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Universidad, Agricultura Familiar y Políticas Públicas
Reflexiones y diálogo sobre extensión, comercialización y el vínculo entre la Universidad y las Organizaciones Campesinas para la generación de políticas públicas en la Agricultura Familiar.
Libro resumen de la 1era Conferencia Regional del Grupo de Investigadores en Políticas Públicas de la Agricultura Familiar (GIPPAF) de la REAF Mercosur.
La presente publicación, representa la consolidación del trabajo iniciado en Posadas, y busca seguir estrechando lazos y comenzar a materializar el desarrollo de investigación de carácter regional, además...
Chile
2018 - Foco Rural - Universidad de Chile
Vídeo
Interview with Nadjirou Sall, ROPPA, West Africa
Interview with Nadjirou Sall at the World Agricultures Watch International Workshop “Understanding Farming Diversity for Better Policy-making and Project Targeting” 19-20 December 2017, IFAD Headquarters, Rome ,Italy
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Enhancing food security and market access for land constrained women farmers
Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy and contributes over 45 percent of government revenue. The agricultural sector is the largest employer, representing 60 percent of total employment. Overall, approximately 80 percent of rural women are employed in agriculture. However, the percentage of agricultural land held by women remains...
Kenya
2018 - ActionAid International Kenya
Artículo de blog
Agribusiness in Southeast Kenya — a light at the end of the tunnel
Farming is not an outdated way of life for young, ambitious, would-be entrepreneurs
A youth group called Mwelekeo Mpya, Kiswahili for New Direction, is indeed pushing young people in Nyamala village, Kilifi County, in a new direction. Here, youth are discovering that farming is not an outdated way of life. Amos Mkare and Dominic Mzungu are both 22 and high school graduates. They are...
Kenya
2018 - World Food Programme
Hoja informativa
Small Family Farming in Tajikistan - a country specific outlook
Although only 5 percent of Tajikistan's land area is farmable due to the country's mountainous geography, agriculture accounts for 53 percent of total employment. Among those households that engage in agriculture, almost 90 percent can be classified as small family farms. With 0.2 hectares on average, Tajikistan's smallholders operate on...
Tajikistan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vídeo
Selo de produção da agricultura familiar
A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou a criação do sistema nacional de certificação da produção da agricultura familiar. O projeto também prevê a criação do selo de produção da agricultura familiar, que identifica os alimentos que vêm deste segmento da economia rural. O projeto de lei, do deputado Assis do Couto,...
Brazil
2018 - Agrosoft
Informe
Civil Society report on the use and implementation of the right to food guidelines
The right to food is a fundamental pillar to the right to life. Yet it is also arguably the most violated human right globally. Today, hundreds of millions of individuals – some 821 million – remain food insecure. They lack consistent physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)
Artículo
Zumra Nuru and Awra Amba
a story from 10.000 gardens in Africa
Awra Amba is an intentional community of around 500 people founded in northern Ethiopia to combat poverty, exploitation and gender inequality.
At the heart of this magnanimous project is a simple question: why should any one human being exploit another? This is the question that the founder of Awra Amba, Zumra...
Ethiopia
2018
Álbum de fotografías
Con un clic las agricultoras venden más
El desarrollo rural requiere de emprendimientos que inviertan en ciencia y tecnología para brindar nuevas herramientas al sector agrícola y ganadero. En la zona Andina de América Latina, hombres y mujeres han tenido un limitado acceso a nuevas tecnologías, limitaciones que se acrecientan si son las mujeres quienes buscan su...
Ecuador
2018 - Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA)- Ecuador
Artículo de revista especializada
Utilisation de pratiques agroécologiques et performances de la petite agriculture familiale : le cas de la Guadeloupe
L’analyse et la quantification des performances de la petite agriculture familiale (PAF) constituent un enjeu au regard de la transition agroécologique. Cet article utilise une méthode combinant enquêtes auprès d’agriculteurs de la PAF de Guadeloupe, typologie et évaluation, à l’échelle de l’exploitation, des avantages qu’ils tirent de pratiques agroécologiques en...
