The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental development challenge. Where once rural areas were largely disconnected from...

Tourism development in rural areas has multiple directions, but its configuration from the new ruralityis generating profound socio-cultural and nature transformations on  rural  communities, taking  an  important  role  in  defining  intervention  strategies  by the economy. The research aims to describe the position and the intervention actions, which currently have several...

Access to agriculture finance is a hot topic in Uganda, especially for small scale farmers. There is a lot of talk in the sector about working together to remove barriers for small holder farmers to access value chain financing. Most recently the 2011 Zipping Finance and Farming Event in Kampala...

This report provides an overview of the findings from a Farmer Innovation Study conducted by Find Your Feet in 2011. The study was conducted in the district of Rumphi, in northern Malawi.

This paper makes a distinction between direct and indirect energy for (used in) the food chain and energy from (that can be produced by) the food sector. Energy from the food chain includes renewable energy produced on farms or in processing plants. This type of renewable energy includes wind, solar,...

La Barbarine est la principale race ovine à viande en Tunisie. Avec ses deux écotypes dominants, la tête noire et la tête rousse, elle constitue 64% de l’effectif total des ovins. Connue par son adaptation aux conditions climatiques difficiles, sa capacité d’exploiter les pâturages pauvres ainsi que de surmonter les...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) is a major staple food in Burundi; thus increasing its production and marketing has the potential for raising incomes of the farming households. In the country, bean outputs have been declining for decades, yet demand for the crop in East Africa has surged considerably. This...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el concepto de Agricultura Familiar en diversas definiciones y en qué medida puede resultar una herramienta exitosa para el mundo rural y su salida de la pobreza. La Agricultura Familiar (AF) corresponde a la “producción agrícola predial por cuenta propia de pequeña escala”....

The regional ”Workshop on Advancing the Application of Assisted Natural Regeneration for Effective, Low-Cost Forest Restoration” was organized from 19-22 May 2009, in Bohol, the Philippines, as a concluding activity of the three-year FAO-supported project aimed at promoting ANR in the Philippines. Both the project and the workshop were implemented...

This paper is a condensed presentation of findings in the project “Land and Legal Plurality in Angola” as a part of the research collaboration programme between CEIC, Universidade Catholica de Angola and CMI, Norway. Fieldwork was done in August and September 2009 and 2010 in the municipalities of Kachiungu and...

El Fondo de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Social (FONCODES) es un programa nacional del Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social (MIDIS) que trabaja en la generación de mayores oportunidades económicas sostenibles de los hogares rurales pobres extremos, facilitando la articulación entre los actores privados del lado de la demanda y...

Agriculture is at the nexus of global challenges, more or less acute in different zones: new ones, climate change, interlinked scarcities, biodiversities, but also pending ones such as food insecurity and poverty. The challenges are multiple, inter connected and apply differently according to the diversity of contexts and local specificities....

Depuis 1990, avec l’appui de TERRE VERTE, l’AZN expérimente au sein de sa Ferme Pilote de Guié (FPG) un système d’aménagement des terroirs basé sur la réalisation de périmètres bocagers. A l’instar des périmètres maraîchers protégeant une zone pour y cultiver des légumes, l’AZN a développé la technique des périmètres...

Esta publicación es un esfuerzo conjunto del Ministerio de Energía del Gobierno de Chile, La Organización de la Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y Agricultura, y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, con el fin de contribuir al uso y fomento de las energías renovables no convencionales...

El presente artículo presenta una breve reseña de la situación socioeconómica de las familias productoras de cacao en la provincia Condorcanqui, en el departamento de Amazonas, Perú.   Los autores presentan la asociatividad y la certificación orgánica de la producción de cacao  como una estrategia de desarrollo rural que permite...

On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part television series, produced in cooperation...

This report argues that smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia can improve agricultural productivity, food security and livelihoods by adopting sustainable approaches that utilize resource-conserving technologies and that draw upon their own knowledge. Many thousands of communities in countries such as India, Cambodia, the Philippines, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe and Kenya...

Structural change during most of the first 5 decades of post-independence Africa has been productivity-reducing. It has been driven by negative diversification reflected in labor migrating from the underperforming, yet higher-productivity agricultural sector into an oversized, lowerproductivity service sector. In the aftermath of the failure of the first generation of...

Sitio web donde se destacan las principales noticias de la actualidad en materia agropecuaria, agroindustrial, forestal y medioambiental de Bolivia y el mundo.

Les terres agricoles subissent une pression croissante à la suite de l’étalement urbain et résidentiel, du développement du tourisme et de la modification des formes d’usages des espaces ruraux, et ce quel que soit le niveau de développement des pays. C’est dans la perspective d’apporter des connaissances utiles aux décideurs...