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وثيقة فنية
Current best practice farmers and their techniques
This technical report series captures and documents the work in progress of the Iraq Salinity Project, in its seven research themes, working at the regional, farm and irrigation system scales. Technical reports feed into the Iraq Salinity Assessment, a synthesis and solutions to solving the problem: Situation Analysis (Report 1);...
Iraq
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
مقالة
Assessing the Sustainability of Small Farmer Natural Resource Management Systems. A Critical Analysis of the MESMIS Program (1995-2010)
Sustainability assessment oriented to improve current systems and practices is urgently needed, particularly in the context of small farmer natural resource management systems (NRMS). Unfortunately, social-ecological systems (SES) theory, sustainability evaluation frameworks, and assessment methods are still foreign not only to farmers but to many researchers, students, NGOs, policy makers/operators,...
2012
تقرير
Report of the workshop on the social and economic aspects of fisheries in the RECOFI region
Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, 22–24 April 2012
The RECOFI Workshop on Social and Economic Aspects of Fisheries in the RECOFI region was held in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain from 22 to 24 April 2012, following the agreement at the sixth session of the Regional Commission for Fisheries held in Rome from 10 to 12 May 2011. The...
Bahrain - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Iraq - Kuwait - Oman - Qatar - Saudi Arabia - United Arab Emirates
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة
Researching the Future of Pastoralism in Central Asia’s Mountains
This paper synthesizes research findings on contemporary mountain pastoralism in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, based on a longer review characterizing mountain agropastoralism in Central Asia. The focus is here on the principal issues that have been emphasized over the past two decades in policy, programs, and projects regarding pastoralism in Central...
Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan
2012
جزء من كتاب
Características y evolución de la pobreza, la desigualdad y las políticas públicas en zonas rurales de América Latina
A fines de la década de 1980, en un estudio sobre la pobreza rural a nivel regional, la FAO advertía que la “crisis económica de años recientes ha intensificado los problemas relacionados con la pobreza de un gran número de personas en zonas urbanas y rurales” (…) “No solo ha...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
وثيقة عمل
The scaling up of agroecology: spreading the hope for food sovereignty and resiliency
The Green Revolution, the symbol of agricultural intensification not only failed to ensure safe and abundant food production for all people, but it was launched under the assumptions that abundant water and cheap energy to fuel modern agriculture would always be available and that climate would be stable and not...
2012 - Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA)
مقال صحفي
The rural and rurality in Latin America: discussion on conceptual categories
This article analyzes the conceptual trajectory of rural - rurality, proposing the discussion on the approach towards new rurality. The present dynamics of the labor market, of global agri-food chains, of demographic processes impacting on the rural family structure, and the configuration of urban networks in rural areas raises new...
2012 - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
دراسة حالة
Conservation Agriculture and sustainable crop intensification
A Zimbabwe case study
Agricultural productivity in Zimbabwe, like in many other countries in SSA has been declining over the years despite the numerous advancements made in agricultural technology development. Yield levels usually averaging below 1t ha-1 have resulted in persistent cereal deficits despite the large area put under production each year. Declining soil...
Zimbabwe
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقال صحفي
Social Cohesion And Environmental Management In A Rural Southeast Mexico
A central concept of the current agenda of public policies is sustainability. Achieving it requires actions favoring ecological balance that can counteract social uprooting which generates behaviors that do not consider environmental effects in the short / medium / long term. It is therefore important to incorporate social factors that...
Mexico
2012 - Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
التّعلّم الإلكتروني
RuralInvest - Preparing Effective Investment Project Proposals
This e-learning course explores key concepts present in the RuralInvest toolkit, such as the definition of what is an investment; why a participatory approach is important; the critical importance of sustainability and; the need to understand the priorities and capabilities of the beneficiaries.
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقال صحفي
Reversing agro-based land degradation through Conservation Agriculture
Emerging experiences from Zambia’s smallholder farming sector
This study reports on the land degradation minimizing effects of Conservation Agriculture (CA) as promoted among smallholder Zambian farmers. It found no evidence of CA associated improvements in soil fertility after five years of CA practice, most probably because crop residues were removed from the fields. The study reports high...
Zambia
2012 - Canadian Center of Science and Education
مشروع
South-Estonian Food Network - Good Things of Võru County’s Small Producers
Kaja Kesküla, an ecological farmer from Võru County, is an enthusiastic woman who consistently tries to connect food producers and consumers. Kaja has led the South-Estonian Food Network (SEFN) for six years already. SEFN was established in September 2006 while the Võru County Farmers Union’s training activities on food and...
Estonia
2012
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
UNEP and Indigenous Peoples
A Partnership in Caring for the Environment
The objective of this Policy Guidance to UNEP is to better understand and build on the Indigenous Peoples’ rights, knowledge, practices and systems that provide the framework for the harmonious relations that most Indigenous Peoples have with their environment. Furthermore, this Policy Guidance aims to ensure that United Nations Environment...
2012 - United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
تقرير
Agriculture and livestock survey old resettlement schemes 2012
This Report presents the results of the 2011-2012 Agriculture and Livestock Survey (ALS) in Old Resettlement Schemes conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency.
Zimbabwe
2012 - Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency
مقالة في مجلة
Utility-derived Supply Function of Sheep Milk: The Case of Etoloakarnania, Greece
Sheep farming is an important agricultural activity in Greece, since it contributes significantly to the country’s gross agricultural production value. Recently, sheep milk production received further attention because of the increased demand for feta cheese and also because of the excessive price level suffered by consumers, in contrast with the...
Greece
2012
مجلة
Processus d’émergence des territoires ruraux dans les pays méditerranéens.
Analyse comparée entre 10 pays du Nord, du Sud et de l’Est Méditerranéens.
L'étude réalisée par l'IAM de Montpellier, le Réseau Agricultures Familiales Comparées (RAFAC), et l'UMR Pacte Territoires fait suite à plusieurs travaux de recherche réalisés ces dernières années par ces institutions. Le RAFAC s'est d'abord intéressé aux transformations profondes de l'agriculture familiale avec la pluriactivité et l'approche des risques et de...
2012 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
دراسة حالة
Investing in women farmers for improved livelihoods and dairy value chain development in Kapchorwa District
Women in Kapchorwa district play a crucial role in sustaining their families through dairy and agricultural production. They provide most of the farm labour, which they combine with caring for their families, conducting farm and non-farm income-generating activities and contributing to community development initiatives. Increasingly, women are also involved in...
Uganda
2012 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Pu’er Traditional Tea Agrosystem
Yunnan Province of China is the world’s provenance of tea trees. It’s also the province that boasts the largest area of wild tea tree communities and ancient tea plantations with the largest amount of old tea trees and wild tea trees. The area along the Lancang River is the center...
China
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقال صحفي
Psychological aspects of organization problems and their relation to social dilemmas in a rural community of the peruvian northern coast
This study is a psychological diagnosis of some aspects related to organizational problems within a rural community from the Peruvian northern coast. To accomplish this objective, a qualitative research was elaborated. The main community problems were inquired through collective and individual interviews. Results showed that social community agents were unable...
Peru
2012 - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
مقالة
Afforestation of savannah with cocoa agroforestry systems: a small-farmer innovation in central Cameroon
Cocoa cultivation is generally considered to foster deforestation. Contrary to this view, in the forest–savannah interface area in Cameroon, farmers have planted cocoa agroforestry systems on Imperata cylindrica grasslands, a soil-climate zone generally considered unsuitable for cocoa cultivation. We undertook a survey to understand the agricultural and ecological bases of this innovation....
Cameroon
2012 - Springer
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