A key emerging strand in the development of smallholder agriculture in South Africa is the effort to integrate smallholders into corporate food retail value chains. In this, the private sector and government have a common agenda, which is to build a commercial smallholder class that does not require ongoing financial...

Ankole Longhorn cattle can survive in extremely harsh, dry conditions such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa – which is becoming drier and hotter. In a context where herders are strongly encouraged to keep exotic and hybrid cattle, the innovative LIFE approach led Ugandan herders to revalue the Longhorns for their...

 En Afrique de l'Ouest et au Bénin en particulier, la production traditionnelle de l'igname est basée sur les systèmes itinérants de défriche sur brûlis des jachères naturelles causant la déforestation, la dégradation et la baisse de la productivité des sols. Dans le but de contribuer à la sédentarisation de la...

Entrevista com Adair Pozzebon, Secretário Executivo da Associação Gaucha Pro Escola Famílias Agrícolas, sobre Sucessão nas propriedades rurais. A sucessão na agricultura familiar está em risco, como  está em risco o modelo de agricultura que temos. Os jovens não querem continuar no campo, resultado do projeto de modernização da agricultura, que...

La presente guía ofrece información sobre veintidós tecnologías y opciones para adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario. Describe qué deberían tomar en cuenta los responsables de políticas, planificadores del desarrollo, expertos y otros actores de los diversos países al momento de determinar el camino que seguirá el desarrollo...

A mediados de 2011, el Cepes elaboró un estudio acerca de la agricultura familiar en el Perú, cuando sólo se contaba con información censal de 1994, más una fuente de información alternativa: la  Enaho  2009  (anual).  El  problema  era saber qué tan preciso sería hacer un análisis a partir dela...

Entrevista com Camila Hassan, extensionista de bem estar social da Emater (Empresa Brasileira de Assistência Técnica). As mulheres no campo - a união que pode contribuir para sua permanência no campo. Elo das associações das comunidades rurais com as organizações que estão nas cidades. Tratamos de segurança alimentar, geração de renda, saúde no...

El presente documento presenta una aproximación de la problemática del agua para consumo humano a nivel comunitario en el Ecuador, como también aporta con un conjunto de propuestas de política pública para el mejoramiento de los sistemas de agua, saneamiento y uso sostenible de los ecosistemas, de las fuentes de...

The project engaged with key stakeholders through interviews and discussion groups to explore a range of identified thematic issues, along with economic modeling to explore impacts of alternative measures and CAP reform on the agricultural economy of Malta. The aim was to develop a strategy to enable Malta to make...

The new model of agricultural policy in Europe, applied through the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs), has been considered most appropriate for the case of Greece, given the structural problems of this country’s farm sector (including the high proportion of mountainous, less favored areas in its territory) and the need for...

Entrevista com Cleimary Zotti, do Departamento de Estudos Socioeconômcos Rruais (DESER), organização não governamental. O DESER acompanha a realidade do agricultrua familiar, em especial do produtor de tabaco e sabe que é preciso gerar informações reais. É possível ter boa renda com a produção do tabaco, mas é preciso levar em conta...

El proyecto busca suplir algunas de las necesidades mediante la instalación de huertos comunales con fitotoldos para la producción de hortalizas de zonas bajas (costa, sierra y selva), en zonas alto andinas a más de 3,500 msnm. 

This document provides lessons learned (good and bad) from three years of RFLP field activities on mainstreaming gender across the six collaborating RFLP countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam

Un desafío clave para los científicos tanto sociales como biológicos es definir un marco conceptual y metodológico para poder descifrar los principios y mecanismos claves que explican la resiliencia de los sistemas diversificados, de manera de que estos puedan ser transmitidos a otros agricultores en cada región para que mejoren...

This working paper summarizes the findings of the socioeconomic component of the research project Improved livelihoods of small-scale farmers in Iraq through integrated pest management and use of organic fertilizer, that was managed by ICARDA and funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Ministry of Agriculture...

Existe un amplio consenso en cuanto a que el capital humano es un factor relevante en el desempeño productivo de los pequeños productores agrícolas, el cual considera tanto las habilidades innatas como también aquellas que son adquiridas. La extensión agrícola cumple un rol fundamental en la entrega de los insumos...

This essay aims at analyzing the specificity of marketing systems which include Family Farming. We study the Fair in Villa Rio Hondo (Santiago del Estero, Argentina) in order to identify the actors, their organization and their potential. On the one hand, the article attempts to explain certain processes aimed at...

The countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met in the First Senior Officials Meeting on Family Farming, on 5th and 6th November 2013, in Brasilia.

The Federations of Free Farmers (FFF) is currently one of the largest and most effective non-governmental organizations of rural workers in the Philippines. It was organized in 1953 by a group of Catholic laymen soon after the break-up of the Communist-led revolutionary movement in the country during the term of...

Contrary to a slight improvement in 2011, the gross domestic product experienced a year-on-year decline in 2012, namely by 1.2% at constant prices. The situation even worsened in the course of the year and the drop in GDP in the Czech Republic was more profound than both in the EU...