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Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture
Implications for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Strategies
This study is motivated by the need to understand the nature and magnitude of land constraints in African agriculture, the impacts of status-quo policies on food security and poverty, and the implications for development strategy. To our knowledge, there has been little recognition of the potential challenges associated with increasingly...
2012 - Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
Article de revue spécialisée
Rural families and their process of transformation
Case study in a scenario of tensed rurality
The rural world has undergone many transformations due to the processes of modernization and globalization. Little is known about rural families, and knowledge about urban families is usually transferred to rural families, as if the reality was the same for both. This study sought to understand. The practices in the...
Chile
2012 - Universidad Católica del Maule
Rapport
Informe de los talleres sobre la introducción al enfoque ecosistémico a la pesca y la acuicultura
Dada la complejidad de problemas relacionados con la pesca y la acuicultura en el Estero Real en Nicaragua, INPESCA, ha solicitado el apoyo técnico de FAO para implementar en esta localidad el enfoque ecosistémico a la pesca y acuicultura (EEPA) como un caso de estudio piloto. La parte 1 de...
Nicaragua
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process
Rural social movements have in recent years adopted agroecology and diversified farming systems as part of their discourse and practice. Here, we situate this phenomenon in the evolving context of rural spaces that are increasingly disputed between agribusiness, together with other corporate land-grabbers, and peasants and their organizations and movements....
2012
Étude de cas
Indigenous knowledge systems and livestock production under small- holder farmer management in the face of climate change
A case of Guruve district
Indigenous knowledge systems of livestock care and health care is the only asset in the hands of the small holder farmers to mitigate the impact of climate change on livestock production. This study explores the role of indigenous knowledge systems of livestock care and veterinary care in the face of...
Zimbabwe
2012 - University of Zimbabwe
Rapport
A gender Analysis Perspective for Improved Livelihoods in the Karkheh River Basin
This study on gender and livelihood aims to find new ways of improving the incomes of rural households, based on the role of women in agricultural production and the division of labor in socioeconomic activities between men and women. It targets eight villages in two regions: Merek (Kermanshah Province) and...
Syrian Arab Republic
2012 - Arid Regions Institute (IRA)
Article de revue spécialisée
Food security, Conservation Agriculture and pulses
Evidence from smallholder farmers in Zambia
Food insecurity is common place among 44% (six million) of Zambian population. Conservation agriculture (CA) is an option being promoted to address this problem. There is little evidence showing whether CA adopters are better than non-CA adopters in terms of food security. Using a four years panel data, focus group...
Zambia
2012
Étude de cas
Assessing the impacts of conservation agriculture on farmer livelihoods in three selected communities in central Mozambique
This study assesses the alleged livelihoods benefits of conservation agriculture for smallholder farmers. These benefits include improving productivity, household income, food security and subsequently alleviating poverty. First, the benefits of conservation agriculture in southern Africa as reported in the literature were reviewed. Then empirical data was collected in the communities...
Mozambique
2012 - Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU)
Directives
Lineamientos y procedimientos para Pueblos Indígenas
Unidad para el Cambio Rural
Este documento contempla los lineamientos y procedimientos que deben ser aplicados por los Programas y Proyectos coordinados y/o ejecutados por la Unidad para el Cambio Rural, que tengan como destinatarias o afecten a comunidades y organizaciones de los pueblos indígenas. Se pondrán en práctica mecanismos que aseguren la inclusión y...
Argentina
2012 - Unidad para el Cambio Rural
Rapport
Growing greener cities in Africa
First status report on Urban and Peri-urban horticulture in Africa
African policymakers need to act now to steer urbanization from its current, unsustainable path toward healthy, greener cities that ensure food and nutrition security, decent work and income, and a clean environment for all their citizens. This report highlights a key component of sustainable urban development: urban and peri-urban horticulture...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Ouvrage
Food Plants and Good Gardening for Healthy Diets in Swaziland
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Eswatini
2012 - Food Plant Solutions
Directives
The Barefoot Guide 3: Mobilizing Religious Health Assets for Transformation
Health, freedom and social justice cannot be separated. Anyone who loves a neighborhood, a nation or a small planet enough to work for its future, inevitably measures success by its health and well-being. How long do the neighbors live, and with what degree of freedom from the burden of illness?...
