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Documento de la Conferencia
La mise en place participative d'une filière cacao à Sao Tomè: l'organisation des agriculteurs en tant que facteur d'émancipation
L'organisation des agriculteurs en tant que facteur d'émancipation
Peu de travaux ont considéré la construction et le développement d'un contrat comme un processus d'apprentissage des acteurs. Des agriculteurs individuels de São Tomé ont dû s'organiser et avancer collectivement, en réponse aux demandes d’un industriel pour un nouveau contrat de cacao biologique et équitable. Cette construction relationnelle entre les...
Sao Tome and Principe
2010 - Centre de Coopération Internationale de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
Boletín informativo
Knowledge Share Fair in Niger, a new sharing experience
Dimitra Newsletter 19 highlights FAO’s strong interest in the exchange and capitalisation of good agricultural practices and in the methods that enable rural populations to access information and communication. The Knowledge Management and Gender programme, which organised a Knowledge Share Fair in Niamey in June 2010, illustrates the innovative methods...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Madagascar - Niger - Uganda
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Women marginalised farmers speak out
A Zambian case study
Women farmers grow, buy, sell, cook food and feed their children. They produce 60 – 80%1 of food in most developing countries and, as such, it is women that hold the key to tackling hunger and malnutrition. Yet their needs are often not recognised or understood. As a result, policy...
Zambia
2009 - Concern Worldwide
Documento de la Conferencia
Livelihoods and economic crisis: the case of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe (1999-2008)
In the past decade a political and economic crisis has unfolded in Zimbabwe, resulting in two-digit negative growth rates, sky-rocketing inflation, decline in the rule of law and a disintegration of markets, notably rural input, output and labour markets. There has been little or no primary data collection to document...
Zimbabwe
2009 - African Studies Centre
Informe
Inventory of smallholder contract farming practices in Zimbabwe
This report was submitted to SNV Zimbabwe in December 2007, revised in 2009, and documents the experiences of twenty-five companies contracting smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe to produce cotton, tobacco, paprika, sugar cane, vegetables, sorghum and various seed and legume crops in a hyperinflationary environment. The only company contracting farmers to...
Zimbabwe
2009 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Informe
Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government's second economy strategy (volume 1)
Situation analysis, fieldwork findings and main conclusions
This study is a response to a request from those developing the Second Economy Strategy to help identify the key elements of an implementable programme to support the smallholder sector. At the core of the exercise was a set of case studies of ‘best practice’ – that is, of smallholders...
South Africa
2009 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Documento técnico
Irrigated agriculture in Djibouti
An economic and physical analysis of irrigation systems
In Djibouti, the agricultural sector contributes just 3% of GDP, and only a few people work in farming. Due to the Djibouti climate (arid to semi-arid) and the scarcity of fresh water resources (~150 mm rainfall/year), only irrigated and seasonal agriculture is possible. Djibouti farmers use diesel engine water pumps,...
Djibouti
2009
Documento técnico
The use, challenges and economic importance of draught oxen on small farms in Namibia’s Eastern Caprivi region
The Eastern Caprivi region in Namibia has the highest adoption rates of draught ox power in Namibia. It is also one of the most well watered areas, with high concentrations of people, crops and livestock. The published research documenting the use of oxen in this region is limited, despite the...
Namibia
2009 - Polytechnic of Namibia
Libro
Comprendre l'agriculture familiale
Diagnostic des systèmes de production
Cet ouvrage vise à améliorer notre compréhension du fonctionnement des petites exploitations agricoles familiales dans les pays en développement. Il décrit les choix auxquels sont confrontées les familles agricoles, les décisions à prendre, en évoquant les modalités du processus décisionnel, ainsi que les problématiques techniques et socio-économiques connexes. Le cédérom...
2009 - CTA
Documento de trabajo
A guide to upgrading rural agricultural retail markets
This Working Document provides practical guidelines for upgrading agricultural retail markets in rural areas and analyses the strategic potential of upgrading as an important component of rural development. This document presents methodological steps for the design and implementation of appropriate programmes, rather than a single model to replicate. The objective is to propose...
