In the tropics most of the steepland areas are settled by small-scale farming families where livelihoods may be endangered by land degradation and associated loss of productivity. This bulletin brings concepts and principles of good land husbandry into focus, as a basis for developing different ways of thinking about safe...

We analyse the process of technological change of resource-poor farmers raising goats in North-western Córdoba (Argentina). We focus on farmers' behaviour in relation to a certain technology (the use of veterinary products) proposed by extensionists who are canying out a development program in the región. We used a survey including...

Farming in Namibia’s Northern Communal Areas (NCAs) is predominantly for subsistence purposes, and is characterised by very low and even declining productivity due to a combination of low and uneven rainfall and poor soils, with conditions of extreme income inequality and poverty, under nutrition, out-migration of labour and high population...

La privatisation des terres collectives dans la région d'El Hamma (gouvernorat de Gabès) a entraîné des mutations socio-économiques touchant les pratiques agro-pastorales. En effet, cette privatisation des terres s'est traduite par la fixation des anciennes nomades et par l'extension des plantations arboricoles. Elle a fait baigner les Beni-Zid dans un...

La Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC-Vía Campesina), es una instancia de articulación continental con 16 años de compromiso constante con la lucha social que representa a movimientos campesinos, de trabajadores y trabajadoras, indígenas y afrodescendientes de toda América Latina.

The primary purpose of this book is to describe and to reference the published literature on the nutritional properties, the botanical characteristics and the ethnic uses of traditional food plants of Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Since it is recognized that Canadian political boundaries are not honored by plants in their biological...

La Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología Rural (ALASRU) es una asociación de carácter profesional sin fines de lucro fundada el 6 de noviembre de 1969 en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trabaja en la generación de espacios de interacción académica con distintos organismos, instituciones e investigadores que tienen como eje el estudio de...