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Impact of climate change on small-holder farming
A case of eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Although there are well-established concerns about climate change effects in northern Ethiopia, there is little quantitative information concerning how serious these effects are to small holder farming. Moreover, studies on farm level adaptations that farmers make to minimise the potential impacts of climate change are lacking. Both quantitative and qualitative...
Ethiopia
2012 - Mekelle University
Project
Market-oriented agricultural training
Agriculture plays a key role in the economic and social development of Georgia. Though over half of the active population works in this sector, it makes up only 17% of the GDP. The rural population has not benefited from the economic growth of recent years and is as a result...
Georgia
2012
Journal article
Agroecology Scaling Up for Food Sovereignty and Resiliency
The Green Revolution 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 change. In some of the...
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Journal article
农业生态学的新视野
本文综述了我国农业生态学的发展过程与演化特点, 并站在国际视野上分析了现代农业生态学发展趋势, 着重提出农业生态学正从宏观与微观两个层面不断拓展, 并把研究引向深入。从宏观层次上讲, 农业生态学正从已往的宏观农业生物学层面逐步深入到“三农”的社会学层面, 研究水平从以往关注农业生态系统结构与功能的关系逐步发展到人们普遍关心的食物系统(food system), 即从生态经济学角度研究农业生态系统能物流形成与运转对经济社会发展的影响以及社会政策法规对食物系统的调控作用。也就是说, 现代农业生态学越来越重视人类社会生态觉醒对保护农业生态系统环境, 促进无污染生产及市场营销的重要作用。因此, 在当代西方国家, 许多农业生态学工作者十分重视通过各种社区运动(movement)或行动(action)来促进政府、生产部门、销售部门以及相关管理部门接受农业生态学思想, 自觉按照生态规律办事, 保证食物生产系统健康高效运行, 这已成为现代农业生态学教学科研和生产实践的重要内容, 涉及科学理论研究-实验示范推广-各种联盟运动推进-社会公众自觉参与等全过程, 体现了现代农业生态学的时代特征。从微观层次上讲, 现代农业生态学正进入农业分子生态学时代, 它借助现代生物学的发展成就, 运用系统生物学的理论与技术, 深入研究农业生态系统结构与功能的关系及其分子生态学机制。特别是随着现代生物技术的不断完善, 环境(宏)基因组学、蛋白组学技术的问世, 极大地推进了人们对未知生物世界的认知, 尤其是对生物多样性和基因多样性的深层次剖析, 使得农业生态学能从分子水平上深入研究系统演化的过程与机制, 促进从定性半定量描述向定量和机理性研究推进。客观上要求农业生态学工作者必须与时俱进, 不断完善自己的知识结构, 提高现代科学研究技能, 只有这样才能自觉接受新的科学知识, 促进传统科学向现代科学提升。本文特以例证分析了这一科学发展的必须性和重要性, 旨在引发广大同行的反思与共鸣。
2012 - 中国生态农业学报
Guidelines
The Barefoot Guide 3
Mobilizing Religious Health Assets for Transformation
Health, freedom and social justice cannot be separated. Anyone who loves a neighborhood, a nation or a small planet enough to work for its future, inevitably measures success by its health and well-being. How long do the neighbors live, and with what degree of freedom from the burden of illness?...
2012 - The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)
Conference paper
L'agroécologie pour l'agriculture familiale dans les pays du Sud : impasse ou voie d'avenir ? Le cas des zones savane cotonniere de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
Dans les zones de savane subhumides d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, le modèle de production agricole inspiré par la révolution verte reste celui proposé aux agriculteurs et aux éleveurs. Il mobilise des intrants chimiques, des équipements et des races et variétés sélectionnées. Cette option a été confirmée après les...
2012
Working paper
Multifunctionality of smallholder farming
A way towards sustaining food security and carbon neutral
The aim of the study is to assess the food security, adapting/mitigation opportunities to climate change and policy situation and draw policy recommendations. The study was conducted in some selected districts of Tigray Region, Ethiopia based on some exemplary interventions such as communities, ISD, BPA and PROLINNOVA-Ethiopia. Agriculture in tropical...
