This report is based on a synthesis of findings from various publications, ZEDS surveys and numerous Government publications. It is supported by a wide spreading background study report on Zimbabwe's prospects for employment and agricultural development produced with two other colleagues from ZIDS.  In four preliminary sections the report first traces...

Este Documento se basa en unas notas ya antiguas que fueron preparadas para la Mesa Redonda sobre “Participación campesina en el desarrollo rural” que organizó la FAO/RLAC en Quito en Octubre de 1988, las cuales fueron casi completamente reformadas y puestas al día en ocasión de preparar el BASE/IS, una...

This is the report of the International Conference of Bangkok - Thailand - 22/27 January 1990. In its search for cooperation and solidarity, the Collective joint hands with fishworkers' organizations and unions. Its characteristic feature lays in its close cooperation between scientists and social workers on the one hand and...

This study concentrates on the constraints in the fisheries management schemes. It examines the history and politics of fisheries management in five countries. It attempts to show how the specific management measures came into being what the techno-ecological and socio-political factors were that influenced the conceptualization and implementation of these...

Fish plays an important role in securing nutritional requirements of coastal populations. It is also a source of export markets in the developing countries. However this tension manifests in the expansion of industrial fisheries sector and devising policies that will sustain livelihoods of artisanal fishers. The international symposium on marine...

Trois scientifiques africains du Ghana, du Sénégal et du Togo analysent et présentent dans ce dossier l'histoire, l'évolution, les réussites et les échecs des efforts engagés pour le développement de la pêche artisanale ou de la pisciculture dans leur pays. Ces contributions s'inscrivaient dans le cadre de deux séminaires internationaux...

L'Agence norvégienne de développement (NORAD) a de plus invité 15 délégués du Tiers Monde à visiter les pêches et les pêcheurs norvégiens à l'issue du Symposium. Dans la même allocution d'ouverture, Pierre Gillet remerciait aussi l'Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI), Pain pour le Monde (Allemagne), la Fondation pour le...

Nous avons vu que tous les auteurs qui ont cherché à interpréter le mouvement général de modernisation de l’agriculture s’accordent sur l’idée selon laquelle l’entrée, nécessaire et inévitable, de l’agriculture dans la modernité ne se réalise qu’à partir des années 1960. C’est le moment où une nouvelle élite paysanne, composée...

Pierre Alphandéry, Pierre Bitoun et Yves Dupont publient en 1989 Les Champs du départ, une France rurale sans paysans ? aux éditions de La Découverte. Respectivement sociologues et historien, les trois chercheurs de l’INRA analysent de l’intérieur les grands bouleversements opérés par la politique agricole de l’aprèsguerre et s’appliquent à...

In Lisbon, Portugal, in June 1989, about one hundred scientists, fishermen and organization representatives from 25 different countries met at a symposium to develop their thinking on these questions. This dossier, has some papers by European speakers at this inter-national meeting organised by ICSF.

This short film explores the role of women fishworkers in selected regions of India. It looks at some of the problems they face in their daily work and the initiatives they have taken to deal with them. Many of these issues are highlighted in an interview with a woman fish...

This is the proceedings of the Workshop on Issues in Fisheries Development organized by the SIFFS (South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies) and the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, India, from 20-25 November, 1986. On the 25th November 1986 the formation of ICSF at Trivandrum, India was made possible....

Rimisp – Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural, es una organización regional sin fines de lucro, que desde 1986 realiza investigación aplicada para apoyar procesos de cambio institucional, transformación productiva y fortalecimiento de las capacidades de actores y grupos sociales en las sociedades rurales latinoamericanas. La misión de Rimisp es impulsar...

An Antiguan farmer put it this way: “Just giving a man a piece of land and not providing other facilities like water... I think farmers will still find themselves in a lot of trouble.” These words summarize some recent research findings on Caribbean land tenure. The researchers to whom the farmer’s...

The International Center for Agricultural Research for the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is located in Syria. Its headquarters are in Tel Hadya, a 948 ha farm 30 km south of Aleppo. ICARDA was founded in 1977 and had its administrative headquarters in Beirut until all offices were moved to Tel Hadya...

This report documents the international conference of fishworkers and their supporters that took place in Rome, Italy from July 4-8, 1984. The conferences was an historical event, fishworkers the main actors of fisheries development have been excluded from discussions and decision making, both at broad policy level and concrete project...

The topic of land use planning has featured on a number of occasions in this series of Natural Resource Economics Discussion Papers. Within the wider topic of land use planning, the issue of rural smallholdings has received attention in Discussion Papers Nos. 3, 5 and 8. This ninth Discussion Paper...

In New Zealand, as in other industrialized western countries, important changes in community values are taking place. There is increasing interest in the quality of life. The expansion of cities which took place post World War II often resulted in a deterioration of urban living conditions. As people became dissatisfied...

La revista tiene como tema general todos los aspectos que se tejen alrededor del desarrollo rural en el contexto colombiano e iberoamericano. Enfoca sus diferentes artículos en temas relacionados con políticas agrícolas, economía agraria, problemas rurales, gestión ambiental, innovación y cambio tecnológico y, en general, todos los aspectos que se...

In the last three decennia there has been a sizable shift of labour out of Brazilian agriculture in response to the higher returns to be gained in non-farm employrnent . The shift has not been rapid enough to equalize the income differences between the farm and non-farm sectors. Nonetheless, it...