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La sección titulada “Recursos” contiene publicaciones y materiales multimedia archivados que guardan relación con cuestiones generales en el ámbito de la agricultura familiar.

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Manual
Diagnóstico participativo de comunicación rural

Comenzando con la gente
El manual describe los procedimientos para planificar y conducir un Diagnóstico Participativo de Comunicación Rural (DPCR) como un primer paso para el diseño de programas de comunicación, estrategias y materiales para proyectos de desarrollo, apropiados y con una buena relación costo beneficio. El manual fue desarrollado por el Centro de...
2008 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Manual
Participatory training and curriculum development for Farmer Field Schools in Guyana and Suriname

A field guide on Integrated Pest Management and aquaculture in rice
This curriculum, developed and edited by the trainees of the IPM rice-fish ToT, is not a cooking recipe, but an inspirational document which is free for modifications based on local needs. Its contents are a blend of actual ToT experience and other sources, prepared under the guidance of the two...
Guyana - Suriname
2008

Informe
Mapping of Marketing Initiatives by CSOs - Cambodia, Philippines & Vietnam

This report is part of the outputs of the participatory market researchers and studies on specific commodities chosen in each pilot in four countries: tea in Vietnam, fresh calamansi fruit in the Philippines, free-range native chicken in Cambodia and organic rice in Indonesia.
Cambodia - Philippines - Viet Nam
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)

Manual
Visual Soil Assessment (VSA)

Annual Crops
Soil type and the effect of management on the condition of the soil are important determinants of the character and quality of annual cropping 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)

Documento/nota de orientación
The Impact of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Water and Food Outcomes

A Framework for Analysis
Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the adverse consequences, particularly from climate change. This is largely because poverty levels are high, and...
Ethiopia - South Africa
2008 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Documento/nota de orientación
How can African agriculture adapt to climate change

Vulnerability and the impact of climate change in South Africa's Limpopo River Basin
With likely long-term changes in rainfall patterns and shifting temperature zones, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of climate-related shocks, such as floods and droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa. For farm households, an increase in the frequency of climate-related income shocks could lead not only to lower expected income,...
South Africa
2008 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Documento de trabajo
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: Notes and guides in assessing natural resources management

Natural resources management is a critical branch of sustainable rural development that requires thorough understanding of theland, the people who nurtures the land and how they govern land. They are historically, socially-ecologically constructed systems. While in today’s generation, natural resources management is intertwined with the problems of poverty, food and livelihood security and...
2008 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Estudio de caso
An assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security in the Pacific

A Case Study in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
The development of subsistence agriculture is a key strategy for supporting the growing population of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. However, this approach is likely to be affected by climate change. Other factors, such as urbanization and a shift away from traditional food to imported items, are also having...
Marshall Islands
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Manual
Visual Soil Assessment (VSA)

Olive Orchards
Soil type and the effect of management on the condition of the soil are important determinants of the productive performance of olive orchards, 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 condition...
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Artículo de revista especializada
Drought management and planning strategies in semi-arid and arid agropastoral systems of West Asia and North Africa: a review

This study showed that indigenous and local community strategies of drought management are no longer effective in coping with drought and the action plans that have been launched by the governments to manage this climatic hazard are mostly crisis based programs that encourage the dependency of the producers on the...
2008 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)

Artículo de revista especializada
Perception of farmers about profitability of vegetable gardening enterprise in Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria

This study assessed perception of farmers about profitability of vegetable gardening enterprise in Ahiazu Mbaise local government area of Imo state, Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was administered to 60 randomly selected farmers in the study area. Data collected were analysed using frequencies, percentages and mean scores. Results showed that majority...
Nigeria
2008 - Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria

Documento/nota de orientación
Estrategia Nacional para el Fomento de la Producción Orgánica y Agroecólogica PARAGUAY

Alternativa de Crecimiento Socio-Económico y Sostenibilidad Ambiental
El Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) de la República del Paraguay, comprende que la producción agropecuaria orgánica-agroecológica es una alternativa de producción diferenciada, capaz de generar ingresos diversificados en el sector de la agricultura familiar, contribuyendo al mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida de quienes forman parte de este...
Paraguay
2008 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG)

Artículo de revista especializada
Impact of food aid on smallholder agricultural development in Swaziland

Food aid is a widely debated development topic and such debates have given rise to the existence of two schools of thought regarding its resultant effects. The general belief is that food aid has disincentive effects, whereas the counter belief is that food aid instead comes with contributional effects to...
Eswatini
2008

Informe
The Zanzibar Workshop Proceedings: Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Eastern and Southern Africa, 24-27 June 2008, Zanzibar, Tanzania

The Zanzibar Workshop Proceedings consists of the report and the Statement of the Workshop and provides a rich understanding of the dynamics of traditional, indigenous, small-scale and artisanal fisheries and fishing communities in the Eastern and Southern African (ESA) context. The issues covered include: the saga of rights denied to...
Western Sahara
2008 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Aprendizaje en línea
Food and Nutrition Security Foundation

This course introduces the concepts and tools used in food security analysis. As a starting point, it defines the concept of food security and its relationship to the concepts of vulnerability, hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The course also provides guidelines on how to interpret and use conceptual frameworks for analysing...
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Manual
Guía para el análisis y el monitoreo de la equidad de género en las políticas de salud

El presente trabajo, preparado bajo la coordinación de la Unidad de Género, Etnia y Salud de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, intenta contribuir al avance de las metas de igualdad de género en salud. Ofrece a planificadores, grupos de abogacía e investigadores en el ámbito de la salud, un...
2008 - Organización Panamericana de la Salud

Documento/nota de orientación
Measuring Ethiopian farmers’ vulnerability to climate change across regional states

Ethiopia’s agricultural sector, which is dominated by smallscale, mixed crop, and livestock farming, is the mainstay of the country’s economy. It constitutes more than half the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), generates more than 85 percent of the foreign exchange earnings, and employs about 80 percent of the population. Ethiopia’s...
Ethiopia
2008 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Sitio web
Campaña Semillas de Identidad

La Campaña Semillas de Identidad es un proceso organizativo en clave de red, apoyado por SWISSAID, que nace del trabajo con comunidades indígenas, campesinas y afro de Colombia y que se construye de manera permanente para proponer alternativas a diferentes problemáticas con relación a las semillas propias (nativas y criollas) y su necesidad...
Colombia
2008 - Grupo Semillas Colombia

Documento técnico
Agricultural mechanization in Africa

Time for action
The publication of this report will help move the discussions on agricultural mechanization from being on the banks to the mainstream of the debate on agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. Now is the “Time for a New Look” at agricultural mechanization in this region.
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Actas de conferencia
Proceedings of the Third World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, 3-7 October 2005

Tthese proceedings synthesise the deliberations of the iii world congress on conservation agriculture held in nairobi from 3 to 7 october 2005. the proceedings are published at a time when soaring food and energy prices have severely impacted on the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers and many more consumers....
2008 - African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)
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