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Plataforma regional de agricultura familiar del Programa cooperativo para el desarrollo tecnológico agroalimentario y agroindustrial del Cono Sur (PROCISUR)

El objetivo de la plataforma es "Generar, adaptar, validar y transferir capacidades tecnológicas e institucionales, entre los países participantes, para la inclusión y el desarrollo sustentable de la agricultura familiar". Sus áreas de trabajo son: Identificación y desarrollo de atributos de diferenciación por calidad en la AF que permita la valorización...
2014 - Programa Cooperativo para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agroalimentario y Agroindustrial del Cono Sur (PROCISUR)

Book
Agricultura Familiar en el Perú, garante de la seguridad alimentaria y la agrobiodiversidad

Aportes para el debate en el marco del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar
El presente documento se dirige a todas las organizaciones e instituciones públicas, privadas y de la sociedad civil involucradas o interesadas en el tema, y ofrece elementos para la reflexión y la toma de decisiones. Después de presentar brevemente los objetivos y retos del AIAF, proponemos algunas respuestas a la...
Peru
2014 - Coordinadora de Entidades Extranjeras de Cooperación Internacional (COEECI) Grupo temático “Soberanía alimentaria y agricultura familiar”

Journal article
Farmers’ involvement in capital markets investment as an alternative source of funding for agriculture in Ondo State, Nigeria

Farming in Nigeria largely takes place in peasant and small scale physical labour-fed farms where productivity diminishes with age. Given depleting productivity accounted for by loss of agility due to advancement in age and general insufficiency of capital, avenues capable of sufficiently salvaging this dearth must, therefore, be explored. The...
2014

Video
Soil, Struggle and Justice: Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement

This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. This MST cooperative is demonstrating the possibility of an alternative model of flourishing rural life, which provides thriving livelihoods for...
Brazil
2014 - SSJAgroecology

Project
Case studies of the best practice examples from Lithuania, Belarus and Kaliningrad district (Russia) of local food market formation

Case studies of best practices from: Lithuania, Belarus and Russian Federation
Belarus - Lithuania - Russian Federation
2014 - Council of the Baltic Sea States Expert Group on Sustainable Development, CBSS-Baltic 21

Working paper
Water Policy and Poverty Reduction in Rural Area: A Comparative Economy Wide Analysis for Morocco and Tunisia

Morocco and Tunisia are considered among the countries where the scarcity of water resources may cause a serious constraint to the development of their economies. During the past, huge efforts have been made by both governments in order to satisfy an escalating water demand expressed by all users. The main...
Morocco - Tunisia
2014 - Economic Research Forum (ERF)

Report
Understanding smallholder farmer attitudes to commercialization

The case of maize in Kenya
Using the case of maize production in Kenya, this study reframes the challenge of smallholder commercialization in the context of staplefood crop production and individual farm-level decision-making by a heterogeneous population of smallholder farmers. Whilemany smallholder growers of staple crops find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty, they differ greatly in their...
Kenya
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Working paper
Medium and large-scale farmers and agricultural mechanization in Ghana

Survey results
Successful commercialization of farming enterprises and farmer entrepreneurship are thought to embody the key features of structural transformation and provide a pathway out of poverty and subsistence agriculture for the rural farm households. The past decade has seen several African countries increase their agricultural growth, largely driven by increases in...
Ghana
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Website
Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)

The Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON) is intended to serve as an umbrella organisation for national FOs, to coordinate capacity building, share success stories and the lessons learnt, support regional exchanges of expertise between FOs and their associated private sector and donor agency partners.  
2014 - Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)

Report
Fulfilling the promise of African agriculture

IFAD in Africa
Agriculture plays a significant role in Africa, accounting for about 30 per cent of GDP south of the Sahara, as well as a significant proportion of export value. Not surprisingly, in most African countries, 60 per cent or more of employees work in agriculture. Yet this barely scrapes the surface...
Kenya - Madagascar - Morocco - Nigeria
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Newsletter
Spore Special Issue - August 2014