2012 - International Religious Health Assets Programme
Document technique
Criterios para la evaluación y producción de papa criolla para la industria
La presente cartilla contiene a la papa criolla como uno de los alimentos más importantes en la dieta de la mayoría de los colombianos. El consumo de papa en Colombia paso de 2.3 millones de Tm. En 1991 a 2.8 millones en el 2004, creció durante la década a una...
Colombia
2012 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Manuel
Insectos y Agricultores ¿amigos o enemigos?
Los agricultores suelen ser conscientes de la enorme diversidad de especies de insectos en sus campos, y de las funciones que estos cumplen como parte de un ecosistema. La agricultura tiene gran influencia en el equilibrio de la población de insectos. Sin embargo, en todo el mundo, las evidencias muestran...
Peru
2012 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes
Comptes rendus de conférence
Gobierno comunal: entre la propiedad y el control territorial. El caso de la Comunidad de Cataca
La Ley 24656 señala que la comunidad campesina controla un territorio en propiedad. Esta fórmula ambigua confunde derechos y conceptos, genera una serie de problemas en la definición de comunidad y se presta a confusiones legales. Sin embargo, corresponde de alguna manera a la realidad de las comunidades campesinas: estas,...
Peru
2012 - Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA)
Article de revue spécialisée
Farming Families’ Access to Water in the Pampa Region: a multidimensional analysis
This paper presents the conceptual and methodological perspective of participatory action research with an interdisciplinary approach. Specifically, thisresearch examines different dimensions that condition the access to water for farming families in the Pampa region. Together with famers and extension workers, we defined the problems, considering that water asmediator of social...
Argentina
2012 - Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Rapport
Emergency response support to 3 CARICOM states to impacts of the 2010 hurricane season
This document constitutes the Final Report on implementation of activities covered by the first Letter of Agreement (LOA) between the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) under the CARICOM/Brazil/FAO Cooperation Programme on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The Cooperation Programme...
Barbados - Belize - Brazil - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Estandarización de un medio de cultivo a partir de fuentes agroindustriales para la multiplicación de Azospirillum brasilense
Se realizó una etapa exploratoria aplicando el diseño Plackett-Burman para cuatro fuentes de carbono, dos fuentes de nitrógeno, K2HPO4 y MgSO4 y una solución de micronutrientes con el fin de seleccionar los factores nutricionales más influyentes sobre el crecimiento del microorganismo. Posteriormente, se llevó a cabo un proceso de optimización...
Colombia
2012 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Corpoica)
Fiche d'information
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). Agricultural Heritage: A new vision, a new hope
China has a five-thousand-year history of agricultural civilization. Diversified natural and cultural features across regions have led to a variety of agricultural heritage systems which have evolved from the co-adaptation of the local community and its environment. However, for a long period, their ecological rationality and potential economic benefits have...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Fisheries in Transition
50 Interviews with the Fishing Sector
This report provides 50 interviews from fisheries that are moving towards sustainability. It takes the approach of speaking to those who are directly involved in fishing, earn their livelihoods on a daily basis from fishing and often work at the sharp end in dangerous conditions. These are the people, together...
Australia - Bahamas - Canada - Chile - Colombia - Denmark - Ecuador - Fiji - France - Gambia - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Isle of Man - Japan - Madagascar - Mexico - Mozambique - Namibia - Nauru - New Zealand - Norway - Peru - Philippines - Russian Federation - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - South Africa - Spain - Suriname - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Viet Nam
2012 - Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit
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