The paper investigates the current situation with fragmentation of family farms in Moldova and its effects on family well-being and farm productivity. A key hypothesis is that consolidation of agricultural land in Moldova has beneficial effects in terms of productivityand is desirable in the long run.This is an examination of ...

Welcome to Dimitra Newsletter No. 16! This issue is devoted – as all our newsletters are – to the empowerment of women and men living in rural areas. FAO’s efforts in the Great Lakes Region highlight the fact that Farmer Field Schools can be instrumental in addressing a range of...

Similarly to other Northern countries, Italy has witnessed a growth in recent years of forms of direct sale of agri-food products. These so-called short supply chains often open new opportunities for the development and conservation of rural areas which are not merely economic in nature. The case study described here...

"El proceso de calentamiento global, que ya no puede ser negado, está; causando cambios climáticos importantes y acelerados que impactan de manera directa sobre la producción agropecuaria. Este número de LEISA está dedicado a presentar experiencias de cómo, en esta nueva situación en la que el planeta está entrando, la...

A medida que la comida peruana empieza a alcanzar proyección internacional y se convierte, en el ámbito nacional, en un referente de identidad cultural, la conexión entre ella y nuestra riquísima agrodiversidad se hace cada vez más evidente. Organizada por la Sociedad Peruana de Gastronomía (Apega), Mistura, la II Feria...

This course illustrates a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing, and provides guidance on conducting collaborative food security assessments. The course also introduces the concept of advocacy and the various advocacy techniques required to influence different audiences.

Si se revisan los criterios censales que definen la ruralidad de un poblado, la población rural del Perú podría estar bordeando el 40 por ciento de la población total -15 por ciento más de lo que estima el Censo de 2007.

On 16 October 2008, FAO celebrated World Food Day with a parallel event entitled “­Women have solutions to the food crisis: towards long-term structural changes”. This issue of the Dimitra newsletter focuses in particular on how – in an international context of rising food prices and raw material shortages –...

The need for increased sustainability of performance in cereal varieties, particularly in organic agriculture (OA), is limited by the lack of varieties adapted to organic conditions. Here, the needs for breeding are reviewed in the context of three major marketing types, global, regional, local, in European OA. Currently, the effort...

Alain de Janvry, colaborador de un Informe sobre el Desarrollo del Banco Mundial, reflexiona sobre las implicancias de la desigualdad entre sectores rurales y urbanos en el Perú, la importancia de la actividad agrícola como motor de crecimiento para la población rural, la necesidad de organización de estos sectores, el...

"Promover la inclusión social es promover el acceso equitativo a las oportunidades. Cuando hay inclusión todos contribuyen y se benefician de las poítticas sociales y económicas existentes. La exclusión se manifiesta en vínculos muy débiles entre un grupo social (los excluidos) y los valores, instituciones y recursos necesarios para una...

Among the experiences shared in this newsletter, we would like to focus on Dimitra and its partners’ work in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the field of rural radio and participatory communication. A rural radio and listeners’ club project, conducted in South Kivu province with SAMWAKI and GTZ-Santé, is...

Esta publicación refleja en imágenes el Programa de Desarrollo Rural del Noreste Argentino (PRODERNEA). Nos muestra la riqueza latente, en el doble sentido de potencial y subyacente: lo subyacente tiene que ver con el pilar de los recursos, y lo potencial, con el pilar de las políticas públicas. Este libro fue...

"Suelo, un concepto evidente para todos los que cotidianamente desarrollamos nuestra vida sobre él y que nos alimentamos de lo que produce la agricultura en esta delgada capa que cubre la superficie de la Tierra, que sustenta la vida vegetal y animal del planeta. Varias veces, en los doce años...

The programme's main goal is to improve the quality of life and income of the poor and near-poor in Belize by designing and developing permanent access to a wide range of superior financial services including savings, credit, insurance, fund transfer and other financial products and services that meet their needs...

This Toolbox has been designed to assist stakeholders (government research and extension departments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), donors and farmers) in developing sound Conservation Agriculture (CA) extension programs/projects in Zimbabwe.

"Esta revista sobre experiencias que vinculan a la producción agroecológica con el comercio con equidad, conocido internacionalmente como comercio justo (Fairtrade), inicia la serie de cuatro números del volumen 24. Como anunciaramos en LEISA en diciembre del año pasado (LEISA 23-3), los temas de los dos siguientes números son: Suelos...

This publication is a report of a Workshop that brought together people from a wide range of institutions - farmers, researchers, ecologists extensionists, policy makers, donors – from 40 countries who share a common concern about the non-sustainability of ways in which farm land is now being used and who...

Permaculture Trainers Reference Manual.

This paper examines the role of fertiliser subsidies in Malawi, the world’s fifth poorest country. Malawians depend on domestic crops from over-cultivated soils. Recurrent poor harvests have had disastrous consequences for food security, but yields have improved significantly since the introduction of a government scheme to improve access to fertiliser...