Ethiopia
2012 - Institute for Sustainable Development
Video
Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can...
China
2012 - The Open University and the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP)
Magazine article
Pequeña agricultura y sus potencialidades
Vivimos en un país que tiene particularidades culturales, demográficas, geográficas y ecológicas muy singulares; un territorio con poca disponibilidad de tierra para la agricultura y con grandes desafíos para ampliar la frontera agrícola. Sin embargo, su perfil y clima le confieren un alto potencial para cultivar productos con extraordinarias características de sabor, aroma, textura, y cosechados en momentos en que...
Peru
2012 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Video
Agroecology in Ethiopia: Converting Desert into Hyper-Productive Land
Once the scene of devastating droughts in 1984, a few visionaries in Ethiopia have used Agroecological Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles to begin bringing areas of arid land back to productivity and ecological balance.
Ethiopia
2012 - Food Abundance International
Article
Sustainability of dairy farming systems in central Serbia
Two dairy production systems with biggest share in total milk production in Central Serbia are small farms with tie stall barn and small farms with grazing period. In the article are examined their main system characteristics, sustainability and integration in dairy supply chain. Three dimension of sustainability were explored by...
Serbia
2012
Conference paper
L'agroécologie pour l'agriculture familiale dans les pays du Sud : impasse ou voie d'avenir ? Le cas des zones savane cotonniere de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
L'auteur analyse comment dans les zones de savane subhumides d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, le modèle de production agricole inspiré par la révolution verte reste celui proposé aux agriculteurs et aux éleveurs. et que bien que connus des structures de développement agricole les modèle de production"agroécologiques" ont rarement été...
2012 - Professionnels du développement solidaire (Gret)
Working paper
A case of Agricultural Heritage Systems
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations defines Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) as "remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaptation of a community with its environment and its needs and aspirations for sustainable development"....
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa
Smallholder farmers in semi-arid Africa are in an increasingly vulnerable position due to the direct and indirect effects of climate change, demographic pressure and resource degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted as an alternative to restore soil productivity through increased water and nutrient use efficiencies in these regions. However, adoption...
2012 - Elsevier Ltd
Video
Gender and rural microfinance: A learning route in Uganda
FAO in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and PROCASUR launched an initiative to strengthen women's access to micro financial services. The objective of this activity was also to target practitioners of the rural microfinance industry and assist them to generate effective microfinance programs for both women...
Uganda
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach
This article traces multiple directions in the evolution of agroecology, from its early emphasis on ecological processes in agricultural systems, to its emergence as a multidimensional approach focusing on broader agro-food systems. This review is timely, as agroecology is being increasingly applied within a diversity of scientific-, policy-, and farmer-based...
2012 - Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group (ARLG)
Journal article
Agroecology
Growing the Roots of Resistance
Agroecology today has a strong focus on bringing sustainability to food, feed, and fiber production. But there is also a larger focus on the social, economic, and political “drivers” that move food systems beyond the conditions that have created un-sustainability in modern industrial agriculture. With its ecosystem foundation, the science...
Mexico
2012 - University of Vermont
Video
Empowering women farmers in Ethiopia
Munira Shemsudin, Gender & HIV/AIDS Programme Officer for Self Help Africa in Ethiopia, talks about the power of investing in women farmers.
Ethiopia
2012 - FarmingFirst
Journal article
Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution
In the face of recurrent global food crises, institutions of the corporate food regime propose a new Green Revolution coupled with a continuation of neoliberal economic policies. Because these are causes of the crises to begin with, this approach can worsen rather than end hunger. Building a countermovement depends in...
2012 - Taylor & Francis
Video
Views on Smallholder Farming in Malawi with Alice Kachere
Alice Kachere, a smallholder farmer from Malawi, talks about the challenges she faces as well as the training she has benefited from.
Malawi
2012 - FarmingFirst
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