Escobar’s (2012) study takes this observation as its guiding premise. He analyzes two particularly salient circumstances which underscore the inherently dynamic and multi-dimensional interface of a given CCT.

The pressure on biodiversity continues to increase. Habitat loss and degradation from agriculture and infrastructure development, overexploitation, pollution and invasive alien species remain the predominant threats. Climate change is increasing in importance and will have profound impacts, particularly in combination with other threats. Greater integration of policies and institutional responses,...

The sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing exponentially and it has to fulfill its food and nutrition requirement. An attractive strategy for increasing productivity and labour utilization per unit area of available land is to intensify land use. Intercropping is advanced as one of the integrated soil fertility management practices consisting...

La productividad de los bovinos en el trópico está determinada por la cantidad y calidad de nutrientes aportados por las especies forrajeras existentes en las praderas; sin embargo, la mayor parte de estas especies presenta una baja eficiencia productiva, con evidentes signos de degradación del suelo, generalmente relacionada con el...

Munira Shemsudin, Gender & HIV/AIDS Programme Officer for Self Help Africa in Ethiopia, talks about the power of investing in women farmers.

El plátano en Colombia sirve como sustento de familias campesinas que lo siembran en asocio con otros cultivos, el rendimiento de este varía de acuerdo con las condiciones de las zonas ecológicas y edáficas, la temperatura y el cultivar utilizado. El paquete tecnológico que acá se presenta está dirigido a...

La producción ganadera es una de las formas de uso de la tierra más frecuente teniendo Colombia el porcentaje más alto en área de pasturas en relación al total utilizado en actividades agropecuarias. En la región Caribe al igual que en el contexto nacional, la ganadería es el sistema de...

There is often a mismatch between the apparent benevolent intents and the practical manifestations of the large scale land deals. The empirical realities of the large-scale land deals call for critical scrutiny and interrogation of the underlying interests of the stakeholders involved to assess the extent to which they genuinely...

Agriculture operates within complex systems and is multifunctional in its nature. A multifunctional approach to implementing agricultural knowledge, science and technology (AKST) will enhance its impact on hunger and poverty, improving human nutrition and livelihoods in an equitable, environmentally, socially and economically sustainable manner. Multifunctionality recognizes the inescapable interconnectedness of...

The business is owned by a family which has been involved in cereal cultivation since 1996. Their income prior to the implementation of the project came exclusively from crop production and grants. The son of the family, who is an alumnus of the Agronomic Institute of Bucharest, had the idea...

Since the 'Green Revolution', agricultural methods in India have developed by leaps and bounds and the use of chemical fertilizers has been the catalyst in many a success stories. But the unbalanced & uncontrolled use of fertilizers is gradually polluting the soil and destroying the ground water resources.

This publication is a baseline assessment reviewing the current knowledge of land degradation inthe rangelands of Jordan - known as Badia - with a special focus on its causes. It includes a reviewof current legislation and on-going initiatives to combat land degradation, along with an analysis ofthe main constraints limiting...

Description du programme dont le but est d'augmenter et sécuriser les revenus des petites exploitations familiales agricoles dans différentes zones du Togo et du Bénin par la promotion d’Entreprises de Services et Organisations de Producteurs (ESOP) jouant un rôle de services à la production et d’interface pérenne entre des producteurs...

En el documento se abordan en forma matricial, dos tipos de acciones, con sus objetivos, metas e indicadores: 1) un primer grupo que son aquellas tareas que ya han sido incorporadas por las instituciones responsables en los respectivos presupuestos institucionales y en el Plan Sectorial de Desarrollo Agropecuario 2011-2014 y...

La Política Pública Nacional de Equidad de Género, reconoce el aporte que las mujeres hacen a la producción y reproducción de nuestra sociedad. Las mujeres como sujetos sociales contribuyen al desarrollo del país en todos los ámbitos, sin embargo, aún persisten diversas formas de discriminación que aún las afectan y...

This is Part 3 of a study, presented in three reports that detail the results of a poverty assessment and mapping project in North and Southern Sudan. The study’s objective was to produce a rural poverty analysis and poverty maps for North and Southern Sudan, and based on these findings,...

En este Tema Especial del Panorama Laboral 2012 se presentan algunos datos estadísticos sobre el empleo de las mujeres rurales en América Latina, así como evidencia cualitativa generada a partir de una serie de estudios de casos sectoriales llevados a cabo conjuntamente por la Organización de las Naciones para la...

Se determina la influencia de la migración de la zona de convergencia intertropical (ZCIT) y de El Niño oscilación del sur (ENOS) en la producción de café verde en Colombia durante el periodo de 1960 a 2007. Se dan a conocer las relaciones temporales entre la serie de producción de...

In the face of recurrent global food crises, institutions of the corporate food regime propose a new Green Revolution coupled with a continuation of neoliberal economic policies. Because these are causes of the crises to begin with, this approach can worsen rather than end hunger. Building a countermovement depends in...

This research will evaluate carcass quality and processing potential of goat meat produced by smallholder farmers in Malawi. The farmers will keep local Malawi goat and Norwegian goats under three management systems (intensive, extensive and semi-intensive). The carcasses from these goats will be analyzed for gross and chemical composition. They...