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Mujer Rural: Cambios y Persistencias en América Latina
En el texto que sigue se presenta un balance de la situación de las mujeres rurales en América Latina con especial atención a los cambios y persistencias. El documento fue elaborado a partir de investigaciones realizadas en Perú y América Latina y se han revisado balances y estudios de ONG...
Peru
2011 - Programa Democratización y Transformación de Conflictos, Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Fiche d'information
Strengthening smallholder market linkages through contract farming
Zimbabwe’s economy is starting to turn around after almost a decade of recession characterized by macroeconomic and political challenges. During this time, the near collapse of formal marketing channels, as well as shortages and high prices of key agricultural inputs (fertilizers, seeds, crops and chemicals), resulted in steep drops in...
Zimbabwe
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Organic Agriculture. A step towards the Green Economy in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region
In the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) region organic agriculture could play a catalyst role in green economy transformation by re-vitalizing the farm and food sector and creating employment that provides better returns on per unit of labor input all along the value chain. It could increase income...
Armenia - Republic of Moldova - Ukraine
2011 - United Nations Environment programme
Vidéos
Fishing for the Future
Fishing for the Future is a short film documentary elaborating one of components of the FAO European Union Food Facility Project activities in Cambodia. The film captures own-family-fish-pond culture which the project has been supported through provision of fingerlings, prawn larvae, lime and training to Cambodian farmers. The film also...
Cambodia
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue
Sowing the seeds for organic produce in Slovakia
Organic agriculture has gained a significant foothold in Slovakia in recent years. ‘Some 7.05 % of total agricultural land is managed organically – 136 688 ha – with 22 613 ha in conversion,’ says Ms Lehocká. Ms Lehocká has coordinated a number of national projects to develop organic farming in Slovakia, and has...
Slovakia
2011
Article de revue spécialisée
Potential for rural tourism in company Paso Jhú of the Piribebuy district, Department of Cordillera, Paraguay
The rural tourism generates a set of human relations resulting from the visit of tourists to rural communities, to enjoy the environment, natural, cultural and productive values. In this context, tourism is seen as a natural way for the development of rural areas, especially the most disadvantaged, taking advantage of...
Paraguay
2011 - Universidad Nacional de Asunción
Note/document d'orientation
From Subsistence to Smallholder Commercial Farming in Malawi: a Case of NASFAM Commercialisation Initiatives∗
A Case of NASFAM Commercialization Initiatives
This paper investigates the relationship between food security and commercialisation using data from a household survey in National Smallholder Farmer Association of Malawi (NASFAM) operated areas. NASFAM promotes commercialisation of agriculture by introducing the principle of farming as a business among its members who are largely smallholder subsistent farmers. The...
Malawi
2011 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Article de revue spécialisée
Plantas alimenticias, medicinales y biocidas de las comunidades de Muñani y Suatia, provincia de Lampa (Puno, Perú)
Las comunidades nativas están compuestas por grupos de familias que conservan un conocimiento ancestral de producción, así como, de medicina tradicional. La presente investigación científica es un estudio descriptivo en donde se identifican las plantas alimenticias, medicinales y biocidas en las comunidades nativas de Muñani y Suatia de la provincia...
Peru
2011 - Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM)
Fiche d'information
Bolivia Food Security Country Brief
In recent months wheat prices in La Paz stabilized, but remain at high levels and nearly double the international prices. The highest increase was recorded for yellow maize in Santa Cruz. Different agencies report a worrisome situation of food security and hunger with a high prevalence of undernourishment. Heavy rains...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue
Project - Leader valorises local food products: Pioneering Portuguese project proves the development potential of social media
Portugal’s ‘PROVE’ project (PROmover e VEnder – which translates to ‘Promote and Sell’) stems from a bottom-up initiative involving eight of the country’s mainland LAGs. PROVE has been busy connecting local producers in these LAG territories within a joint marketing scheme for fresh locally-sourced fruit and vegetables. The project is...
