| People - Gender and development |
| Women Feed the World - Slideshow |
| Slideshow of women around the world feeding the world. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/Gender/multimed/slidesho/Default.htm |
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| People - Gender and development |
| Rural women and information - High Level Consultation - Links to related documents |
| The High-Level Consultation on Rural Women and Information, organized by FAO at its Rome Headquarters on 4-6 October 1999, aimed to discuss ways of better informing decision-makers, media and the public at large on the essential role of rural women in agricultural development and their contribution to food security. This site provides links to the Proceedings of the conference (Final Report, Str... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/Gender/highlcon/DEFAULT.HTM |
| French: http://www.fao.org/Gender/highlcon/debut.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/Gender/highlcon/Inicio.htm |
| Arabic: http://www1.fao.org/ar-cp/gender/highlcon/default.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Monitoring and evaluating stakeholder participation in agriculture and rural development projects: a literature review |
| This article reviews the current literature on the subject, and also highlights three key methodological issues to be addressed: how to assess the degree and quality of participation; how to measure the costs and benefits of participation to the stakeholders involved; and how to assess the impact of that participation on desired project outputs, project performance and sustainability. An annotated... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/SPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Potential impacts of sea-level rise on population and agriculture |
| This Special addresses issues related to the potential impacts of sea level rise on the world's coastal populations and agriculture. It is a global study mostly based on national data. The paper stresses that both the impacted system (population and coastal agriculture) and the extreme physical factors have their own dynamics, and that those dynamics are not independent. Some thought is given to t... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0045.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Why People's Participation? |
| According to this article, the lesson is clear: "Unless the rural poor are given the means to participate fully in development, they will continue to be excluded from its benefits". This realization is provoking new interest in an alternative rural development strategy, that of people's participation through organizations controlled and financed by the poor. The article is based on Chapter 1 of "P... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPan0001.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Institutions - Social capital |
| Participation in practice: Lessons from the FAO People's Participation Programme |
| Rural development efforts have failed to deliver on their promises. One evaluation found that half of rural development projects funded by the World Bank in Africa were outright failures. A review of assistance to agricultural cooperatives reported similar results. A study by the International Labour Organisation of "poverty-oriented" projects worldwide showed that the poorest were excluded from a... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPre0044.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Institutions - Social capital |
| Small Farmer Group Associations: Bringing the poor together |
| The FAO e-mail conference on Small Farmer Group Associations (SFGAs) was held between 24 September and 11 November 1998. Its aim was to stimulate discussion on the rationale for and modalities of forming such associations and to identify the factors contributing to or hindering their successful establishment and sustainability. An introduction to the conference, as well as the proceedings and all ... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPfo0001.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Institutions - Social capital |
| Organizing for extension: FAO experiences in small farmer group development |
| According to this article: "While all FAO participatory projects aim to link small farmers more effectively with development support services, only
three - in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Zambia - have been directly implemented by agricultural extension agencies. Interestingly,
these three seem to have been the most successful." It has been extracted from "Ceres" magazine, 145: 26 (1). |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPan0003.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/PPanF003.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/SPdirect/PPanS003.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Institutions - Social capital |
| Mahasahana: A participatory extension network in Sri Lanka |
| This article presents Mahasahana, a network of small self-help groups created in 1985 by a joint project of FAO and Sri Lanka's Ministry of Agricultural Development and Research (MADR). Since the project's termination, Mahasahana has continued as a non-governmental organization embracing more than 2 000 farmers organized in 225 groups and linked through 23 village unions and two district federat... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPan0004.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/PPanF004.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/SPdirect/PPanS004.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Institutions - Social capital |
| Empowering Zambian rural women through Small Farmer Groups |
| This article takes an in-depth look at the FAO People's Participation Programme project in Zambia, long regarded as its most successful in Africa. According to the article: "The formation of solid groups in which women are actively participating has increased the effectiveness of rural services and development initiatives in the project area. Without their existence, other development programmes ... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPan0005.htm |
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