farmers, Bounthanom BUAHOM – NAFRI Session 2: Policy and Actions for Nutrition and Recovery and Poverty Reduction International days for poverty reduction: Tacking the pandemic induced impoverishment in Lao rural areas, Mr. […]
The Enhancing Nutrition of Upland Farming Families” (ENUFF) project of the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) is implemented by SNV Netherlands Development Organization in partnership with Agrisud International in Oudomxay and Huaphan Provinces. Agrisud has developed a series of Master-Farmer booklets to support the dissemination of techniques from farmer to farmer in the framework of the ENUFF Project. The Master-Farmers are selected among the farmers who have regularly participated in the agricultural activities initiated by the project and have shown commitment and mastery of techniques in specific agriculture production over multiple years of adoption. They receive technical and pedagogical training from the project, in order to be able to transfer these practices to other families in their villages. To support them in their tasks, the ENUFF project has published various series of technical booklets specifically made for the Master-Farmers by Agrisud International. These Master-Farmer booklets were designed as a guidebook to remind them of the different steps of implementation of the technical training in the field, with practices. It does not have a vocation to be only read out loud or use in theoretical training. The technical contents have been simplified and modified based on the farmer field experiences […]
