Esta publicación contiene la evaluación del impacto del Proyecto Piloto Jóvenes Emprendedores Rurales "Promoción de la cultura emprendedora", ejecutado desde mediados del año 2005 por la SAGPyA (organismo que actualmente reviste rango de Mnisterio) en distintas provincias del país. La evaluación se realizó entre los meses de octubre de 2009 a...

The course provides guidance on how to design and implement a communication strategy for food security information. Using several realistic examples, the course illustrates the various components of a communication strategy, and provides concrete and detailed guidelines on how to communicate through the media and how to present information to...

2007年10月16日“世界粮食日”那天，联合国粮农组织总干事迪乌夫说，“我们的星球有足够的粮食为所有人提供充足的食物，但今晚仍有8.54亿男人、女人和儿童饿着肚子睡觉”。本来足以满足世界食物需求的粮食，到底去了哪里？ 两年过去了，尽管国际社会和各国政府都在努力，但饿着肚子睡觉的人，却伴随着日益攀升的粮价，迅速增加。约40个国家由粮食引发了社会危机和政治危机。在此背景下，需要跳出简单的气候变化、水资源短缺等客观托辞，也毋需在生物能源开发、工业化城市化占地、营养结构升级、高额农业补贴等主观因素上相互指责。需要考虑的是：为何作为最基本人权的食物权，在粮食足够的情况下，仍大面积地被践踏？

Agriculture can be qualified as a specific sector that represents an important part in implementing strategic vision of the Serbian economy's development. The reason for this is that over the past decades the accumulation that other sectors cannot provide has been drawn from this sector and that the great potential...

Following a drought event, several interactive feedback relations will get involved, whose effects can be realized as drought impacts. That is the behaviour of the components of a socio-economic system in response to the new changes due to drought which will form the system total behaviour in terms of socioeconomic-natural...

Rural women’s small businesses engaged in the production of local agri‐food products have been flourishing in the Greek countryside the last years responding to an emerging consumer demand for food of “specific quality”. Such successful initiatives have been particularly developed with co‐operative form, scattered throughout the country, both in the...

Sustainably managed forests have multiple environmental and socio-economic functions important at the global, national and local scales, and play a vital part in sustainable development. Reliable and upto-date information on the state of forest resources - not only on area and area change, but also on such variables as growing...

在全世界有25亿以上的小农户从事粮食的 种植、收获和加工，其中半数以上是妇女。妇 女们的知识、劳动在当地多样化的食物体系的 可持续发展中，特别在发展中国家，发挥了重 要作用。

The paper aims to investigate factors responsible for the resilience2 and long term survival of short, local food supply networks formed in mountain areas characterised by low population density, remote location and underdeveloped infrastructure. A case study of an alternative food network established with participation of local government and umbrella...

This work aims at analyzing different management practices for the improvement of the agricultural production in the Central Jordan Valley. The optimization of the cropping pattern has been done under different water scarcity and drought conditions and prevailing environmental and socio-economic constraints. The ISAREG model was used to estimate crop...

El presente estudio ha sido elaborado por el Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP) en el marco del proyecto de investigación “Pobreza, política comercial y políticas complementarias” organizado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), como un componente del programa de cooperación...

The aim of this investigation is to evaluate some proposed adaptation measures in order to overcome the projected impacts of climate change over on-farm irrigation system in Egypt. Improve irrigation systems efficiencies, change irrigation systems, and deficient irrigation were evaluated by using multi-criteria approach of evaluation. Adaptation measures were studied...

L’agropastoralisme est un système agraire combinant productions animales extensive et cultures végétales sur deux espaces bien distincts : d’une part des espaces dit naturels dédiés à l’élevage de parcours, d’autre part des espaces cultivés, organisés, dédiés aux productions végétales et fortement marqué par l’activité humaine. Cette répartition initiale des productions...

在云南省滇西北广大的农村地区，妇女在畜牧业生产中扮演着一个非常重要的角色。然而，在以政府为主导的技术推广与培训活动中，妇女往往被排斥在外或很少有机会参与。近年来，为了改善妇女的这种状况，云南省生物多样性和传统知识研究会的“滇西北农牧区生计改良项目”采取和实施了一系列的针对妇女发展的措施和策略。通过增加女性村民对项目活动的参与和提高女性兽医技术人员的专业能力，降低了畜牧业生产中的风险和提高了家庭的经济收入。同时，在农业生产中，女性村民变得更加自信并意识到她们的决策权利。

In the developing world, smallholders form the backbone of the agricultural sector and their importance in rural areas is almost uniform across countries. There is no unique and unambiguous definition of a smallholder. Often scale, measured in terms of the farm size is used to classify producers. For example, households...

All the way around the world in countries as diverse as the United States, Japan, France, China or Mali, people who farm and people who eat are forming communities around locally grown food. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Teikei, AMAP, Reciproco, ASC – the names may be different but the essence...

Using lessons from the case studies this paper draws out five practical steps in reaching and supporting women marginal farmers: 1) take the lead from women marginal farmers themselves in helping build their networks and groups, 2) promote alliances and external links, 3) organising needs based training workshops and regular...

Community forest management (CFM) initiatives comprise a range of efforts to involve people who live in and around forests in forest management decisions. CFM initiatives often vest in communities some degree of decision-making power over forest management and rights to the benefits from such management. These initiatives are expected to...

Les paysages culturels de l’agro pastoralisme sont fortement liés aux pratiques techniques et culturelles des éleveurs utilisateurs et gestionnaires des espaces qu’ils occupent. C’est particulièrement vrai sur la zone de Djelfa, haut lieu du pastoralisme algérien, sur les hauts plateaux. Ce pastoralisme, comme dans l’ensemble du monde méditerranéen, subit des...

L'objectif de cette recherche est d'analyser les performances productives des exploitations familiales agricoles (EFA) de la localité de Zoetelé au Sud Cameroun. Recherche qui s'est intéressée particulièrement aux EFA pratiquant le système de culture à base d'arachide et de maïs. En effet, c'est l'un des systèmes de culture les plus...