L'étude réalisée par l'IAM de Montpellier, le Réseau Agricultures Familiales Comparées (RAFAC), et l'UMR Pacte Territoires fait suite à plusieurs travaux de recherche réalisés ces dernières années par ces institutions. Le RAFAC s'est d'abord intéressé aux transformations profondes de l'agriculture familiale avec la pluriactivité et l'approche des risques et de...

Women in Kapchorwa district play a crucial role in sustaining their families through dairy and agricultural production. They provide most of the farm labour, which they combine with caring for their families, conducting farm and non-farm income-generating activities and contributing to community development initiatives. Increasingly, women are also involved in...

Yunnan Province of China is the world’s provenance of tea trees. It’s also the province that boasts the largest area of wild tea tree communities and ancient tea plantations with the largest amount of old tea trees and wild tea trees. The area along the Lancang River is the center...

Este documento establece los mecanismos tendientes a maximizar los efectos ambientales y sociales positivos del Programa de Desarrollo de la Agricultura Familiar (PRODAF),  y prevenir y minimizar eventuales impactos negativos. Este análisis ambiental y social debe tener en cuenta Políticas de Medio Ambiente, Política de Disponibilidad de Información, Igualdad de Género...

This study is a psychological diagnosis of some aspects related to organizational problems within a rural community from the Peruvian northern coast. To accomplish this objective, a qualitative research was elaborated. The main community problems were inquired through collective and individual interviews. Results showed that social community agents were unable...

Cocoa cultivation is generally considered to foster deforestation. Contrary to this view, in the forest–savannah interface area in Cameroon, farmers have planted cocoa agroforestry systems on Imperata cylindrica grasslands, a soil-climate zone generally considered unsuitable for cocoa cultivation. We undertook a survey to understand the agricultural and ecological bases of this innovation....

La Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas (CONAMURI) de Paraguay aglutina a mujeres rurales e indígenas, que tiene entre sus principales objetivos el logro de igualdad de derechos entre hombres y mujeres en la familia, la organización y la sociedad. Tiene un enfoque específico en las discriminaciones...

En Ecuador, ocho de cada diez mujeres sufrieron algún tipo de violencia física, psicológica o sexual. Superar el temor y el silencio es el primer paso hacia una vida sin violencia. El video incluye los testimonios de mujeres indígenas de la nacionalidad kichwa de la Amazonía ecuatoriana que han sufrido algún...

Documento donde describe los aspectos mas generales y basicos del sistema de produccion de cerdos en galpones con cama de paja.

There are traditional and indigenous agricultural systems which contain Agricultural Biodiversity of Global Significance (ABGS). In the proposed project, we will apply the CBD definition of agricultural biodiversity. Building on articles 8j and 10c of the CBD, which recognise the importance of indigenous and traditional practices for the maintenance of...

The new Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security outline principles and practices that governments can refer to when making laws and administering land, fisheries and forests rights. The guidelines are based on an inclusive consultation process started...

In Argentina, families from the countryside decide to remain in their areas or reproduce themselves in new places, resorting to direct production, under technological conditions that seek to maintain independence from external supplies, and deploying modes for controlling resources anchored in the community. While some of these situations take place...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of extension services in enhancing effectiveness of outgrowers’ credit system in Kisumu County, Kenya. The study specifically sought to determine whether public and private extension services play a significant role in enhancing effectiveness of out-growers’ credit system among smallholder sugarcane...

Esta publicación muestra en imágenes algunos de los proyectos de productoras y productores del Programa de Desarrollo rural del Noroeste Argentino (PRODERNOA). 

Esta es una guía práctica (hágalo-usted-mismo), para líderes y facilitadores que quieren ayudar a organizaciones a funcionar y desarrollarse de maneras más saludables, humanas y efectivas en su lucha por contribuir a la construcción de una sociedad más humana. Ha sido desarrollada por el Colectivo Descalzo. La Guía y su...

La crianza del ganado vacuno en el Altiplano Andino tiene grandes bondades; una de ellas –y la más importante– es la producción de leche fresca, alimento fundamental en la nutrición de las familias campesinas, especialmente en los niños. La implementación de una adecuada infraestructura productiva (establos, bebederos, heniles, comederos y...

For this reason reproducible, reliable and feasible methods need to be developed to measure and demonstrate carbon changes in agricultural soils. The present manual is based on long term practical field work. The author tried to adjust the IPCC methods for field scale and developing such methods for carbon monitoring...

La presente caja de herramientas está diseñada para ayudar a los profesionales de la seguridad alimentaria a desarrollar una estratégica de comunicación, y a comunicarse más eficazmente con los grupos que son el blanco de sus esfuerzos. Secciones específicas de la caja de herramientas enfocan a los formuladores de políticas...

The present publication is an account of the technological developments in no-tillage systems that took place in southern Brazil from the viewpoint of the principal actors in this process. Special emphasis is given to the technological development of mechanization of conservation agriculture as it is in this area that the...

The rural world has undergone many transformations due to the processes of modernization and globalization. Little is known about rural families, and knowledge about urban families is usually transferred to rural families, as if the reality was the same for both. This study sought to understand. The practices in the...