For this reason reproducible, reliable and feasible methods need to be developed to measure and demonstrate carbon changes in agricultural soils. The present manual is based on long term practical field work. The author tried to adjust the IPCC methods for field scale and developing such methods for carbon monitoring...

La presente caja de herramientas está diseñada para ayudar a los profesionales de la seguridad alimentaria a desarrollar una estratégica de comunicación, y a comunicarse más eficazmente con los grupos que son el blanco de sus esfuerzos. Secciones específicas de la caja de herramientas enfocan a los formuladores de políticas...

The present publication is an account of the technological developments in no-tillage systems that took place in southern Brazil from the viewpoint of the principal actors in this process. Special emphasis is given to the technological development of mechanization of conservation agriculture as it is in this area that the...

The rural world has undergone many transformations due to the processes of modernization and globalization. Little is known about rural families, and knowledge about urban families is usually transferred to rural families, as if the reality was the same for both. This study sought to understand. The practices in the...

Formas de reproducción de micorrizas y aplicacion en cultivos.

The debate on whether climate change will impact on peoples’ livelihoods and, hence, the need to act is essentially over and has instead shifted to the development of strategies needed by different regions and countries to adapt to climate change effects. However, there is still scanty information necessary to ably...

Los trabajos que se presentan a continuación constituyen una nueva colaboración entre agencias de Naciones Unidas en este tema. Parte de este camino de colaboración ha sido el Grupo de Trabajo conjunto FAO/OIT, que ya en 2008 señaló: “El logro de condiciones más justas de empleo signifi ca la provisión...

Este documento conceptualiza los saberes locales, establece una metodología para su estudio y presenta hallazgos, percepciones y prácticas de reducción de riesgo, adaptación al cambio climático y medios de vida. 

The Strategy for transforming and strengthening agricultural research and innovation systems in the CAC provides an integrated approach based on (i) need for an integrated regional agricultural policies aimed at achieving the above goals; (ii) the opportunities for bigger impact by strengthening cooperation between national AR4D institutions and multi‐ stakeholder...

The profound socio-productive transformations, specifically those associated with the impact of global economic policies, influence the so-called rural social movements. This article aims to understand the changes that these rural social-movements have experienced, with a special emphasis on the historical transit of the rural collective action in this new scenario....

The 5000 odd women who free-dive to collect seaweed in the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park off the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu find themselves struggling for their livelihoods now that their activities have been greatly curtailed. The Gulf of Mannar was declared a marine national park in...

This article describes the patterns of occupational mobility of hake fishermen through a quantitative analysis of their occupational aspirations and expectations. The methodology considers the use of secondary data collected through a survey administered to 302 fishermen applied in inlets of the Bio Bio Region in Chile. The results indicate...

Esta publicación de Agroeco presenta la posición de IFOAM (Federación Internacional de Movimientos de Agricultura Orgánica) en relación al papel esencial de los campesinos a diferentes niveles, describe su situación socio-económica, y propone estrategias dirigidas a intensificar la investigación científica y al establecimiento de políticas públicas nacionales e internacionales orientadas a...

El Manual promueve la implementación de Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas y Pecuarias (BPA-BPP) como una herramienta integral de desarrollo para la pequeña producción porcina. A partir del conocimiento disponible, se brindan recomendaciones que permiten mejorar la eficiencia de los niveles de producción respetando el medio ambiente, garantizar la calidad e inocuidad...

Continued population growth, urbanization and rising incomes are likely to continue to put pressure on food demand. International prices for most agricultural commodities are set to remain at 2010 levels or higher, at least for the next decade (OECD-FAO, 2010). Small-scale producers in many developing countries were not able to...

This article presents the lessons learned and a critical analysis of a community intervention on seventeen urban and rural towns after the earthquake of August 15th, 2007 in the province of Chincha, Peru. The critical review proposed emphasizes the analysis of participation and community empowerment. The community intervention strengthened the...

Milking cows on a working dairy farm in Ireland  - a Family Farm

Although there are well-established concerns about climate change effects in northern Ethiopia, there is little quantitative information concerning how serious these effects are to small holder farming. Moreover, studies on farm level adaptations that farmers make to minimise the potential impacts of climate change are lacking. Both quantitative and qualitative...

The project beneficiary is a female farmer who has been growing and selling vegetables in Malta. She applied for EU funding to convert to organic farming. She had been considering this conversion for some time and the funding opportunity allowed her to put her ideas into practice. The objective of the...

Building on FAO’s work on good practices in agriculture and forestry, the BEFSCI project (see box below) has compiled a set of good environmental practices that can be implemented by bioenergy feedstock producers in order to minimize the risk of negative environmental impacts from their operations, and to ensure that...