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Article de revue spécialisée
Social theory, family farming and pluriactivity
This paper aims at presenting an analytical reference that allows understanding pluriactivity as a strategy for social and economic reproduction for rural families. In the introduction, we present the context in which the study of family farming and pluriactivity emerges in Brazil. In the first section, we discuss the origin...
Brazil
2003 - Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais (ANPOCS)
Rapport
Towards a GIS-based analysis of mountain environments and populations
This report presents the results of work in progress. It applies GIS techniques and newly available geo-referenced data to understand conditions underlying poverty and hunger in the world, with special reference to mountain environments and populations. Following the system developed by the United Nations Environment Programme – World Conservation Monitoring...
2003
Rapport
FAO - Nutrition Country Profiles - The Bahamas
The objective of the Nutrition Country Profiles (NCP) is to provide concise analytical summaries describing the food and nutrition situation in individual countries with background statistics on food-related factors. The profiles present consistent and comparable statistics in a standard format. This pre-defined format combines a set of graphics, tables and...
Bahamas
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
FAO - Nutrition Country Profiles - Barbados
The objective of the Nutrition Country Profiles (NCP) is to provide concise analytical summaries describing the food and nutrition situation in individual countries with background statistics on food-related factors. The profiles present consistent and comparable statistics in a standard format. This pre-defined format combines a set of graphics, tables and...
Barbados
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Revue spécialisée
Agriculture de montagne : la lutte pour la survie
L’agriculture dans les Alpes peut assurer son avenir par la production et la commercialisation régionale de produits de qualité. La production de spécialités – viande, lait et légumes bio, etc. - permet d’exploiter des niches commerciales. Il convient pour ce faire de privilégier et de favoriser une exploitation des surfaces...
France
2003 - Commission Internationale pour la Protection des Alpes
Rapport
Potential of contract farming as a mechanism for the commercialisation of smallholder agriculture
The Zimbabwe case study
Contract farming, has in one form or another, been practiced since time immemorial and is a common feature of commercializing agriculture in developing countries as well as in developed countries. Its pre-eminence in developing countries is attributed to a response in the trend towards coordination of agricultural production and processing...
Zimbabwe
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Jordan: Agricultural Resources Management Project
Mid-term evaluation
The rationale for ARMP is based on supporting rural households in the two Governorates of Karak and Tefila to intensify their agricultural practices by enhancing natural resource management in the designated project areas. This is to be achieved by arresting soil degradation and restoring soil fertility through the sustainable use...
2003
Article de revue spécialisée
Agricultural mechanization for small farmers, a case study in Cunco, IX Region of Chile.
A project offering mechanization services to small farmers has been in progress since 1992 in the district of Cunco, located in the foothills of the Andes in the IX Region of Chile. This project is administered by an non-governmental organization and is financed through international cooperation. A technical evaluation of...
Chile
2002 - Universidad Católica de Temuco
Article de revue spécialisée
Factors provoking friction and internal breakdown in rural agricultural enterprises
The factors that strengthen organizations are analyzed, by studying the organizational process and the perceptions of the members, in order to determine the factors that initiate friction and breakdown within an enterprise. Factors that initiated friction were found to be the lack of communicational feedback between executives and workers, the...
Chile
2002 - Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA )
Document de conférence
Risk and De-Collectivisation: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Risk and De-Collectivisation: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Bezemer, D. J. (2002), Proceedings of 2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain
The paper analyses the behavior of family farms socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment in the Czech Republic.
http://purl.umn.edu/24888
Czechia
2002
Rapport
Reinvesting in African small-holder agriculture
The role of tree crops in sustainable farming systems
This Policy and Strategy Paper contributes to an on-going policy debate-within the Bank but also with its client governments-about the role of tree crops in various production systems, and as key commodities in the trade portfolio of various African nations. It attempts to answer the following questions: a) What is...
2002 - World Bank
Article
Farm Transformation and Restructuring in Czech Agriculture – Ten Years After
Farm Transformation and Restructuring in Czech Agriculture – Ten Years After
Doucha, T., Divila, E., Trávníček, Z., (2002) 13th International Farm Management Congress, July 7-12, 2002, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
The development of the farms structure in the Czech Republic can be found for example in the article written by Doucha, Divila...
Czechia
2002
Document technique
Cold water fisheries in the trans-Himalayan countries
The Trans-Himalayan region encompasses a number of countries situated in the midland and highland areas of the Himalayas, Karakoram, and in a broad sense also in Hindu Kush and Pamir. The mountains are characterized by a very low level of human development, with full exploitation or overexploitation of the natural...
Bhutan - China - India - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Myanmar - Nepal - Pakistan
2002
Article de revue
Agricultura orgánica versus agricultura industrial. Su relación con la diversificación productiva y la seguridad alimentaria
El trabajo analiza cómo se vinculan las agriculturas orgánica e industrial con la diversificación productiva y la seguridad alimentaria. A partir de un estudio de caso, se aborda el problema en relación a dos grupos de campesinos del NE de Argentina (uno de ellos vinculado con la producción orgánica de...
Argentina
2002 - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Manuel
Referencial metodológico para la aplicación del diagnóstico rural participativo
Un paradigma alternativo útil en la investigación agrícola. Caso: Productores de parchita (Passiflora edulis. f. sp. flavicarpa), municipio Obispos, estado Barinas
El diagnóstico rural participativo (DRP) es visto en este trabajo como un paradigma alternativo útil en la investigación agrícola. El mismo se preparó a partir de un conjunto de propuestas metodológicas de investigadores, los cuales han contribuido a fomentar la participación de productores y productoras agrícolas en todo lo que...
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2002 - Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrícolas Venezuela (INIA)
Article de revue
The design of a rural sustainable development program
Study case: Caritupe, Municipality of Petit, State of Falcón–Venezuela
The design of a rural sustainable development program by a multi-disciplinary team from the Division of Forestry, Geographical, Farming-Animal and Environmental Services and Projects (UFORGA), attached to the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Science of the University of Los Andes, is presented in this essay. The program was created with...
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2002 - Universidad de los Andes (ULA)
Article de revue spécialisée
Opportunities and Constrains for Conservation Agriculture in Africa
This journal article from Leisa Magazine illustrates examples of Conservation Agriculture in Africa. Considerable efforts have been made in Africa to try to arrest the tendency towards soil degradation, loss of fertility and frequently declining yields. These have focused on better ways to conserve soil moisture, to prevent soil loss,...
2002 - LEISA Magazine on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture
Rapport
Organic agriculture, environment and food security
Organic agriculture is defined as an environmentally and socially sensitive food supply system. This publication examines its many facets, looking at the contribution of organic agriculture to ecological health, international markets and local food security. It builds on empirical experiences throughout the world and analyses the prospects for a wider...
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Document de travail
Technology transfer for agriculture growth in Africa
This paper searches for the most effective technology for agricultural growth in Africa on the basis of FAO data available during the last forty years. The paper discusses the challenges for agricultural growth and evaluates the development assistance that was made by donors to the agricultural sector in Africa in...
2002 - African Development Bank
Article
Subsistence Farming in Bulgaria
Between Tradition and the Market
Present-day Central and Eastern European agriculture is characterized by a high incidence of small-scale farmers who are not producing for the market. This is partly the result of land reform procedures practiced in these countries. Post-communist land reforms predominantly restituted land to pre-communist owners, resulting in an extremely fragmented ownership...
Bulgaria
2002
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