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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This paper addresses the challenges facing the home garden farmers in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Sixty households farmer were selected through systematic sampling from Nkokonbe municipality which were purposively selected. The small scale farmers were interviewed with the help of an interview schedule containing open and closed ended...

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...

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...