The first objective was to develop a comprehensive picture of each project in terms of its membership, its activities and its internal organisation. The second was to situate the projects within their wider context, which included the local community, local government (represented by officials and councillors of local and district...

A legislação brasileira prevê três diferentes maneiras de garantir a qualidade orgânica dos seus produtos: a Certificação, os Sistemas Participativos de Garantia e o Controle Social para a Venda Direta sem Certificação. Os chamados Sistemas Participativos de Garantia, junto com a Certificação, compõem o Sistema Brasileiro de Avaliação da Conformidade...

La visualización mediática de algunos aspectos de la crisis del modelo agroalimentario mundial, catapulta al debate público y a las agendas políticas la urgencia de que los Estados se posicionen respecto a “cómo” asegurar la realización y defensa del derecho humano a la alimentación. Un debate de alcance planetario, al...

Para el antropólogo y físico australiano radicado en el Perú, John Earls, la comunidad campesina andina es dueña de una estructura organizativa que le permite adaptarse y enfrentar el cambio climático global, un escenario caracterizado por su impredictibilidad y la frecuencia de eventos extremos. Esta fortaleza, sin embargo, no es...

Afirma que una estrategia de conservación efectiva de cultivos "milenarios", como las papas nativas, implica mantener las estructuras sociales y conocimientos ancestrales de las poblaciones rurales.

A lo largo de sus primeros cien números, La Revista Agraria ha intentado mostrar la importancia de la pequeña agricultura en el país y la necesidad de que sea apoyada. En el Perú, la tarea implica librar una batalla cuesta arriba, pues los gobiernos y, por extensión la clase política,...

El universo rural es mucho más que el sector agropecuario; por tanto, el desarrollo rural excede el desarrollo agrario. Pensar y actuar en consonancia con las múltiples dimensiones del mundo rural implica adoptar una concepción territorial, antes que sectorial.

There has been a proliferation of private sector initiatives to set standards and certification programmes for foods since the early 1990s, especially in industrialized countries. A major driving force behind these initiatives has been changing consumer preferences. Rising purchasing power, education level, urbanization and evolving lifestyles combined with the decline...

Soil type and the effect of management on the condition of the soil are important determinants of the productive performance and quality of pastures, and have profound effects on long-term profits. Land managers need tools that are reliable, quick and easy to use in order to help them assess the...

Wheat, grown on more than 200 million hectares of land worldwide, is a source of food and livelihoods for over one billion people in developing countries. This important commodity has been greatly affected by recent soaring food prices. Wheat prices have doubled in the last year, largely as a result...

In this brief, Conservation Agriculture is explained, including the role the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is undertaking in promoting Conservation Agriculture, especially in developing and emerging economies. 

La bioseguridad, en producción animal, corresponde a aquellas acciones enfocadas a prevenir el ingreso y diseminación de las enfermedades en un plantel. Este estudio tiene por objetivo medir el actual nivel de bioseguridad, de los pequeños productores ovinos de las Regiones VI, VII y VIII. Se definieron 105 Especificaciones Técnicas...

Article sur une table ronde au Cameroun qui a rassemblé une quarantaine d’acteurs autour de la question « Place et rôle du conseil agricole dans les politiques agricoles ». L’occasion de débats animés et ouverts, où ont été abordés de multiples sujets comme, entre autres, celui de la définition, du rôle,...

This thesis has as theme the problematization of the interfaces, relations and determinations that may effect the transformations in household agriculture and, in to which extent that process may cause and/or influence rural development dynamics and the formation of household agriculture styles. The regions and the municipalities which represent them,...

This thesis aims to analyze the trajectories of the young emerged from the Centro de Desenvolvimento do Jovem Rural (CEDEJOR) and its work in Vale do Rio Pardo/RS. Established in three States southern of Brazil, [the Centro de  Desenvolvimento  do  Jovem Rural (CEDEJOR)], through its alternate pedagogy and Entrepreneurship, offers...

SEEAG's Mission is to educate children about the farm sources of their food from  field-to-table while connecting them to the farmland in their own backyard.

This paper draws on key recent IFAD documents, evaluations, studies and reviews andalso on workshop findings and discussions related to the Near East and North Africa(NENA) region. The IFAD documents and evaluations consulted are: (a) IFAD StrategicFramework 2007-2010; (b) the 2006 Near East and North Africa Division (PN)self-evaluation report on...

Wolves have been coming back for several years in the southern French Alps. In two valleys of the Mercantour national park, they have been present for 15 years. Sheep farmers have to adapt their farming systems to this presence. We carried out surveys among the sheep farmers i) to describe...

The paper will briefly explain the features of conservation agriculture which lead to these changes and then report in more detail experiences which have been observed in the long term after the introduction of conservation agriculture on the livelihood of farmers, labour requirements, mechanization and equipment use.

In developing the Scientific Conceptual Framework for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, FAO seeks to accomplish the challenging task of integrating perspectives from those sciences that are most directly concerned with conservation and development: ecology, agronomy and forestry, economics, and anthropology. The goal is to scientifically conceptualise...