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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
Report
Sustainable agricultural livelihoods in marginal areas (SALMA)
Project information document
The World Bank SALMA project would contribute to the economic infrastructure area of engagement outlined in the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for FY11-14 and is aligned with the lessons learned in the FY08-09 Interim Strategy Note. Three aspects of economic infrastructure are addressed: agriculture, environment, and transportation. The project is...
Lebanon
2012 - the World Bank (WB)
Fact sheet
Elaboración de un concentrado orgánico para la alimentación de aves ponedoras
Receta japonesa para elaborar un concentrado orgánico para aves ponedoras. En cada país se puede adaptar dicha receta con sustitutos locales.
Costa Rica
2012 - Ministerio de Agrícultura y Ganadería (MAG)
Magazine article
The goat farm is popularized due to the support
The Lithuanian Goat Breeders Association, headed by the farmer Andžela Dalia Ėmužytė, has already prepared more than one project under the action area “National Rural Network” of the 2007–2013 Lithuanian Rural Development Programme measure “Technical Assistance”. Goat milk cheeses, produced at the farm of the farmer A.D. Ėmužytė, have become...
Lithuania
2012
Journal article
Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture
This Special Issue on Diversified Farming Systems is motivated by a desire to understand how agriculture designed according to whole systems, agroecological principles can contribute to creating a more sustainable, socially just, and secure global food system. We first define Diversified Farming Systems (DFS) as farming practices and landscapes that...
2012 - Resilience Alliance
Blog article
Necesidad de políticas públicas de transición a la Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar en Argentina
De las semillas a los canales cortos de comercialización
La tendencia a la adopción de tecnologías de punta por parte de los productores agropecuarios de Argentina, ha favorecido procesos relacionados con la revolución verde y más recientemente la revolución biotecnológica expresada por la liberación de los OGM en plantas y sus tecnologías de manejo asociadas. Consecuentemente, las empresas de mayor...
Argentina
2012 - Seminario Derecho a la Alimentación, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Case study
Conceptual framework for economic valuation of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): The case of rice fish culture in China
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) initiative was launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in 2002 with the aim of establishing the basis for the global recognition, dynamic conservation and adaptive management of outstanding traditional agricultural systems and their associated landscapes, biodiversity, knowledge...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Success Story: Smallholder Farmer Entrepreneurship in Swaziland with Happy Shongwe
Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from Swaziland, talks about her successful business of growing and selling legume seeds.
Eswatini
2012 - FarmingFirst
Case study
Kuttanad Below Sea Level Farming System
The only system in India that has been practicing rice cultivation below sea level since the past 2 centuries
Kuttanad is a delta region of about 900 sq. km situated in the west coast of Kerala State, India. The area is a larger mosaic of fragmented landscape patches and varied ecosystems such as coastal backwaters, rivers, vast stretches of paddy fields, marshes, ponds, garden lands, edges, corridors and remarkably networked water ways.
The Kuttanad Below Sea-level...
India
2012 - M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Journal article
Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process
Rural social movements have in recent years adopted agroecology and diversified farming systems as part of their discourse and practice. Here, we situate this phenomenon in the evolving context of rural spaces that are increasingly disputed between agribusiness, together with other corporate land-grabbers, and peasants and their organizations and movements....
2012
Book
Food Plants and Good Gardening for Healthy Diets in Swaziland
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Eswatini
2012 - Food Plant Solutions
Manual
Insectos y Agricultores ¿amigos o enemigos?
Los agricultores suelen ser conscientes de la enorme diversidad de especies de insectos en sus campos, y de las funciones que estos cumplen como parte de un ecosistema. La agricultura tiene gran influencia en el equilibrio de la población de insectos. Sin embargo, en todo el mundo, las evidencias muestran...
Peru
2012 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes
Fact sheet
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). Agricultural Heritage: A new vision, a new hope
China has a five-thousand-year history of agricultural civilization. Diversified natural and cultural features across regions have led to a variety of agricultural heritage systems which have evolved from the co-adaptation of the local community and its environment. However, for a long period, their ecological rationality and potential economic benefits have...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
La agroecología, camino hacia el desarrollo sustentable
Las últimas crisis internacionales –cuyos ejes principales e interrelacionados fueron el cambio climático, la producción de alimentos, la escasez de fuentes de energía y la explosión de la burbuja inmobiliaria en Estados Unidos–, han obligado a redirigir la mirada hacia los elementos más básicos de la producción y la reproducción...
Paraguay
2012 - Base Investigaciones Sociales (BaseIS)
Book
El Camino de la Transición Agroecológica
El proceso complejo de transición, detallado en este libro, analiza la trama de variables y actores que participan en él en relación con los objetivos trazados en el Proyecto Específico AERN-296022, Investigación Acción Participativa de los procesos de transición hacia sistemas de producción agroecológicos. Sin duda esta obra representa, desde...
2012
Manual
Nuevos mercados, nuevos valores
"En este último número LEISA, enfocamos nuevamente el aspecto económico de la producción de pequeña escala, pero ahora desde la perspectiva del mercado."
Contenido:
Editorial. Nuevos mercados, nuevos valores
Construcción de mercados: un desafío para la agricultura campesina (Paulo Petersen)
Las variedades criollas del maíz, los mercados especializados y las estrategias de vida de...
Peru
2012 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes
Manual
Organizaciones de agricultores
Seguir en el trabajo
"Este número de LEISA revista de Agroecología, presta especial atención a las organizaciones de agricultores. ¿De qué forma se organizan los agricultores? ¿Qué problemas existen en sus organizaciones de agricultores y cómo se resuelven?"
Peru
2012 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes
Journal article
Adaptive strategies and local innovations of smallholder farmers in selected agri-food systems of central Kenya
Food production in Kenya is closely related to smallholder agricultural production. Paradoxically, many smallholders suffer extended periods of food crises. This underscores the importance of understanding the multiple pathways smallholders use to deal with food insecurity. Participatory action research, using both qualitative and quantitative methods was undertaken to identify adaptation...
Kenya
2012
Book
Agrobiodiversity and rural family agroindustry: Dialogue spaces about the products of family farming at the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul
The North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul State is characterized as a diversified ecological and cultural region, related to the formation of the Atlantic Forest, superimposed on the presence of different ethnicities and social groups with their various knowledges and practices. Diverse organizations are attending to their region mainly ...
Brazil
2012 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Newsletter
Caravan 27: Research integration in practice
This issue of Caravan describes the new program, and some of the research innovations it will build on. The issue begins with two ‘opinion pieces’ by scientists from partner organizations in the CRP. They share lessons learnt from past successes (and failures), and ideas that could be applied to dryland systems...
Algeria - Bahrain - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Iraq - Jordan - Kazakhstan - Kuwait - Libya - Morocco - Oman - Qatar - Saudi Arabia - Syrian Arab Republic - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
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