Bangladesh - Ethiopia
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems
the many dimensions of culture, diversity and environment for nutrition and health
Food systems of Indigenous Peoples who retain connection to long-evolved cultures and patterns of living in local ecosystems present a treasure of knowledge that contributes to well-being and health, and can benefit all humankind. This book seeks to define and describe the diversity in food system use, nutrition and health...
Canada - India - Japan - Nigeria - Peru
2009
Artículo de revista especializada
Water availability, demand and reliability of in situ water harvesting in smallholder rain-fed agriculture in the Thukela River Basin, South Africa
Water productivity in smallholder rain-fed agriculture is of key interest for improved food and livelihood security. A frequently advocated approach to enhance water productivity is to adopt water harvesting and conservation technologies (WH). This study estimates water availability for potential in situ WH, and supplemental water demand (SWD) in smallholder...
South Africa
2009
Hoja informativa
Swaziland Agricultural Development Project (SADP)
In an effort to improve the food security of rural households and to foster equitable economic growth and development, the Government of Swaziland and FAO, with funding from the European Union (EU), work together to boost agricultural productivity, while at the same time reversing environmental degradation. Smallholder agriculture is a...
Eswatini
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Farm equipment supply chains
Guidelines for policy-makers and service providers: experiences from Kenya, Pakistan and Brazil
The guidelines resulting from this report are principally directed towards sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the lack of farm power and appropriate machinery is having a deleterious effect on rural livelihoods. The farm power and machinery supply chain includes a range of stakeholders from manufacturers and importers through dealers, hire service...
Brazil - Kenya - Pakistan
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
Promouvoir les filières secondaires en milieu rural par une approche entrepreneuriale.
Une expérience en pays Androy (Sud de Madagascar)
Les agriculteurs de l'Androy, région rurale très enclavée, située à l'extrême Sud de Madagascar, soumis à des crises alimentaires récurrentes, cherchent à diversifier leurs activités économiques et à compléter leurs faibles revenus issus de l'agriculture. Les producteurs valorisent alors leurs ressources agroalimentaires et leurs savoir-faire artisanaux pour développer des activités économiques....
Madagascar
2009 - Professionnels du développement solidaire (Gret)
Artículo de revista especializada
Role of livestock projects in empowering women smallholder farmers for sustainable food security in rural Kenya
Women are a major human resource and assure adequate nutrition, health and cognitive development of their households and children in their formative years. However, women are over-represented among the poor, suffer heavy workloads and have little control over resources for family care. Poverty and food insecurity are enhanced by lack...
Kenya
2009
Documento técnico
Enhancing crop-livestock systems in conservation agriculture for sustainable production intensification
A farmer discovery process going to scale in Burkina Faso
This is a story about how FAO assisted groups of farmers in five farming communities in the moist savannah zone of South Western Burkina Faso to enhance their crop-livestock systems through Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices, including crop diversification, using an innovative farmer discovery process, to bring about agricultural intensification and...
Burkina Faso
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Etude des impacts écologiques des stratégies économiques des exploitations agricoles familiales rurales dans la région de Mékhé au Sénégal
L'auteur décrit l'évolution des différentes approches et d’appui au développement rural au Sénégal, liée aux politiques agricoles et aux péjorations climatiques et comment ces deux éléments sont devenus des contraintes réelles à l’essor de l’économie rurale. L'auteur souligne les principaux problèmes rencontrés par les agriculteurs dans la région de Mékhé :...
Senegal
2009 - UNION DES GROUPEMENTS PAYSANS DE MECKHE
Informe
Commercial Value Chains in Zambian Agriculture
Do Smallholders Benefit?
Agriculture and agro-processing are important in Zambia's economy, representing more than 40 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and contributing about 12 percent of national export earnings. Agriculture employs some 67 percent of the labor force and supplies raw materials to agricultural industries, which account for some 84 percent of...
Zambia
2009 - World Bank
Artículo de revista especializada
Accesibility to and consumption of indigenous vegetables and fruits by rural households in Matungu division, Western Kenya
Unacceptably high rates of micronutrient deficiencies persist mostly among resource-poor communities who rely on subsistence farming. In these communities, consumption of vegetables and fruits is the most sustainable way of reducing micronutrient deficiencies. Apart from enhancing dietary diversity, indigenous vegetables and fruits are often easier to grow, resistant to pests,...
Kenya
2009
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