From the beginning, the project determined the need for and importance of conducting an impact evaluation to determine the project’s true achievements and impact once the intervention was completed. The impact evaluation, in fact, formed part of the Project Monitoring & Evaluation System. In keeping with that idea, it is...

Le conseil à l’exploitation agricole familiale (CEF) est souvent considéré comme un successeur prometteur en Afrique de l’Ouest du Système formation et visites (SFV) qui a été depuis les années 1980 le principal système de vulgarisation. Cet article présente une analyse comparative des CEF et SFV en s’appuyant sur l’expérience...

En el texto que sigue se presenta un balance de la situación de las mujeres rurales en América Latina con especial atención a los cambios y persistencias. El documento fue elaborado a partir de investigaciones realizadas en Perú y América Latina y se han revisado balances y estudios de ONG...

Zimbabwe’s economy is starting to turn around after almost a decade of recession characterized by macroeconomic and political challenges. During this time, the near collapse of formal marketing channels, as well as shortages and high prices of key agricultural inputs (fertilizers, seeds, crops and chemicals), resulted in steep drops in...

In the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) region organic agriculture could play a catalyst role in green economy transformation by re-vitalizing the farm and food sector and creating employment that provides better returns on per unit of labor input all along the value chain. It could increase income...

Fishing for the Future is a short film documentary elaborating one of components of the FAO European Union Food Facility Project activities in Cambodia. The film captures own-family-fish-pond culture which the project has been supported through provision of fingerlings, prawn larvae, lime and training to Cambodian farmers. The film also...

Organic agriculture has gained a significant foothold in Slovakia in recent years. ‘Some 7.05 % of total agricultural land is managed organically – 136 688 ha – with 22 613 ha in conversion,’ says Ms Lehocká. Ms Lehocká has coordinated a number of national projects to develop organic farming in Slovakia, and has...

The rural tourism generates a set of human relations resulting from the visit of tourists to rural communities, to enjoy the environment, natural, cultural and productive values. In this context, tourism is seen as a natural way for the development of rural areas, especially the most disadvantaged, taking advantage of...

This paper investigates the relationship between food security and commercialisation using data from a household survey in National Smallholder Farmer Association of Malawi (NASFAM) operated areas. NASFAM promotes commercialisation of agriculture by introducing the principle of farming as a business among its members who are largely smallholder subsistent farmers. The...

Las comunidades nativas están compuestas por grupos de familias que conservan un conocimiento ancestral de producción, así como, de medicina tradicional.  La presente investigación científica es un estudio descriptivo en donde se identifican las plantas alimenticias, medicinales y biocidas en las comunidades nativas de Muñani y Suatia de la provincia...

In recent months wheat prices in La Paz stabilized, but remain at high levels and nearly double the international prices. The highest increase was recorded for yellow maize in Santa Cruz. Different agencies report a worrisome situation of food security and hunger with a high prevalence of undernourishment. Heavy rains...

Portugal’s ‘PROVE’ project (PROmover e VEnder – which translates to ‘Promote and Sell’) stems from a bottom-up initiative involving eight of the country’s mainland LAGs. PROVE has been busy connecting local producers in these LAG territories within a joint marketing scheme for fresh locally-sourced fruit and vegetables. The project is...

El debate académico sobre la agricultura familiar en Argentina, se ha concentrado casi exclusivamente en la región pampeana y tiene como preocupación central los cambios y dinámicas que ha experimentado la explotación familiar en el marco de los procesos de transformación agraria. La información censal indica para la región pampeana...

During the coming decades, global change will impact food and water security in significant but highly uncertain ways. There are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the consequences, particularly from climate change. In Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture—the mainstay of rural livelihoods—is particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts...

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la contribución de la avicultura campesina en la disponibilidad alimentaría de las familias indígenas del municipio de Santo Domingo Tepuxtepec Mixe, Oaxaca, México. Se utilizó el estudio de caso, se consideraron variables relacionadas con la tecnología de producción tradicional, rendimiento productivo, objetivos de...

The National Network of Educational Farms is coordinated by the Agricultural Advisory Headquarters. Voivodeship Agricultural Advisory Centres have also been very much involved in the provision of training, advisory services and in spreading the idea of teaching farms in the regions. On 28-29 November 2013 there was organised the 1st...

Este libro muestra cómo diferentes actores del sistema cubano de innovación formal e informal responden al desafío que presenta la crisis del sistema alimentario mundial. Desde una visión concertada, presenta los resultados del proyecto ""Desarrollo de sistemas descentralizados y participativos de garantías ambientales en Cuba"". El texto propone un acercamiento al...

Over the last five decades the global dairy sector has seen substantive changes with major intensification, scaling-up and efficiency of production driven by demand from a growing human population and disposal incomes. This growth was achievable through the developments in animal breeding, nutrition, feed efficiency, animal health, housing and automation...

The continuity of farming in mountain areas in Europe is at severe risk and its future faces manifold uncertainties. Mountain farms are immersed in a long-term process of reorganization. Farm diversification plays a prominent role in this process of adjustment and reallocation. However, little work has been done explicitly on...

La Subsecretaría de Agricultura Familiar hace conocer, a través de este documento, información reciente y de utilidad para aquellos interesados en la temática agraria y rural de nuestro país y quienes intervienen en la formulación y ejecución de políticas públicas. Se aborda en este trabajo la problemática del ingreso y...