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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)
Artículo de revista especializada
The use of linear programming to evaluate the impact of credit for investments in small goat farms
The PRONAF is a governmental program that subsidies the credit for investment to smallholder farming and improves the social development in Brazil. This research was carried out to evaluate the effect of increasing the values of credit for investment used for the PRONAF farmers in semi-arid areas, and their impact...
Brazil
2009
Informe
La Comunicación para el Desarrollo ante los desafíos del Cambio Climático, Manejo de Recursos Naturales, Gestión del Riesgo y Seguridad Alimentaría
Memorias de una Consulta Virtual
La presente publicación parte de una premisa ineludible: La comunicación es clave para promover el desarrollo rural sostenible y la Comunicación para el Desarrollo (CpD), un enfoque que integra varios procesos y métodos participativos de comunicación, información y gestión del conocimiento y el uso integrado de medios locales y de...
2009 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (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)
Sitio web
Red para la Gestión Territorial de Desarrollo Rural Sustentable (RED GTD)
La Red para la Gestión Territorial de Desarrollo Rural Sustentable es una iniciativa de cooperación para la gestión del conocimiento en torno a las políticas públicas para el desarrollo rural sustentable en México. Creada en 2009, la Red GTD destaca por sus aportes a la generación de conocimiento sobre la...
Mexico
2009 - Red para la Gestión Territorial de Desarrollo Rural Sustentable (RED GTD)
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Fighting water scarcity in the Arab countries
The Arab countries account for more than 5 per cent of the world’s population, but less than 1 per cent of global water resources. And as a consequence of the phenomena associated with climate change, the region is facing an even greater water shortage. For 30 years now, IFAD and...
Jordan - Sudan
2009 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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IFAD and the League of Arab States
Poverty among the 22 members of the League of Arab States (LAS) is primarily a rural phenomenon. Established in 1945, the LAS promotes and coordinates integration among its 22 member states and strengthens cooperation at all levels: political, security, economic, social and cultural. IFAD is highly supportive of this process...
2009 - International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: BULGARIA
Permanent pastures are therein defined as utilized agricultural area used permanently for 5 or more years through cultivation (sowing) of grass fodder crops or through natural regeneration and is not included in the farm crop rotation. This area can be used for either grazing or mowing. All grass species that...
Bulgaria
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: ESTONIA
Estonia falls into the Nemoral and Boreal biogeographical zones – regions naturally dominated by coniferous forests, with extensive mires. Farmers in at least certain parts in Estonia, as in other countries in these zones, traditionally made use of all the possible forage resources available to them to tide their animals...
Estonia
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: FRANCE
Proposing a coherent and unified definition of permanent pastures in France is not easy in the detail neither from technical nor from administrative point of view. Starting from usual and specialised dictionaries, the definition of a “pasture” shows a certain blur between a general definition in which a pasture is...
France
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: NORTHERN IRELAND
The cross-compliance booklet for Northern Ireland states “Permanent pasture is defined as permanent grassland which is over five years old which has been declared on the Area Aid application in 2003. Land which has been ploughed and reseeded within the same year may be defined as permanent pasture”.
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Libro
El empleo de las mujeres rurales
Lo que dicen las cifras
El presente estudio pone de relieve las trabas existentes para una mayor incorporación de las mujeres al mundo del trabajo: una estructura productiva que no crea suficientes empleos de buena calidad para ellas –y tampoco para los hombres– y una población femenina envejecida y con muy bajos niveles de calificación....
2009 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: SCOTLAND
Permanent pastures (PP) of various types dominate the Scottish agricultural landscape. Recent census-based statistics show that permanent pastures in the widest sense account for 82% of Scotland’s farmland, making up an estimated 75% of all land claimed in IACS.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: SWEDEN
Sweden has a tradition of managing semi-natural pastures with a relatively high amount of trees and bushes. Some of the typical habitats also have low fodder value, but it is often not correlated with tree density. These pastures are mainly alvar grazing (habitat type 6280, Nordic alvar and Pre-Cambrian calcareous...
Sweden
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Revista especializada
Revista Mundos Rurales, octubre 2009, n° 1: Autonomías indígena originario campesinas, un nuevo desafío en Bolivia
El primer número de Mundos Rurales incluye artículos sobre:
El largo proceso de Jesús de Machaqa hacia su autonomía indígena originaria
¿Qué tan plurinacional será la nueva Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional?
Hacia las elecciones de diciembre 2009
El acceso de campesinos indígenas a la tierra es estratégico, ¿Qué presupuesto le asigna el Estado?
El rol de...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2009 - Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado (CIPCA)
Documento de trabajo
Rural women producers and cooperatives in conflicts settings in the Arab States
Ongoing violent conflicts accentuate the challenges that women and men face in the rural areas of Iraq, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territories. The potential of cooperatives for sharing risk, pooling resources, learning together, generating income, and balancing work and family responsibilities, has yet to be actualized. Cooperatives in the...
Iraq - Lebanon - Palestine
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Tecnología y pequeña producción agropecuaria en la Argentina
Una caracterización basada en el censo nacional agropecuario 2002 y en estudios de caso
Este estudio intenta profundizar el conocimiento sobre los aspectos productivos y tecnológicos de los pequeños productores. En el presente estudio se reelaboró información censal sobre las producciones y tecnologías principales de la pequeña producción y sobre el impacto potencial de algunas tecnologías seleccionadas, y se indagó sobre algunas líneas fundamentales...
Argentina
2009 - Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca de la Nación - PROINDER, Proyecto de Desarrollo de Pequeños Productores Agropecuarios.
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 de la Conferencia
Landscape Agroecology: managing interactions between agriculture, nature and socio-economy
State of the art GIS and database technologies for landscape scale analysis and the modelling of land use and environmental impacts are presented. These methods have been developed at University of Aarhus in multidisciplinary collaboration with other research institutions throughout Europe; for example during the EU research projects www.mea-scope.org and...
2009 - Green Week Scientific Conference
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