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Manual
El aporte de la naturaleza. Agricultura sostenible y procesos ecológicos

"El suelo, el agua, el aire y sus combinaciones son mucho más que simples elementos a disposición de la humanidad. Cada uno de ellos es, a su vez, un universo de relaciones entre organismos y materiales, y entre sistemas entre sí. La agricultura industrial se ha fundado sobre la capacidad...
Peru
2008 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes

Report
Land redistribution and poverty reduction in South Africa

The livelihood impacts of smallholder agriculture under land reform
The first objective was to develop a comprehensive picture of each project in terms of its membership, its activities and its internal organisation. The second was to situate the projects within their wider context, which included the local community, local government (represented by officials and councillors of local and district...
South Africa
2008 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Manual
Produtos orgânicos

Sistemas participativos de garantia
A legislação brasileira prevê três diferentes maneiras de garantir a qualidade orgânica dos seus produtos: a Certificação, os Sistemas Participativos de Garantia e o Controle Social para a Venda Direta sem Certificação. Os chamados Sistemas Participativos de Garantia, junto com a Certificação, compõem o Sistema Brasileiro de Avaliação da Conformidade...
Brazil
2008 - Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento

Journal
Contradicciones históricas ante la crisis del paradigma agroalimentario postmoderno

Reflexiones desde Guatemala
La visualización mediática de algunos aspectos de la crisis del modelo agroalimentario mundial, catapulta al debate público y a las agendas políticas la urgencia de que los Estados se posicionen respecto a “cómo” asegurar la realización y defensa del derecho humano a la alimentación. Un debate de alcance planetario, al...
Guatemala
2008 - Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES)

Magazine article
El conocimiento andino es clave para enfrentar el cambio climático.

Entrevista a John Earls
Para el antropólogo y físico australiano radicado en el Perú, John Earls, la comunidad campesina andina es dueña de una estructura organizativa que le permite adaptarse y enfrentar el cambio climático global, un escenario caracterizado por su impredictibilidad y la frecuencia de eventos extremos. Esta fortaleza, sin embargo, no es...
Peru
2008 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)

Magazine article
Sin culturas nativas no hay papas nativas

Afirma que una estrategia de conservación efectiva de cultivos "milenarios", como las papas nativas, implica mantener las estructuras sociales y conocimientos ancestrales de las poblaciones rurales.
Peru
2008 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)

Magazine article
Lo pequeño es hermoso: cien números dedicados a la pequeña agricultura

A lo largo de sus primeros cien números, La Revista Agraria ha intentado mostrar la importancia de la pequeña agricultura en el país y la necesidad de que sea apoyada. En el Perú, la tarea implica librar una batalla cuesta arriba, pues los gobiernos y, por extensión la clase política,...
Peru
2008 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)

Magazine article
El campo es mucho más que una inmensa extensión verde

La necesidad de un enfoque territorial para el desarrollo agrario y rural
El universo rural es mucho más que el sector agropecuario; por tanto, el desarrollo rural excede el desarrollo agrario. Pensar y actuar en consonancia con las múltiples dimensiones del mundo rural implica adoptar una concepción territorial, antes que sectorial.
Peru
2008 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)

Report
Value-adding standards in the North American food market

Trade opportunities in certified products for developing countries
There has been a proliferation of private sector initiatives to set standards and certification programmes for foods since the early 1990s, especially in industrialized countries. A major driving force behind these initiatives has been changing consumer preferences. Rising purchasing power, education level, urbanization and evolving lifestyles combined with the decline...
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Manual
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)
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