The beginning of a renaissance
Family farming offers solutions to global challenges. More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture – ensuring food security, fighting poverty and hunger, providing employment, and enhancing sustainable resource management. Despite challenges, family farms can become prosperous businesses. Forming part of CTA’s support to the UN International Year of Family...
2014 - CTA

Working paper
La commercialisation des produits agricoles vivriers au Burundi – Pertinence et conditions de succès de possibles initiatives s’inspirant de l’expérience tanzanienne des marchés de gros

Cette étude vise  à apprécier la pertinence qu’il y aurait à s’inspirer de l'expérience de marchés de gros paysans impulsée par Mviwata en Tanzanie, visant à favoriser l’accès au marché pour les paysans de différentes régions du pays et à améliorer les conditions de commercialisation en leur faveur, pour l'implanter au...
Burundi
2014 - Professionnels du développement solidaire (Gret)

Fact sheet
Las tierras comunales

Este folleto trata sobre las tierras comunales y los derechos tanto de la comunidad como de los comuneros y presenta de manera ágil la información que se encuentra en las leyes o normas que regulan dicha temática. Este material se ha preparado como complemento para las labores de sensibilización y difusión...
Peru
2014 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)

Report
The effectiveness of advisory services in responding to demands of diverse types of small-scale farmers

The role of advisory services for the new established and semi subsistence farmers in Bulgaria
The small-scale farms are the main group that is of importance for the development of the agriculture and rural areas in Bulgaria. This is a family type business and almost the entire required employment power is provided by the family members of the farmers. On average, only one family member...
Bulgaria
2014 - Agricultural University Plovdiv

Working paper
Impact of Improving Irrigation Water Use Efficiency on the Valorization of Water Resources: Case of Irrigated Wheat Production Systems in Central Tunisia

The main objectives of this paper are to evaluate the impact of water use efficiency improvement on water value and to estimate the potential of water cost reductions in durum wheat production in Central Tunisia. Results show that significant inefficiencies exist in the sample of farms under investigation. The effects...
Tunisia
2014 - Economic Research Forum (ERF)

Article
Why small farms are key to feeding the world

Between 1990 and 2009 the number of small farms in Switzerland halved and the average farm size doubled. With family farming chosen as the theme for this year's World Food Day, leading activist Vandana Shiva is calling for more support to small farmers. Shiva is an “earth democracy” activist and founder...
Switzerland
2014

Journal
Revista de agroecología Leisa, junio 2014: agricultura campesina, respuestas para mejorar

En este número de LEISA se presentan experiencias que muestran cómo la agricultura campesina puede romper las limitaciones que impiden salir del círculo de pobreza y marginalidad. La sostenibilidad de la producción de alimentos y de la vitalidad de los agroecosistemas exige el enfoque integrador de la agroecología que involucra...
Argentina - Brazil - Cuba - Honduras - Mexico - Peru
2014 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes

Report
Escuela de Formación Territorial y Agroecológica Manuel Quintín Lame

Aprender haciendo, investigando y transformando el territorio en el sur del Tolima
Este documento recoge los resultados de los grupos de investigación de la Escuela Territorial y Agroecológica Manuel Quintín Lame. Durante un año los escuelantes participaron de esta iniciativa coordinada por el Grupo Semillas y las organizaciones del Sur del Tolima FICAT, ACIT, Utritol, Manos de Mujer-Coyaima y Asociación Futuro con...
Colombia
2014 - Grupo Semillas

Report
New small-scale farmers in the small fruits sector in Portugal

The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive description of the effectiveness of advisory services for small-scale farmers, providing a picture of the services from the perspective of the farmers and some key advisors. In Portugal the case study focused on new small-scale farmers in small fruit...
Portugal
2014 - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Report
Escenarios del clima futuro para maíz y frijol

Caminos para la adaptación en Nicaragua
La publicación resume los resultados obtenidos en tres de las áreas más vulnerables al cambio climático de Nicaragua: Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia y Chinandega. En las tres áreas se encuentran poblaciones rurales cuyos medios de vida tienen una elevada dependencia de los recursos naturales (bosques, pesca) y de la agricultura de...
Nicaragua
2014 - Instituto de Estudios del Hambre (IEH)
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