Portugal
2011
Article de revue spécialisée
Agricultura familiar en el agro argentino
Una contribución al debate sobre el futuro del campesinado
El debate académico sobre la agricultura familiar en Argentina, se ha concentrado casi exclusivamente en la región pampeana y tiene como preocupación central los cambios y dinámicas que ha experimentado la explotación familiar en el marco de los procesos de transformación agraria. La información censal indica para la región pampeana...
Argentina
2011 - Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinoamericanos
Ouvrage
How can African agriculture adapt to climate change?
Insights from Ethiopia and South Africa
During the coming decades, global change will impact food and water security in significant but highly uncertain ways. There are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the consequences, particularly from climate change. In Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture—the mainstay of rural livelihoods—is particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts...
Ethiopia - South Africa
2011 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Article de revue spécialisée
Contribución de la avicultura campesina en la disponibilidad alimentaria de familias indígenas del sureste mexicano
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la contribución de la avicultura campesina en la disponibilidad alimentaría de las familias indígenas del municipio de Santo Domingo Tepuxtepec Mixe, Oaxaca, México. Se utilizó el estudio de caso, se consideraron variables relacionadas con la tecnología de producción tradicional, rendimiento productivo, objetivos de...
Mexico
2011 - Universidad de Guanajuato
Projet
National Network of Educational Farms
The National Network of Educational Farms is coordinated by the Agricultural Advisory Headquarters. Voivodeship Agricultural Advisory Centres have also been very much involved in the provision of training, advisory services and in spreading the idea of teaching farms in the regions. On 28-29 November 2013 there was organised the 1st...
Poland
2011
Ouvrage
Innovación agroecológica, adaptión e mitigación del cambio climático
Este libro muestra cómo diferentes actores del sistema cubano de innovación formal e informal responden al desafío que presenta la crisis del sistema alimentario mundial. Desde una visión concertada, presenta los resultados del proyecto ""Desarrollo de sistemas descentralizados y participativos de garantías ambientales en Cuba"".
El texto propone un acercamiento al...
Cuba
2011 - Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agrícolas (INCA)
Rapport
Dairy development in Argentina
Over the last five decades the global dairy sector has seen substantive changes with major intensification, scaling-up and efficiency of production driven by demand from a growing human population and disposal incomes. This growth was achievable through the developments in animal breeding, nutrition, feed efficiency, animal health, housing and automation...
Argentina
2011
Article
Is farming enough in mountain areas? Farm diversification in the Pyrenees
The continuity of farming in mountain areas in Europe is at severe risk and its future faces manifold uncertainties. Mountain farms are immersed in a long-term process of reorganization. Farm diversification plays a prominent role in this process of adjustment and reallocation. However, little work has been done explicitly on...
France - Spain
2011
Document technique
Argentina. Ingresos, gastos y niveles de vida de los hogares rurales
Un análisis a partir de las Encuestas de Niveles de Vida y Producción
La Subsecretaría de Agricultura Familiar hace conocer, a través de este documento, información reciente y de utilidad para aquellos interesados en la temática agraria y rural de nuestro país y quienes intervienen en la formulación y ejecución de políticas públicas. Se aborda en este trabajo la problemática del ingreso y...
Argentina
2011 - Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca de la Nación
Document technique
Fishing with beach seines
This document provides a global overview of beach seine fisheries and identifies key issues relevant for the responsible use of beach seines and the sustainable livelihoods of beach seine fishers. It also gives guidelines for fisheries managers and other stakeholders on how best to address the issues of management processes...
Benin - Gambia - Ghana - India - Kenya - Mozambique - Peru - Sri Lanka - Togo
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
L'agriculture familiale peut-elle nourrir le Sénégal?
Ce film court présente d'une façon didactique et concrète les contraintes et difficultés des exploitations agricoles familiales au Sénégal (accès à la terre, aux intrants, à l'eau et au crédit), en insistant sur les différents types d'exploitations et sur les revendications des organisations paysannes. Les cartes et données chiffrées permettent...
Senegal
2011
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