Ensuring that women have independent and secure rights to farmland is an important component of eliminating poverty and increasing economic productivity. This is true for three general reasons. First, women are often the primary food producers for a household, working their household farm plots while their husbands work for collective...

Ecological marginalization stems from the transformation of ecosystems in a way that alters their functional integrity through the elimination of their production and decomposition functions. Ecosystem production becomes the subject of quantitative exploitation, while decomposition is affected by the use of local ecosystems as receivers of various wastes.  Consequently, social...

Basic legislation for the whole agriculture is given by the Act No. 252/1997 Coll., on Agriculture, as amended. http://eagri.cz/public/web/mze/legislativa/pravni-predpisy-mze/tematicky-prehled/Legislativa-MZe_uplna-zneni_zakon-1997-252-viceoblasti.html (available in Czech language only).

All over the world women play a unique and vital role in fixing our broken food system. The prevailing view on agriculture and food in Europe and in European institutions is limited to economics and trade. In these places (old) men in suits discuss amongst themselves and take decisions. In...

The First European Convention on Farming Systems Research and Extension marked the beginning of an exploration and a sharing. Those of us who have participated in the meetings of the Association of Farming Systems Research and Extension (AFSRE) have got to know each other through our work in developing countries....

Nous avons vu que tous les auteurs qui ont cherché à interpréter le mouvement général de modernisation de l’agriculture s’accordent sur l’idée selon laquelle l’entrée, nécessaire et inévitable, de l’agriculture dans la modernité ne se réalise qu’à partir des années 1960. C’est le moment où une nouvelle élite paysanne, composée...

Pierre Alphandéry, Pierre Bitoun et Yves Dupont publient en 1989 Les Champs du départ, une France rurale sans paysans ? aux éditions de La Découverte. Respectivement sociologues et historien, les trois chercheurs de l’INRA analysent de l’intérieur les grands bouleversements opérés par la politique agricole de l’aprèsguerre et s’appliquent à...

Brassica crops may be infested and infected by a wide range of pest and pathogen species. For example, as many as 50 species of insect from several orders (Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera) are considered to be Brassica pests. Some of these species are specialists in that they colonise plants...

The life of a Romanian village

In connection with the economic advisory work of the College, the accounts of 13 smallholdings have been completed for the year 1932-33. With only one exception the holdings were brought into existence under the smallholdings scheme of the Department of Agriculture for Scotland; five of them are "demonstration holdings" selected...

The congress aim is to gather researchers from different disciplines, practitioners and policy makers at different governance levels that deal with the management and sustainability of silvo-pastoral systems. In this way the congress will create a fertile context to progress through interdisciplinary research approaches that can help translate scientific knowledge...