In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on agricultural production, but also on the policies that affect food systems from farm to table. In response, the International...

In Northern Italy, the autonomous province of South Tyrol has the biggest single area producing apple trees in Europe. The 19 000 ha of apple production area in South Tyrol supplies up to 50% of the national Italian apple market, 15% of the European and 2% of the global apple...

The report specifically analyses the NIS in Peru and Colombia in the coffee and dairy sectors due to their economic importance for both countries and the large percentage of small producers in these sectors. In order to analyse the NIS, we have utilised an innovations systems approach to form the...

El éxito de la producción de soya depende en gran parte de la preparación del terreno para la siembra. Esta debe realizarse inmediatamente después de cosechar el cultivo anterior. En este vídeo se presentan algunas recomiendaciones para la preparación del suelo.

The importance of innovation in agriculture and rural development has been recognised by the European Union over successive reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but there is widespread agreement that agricultural knowledge and innovation systems need to be   reinvigorated. The innovation priority in rural development programmes (RDPs) for 2014-2020...

Se requiere una preparación adecuada del suelo para lograr una textura suelta que facilite el establecimiento del cultivo de ahuyama o zapallo, en el rpesente vídeo se presentan algunas recomendaciones para dar comienzo a la producción de ahuyama.

Soil sodicity and salinization are two major issues concerning agricultural production in Northern China and the affected areas are expanding at a rate of 1–1.5 Mha/year. The effects of two treatments, i.e. notillage with subsoiling and straw cover (NTSC) and conventional tillage with ploughing and straw removal (CTSR), on soil...

Programmes to reduce emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation, such as REDD+ and other forestry incentive programmes, including Payment for Environmental Services (PES), could represent an opportunity to strengthen processes of conservation, sustainable usage and poverty reduction in the Mesoamerican region, particularly in indigenous territories and communities. Analysing the context...

En este clip tecnológico se presenta la forma correcta de preparar el suelo para la siembra de ajo, cultivo exigente en cuanto a la preparación del suelo.

El Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural de Colombia y la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria AGROSAVIA, nos presentan las siguientes recomendaciones para la preparación del suelo en cultivos de caucho en la altillanura colombiana.

Video presentación del 8 de setiembre del 2013 en el Curso Internacional Agroecología, Resiliencia y Seguridad Alimentaria. Evento previo al IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Agroecología SOCLA 2013.

Agriculture is a major economic issue in Egypt, although its contribution to the GDP is gradually diminishing. It is evident that rural and agriculture growth is the key element towards reducing poverty, achieving food security and increasing demands for labor. Egypt is facing great challenges regarding its economy in general,...

El ají topito (Capslcum chlnense) es una de las solanáceas que se cultiva tradicionalmente en los departamentos de Atlántico, Bolívar, Guajira, Córdoba, Sucre, Cesar y Magdalena. El presente modelo productivo se ha desarrollado con miras a plantear la tecnología en este cultivo con aspectos claves para su buen desarrollo; así...

This online discussion on indigenous methods of food preparation held an interesting previous discussion on how indigenous knowledge systems can be used to improve agricultural productivity and food security among rural poor communities. However, we did not touch on how communities use this knowledge that is passed from generation to...

Liberia was making frantic efforts towards achieving food security through improvements in smallholder farmers’ productivity. However, the 1989-2003 civil conflict destroyed the economic life of the country, and reversed the positive trend towards food security. This situation undermined the growth of smallholder farmers’ entrepreneurship. Hence, this research assesses the extent...

El proyecto «Innovación y Competitividad de la Papa (INCOPA)» del Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) —que se creó con recursos financieros de la Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación (COSUDE) y en alianza con una serie de socios públicos y privados— intervino en este sector, e instauró...

The potential benefit of indigenous chicken (Gallus domesticus) production is still under exploited in Kenya despite the efforts by different stakeholders to mainstream this production system as a pathway to rural development. The production system is often characterized by low input-low output productivity and low commercialization of the enterprise. This...

Nota de Agroenlace sobre el informe “Perspectivas de la agricultura y el desarrollo rural en las Américas 2014”, elaborado por  el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el...

En appui au bureau d’études Bourbon Madagascar, le Gret a participé à l’évaluation de la convention programme de l’ONG Inter Aide dans quatre pays (Madagascar, Ethiopie, Malawi et Sierra Leone) sur le renforcement de l’autonomie et des capacités productives des agricultures familiales en zones rurales isolées d’Afrique Subsaharienne. Le Gret...

This study was conducted in Musanze and Bugesera districts of Rwanda .The objective were to estimate the level of technical efficiency in maize production. The study also attempted to determine some socio-economic characteristics which influence technical efficiency in maize production. It used primary and secondary data. Primary data were collected...