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Agriculture

Sustainable agriculture, a key aim of the Rio+20 Outcome Document “The Future We Want” (UN 2012a), has a significant role to play in encouraging a move to a greener economy. Paragraph 111 states: “We reaffirm the necessity to promote, enhance and support more sustainable agriculture, including crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries...
2013 - United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

Case study
The food security through commercialization of agriculture programme in the Caribbean region

The projects reviewed in this paper were funded by the Italian Special Contribution to the Global Trust Fund for Food Security (GTFS). The Italian funded food security programme aimed to enhance food security by following a common strategy to improve the commercialization of agricultural value chains. The main objective was...
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Estudio de políticas agroambientales en Nicaragua

En el presente documento se sistematiza la experiencia de aplicación de políticas públicas que han iniciado el proceso de fomento de la agricultura ambiental en Nicaragua.
Nicaragua
2013 - Gobierno de Nicaragua

Journal article
Agricultural information needs of rural women farmers in Nkonkobe Municipality

The extension challenge
Access to agricultural information is vital for improving food security at the village level. This study accessed the agricultural information needs of women farmers in Nkonkobe Municipality of the Amathole District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Data was obtained from 118 households. The women farmers were identified from four villages...
South Africa
2013

Project
Mussel Farming the new Baltic Sea Aquaculture Industry

The Baltic EcoMussel project aims to accelerate the adoption of mussel farming in the Baltic Sea Region by providing information and tools to support investments. Recent research shows that commercial farming of mussels in the Baltic Sea Region can be viable and offers socio-economic and environmental benefits. Commercial farming of...
Finland - Latvia - Sweden
2013

Case study
Cassava as animal feed in Ghana

Past, present and future
The study on the use of cassava as animal feed in Ghana was commissioned as part of FAO’s initiative supporting poverty reduction in northern part of the country. Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is one of the main staple food crops grown by almost all farming families in Ghana, contributing to large...
Ghana
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Project
Programme d’appui aux projets économiques des femmes de la Vallée du fleuve Sénégal et du Bassin Arachidier

Ce projet vise l’amélioration des conditions de vie de quatre cents  femmes rurales et de leurs familles, choisies parmi celles déjà actives dans la transformation de l’arachide en pâte et/ou huile et la transformation du riz en diverses brisures au niveau de différentes commissions féminines . Pour ce faire , l’action vise...
Senegal
2013 - La Fédération des ONG du Sénégal (FONGS)

Report
Annual Report of the Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) 2013

The Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) presently represents over 500,000 small farmers spread across fifteen Caribbean countries; Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts/ Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago. CaFAN member farmers organisations are directly involved in...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Dominica - Grenada - Guyana - Haiti - Jamaica - Montserrat - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago
2013 - Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN)

Case study
Escenarios de deforestación en el Gran Paisaje Madidi Tambopata

El Pueblo Tacana mantiene tradiciones de uso de sus recursos y territorio que son compatibles con los objetivos de conservación de la biodiversidad. Su experiencia de gestión territorial incluye procesos de planificación técnica y espacial del territorio, de estructuración y aplicación de instrumentos de fortalecimiento institucional y de ejecución de...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2013 - Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Case study
Youth and agriculture: New think-tanks for family farming

Family farming matters. In Africa, 60 to 70% of producers live in rural areas and they produce most of what Africa’s people consume. However, despite this contribution, family farming is often sidelined in academic discussions and in agricultural policies.
Benin
2013 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture

Book
Agricultura y desarrollo en América Latina: gobernanza y políticas públicas

La economía mundial enfrenta múltiples desafíos. Algunos son de más corto plazo, como la crisis financiera y económica centrada en los países desarrollados. Otros se relacionan con el manejo de mediano y largo plazo de los recursos naturales en el contexto del cambio climático. Todo esto tiene importantes impactos sobre...
2013 - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP)

Book part
East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Tanzania

The Government of Tanzania has formulated a number of policies, strategies, and programs guided by its Tanzania Development Vision 2025 (URT, Planning Commission 2005), which sets long-term development goals to turn Tanzania into a middle-income country by 2025 and make it competitive in the globalized world economy.. Because the Tanzanian...
United Republic of Tanzania
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Article
Promoting Family Farming: The European Union

Domestic and donor-driven development agendas for African agriculture are spurring smallholder family farming as a catalyst for food security and poverty reduction. Family farms are also the backbone of agriculture in the European Union, although the process of concentration has gone further than in Africa. European agricultural policy reforms now...
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2013

Journal article
Some structural, economic and production-related problems of small farms in the Małopolskie Voivodeship

The study discusses various aspects of the functioning of small agricultural farms in Poland, especially in its southern part. Among the provinces (voivodeships) of southern Poland, where small farms with up to 5 ha of agricultural land dominate in terms of both number and area, the Małopolskie Voivodeship shows the...
Poland
2013

Journal article
El potencial de la agricultura familiar y los espacios protegidos

Lineamientos para el diseño de políticas públicas
Hay una cantidad de explotaciones familiares que aún perduran y se resisten a desaparecer, desplegando variadas y novedosas estrategias productivas, sociales y culturales. Precisamente, el objetivo de este artículo es presentar dos casos de explotaciones familiares en contextos muy diferentes: una ubicada en el Dpto. Banda de la provincia de Santiago del...
Argentina
2013

Report
Plataformas de diálogo político sobre agricultura familiar campesina

La estrategia y experiencia de FIDA en el Mercosur ampliado
Breve reporte que relata la estrategia y experiencia de FIDA en el Mercosur ampliado. Contiene: Presentación de la interpretación del FIDA del año 1997 sobre la performance de sus proyectos en la subregión del Mercosur. Organización y funcionamiento de la REAF durante los siguientes años (2004-2011) con el Programa FIDAMERCOSUR ejerciendo la secretaría...
2013 - Programa Fidamercosur CLAEH

Blog article
Exploitations familiales au Sénégal: La grande mamelle nourricière

La Fédération des Organisations Non Gouvernementales du Sénégal (FONGS-Action paysanne) a présenté son bilan stratégique 2013, les 29 et 30 octobre 2013. C’est un point sur la réalisation à mi-parcours de son Plan stratégique 2011-2015, qui vise à améliorer durablement la capacité des exploitations familiales à nourrir le Sénégal et...
Senegal
2013 - La Gazette.sn

Journal article
An analysis of the determinants of sheep breeding with an example of a small farm in the Działoszyce District

The Działoszyce District (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) with its good environmental conditions has great potential for the development of agriculture, especially small-ruminant keeping. The research was based on a farm located in the northeastern part of the district. The farm covers about 20 ha and possesses both arable land and permanent pastures...
Poland
2013

Book
Fondos rotatorios una herramienta para la Pequeña Agricultura Familiar

Este libro está compuesto por dos partes. En la primera de ellas presentamos el marco teórico de referencia de este trabajo. En la misma se desarrollan algunas apreciaciones acerca de la situación socio-política general e intentan identificarse aquellos aspectos y contradicciones del contexto que ponen de manifiesto las condiciones de...
Argentina
2013

Journal article
Farms of small economic size in the Mazowsze and Podlasie region – the chances of their survival

The study investigated the economic situation of farms sized 2–8 ESU and the level of incomes achieved by farmers’ families in the years 2005–2009, using the agricultural accountancy data from the Polish FADN and the data from the IAFE-NRI survey on the off-farm incomes of farmers’ families. The research sample...
Poland
2013
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