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Climate Change and Food-Systems Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

The present ability or otherwise of Africa to cope with climate change and improve its agricultural production depends on the environment and natural resources base of the continent, on the impacts of its past and on the nature of its present interactions with the outside world. Africa is a large...
Benin - Burundi - Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Madagascar - Malawi - Mali - Niger - Nigeria - Rwanda - Sudan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Agricultura familiar y políticas de desarrollo rural en Argentina y Brasil

Análsis comparativo, 1990-2010
El presente trabajo es un análisis acerca de las particularidades de las políticas dirigidas a la agricultura familiar (AF) en Argentina y Brasil, en perspectiva comparativa y a partir de la década de 1990. En el mismo se subrayan los antecedentes, logros y problemas que comparten y diferencian a ambos...
Argentina - Brazil
2011 - Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Agrarios (CIEA)

Magazine article
Agricultural Product Quality: a success factor for EU food and farming

Quality and organic products are a key part of the Common Agricultural Policy and an important Objective of Rural Development Policy. In fact enhancing food quality throughout Europe partly depends on the EU’s rural development policy. support and opportunities for effective implementation depends on actions in each Member State. However,...
2011

Journal article
Development of decision support system for sheep and goats in the hot / dry area of the North costal zone of Egypt

A Small Ruminant Decision Support System (SRDSS) was developed to improve flock productivity under the arid conditions of the North Costal Zone of Egypt. Field data were collected on 165 flocks to characterize prevailing small ruminant production systems and to identify their biological and economic potentialities and constraints. The SRDSS...
Egypt
2011 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)

Manual
Árboles y agricultura

"La agroforestería puede ser practicada por agricultores de toda escala, pero ha sido desarrollada y es especialmente adecuada para la agricultura de pequeña escala que no puede adoptar tecnologías muy costosas (http://worldagroforestry. org/latinamerica/content/definiciones). La resiliencia de los sistemas agroforestales los hace, además, singularmente apropiados para enfrentar los efectos del cambio...
Peru
2011 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes

Journal article
Coping with climate change and risk management strategies for sustainable rangeland-based systems in WANA Region

Livestock is still the main source of income of rural populations in the West Asian and North African (WANA) countries. However, many factors among which climate change are threatening the production systems. There are considerable gaps in our knowledge of how climate change will affect livestock systems and the livelihoods...
2011 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)

Manual
Enfoques de Asociatividad entre Actores del Sistema Productivo

Conceptos, Casos Reales y Metodologías
La Guía se divide en tres capítulos principales: uno en el que se presentan los enfoques de cadena y cluster y las definiciones acordadas que se derivan de cada uno de ellos (cadena, circuito, empresa ancla, negocios inclusivos, cluster y SIAL); otro en el que se analizan las principales ventajas...
Ecuador
2011 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)

Magazine article
货架上的食品,市场上的主权

我们的妇女和粮食主权物品收件箱中包含处理当地和区域粮食市场的好几篇文章. 为了给你一个关于种种市场机会意见和妇女所面临的约束, 我们总结了一些用品.
Armenia - Ghana - Mauritania - Nepal
2011 - Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge

Manual
Making CAADP work for women farmers

A review of progress in six countries
The Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) aims to revitalize African farming in order to reduce rural poverty and hunger. This is a massively important undertaking for a continent where a third of the population continue to struggle with chronic malnutrition. But is CAADP getting the right strategies, policies and...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Malawi - Nigeria - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2011 - ActionAid International

Journal article
Mutations des systèmes alimentaires des ovins en Tunisie et place des ressources alternatives

L’élevage ovin demeure la principale source de revenu chez la population rurale, notamment au centre et au sud du pays. Le système d’alimentation de ce cheptel connaît depuis ces dernières décennies des mutations importantes imposées par des facteurs climatiques, économiques, sociaux, institutionnels et environnementaux. Jusqu’aux années 70 (phase 1), l’alimentation...
Tunisia
2011 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)

Project
Preparing a fish handling centre

Activities funded by Axis 4 played a crucial role in levering in larger investment from Axis 2 of the EFF and local municipal funds for the development of a €2.7 million fish handling centre in Kuusamo. This is a new concept in Finland; combining the needs of both fishermen and...
Finland
2011 - Kainuu-Koillismaa, Finland

Practices
Beekeeping in Africa: Colony management II

A beekeeper with a colonized hive must remember that the success in keeping bees depends on the exercise of his knowledge of colony organization. Three practices of colony management are discussed in greater detail in this entry. The first part gives a step-by-step description of how to divide a very...
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Manual
Guía para la formación participativa en proyectos en organizaciones de base comunitaria

Este documento es una guía para la fórmulacion participativa de proyectos en organizaciones comunitarias, validada por comunidades campesinas e indígenas de las provincias de Catamarca, Salta y Jujuy, fue diseñada con la finalidad de que los proyectos surjan desde las propias organizaciones comunitarias como el resultado de procesos participativos para...
Argentina
2011 - Instituto Nacional de de Teconología Agropecuraria (INTA)-IPAF

Report
Rural extension with an inclusive rural development approach

Poverty is multidimensional and requires differentiated responses. In addition to increasing their income, rural families seek to improve their means of life and have more participation and representation in the life of their communities and countries. Technology is not enough. Rural extension must contribute to provide opportunities to the most vulnerable...
2011 - Latin American Network for Rural Extension Services (RELASER)

Report
Beekeeping and sustainable livelihoods Second edition

The purpose of the FAO Diversification booklets is to raise awareness and provide decision support information about opportunities at farm and local community level to increase the incomes of small-scale farmers. Each booklet focuses on a farm or non-farm enterprise that can be integrated into small farms to increase incomes...
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Journal article
Importance économique et mutation des systèmes de production ovins en Tunisie

Le secteur de l’élevage ovin en Tunisie a connu une forte croissance en améliorant sa contribution à la couverture de la demande de viande rouge. Cette croissance a été obtenue grâce à un ensemble de politiques visant notamment l’encouragement de l’élevage ovin en tant que facteur de développement de la...
Tunisia
2011 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)

Report
Selling street and snack foods

This booklet is intended to create awareness and promote street and snack food as a diversification enterprise for small-scale farmers. It looks at the advantages, benefits and income earning potential of such an enterprise as well as considering the positive spill over effects it can have on communities and others...
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Manual
Producción audiovisual: guía práctica para Kamayoq tecnológicos

La presente guía es un esfuerzo de Soluciones Prácticas por brindar a los promotores rurales (kamayoq tecnológicos) un insumo práctico y metodológico que sirva de ayuda en el trabajo en comunidades campesinas. En este documento encontraremos información precisa sobre cómo elaborar campañas sociales de Información, Educación y Comunicación (IEC); desarrollando...
2011 - Soluciones Prácticas

Project
High School Project for Sustainable Fisheries

This project supports the valorization of local species through an inclusive community initiative bringing together catering students, fishermen and local enterprises around a small but promising project to raise awareness and promote local and sustainable sourcing. Around 130 fishermen operate on the local Lake Vänern, the largest freshwater lake in...
Sweden
2011 - De La Gardie High School, Lidköping

Report
Economic prospect for semi-subsistence farm households in EU new Member States

This report presents a study of the economic situation of semi-subsistence farm households (SFHs) in new Member States and of their prospects for development under the stimulus of various EU agricultural policy measures. The project was carried out by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS), and focuses on agricultural...
European Union
2011 - European Commission
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