El presente documento presenta una aproximación de la problemática del agua para consumo humano a nivel comunitario en el Ecuador, como también aporta con un conjunto de propuestas de política pública para el mejoramiento de los sistemas de agua, saneamiento y uso sostenible de los ecosistemas, de las fuentes de...

The project engaged with key stakeholders through interviews and discussion groups to explore a range of identified thematic issues, along with economic modeling to explore impacts of alternative measures and CAP reform on the agricultural economy of Malta. The aim was to develop a strategy to enable Malta to make...

The new model of agricultural policy in Europe, applied through the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs), has been considered most appropriate for the case of Greece, given the structural problems of this country’s farm sector (including the high proportion of mountainous, less favored areas in its territory) and the need for...

Entrevista com Cleimary Zotti, do Departamento de Estudos Socioeconômcos Rruais (DESER), organização não governamental. O DESER acompanha a realidade do agricultrua familiar, em especial do produtor de tabaco e sabe que é preciso gerar informações reais. É possível ter boa renda com a produção do tabaco, mas é preciso levar em conta...

El proyecto busca suplir algunas de las necesidades mediante la instalación de huertos comunales con fitotoldos para la producción de hortalizas de zonas bajas (costa, sierra y selva), en zonas alto andinas a más de 3,500 msnm. 

This document provides lessons learned (good and bad) from three years of RFLP field activities on mainstreaming gender across the six collaborating RFLP countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam

Un desafío clave para los científicos tanto sociales como biológicos es definir un marco conceptual y metodológico para poder descifrar los principios y mecanismos claves que explican la resiliencia de los sistemas diversificados, de manera de que estos puedan ser transmitidos a otros agricultores en cada región para que mejoren...

This working paper summarizes the findings of the socioeconomic component of the research project Improved livelihoods of small-scale farmers in Iraq through integrated pest management and use of organic fertilizer, that was managed by ICARDA and funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Ministry of Agriculture...

Existe un amplio consenso en cuanto a que el capital humano es un factor relevante en el desempeño productivo de los pequeños productores agrícolas, el cual considera tanto las habilidades innatas como también aquellas que son adquiridas. La extensión agrícola cumple un rol fundamental en la entrega de los insumos...

This essay aims at analyzing the specificity of marketing systems which include Family Farming. We study the Fair in Villa Rio Hondo (Santiago del Estero, Argentina) in order to identify the actors, their organization and their potential. On the one hand, the article attempts to explain certain processes aimed at...

The countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met in the First Senior Officials Meeting on Family Farming, on 5th and 6th November 2013, in Brasilia.

The Federations of Free Farmers (FFF) is currently one of the largest and most effective non-governmental organizations of rural workers in the Philippines. It was organized in 1953 by a group of Catholic laymen soon after the break-up of the Communist-led revolutionary movement in the country during the term of...

Contrary to a slight improvement in 2011, the gross domestic product experienced a year-on-year decline in 2012, namely by 1.2% at constant prices. The situation even worsened in the course of the year and the drop in GDP in the Czech Republic was more profound than both in the EU...

After screening several success cases within these two themes in different countries, Morocco (farmers’ organisations) and Egypt (water management) were chosen as the host countries for the Learning Routes. Six exemplary cases (three per route) were selected. As preparation for the Learning Route, Procasur and ILEIA, supported by local KariaNet...

The use of finger millet seedlings has shown very positive results in the region of Tahtai Maichew, near Aksum, Ethiopia, as has the use of alternative management practices for a number of other crops. The principles that make up a System of Crop Intensification are now spreading through the regions...

El  presente  texto  pretende  dar  cuenta  de  la  configuración  de  procesos  organizativos  de mujeres jóvenes rurales en Colombia, en un escenario conflictivo y en el marco del acceso a una  serie  de  oportunidades  y  beneficios  a  los  que  las  anteriores  generaciones no habían accedido. La idea no es solo discernir...

La Revista Agraria reunió a reconocidos expertos para reflexionar sobre los actuales retos de la agricultura familiar en el país. Participaron Julio San Román, agrónomo y agricultor en el valle Chancay-Huaral; Juan Torres, ecologista y profesor de la UNALM; Roberto Ugás, agrónomo y profesor en la UNALM; y Mario Tapia,...

Entrevista com Rosiéle Ludtke, do Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores (MPA) e das Mulheres Camponesas.  O maior desafio dos agricultores que tem uma pequena propriedade, especialmente das mulheres, é ter garantia de compra de sua produção. O fato de não ter um mercado garantido complica a diversificação - o fumo tem mercado...

Recent efforts to develop rice cultivars with drought-tolerance (DT) traits have resulted in the release of several varieties that demonstrate significant resilience to drought stresses. This paper addresses the previously unanswered question of whether the private sector might play a future role in developing similar strains through applications of advanced...

Drought-like conditions coupled with chronic water shortages due to restricted access of Palestinians to their water resources has been threatening the livelihoods of thousands of poor farming families in the West Bank, especially those dependent on rain-fed crops and livestock as an indispensable supplementary source for their income and food...