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Visual Soil Assessment (VSA)
Wheat
Soil type and the effect of management on the condition of the soil are important determinants of the productive performance of wheat cropping and have profound effects on long term profits. Land managers need reliable, quick and easy to use tools to help them assess the condition of their soils...
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conferencia/Reunión
Semi-subsistence farming in Europe: Concepts and key issues
The motivation behind the ENRD's consideration of this topic and this background paper, which raises some key issues for further debate, is two-fold. Firstly, the last two enlargements in 2004 and 2007 brought millions of small farms into the EU, most of which are either subsistence farms (SFs) or semi-subsistence...
Romania
2010 - European Rural Network
Documento técnico
Desempeño agroproductivo de las parcelas urbanas del Consejo Popular Santiago de las Vegas
Se caracterizó el comportamiento socioproductivo en las parcelas del Consejo Popular de Santiago de las Vegas. Se realizaron entrevistas directas y observación directa a una muestra representativa del 20% de los parceleros. Se efectuó un análisis de componentes principales como herramienta en la agrupación de los parceleros para la caracterización...
Cuba
2010 - Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical (INIFAT)
Informe
Indigenous Peoples’ Communication for Development
Collaborative efforts towards self-determined sustainable development
Since 2006, FAO and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues have been collaborating in promoting initiatives to enhance IPs’ capacities in the field of ComDev through a series of consultations and the establishment of IPs’ communication platforms. In this context, FAO’s Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI) programme...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Integrated crop management
Conservation Agriculture and sustainable crop intensification in Lesotho
Lesotho is a small mountainous country characterized by extensive land degradation and erratic climatic conditions. In recent years a growing number of development agencies have been promoting conservation agriculture (CA) as a means to enhance rural livelihoods through sustainable production intensification. The present case study prepared under the AGP Framework...
Lesotho
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
From small farming to rural, non‐agricultural work in Romania:
an evaluation on 3 measures of the rural development programme
Romanian rural areas contain the highest level of agricultural workers in the European Union, resulting in the challenge of stimulating non-agricultural employment. This paper uses the methodology of policy evaluation to analyse the influence of 3 measures the CAP. From an objectives tree to reveal the objectives of the programme...
Romania
2010
Informe
Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty
The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty is expected to generate a purposeful collaboration between indigenous communities, scientists and policy researchers, leading to the emergence of a “new science of complexity based on modern and traditional knowledge for the design of resilient food and agricultural systems that would have...
2010 - Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research
Hoja informativa
Rotational Farming: A Knowledge Intensive System to cope with Climate Change
Rotational farming is an agricultural practice that involves alternating cultivation between different plots within the same location whilst leaving the other plots fallow. It is often misunderstood, and is considered to be a destructive farming technique which depletes soil nutrient content as it often involves
the clearing of land by burning....
2010 - Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research PAR
Informe
Food Security and Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Current State and Future Perspectives
A rapidly changing world combined with mounting domestic challenges is prompting many Middle East and North African (MENA) countries to rethink their development models and to initiate economic and social reforms. Taking this new momentum as a starting point, this paper uses the concept of Food Security to identify the...
2010 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de revista especializada
School Feeding and Family Farming: reconnecting consumption to production
This work aims to address the relationship between consumption, production and food policy based on Brazil’s School Feeding Program (SFP), seeking to understand how the consolidation of different systems of food production and consumption occurs. Thus, it aims to show how this program has been used in Brazil concerning the...
Brazil
2010 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS)
Libro
Casos ejemplares de manejo forestal sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe
En América Latina y el Caribe existe una gran diversidad de experiencias que demuestran que el manejo forestal con criterios de sostenibilidad es alcanzable y representa una opción altamente competitiva en los variados contextos en que se desarrollan. Comunidades, empresas, productores, ONG o el mismo Gobierno, propietario mayoritario de los...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Costa Rica - Dominican Republic - Guatemala - Guyana - Honduras - Mexico - Nicaragua - Peru
2010 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Informe
Central Asia and the South Caucasus: Challenges, Opportunities, Priority Needs and Actions Required for Improving Agricultural Research for Development
The Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) region consists of five countries in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and three in the South Caucasus (Armenia Azerbaijan and Georgia). The eight countries of the region attained independence after the breakdown of the former Soviet Union in 1991, and...
Argentina - Azerbaijan - Georgia - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
2010 - Central Asia and the Caucasus Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (CACAARI)
Estudio de caso
Challenges for succession in family farming – Perspective and research question
Agriculture, particularly family farming, has had, and still has, an important role in many rural communities as a basis for economic activity, local social organization and as a lifestyle, although its economic role has declined over time. The development of agriculture has turned into an industry where profitability is linked...
Norway
2010
Estudio de caso
Reclaiming life in marginal areas
Reclaiming life in marginal areas and fragile ecosystems through innovative solutions: The case of bocage perimeters in Burkina Faso
Human activities have helped to speed up the process of desertification in Burkina Faso. In order to curb this scourge and its disastrous consequences, the NGO “TERRE VERTE” has, since 1989, carried out a rural development project referred to as bocage perimeter, (“Wegoubri” in the Mooré language). This new concept...
Burkina Faso
2010 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Revista especializada
Options Méditerranéennes. Economics of drought and drought preparedness in a climate change context
During the last decades, droughts have become more frequent in the Mediterranean, West Asia and North African countries, and have had negative socio-economic impacts which are frequently linked to a high exploitation of available water resources. The Fourth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change states that extreme...
Argentina - Bulgaria - Canada - Egypt - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Jordan - Morocco - Spain - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia - Türkiye
2010 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Libro
Integrated Crop Management Vol.7-2009
Enhancing Crop-Livestock Systems in Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Production Intensification - A Farmer Discovery Process Going to Scale in Burkina Faso
his 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
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Calidad de suelos en una situación de producción de cerdos sobre pastoreo
Actualmente en nuestro país se están tomando medidas que fomentan y exigen un desarrollo sustentable en el manejo de los suelos del país. A lo largo de la historia hubo períodos de expansión agrícola que fueron acompañados de severa degradación de los suelos, llegando inclusive a dejar grandes áreas inutilizadas...
Uruguay
2010 - Universidad de la República de Uruguay. Facultad de Agronomía
Vídeo
Four Acres and Independence - A Self-Sufficient Farmstead
Take a tour, accompanied by curious sheep and geese, of Mark Cooper's self-sufficient small farm. Over several years, he transformed a rundown house and hillsides of berry brambles into pasture and gardens where he produces and preserves most of his family's food. Visit the Goose Grotto in a constructed pond,...
European Union
2010
Estudio de caso
Regenerative agriculture in Senegal
Similar to other countries in the Sahel region, Senegal’s indigenous food production is hampered by lack of moisture and sandy soils low in organic matter. Soil erosion and degradation threaten large areas of farm land. In central Senegal’s groundnut basin, the low-lying area between the Ferlo and Gambia rivers, the...
Senegal
2010 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Artículo de revista especializada
Participation determinants and impact assessment of the Institute of Agricultural Development (INDAP) credit program
This research estimates the impact of INDAP’s Credit Program on the per hectare agricultural income of small agricultural producers. To accomplish this, a Treatment Effects Model (TEM) is employed to simultaneously estimate producer incomes and program participation functions, correcting for the potential presence of selectivity bias through the correlation between...
Chile
2010 - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)
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