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Diseño de un sistema de calificación para productores de la agricultura familiar campesina de la región sierra dentro del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca

El presente trabajo de tesis se justifica por la necesidad del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP) así como de otras instituciones del Estado, de contar con un registro de productores de la agricultura familiar campesina que les permita direccionar apropiadamente la política pública hacia el fomento y...
Ecuador
2014 - Universidad Central del Ecuador

Report
Sustainable Agriculture Land Management

CLIMATE CHANGE with uncertain weather conditions constitute one of the main challenges for small-holder farmers in the East African region. Vi Agroforestry works with farmers and farmers’ organisations to increase their environmental awareness, helping farmers to adapt to climate change, increasing the use of sustainable energy and prevent and reduce...
2014 - VI AGROFORESTRY

Video
Romanian Farm Life Under Threat

Farm Life in Romania Countryside.
Romania
2014

Book
Num clima de prosa

Agricultura familiar e mudanças climáticas no sertão nordestino
A história em quadrinhos e a linguagem informal foram escolhidas pela sub-rede Mudanças Climáticas e Desenvolvimento Regional para apresentar a percepção de agricultores familiares do sertão nordestino sobre as alterações no clima e, também, como isso tem afetado as suas atividades produtivas. Com o objetivo de estabelecer um diálogo de saberes,...
Brazil
2014 - Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Video
Fédération des AMAP de Picardie - Nos valeurs

Le partenariat entre producteurs et amapiens est illustré ici par de nombreux témoignages, qui montrent les valeurs fortes en jeu : solidarité, engagement, compréhension mutuelle, transparence. Les relations établies dépassent le cadre habituel d’achat, elles permettent aux agriculteurs de partager leurs réalités, et aux amapiens de s’engager pour une agriculture nourricière,...
France
2014 - AMAP

Video
The daily life of a smallholder farming in West Africa

The Traoré family in West Africa is prevented from realising its full potential. Reasons are poorly functioning markets, insufficient opportunities for education, training and information, the effects of climate change and poor access to land and water.
2014 - EDA-DFAE-FDFA - Swiss Foreign Ministry

Case study
Agroecology for home and market

A winning combination for rural communities in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe
The primary objective of this project has been to promote a shift to agroecological farming. This involves rebuilding soil organic matter and protecting it from further depletion, and promoting are turn to productive diversity through intercropping and rotation. By increasing biodiversity and habitats, farmers are restoring the balance between pests...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Newsletter
La CONAPAC renforce les leaders paysans sur l’approche FACT

Trente-cinq participants dont 7 femmes ont pris part active à l’atelier préparatoire sur le FACT tenu du 26 au 29 mai 2014 à Kindu, ; province du Maniema. Cet atelier qui a connu une implication du Gouvernement provincial du Maniema à travers son Ministère de l’Agriculture et du Développement rurala...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014 - Confédération Nationale des Producteurs Agricoles du Congo (CONAPAC)

Journal article
Conversion of Family Farms and Resilience in Southland, New Zealand

The well-known deregulation of New Zealand agriculture prompted the growth of dairy farming, particularly in the region of Southland. The formation of the giant cooperative Fonterra only exacerbated the conversion of sheep farms into dairy farms that challenged both farmers’ and the region’s traditional identity as a sheep country. Interviews...
New Zealand
2014

Video
Building resilience of small farmers in Southern Africa

The EU and FAO support rural communities in Southern Africa to lessen the impact of drought, floods and cyclones and to increase their resilience by introducing adapted crops and seeds and promoting good agricultural practices.Mitigating the impact of climate change.
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Africa's evolving Food Systems

Drivers of change and the scope for influencing them
This paper investigates the ‘megatrends’ shaping African economic, political and social landscapes and asks which ones depend endogenously on processes that are within the realm of policy influence and which ones are indeed exogenous. Based on this analysis, it sketches four plausible scenarios for African food systems and discusses how...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Report
Smallholder agriculture in Africa

An overview and implications for policy
Smallholder agriculture has long served as the dominant economic activity for people in sub-Saharan Africa, and it will remain enormously important for the foreseeable future. But the size of the sector does not necessarily imply that investments in the smallholder sector will yield high social benefits in comparison to other...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Report
Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans

This report, and the events recorded in it, focus upon seven countries which are at various stages of active or potential candidature to join the European Union. Six of the countries are in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and...
2014 - The Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group (SWG) in SEE

Policy brief/paper
Rural economic diversification in sub-Saharan Africa

David Booth investigates the scope for reforming African agricultural policy choices. While recognising the difficulties that many countries face in developing the agricultural policies they need to transform their economies, he encourages policymakers to abandon 'pessimistic' political-economy diagnostics. Instead he provides evidence that social and economic reforms can be achieved...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Report
Agricultural policy choice

Interests, ideas and the scope for reform
African countries face serious difficulties in getting the agricultural policies they need to help turn economic growth into economic transformation. Nonetheless, radical pessimism may not be justified for two reasons. By comparing Southeast Asian and African experience in other policy fields, this paper suggests that changing policy ideas may play...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Policy brief/paper
Rural futures. How much should markets rule?

The paper distinguishes different approaches to markets in, and affecting, rural sub-Saharan Africa, and present some associated policies, notably ‘market-friendly’ and ‘market-challenging’. We then propose a political economy approach as a more satisfactory way of grasping the complex social dynamics of ‘real markets’ and their forms of unequal power. This...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Video
FAO climate change in Tanzania

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is in Tanzania, where climate change is taking a toll on local populations. FAO-backed initiatives are making it easier for farmers and families to produce crop varieties that grow in dry conditions. Plus, new soil methods are increasing production and energy-saving stoves...
United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report part
La agricultura familiar en América Latina

Un nuevo análisis comparativo
En este capítulo se realiza una introducción general del estado actual de las discusiones sobre la agricultura familiar en Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala y México, como parte de un proyecto más amplio titulado “Análisis de pobreza y desigualdad rural en América Latina” que realizó RIMISP para el FIDA en...
Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Ecuador - Guatemala - Mexico
2014 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)

Policy brief/paper
The rehabilitation of agricultural input subsidies?

In recent years large-scale agricultural input subsidies have had a contested ‘rehabilitation’ in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews the changing paradigms, politics and theories associated with input subsidies’ decline and rise, and the implementation and impacts of recent large-scale programmes. Empirical evidence is patchy, and their impacts contested and dependent...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Video
Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) | The Lexicon of Sustainability

The Lexicon of Sustainability's Know Your Food is a short film series that introduces consumers to key terms and principles that can help them make more informed decisions about the food they eat. 
United States of America
2014 - The Lexicon of Sustainability
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