The official measurement and analysis of poverty in Nigeria has historically relied upon the single dimension, consumption based monetary approach with little attention on multidimensional poverty assessment. This study was therefore carried out to assess the multidimensional poverty index of rice farming households in Nasarawa/Benue Rice Hub, Nigeria. The study...

This issue (June, 2013), contains: CaFAN holds Multi-stakeholders National Consultations Training Young People on Youth Policies Memorandum of Understanding signed CTA conducts Impact Study Buyer Grower Forums, stories from Jamaica and Saint Lucia CaFAN members kick-start PROPEL CaFAN Hosts Interns Upcoming Events

This guide is the first on the practical application of FAO’s “Save and Grow” model of agriculture to specific smallholder crops and farming systems. It comes as cassava production intensies worldwide, and growers shift from traditional cultivation practices to monocropping, higher-yielding genotypes, and greater use of agrochemicals. Intensication carries great...

Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) initiated from 2000 extensively redistributed land, mainly to peasants and working peoples (see Moyo 2011c) and, in doing so, unravelled the labour reserve economy created over a century of settler-colonial agrarian capitalism. This change has created a broader range of prospects for progressive...

La mayoría de las estadísticas disponibles que predicen impactos climáticos sobre la agricultura campesina son aproximaciones muy burdas que no toman en cuenta la heterogeneidad de la agricultura campesina-indígena, ni la diversidad de estrategias que los campesinos han utilizado y aun utilizan para enfrentar las sequías, inundaciones, huracanes, etc. Alrededor del...

Zambian farmers have extensive experience with maize hybrids and input subsidies. Like other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, the successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s and 1980s was supported by strong government commitment to parastatal grain and seed marketing and subsidized provision...

La seguridad social tan tratada en estos tiempos se viene constituyendo en un factor de indiscutible importancia para el desarrollo empresarial agropecuario y, en especial, para la rama productiva de la floricultura por el uso intensivo de mano de obra, a pesar de la visión gerencial economicista en torno al...

A partir del 2012 se implementa el Proyecto Qutapiqiña, el cual tiene el objetivo de reforzar el desarrollo económico local y la gestión de recursos naturales del Área Natural de Apolobamba fortaleciendo a las comunidades indígenas-originarias manejadoras de la vicuña. 1185 familias indígenas originarias manejadoras de vicuñas, pertenecientes a los...

Available evidence suggests that sub-saharan Africa as a group has suffered serious setbacks in recent years, culminating in the stagnation of farm production and productivity amidst sustained and sometime escalating poverty rates. At the same time, increases in human population levels have resulted in rising demand for food as well...

Este documento forma parte del denominado “Panorama de la alimentación escolar y posibilidades de compra directa de la agricultura familiar en países de América Latina”, realizado en el marco del Proyecto fortalecimiento de los programas de alimentación escolar en el contexto de la iniciativa América Latina y Caribe sin hambre...

Como parte de ese esfuerzo, el estudio "Pobreza Rural y Políticas Públicas en América Latina" de FAO-RLC, se propuso también realizar un balance de lo ocurrido con la pobreza rural durante la primera década del siglo XXI en la región. En base a las estadísticas más recientes disponibles -para lo...

El presente documento corresponde al Informe Final de Consultoría de apoyo a la identificación de un Programa de Trabajo conjunto MDA - Gobierno del Estado de Río Grande del Sur – BANRISUL – FIDA-MERCOSUR. La iniciativa de articulación de las diferentes instituciones integrantes de este programa, tiene como principal objetivo el preparar...

Extrait du film de Coline Serreau "Solutions locales pour un désordre global" traitant du mode d'achat et de consommation alternatif que représente les AMAP.

Smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to risks.  They are vulnerable to risks from disease, pests, drought, floods and unpredictable rainfall – and they are also vulnerable to the fact that we are increasingly reducing the variety of products that we are producing and consuming. “Out of the 7000 food crops...

Agriculture across Europe is very much driven by the reforms initiated by the European Union (EU) and World Trade Organisation negotiations. Reforms have mobilised a shift in agricultural practices from production to a somewhat contested post-production and, more recently, multifunctional agriculture regime. Accompanying such change has been the debate on...

While many contemporary rural social movements once argued for increased industrial farming inputs and machinery for their members, the past few years have seen an accelerating shift toward the promotion of agroecology as an alternative to the so-called Green Revolution. In this paper we both describe this phenomenon in its...

The EU enlargement process introduces new opportunities for small farmers in the Balkans, but also new risks. Slow Food Bulgaria and Osservatorio organized a conference in Sofia on the protection of the region's traditional food Similar to many other parts of the world, recent years have witnessed a real revival of...

Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) in the Asia-Pacific region is effectively promoted and facilitated through novel partnerships among NARS and other related organizations so that it contributes to sustainable improvements in the productivity of agricultural systems and to the quality of the natural resource base that underpins agriculture, thereby enhancing...

A nivel mundial, los países en desarrollo se enfrentan a la problemática de proporcionar recursos a los pobres. Los programas de asistencia social son una opción para resolver este problema pero pueden generar dependencia entre los beneficiarios. Ante esta situación surgen las microfinanzas, que nacieron en Europa en el siglo...

The objective of this chapter is to help policymakers, researchers, and country negotiators better understand and anticipate the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture and on vulnerable households in Zimbabwe, given that about 70 percent of the Zimbabwean population is dependent on rainfed agriculture and the sector contributes between...