These services include the preservation of traditional farming knowledge, local crop and animal varieties, and native forms of sociocultural organization.
The online registration allows Farmers' Organizations, Civil Society Associations, Cooperatives, Research Organizations, Universities, Non-Governmental Organizations, Development Agencies and Institutions to become a part of the Family Farming Knowledge Platform worldwide network.
For example, mechanisation might seem a no-brainer, but it might come at a cost of local jobs and traditional farming knowledge and techniques.
But farming knowledge is only part of the equation: a marriage with engineering imagination and creativity has been vital.
He moved to the country with the notion of farming, but no knowledge coupled with the Depression soon found him commuting to New York to make a living.
By working with schools to get students excited about indigenous plants, cooking, and preserving foods, Project Disc is instilling a positive perception of farming and lifelong knowledge about nutrition.
Here's a quick quiz to test your knowledge of farming and food production in sub-Saharan Africa.
Her expressive prose and knowledge of farming techniques give vivid color to her family's alternative lifestyle and unusual milieu.
Despite her silvery good looks, she is more comfortable in barnyard clothes and carpenter's aprons than couture, and has a zestful love of the outdoors, an encyclopedic knowledge of farming and an abhorrence of life in the city.
