If agricultural research and innovation are to deliver acceptable levels of food and nutrition security to poor communities at a global scale, a rethink is needed of how current approaches to research-for-development are planned and executed. Obstacles lie in three factors: · Today’s vertical and supply driven focus – by...

There are 1.4 billion poor people living on less than US$1.25 a day. One billion of them live in rural areas where agriculture is their main source of livelihood. The ‘green revolution’ in agriculture that swept large parts of the developing world during the 1960s and 1970s dramatically increased agricultural...

Une des questions est celle des connaissances dont on dispose sur le travail, les conditions de son exercice, et ses évolutions au sein des TPE/TPI. Quelles sont les évolutions du travail dans différents secteurs d'activité à l'échelle des territoires ? Cette communication vise à apporter des éléments sur le travail...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

The book covers the spread of Conservation Agriculture (CA) in countries including Brazil, Argentina, the USA, Canada, Australia and emerging CA destinations in Europe, Asia and Africa. Topics covered include the performance of CA as an approach to sustainable crop intensification and how it can contribute to enhancing productivity, improving...

Food sovereignty and food security are not the same issue. Both are different but many people around the world confuse the two. This article explores and analyzes the issues surrounding food security and food sovereignty in order to explain the differences between them, identifies the principal statements in food sovereignty...

The aim of the workshop is to examine various types of standards and labels and to build upon lessons learned from concrete examples to identify issues and challenges to be addressed, discuss their potential contribution to improve sustainability of food systems, and propose measures in order to improve their effectiveness....

The project is the second Phase of a two-phase Rural Investment and Services Program (1st phase 2002-2006). The project strives to continue to foster the post-privatization growth in the agricultural and rural sectors of Moldova by improving access of farmers and rural entrepreneurs to legal ownership status, know-how, knowledge and...

Más de 170 mil familias, ubicadas en su mayoría en la zona altoandina «puna y cordillera», participan en la cadena productiva de la alpaca. El 75% de ellas vive en situación de pobreza extrema. La crianza de alpacas en un 80% se realiza bajo un sistema tradicional, caracterizado por un...

C’est le message que veut envoyer la FAO, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture, en faisant de 2014 l’Année internationale de l’agriculture familiale. Au Québec UPA Développement international (UPA DI) s’associe à ce projet. C’est pourquoi l’UPA DI accueille en ce moment Nora Ourabah Haddad, coordonnatrice pour les activités liées...

The Final Consolidated Farmers’ Organizations (FOs) and Capacity Development Report provides a snapshot of P4P’s engagement with FOs from 2009 to 2013. P4P engaged with over 830 FOs over the duration of the pilot, with the FOs actively targeted in December 2013 representing over 1.5 million farmers across the 20...

There are 3.9 million farm holdings in Romania, the majority of which are Family Farms of extensive semi-natural grassland pastoral systems and mixed farming systems. These semi-natural smallsale farmed landscapes are of significant economic importance. For example, the 1 million holdings between 1-10 ha (3.1 m ha, 20% of Romania’s...

Este documento presenta de forma interactiva la importancia de las mujeres en la pesca artesanal de Centroamérica, describiendo sus actividades, estadísticas regionales y detallando los derechos de las mujeres.

Given the importance of agriculture and the rural medium for countries’ growth and development, policy makers must strengthen the institutional structure of rural extension and increase public and private investment. Abundant natural resources, knowledge, technology, and extensionists are not enough. Countries lso need policies, institutional frameworks, and solid management that link...

Este libro indica que en los últimos años, la producción de papa ha experimentado una significativa innovación técnica y comercial, lo que ha permitido el desarrollo de su valor agregado y el surgimiento de nuevos mercados especialmente para las variedades nativas de papa. Sin embargo, esta rápida expansión de la...

Este curso está dirigido a los extensionistas con el objetivo de mejorar el entendimiento de la biología y la ecología de las plagas lo que es importante para la correcta aplicación de estrategias de control; así como compartir información a fi n de actualizar el conocimiento de nuevas estrategias ecológicas...

Alexandru Malancea started working in agriculture in 1996, at the beginning helped by his parents. He became a land owner later, when he received a land parcel. He felt a call and vocation for agriculture and decided to extend his land, by acquiring a new plot, where the village farm...

The Smallholders Foundation promotes sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation through educational radio programmes. Smallholder Farmers Rural Radio broadcasts daily programs on agricultural management, environmental conservation, and market access, which reach over 250,000 smallholder farmers. Broadcasts are done in the local Igbo language, and reach listeners in three local government catchments...

The aim of the workshop is to examine various types of standards and labels and to build upon lessons learned from concrete examples to identify issues and challenges to be addressed, discuss their potential contribution to improve sustainability of food systems, and propose measures in order to improve their effectiveness....

A cross sectional study was conducted to investigate response of smallholder farmers to land degradation in the southern parts of Ludewa District. The study involved 240 respondents randomly selected from stratified population based on gender and type of village. Besides, focus group discussions were made to gauge farmers’ opinions based...