AGRIDAPE (Revue sur l'agriculture durable à faibles apports externes), is a Magazine about Sustainable Agriculture with Low External Inputs. This notion refers to all those technological and social choices available to farmers that are willing to improve their production with an eye for a better environmental management. The French language magazine's focus is on the optimal use...

Tanzanian agriculture is dominated by small-scale subsistence farming. Like the entire economy, agriculture is in a transition from being a command to a market-based production system. The transition process started in the mid-1980s as part of the economic adjustment and structural reform programs and policies supported by Tanzania’s development partners....

El presente documento es el resultado de la ejecuación del Programa de Integración de Mecanismos de Reducción de Desastres y Gestión de Riesgos impulsado por COSUDE e implementado por la Unión de Asociaciones Productivas del Altiplano UNAPA, con la participación directa de un grupo de productores que lideran procesos de...

This course provides guidance in designing, writing and increasing the impact of food security reports in different contexts.

The meat dryers are constructions of wood, metal and/or concrete, stationary or mobile, without or with a roof. For strips suspended by hooks or with a loop attached or fixed by clips, removable horizontal bars, either made of wood or metal or horizontal wire strings are needed. The following description...

A synthesis of three studies commissioned by the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the knowledge base to support the Land Degradation Focal Area. The report presents a number of recommendations for advancing the relevance of land degradation investments by the GEF, and identifies priority topics in SLM for the GEF. Some of...

Drying meat under natural temperatures, humidity and circulation of the air, including direct influence of sun rays, is the oldest method of meat preservation. It consists of a gradual dehydration of pieces of meat cut to a specific uniform shape that permits the equal and simultaneous drying of whole batches...

The choices that smallholder farmers are able to make are strongly conditioned by the geographic conditions in which they live. The importance of this fact for rural development strategy is not lost on policy makers. For example, the government of Ethiopia frequently frames policy discussions by broadly different geographical conditions...

"En este último número del año 2006 presentamos artículos que destacan la importancia de la investigación participativa para la construcción de conocimiento en forma conjunta, entre la ciencia formal y el saber de los agricultores campesinos. Este concepto y su relación con los artículos son el motivo del editorial escrito...

Smallholder irrigated horticulture has proven to be a viable and attractive option for poor farmers in developing countries. This paper relates two important lessons learned: low-cost productive technologies must be available to smallholders in terms of both location and price and must correspond to their needs, and the importance of...

Las microfinanzas corresponden a la oferta de servicios financieros (especialmente créditos) a sectores pobres. La principal barrera que enfrenta la población más pobre para acceder al mercado de créditos es la exigencia de garantías reales por parte de las instituciones, con las que no cuentan. La solución que se ha...

Access to land is an important issue for the majority of Ethiopian people who, one way or the other, depend on agricultural production for their income and subsistence. Land tenure issues therefore continue to be of central political and economic importance, as they have been at several junctures in Ethiopia’s...

La finalidad de este folleto es servir de apoyo a las personas interesadas en iniciarse en la construcción y manejo de huertos familiares para mejorar la disponibilidad de alimentos para que tengan una mejor nutrición y seguridad alimentaria. Es el resultado de consultas bibliográficas realizadas por especialistas y de experiencias...

A proposição de um mecanismo de gestão sustentável da biodiversidade deve considerar as características específicas do país: sua dimensão territorial; extensão e complexidade de sua biodiversidade; volume de recursos financeiros necessários à conservação e à utilização sustentável desse patrimônio; diversidade étnica e cultural; distribuição de renda; e divisão de competências...

Entre los objetivos de la organización están: Formular e impulsar políticas y estrategias de desarrollo sostenible para los sectores sociales más vulnerables del ámbito rural, especialmente campesinos e indígenas, mujeres y jóvenes rurales, en busca de una mayor equidad social. Contribuir al fortalecimiento de las iniciativas de desarrollo rural, originadas en el...

An agrosocioeconomic diagnosis in the coffee farms of the Monaicito River’s microbasin was carried out. This allowed describing and analyzing the main social and agroeconomic variables, which characterize them. The most outstanding results are: farms mainly administered by the proprietors, high illiteracy, housings in good habitability conditions and basic services,...

Este documento da cuenta de la reunión de creación del Foro Nacional de la Agricultura Familiar. es el resultado de un trabajo en el que se involucraron 310 Organizaciones, a través de un proceso que incluyó reuniones del Foro en cada una de las Regiones y una posterior sistematización de las...

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo describir y analizar el desarrollo de la cadena global de valor de la quinua real, asociada a la demanda de los consumidores de los mercados agroalimentarios de calidad específica. Considerando organizaciones de productores y empresas privadas locales y multinacionales, los autores abordan la evolución...

El presente manual de asesoramiento está dirigido a los técnicos y profesionales que trabajan en el ámbito del desarrollo rural y a los agentes productivos rurales y sus organizaciones. La estructura elegida para el manual considera dos partes básicas: la primera destinada a conceptualizar la temática del asociativismo en pequeños...

The paper shows how these differences become visible also in the engineering approaches towards no-tillage technologies and how they contribute to exponential adoption rates in some parts of the world, versus relatively low acceptance in other parts. Examples of different farming operations within Conservation Agriculture are shown and the implications...