France
2018 - INRA
Artículo de revista especializada
How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?
The widely reported claim that smallholders produce 70–80% of the world’s food has been a linchpin of agricultural development policy despite limited empirical evidence. Recent empirical attempts to reinvestigate this number have lacked raw data on how much food smallholders produce, and have relied on model assumptions with unknown biases and with...
2018 - ScienceDirect
Artículo de revista especializada
Structural features, labor conditions and family succession in dairy production systems in Paraná State, Brazil
Brazil is the fourth largest milk producer in the world. Besides its economic relevance, milk production has an important social function in Brazil. Dairy activity employs a large amount of people and contributes to regional development. But some drawbacks remain, such as poor labor conditions and problems for family succession....
Brazil
2018 - State University of Maringá (UEM)
Informe
Evolución de resultados económicos enero 2016 - mayo 2018 de un modelo productivo porcino de 60 madres
En esta nota se analizan los resultados de un modelo productivo de ciclo completo de sesenta madres, que produce y vende capones con nivel de productividad de 1.217 kilogramos anuales por cerda madre, con servicio natural dirigido e instalaciones específicas de bajo nivel de inversión, alimentación con maíz de propia...
Argentina
2018 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Artículo de blog
The future of the CAP: small-scale farmers speak out from the European Parliament
CVC stated its satisfaction with the Commission’s proposal to limit financial aid to 60,000 EUR per farm, but added that it is important to take the active farmers who work there into account, as well as the economic and social conditions of the workers and day labourers.
Moreover, cuts to the...
European Union
2018 - European Coordination Via Campesina
Artículo
Using comparative historical analysis to compensate shortcomings of cross-sectional methods in explaining causal mechanisms: Lessons from a study of rice farmers in Vietnam
The benefits of mixed methods are well recognised. Using mixed methods, researchers are able to overcome shortcomings inherent in individual methods while enhancing the validity and reliability of their research findings. Mixed methods are commonly used in cross-sectional studies – to answer research questions, and/or explore contemporary social issues. However,...
Viet Nam
2018 - International Journal of Development and Sustainability
Documento técnico
PAA Africa’s contributions to the consolidation of PRONAE in Mozambique
The endorsement of the National School Feeding Programme (Projecto de Alimentação Escolar—PRONAE) by the Mozambican Council of Ministers in 2013 represented a key stage in the institutionalization of school feeding and local food purchases in the country’s education system. This publication presents analysis on the divide between policy change and...
Mozambique
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Reportage : Du maraîchage au porc bio en Périgord Vert
Reportage en Périgord Vert à Saint-Pierre-de-Côle où Maël Gallard et Laure Baillard sont en train d'installer un nouveau projet agricole sur les cinquante hectares des Causses de Cesserou.
France
2018 - Aquipresse
Documento de la Conferencia
Transformation agricole dans la région Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord et défis que constituent l'emploi des jeunes et les migrations
Le présent document analyse le lien qui existe entre la transformation de l'agriculture et l'emploi dans la région Proche-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord, où le chômage, notamment des jeunes, représente un défi fondamental. Il rappelle succinctement les origines du problème et met en lumière les réformes de politique générale menées...
2018 - Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Innovation, critical for smallholders and family farms, to be discussed at Hungary meeting
Smallholders and family farms are strongholds of food production, food security, and rural development. Without innovation, their important services cannot be secured for the long term.
Representatives of governments, academia, civil society, and private sector and international organizations from Europe and Central Asia are meeting for four days in Hungary to...
Hungary
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
Artículo de blog
Major causes and effects of soil erosion on people and the environment
Soil erosion is the most serious precursor of soil degradation that comes with global implications. It is a global issue and we can see its traits everywhere we go. The reason for this is that erosion is caused by numerous factors, originating from both natural processes and human activities. In...
2018 - Greentumble
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