Durante los días 10 y 11 de noviembre de 2014, en el marco de las actividades del AIAF-2014, coincidiendo con la Conferencia de Mujeres Rurales y la I Reunión Ministerial sobre Agricultura Familiar de la CELAC, los representantes de los 16 Comités Nacionales de Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,...

This video describes the implementation of the inclusive business model approach to support trading relations between small-scale cotton producers and ginners in Kenya.

This paper assesses whether tractor investment is a rational and profitable decision for farmers using firm investment theory and tractor owner survey data collected in 2013. Under erratic rainfalls, timeliness of farming operations is critical for farmers. Based on the hypothesis that owning a tractor and hiring tractor services are...

Food insecurity is considered a defining feature of poverty in Lesotho. The underlying root causes of the problem are linked to low level agricultural productivity and crop failures attributed to extreme events driven by climate change and variability and associated issues such as degradation of arable and rangelands and inefficient...

La presente publicación es parte del esfuerzo colectivo del proyecto Mercados Campesinos por compartir reflexiones y conocimientos relativos a las condiciones de acceso al mercado de las familias campesinas andinas. Aquí el lector encontrará artículos de investigación realizados en el marco del proyecto Mercados Campesinos y algunos artículos sobre otras...

El número 6 de diciembre de 2014 de la Revista Eutopía está dedicado a la agricultura familiar. Contiene: Agricultura familiar y soberanía alimentaria. Diversidades territoriales de las políticas públicas en Misiones y Buenos Aires (Argentina) La agricultura familiar entre proyectos nacionales de desarrollo La agricultura familiar pampeana: notas sobre historia y actualidad La agricultura...

After the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990, former land owners returned to Nicaragua from the USA and began to take back their former estates, through legal and less than legal manoeuvering. This ‘agrarian counter-reform’ as it became known left many hundreds of rural people landless in its wake...

Ethiopia encompasses an extraordinary number of ecological zones and plant diversity. However, the diversity of plants is highly threatened due to lack of institutional capacity, population pressure, land degradation and deforestation. An adequate documentation of these plants also has not been conducted. The farmers in Ethiopia face serious and growing...

La declaración se define como "Nosotros, Ministros de Agricultura o de Desarrollo Rural reunidos en París, el 25 de Febrero 2014, en el Salón International de la Agricultura, confirmamos nuestra voluntad de participar plenamente en el Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar, proclamado por la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas."...

Given the success of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs elsewhere, in 2010 the Government of Tanzania rolled out a pilot CCT program in three districts. Its aim was to see if, using a model relying on communities to target beneficiaries and deliver payments, the program could improve outcomes for the...

El número 5 de Revista Eutopía, correspondiente a agosto de 2014, contiene: El género y la etnicidad como barreras para el desarrollo: Mujeres indígenas, acceso a recursos en Ecuador en perspectiva latinoamericana Los factores exógenos y los procesos territoriales en la transformación del panorama ocupacional en Yucatán Mujeres y autogobierno en un territorio...

The investigation of the supply chain challenges faced by small scale farmers at Etunda irrigation farm is the core of this study. The main rationale for the investigation is the fact that Green Scheme projects, of which Etunda is one of them, is one of the key economic development and...

In Romania the agricultural industry is conforming to EU norms. Factory farms are favored, while small-scale farmers lose out.

Approximately 2,000 participants received training under the project for Harmonized Support for Agriculture Development (HSAD). The project is a research for development initiative that aims to improve the competitiveness of selected Iraqi agricultural/ agribusiness value chains and raise incomes. Trainings reflected the main objects of the HSAD project: improving extension,...

Au hameau de Kpayéroun, situé au Nord du Bénin (Commune de Djougou), les cultures principales sont l’igname,le manioc, le  haricot africain (Vignaunguiculata) et le sorgho. Fondée en 2009, l'association ORAD (Organisation des Ruraux pour une Agriculture Durable) est composée d’agriculteurs du hameau (autour de 45 adhérents) qui ont constaté les...

The following infographic presents data on the importance of Family farming and its inextricably link to national and global food security. Family farming is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family labour, including both women’s...

En el marco del movimiento campesino internacional, la Agroecología se ha convertido en una estrategia de trabajo que enfrenta las consecuencias que impone el agronegocio y las políticas que lo sustentan, al defender la posición de que sólo este modelo de agricultura es capaz de enfriar el planeta. Durante más de...

The assumption underlying this hypothesis is that farmers lack the knowledge, resources, or both to adequately prevent, anticipate, prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks. Extension and advisory services may be able to rectify this information asymmetry, or knowledge inequality, by providing or facilitating access to a variety of...

The well-known deregulation of New Zealand agriculture prompted the growth of dairy farming, particularly in the region of Southland. The formation of the giant cooperative Fonterra only exacerbated the conversion of sheep farms into dairy farms that challenged both farmers’ and the region’s traditional identity as a sheep country. Interviews...

This Infographic illustrates the interconnection of the forest and farm in one landscape, and the services and benefits together they provide to people. It also highlights the advantages that producer organizations give to the forest and farm producers.