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Visual Soil Assessment (VSA)
Pastures part 1
Soil type and the effect of management on the condition of the soil are important determinants of the productive performance and quality of pastures, and have profound effects on long-term profits. Land managers need tools that are reliable, quick and easy to use in order to help them assess the...
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Wheat rust disease global programme
Wheat, grown on more than 200 million hectares of land worldwide, is a source of food and livelihoods for over one billion people in developing countries. This important commodity has been greatly affected by recent soaring food prices. Wheat prices have doubled in the last year, largely as a result...
Algeria - Egypt - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Iraq - Jordan - Lebanon - Libya - Morocco - Oman - Sudan - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia - Yemen
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Crisis Management Centre for the Food Chain
Fact sheet
Conservation agriculture in the context of emergencies and rehabilitation
In this brief, Conservation Agriculture is explained, including the role the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is undertaking in promoting Conservation Agriculture, especially in developing and emerging economies.
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Bioseguridad en ganadería ovina de la zona centro-sur perteneciente a la agricultura familiar campesina
La bioseguridad, en producción animal, corresponde a aquellas acciones enfocadas a prevenir el ingreso y diseminación de las enfermedades en un plantel. Este estudio tiene por objetivo medir el actual nivel de bioseguridad, de los pequeños productores ovinos de las Regiones VI, VII y VIII. Se definieron 105 Especificaciones Técnicas...
Chile
2008 - Universidad de Chile
Article
Conseil agricole au Cameroun : une pièce maîtresse du développement rural
Article sur une table ronde au Cameroun qui a rassemblé une quarantaine d’acteurs autour de la question « Place et rôle du conseil agricole dans les politiques agricoles ». L’occasion de débats animés et ouverts, où ont été abordés de multiples sujets comme, entre autres, celui de la définition, du rôle,...
Cameroon
2008 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural (IR)
Book
Regional dynamics of rural development and family farming styles
An analysis from Rio Grande do Sul
This thesis has as theme the problematization of the interfaces, relations and determinations that may effect the transformations in household agriculture and, in to which extent that process may cause and/or influence rural development dynamics and the formation of household agriculture styles. The regions and the municipalities which represent them,...
Brazil
2008 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Book
Family farming and entrepreneurship: a study about the trajectories of young graduates from rural youth development centre (CEDEJOR) in Rio Pardo Valley / Rio Grande do Sul
This thesis aims to analyze the trajectories of the young emerged from the Centro de Desenvolvimento do Jovem Rural (CEDEJOR) and its work in Vale do Rio Pardo/RS. Established in three States southern of Brazil, [the Centro de Desenvolvimento do Jovem Rural (CEDEJOR)], through its alternate pedagogy and Entrepreneurship, offers...
Brazil
2008 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul
Website
Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture (SEEAG)
SEEAG's Mission is to educate children about the farm sources of their food from field-to-table while connecting them to the farmland in their own backyard.
2008
Policy brief/paper
IFAD Thematic Priorities for the Near East and North Africa
This paper draws on key recent IFAD documents, evaluations, studies and reviews andalso on workshop findings and discussions related to the Near East and North Africa(NENA) region. The IFAD documents and evaluations consulted are: (a) IFAD StrategicFramework 2007-2010; (b) the 2006 Near East and North Africa Division (PN)self-evaluation report on...
Algeria
2008 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article
What means adapting to wolf reappearance for sheep farmers in French Southern Alps?
Wolves have been coming back for several years in the southern French Alps. In two valleys of the Mercantour national park, they have been present for 15 years. Sheep farmers have to adapt their farming systems to this presence. We carried out surveys among the sheep farmers i) to describe...
2008
Conference paper
Conservation Agriculture: Impact on farmers’ livelihoods, labour, mechanization and equipment
The paper will briefly explain the features of conservation agriculture which lead to these changes and then report in more detail experiences which have been observed in the long term after the introduction of conservation agriculture on the livelihood of farmers, labour requirements, mechanization and equipment use.
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
A scientific conceptual framework and strategic principles for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme from a social-ecological systems perspective
In developing the Scientific Conceptual Framework for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, FAO seeks to accomplish the challenging task of integrating perspectives from those sciences that are most directly concerned with conservation and development: ecology, agronomy and forestry, economics, and anthropology. The goal is to scientifically conceptualise...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Nepal - Peru - Uganda
2008
Journal article
Farmers’ use of integrated soil fertility and nutrient management practices for sustainable crop production:
A field-level study in Bangladesh
Problem statement: The most pressing problem for Bangladesh agriculture is the current state of gradual decreasing of soil fertility, stagnating crop yields and declining productivity in a range of food crops. According to crop production scientists, Integrated Soil Fertility (ISF) and Nutrient Management (NM) is an advanced approach that can...
Bangladesh
2008
Book
Stationnement réservé : Réserves marines et communautés de petits pêcheurs – Articles extraits de la revue SAMUDRA
Les articles du présent dossier, extraits de SAMUDRA, la revue quadrimestrielle de l’ICSF, attirent l’attention sur ces divers problèmes. Ils font apparaître que conservation et moyens d’existence sont deux aspects très imbriqués, et que les modèles de protection de l’environnement imposés d’en haut de façon non participative peuvent avoir des...
2008 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Conference proceedings
Proceedings of the International Workshop “Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Land Management to Improve the Livelihood of People in Dry Areas"
The first International Workshop “Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Land Management to Improve the Livelihood of People in Dry Areas” has been held at The Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD) with support of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) from 7th - 9th...
2008 - The Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD),
Conference proceedings
Agriculturas andinas, TLC y globalización agroalimentaria
¿Oportunidades, reconversiones, vulnerabilidades?
En América Latina, hace algún tiempo se viene dando un debate sobre las implicancias que tienen la apertura comercial y la globalización de hábitos de consumo alimentario en el crecimiento económico y en el desarrollo de mejores condiciones de vida. Además, en un contexto en el cual el desarrollo agropecuario...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Colombia - Ecuador - Peru
2008
Case study
Tecnologías apropiadas para la Agricultura Familiar
Análisis y reflexiones sobre su generación en situaciones representativas de la región pampeana periurbana
El presente trabajo parte de la reflexión sobre algunas experiencias realizadas con agricultores familiares del cordón verde platense, de Cañuelas y de Florencio Varela. La misma se enmarca dentro de un proceso de investigación- acción que intenta establecer un diálogo entre productores, técnicos e investigadores con el fin de acercarnos...
Argentina
2008 - Responsabilidad Social Ambiental en el siglo XXI
Article
L’agriculture familiale en Afrique de l’Ouest concepts et enjeux actuels
L’agriculture demeure un élément central de l’économie ouest-africaine, assurant 30 à 50 % du PIB de la plupart des pays et représentant la plus grande source de revenus et de moyens d’existence pour 70 à 80 % de la population, ainsi que d’approvisionnement alimentaire et de recettes d’exportation issues des...
2008
Blog article
El despojo del agua y la necesidad de una transformación urgente
El agua es un bien nacional de uso público, así lo establece la Ley de Aguas de 1972. Es decir, es un recurso de toda la sociedad. El uso público implica que una persona natural o jurídica podrá obtener un derecho de uso y aprovechamiento del agua para lo cual...
Ecuador
2008 - Foro Nacional de Recursos Hídricos
Report
Organic agriculture and food security in Africa
This study examines the relationship between organic agriculture and food security in Africa, particularly East Africa, which is where the CBTF has been implementing a project on organic agriculture since 2004. Organic agriculture is a holistic production system based on active agro-ecosystem management rather than on external inputs, and it...
2008 - United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
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