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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)

Journal article
Determinantes de las migraciones interdepartamentales 1988-1993

Este artículo se encuentra entre las páginas 140 a 144. Uno de los factores que intensifica la pobreza rural y disminuye el desarrollo rural es la alta tasa de migración hacia las capitales de departamento. Los miembros más jóvenes de las familias campesinas deciden migrar hacia ciudades con objeto de...
Peru
2008 - Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM)

Journal article
Prácticas alimentarias y nutricionales familiares de la cuenca del río Momón (Iquitos, Perú)

Entre las páginas 127 a 134 se encuentra este artículo. El análisis de los sistemas de producción de las áreas rurales debe considerar el estudio de las costumbres y creencias folclóricas de sus comunidades nativas ya que éstas condicionan las decisiones familiares en relación a sus actividades económicas y hábitos...
Peru
2008 - Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM)

Book
Parques reservados: Reservas Marinas y Comunidades Pesqueras de Pequeña Escala

Este dossier recoge varios artículos que sostienen que la conservación y el sustento están íntimamente relacionados entre sí y que los modelos de conservación no participativos e impuestos desde arriba pueden resultar contraproducentes. Las comunidades pesqueras pueden ser poderosas aliadas en los esfuerzos de conservación.  El dossier muestra ejemplos de...
2008 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Report
Value Chain Analysis Report - Cambodia, Philippines & Vietnam

Linking Small Farmers to Market Project
The researchers and studies conducted under the LSFM project were intended to contribute to the process of effectively linking small farmers to market and maximize their benefits from the value chain. In addition, the studies also aimed to help decision-making of the project's in-country anchors and in formulating strategic directions,...
Cambodia - Philippines - Viet Nam
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)

Book
El cacao en Bolivia

Una alternativa económica de base campesina indígena
La presente publicación hace un recorrido muy amplio, entre historia, información estadística, diagnóstico de actores y finalmente propuesta de tareas para familias, organizaciones e instituciones, y políticas públicas para los distintos niveles de gobierno. Desde la orientación de CIPCA, este es un nuevo ejemplo de cómo las acciones y emprendimientos de...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2008 - Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado (CIPCA)

Technical paper
The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor

This paper is a shorter, more recent version of an earlier working paper, and uses RIGA data to describe participation in and income shares from the different income generating activities across rural households in different developing countries.This paper analyzes the household level impact of a price increase in major tradable...
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Technical paper
Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries

Using nationally-representative data from 14 developing countries, this paper explores rural wage employment and its potential as a mechanism for improving the well being of the rural population. The analysis suggests that the sector of employment (agricultural or non-agricultural) and the overall household livelihood strategy appear to be of limited...
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Mapping of Marketing Initiatives by CSOs in Indonesia

Value Chain Analysis Report of Organic Rice in Indonesia
This publication contains the initial outputs of the research component of AsiaDHRRA's Regional Project on Linking Small Farmers to Markets (LSFM) as implemented by Dina Besa (InDHRRA) in Indonesia. This report is part of the outputs of the participatory market researchers and studies on specific commodities chosen in each pilot...
Indonesia
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)

Book
The succession dynamic in family farming

The social reproduction of familiar agriculture is permeated by distinct factors affecting the perspective of continuity of establishments along the generations. In general, these factors can be associated to changes caused by the modernization of agriculture,  crescent proximity between the rural and the urban and the internal dynamic of the...
Brazil
2008 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS)

Report
Linking small farmers to the market

The private sector can help smallholders to participate in modern supply chains. This type of collaboration will be critical to agricultural development.
2008 - World Bank

Manual
Diagnóstico participativo de comunicación rural

Comenzando con la gente
El manual describe los procedimientos para planificar y conducir un Diagnóstico Participativo de Comunicación Rural (DPCR) como un primer paso para el diseño de programas de comunicación, estrategias y materiales para proyectos de desarrollo, apropiados y con una buena relación costo beneficio. El manual fue desarrollado por el Centro de...
2008 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Manual
Participatory training and curriculum development for Farmer Field Schools in Guyana and Suriname

A field guide on Integrated Pest Management and aquaculture in rice
This curriculum, developed and edited by the trainees of the IPM rice-fish ToT, is not a cooking recipe, but an inspirational document which is free for modifications based on local needs. Its contents are a blend of actual ToT experience and other sources, prepared under the guidance of the two...
Guyana - Suriname
2008

Report
Mapping of Marketing Initiatives by CSOs - Cambodia, Philippines & Vietnam

This report is part of the outputs of the participatory market researchers and studies on specific commodities chosen in each pilot in four countries: tea in Vietnam, fresh calamansi fruit in the Philippines, free-range native chicken in Cambodia and organic rice in Indonesia.
Cambodia - Philippines - Viet Nam
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)

Manual
Visual Soil Assessment (VSA)

Annual Crops
Soil type and the effect of management on the condition of the soil are important determinants of the character and quality of annual cropping 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)

Policy brief/paper
The Impact of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Water and Food Outcomes

A Framework for Analysis
Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the adverse consequences, particularly from climate change. This is largely because poverty levels are high, and...
Ethiopia - South Africa
2008 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Policy brief/paper
How can African agriculture adapt to climate change

Vulnerability and the impact of climate change in South Africa's Limpopo River Basin
With likely long-term changes in rainfall patterns and shifting temperature zones, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of climate-related shocks, such as floods and droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa. For farm households, an increase in the frequency of climate-related income shocks could lead not only to lower expected income,...
South Africa
2008 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Working paper
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: Notes and guides in assessing natural resources management

Natural resources management is a critical branch of sustainable rural development that requires thorough understanding of theland, the people who nurtures the land and how they govern land. They are historically, socially-ecologically constructed systems. While in today’s generation, natural resources management is intertwined with the problems of poverty, food and livelihood security and...
2008 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Case study
An assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security in the Pacific

A Case Study in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
The development of subsistence agriculture is a key strategy for supporting the growing population of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. However, this approach is likely to be affected by climate change. Other factors, such as urbanization and a shift away from traditional food to imported items, are also having...
Marshall Islands
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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