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Abandonment of Conservation Agriculture by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
This paper examines the determinants of abandonment of conservation agriculture (CA) techniques among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. The analysis uses four rounds of a balanced panel from a survey aimed at monitoring CA adoption among farmers who participated in CA promotion projects. Findings indicate that a large share of farmers...
Zimbabwe
2015
Book part
Land Reform Programme
This chapter discusses land issues in southern Africa in general, and in Zimbabwe in particular. At independence most African states with settler white farmers inherited a skewed land distribution in favour of the white commercial farmers. Countries like Namibia and South Africa, among others, embarked on some land redistribution programmes...
Namibia - South Africa - Zimbabwe
2015 - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Book part
Food and nutrition security implications of crop diversification in Malawi’s farm households
Although dramatic increases in maize yields since the implementation of the Farm Income Subsidy Program (FISP)—the major national program that subsidizes fertilizer and improved seed primarily for maize cultivation—have likely enhanced household maize self-sufficiency (Chibwana et al. 2012), Malawian diets remain poorly diversified. Indeed, the contribution of foods other than...
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Book
The economic lives of smallholder farmers
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and...
Albania - Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ethiopia - Kenya - Nepal - Nicaragua - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Magazine article
Editorial - Soils: where the roots of agroecology and family farming lie
Healthy soils contribute to resilient food production. Soil carbon is a key to healthy soils but, today we see the long-term consequences of agricultural management that has neglected soil carbon – degraded soils, polluted waters, and unprecedented rates of hunger and malnutrition. There are good examples of agroecological practices that...
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Conference/Meeting
7th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (Ec-Plf)
University of Milan is pleased to Welcome you to the 7thEuropean Conference on Precision Livestock Farming that will be held from the 15th to the 18th of September, 2015, in Milan, Italy.
The European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming takes place every two years, and during the last edition was confirmed...
Italy
2015
Blog article
Frentes parlamentarios contra el hambre adoptan el plan de erradicación del hambre de CELAC y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible como prioridades
Los frentes parlamentarios contra el hambre de la región establecieron el plan de erradicación del hambre de la Comunidad de los Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) y los nuevo Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, como sus dos prioridades de trabajo para 2016, señaló hoy la FAO.
Alrededor de ochenta legisladores de veinticinco...
2015 - Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe
Book
Professionalisation of family farming
Tools for technical and organisational capacity-building of farmers’ organisations in sub-Saharan Africa
According to the FAO, IFAD and the WFP, 805 million people in the world – one person in nine – suffer from hunger. Humanity has the means to put an end to hunger, but the key will be to invest in family farming to ‘feed the world by producing more...
2015 - CTA
Magazine article
Livia Gîrboiu - Winemaking as a family legacy
The Gîrboiu wine cellar is a family business created in 2005. The vineyards are set in the Cotești village, located in an area with a climate extremely favorable for growing grapevine and a soil rich in mineral, unique in the south-east of Romania.
This area has a vast tradition in winemaking,...
Romania
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Website
Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB)
La Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB), fue constituida legalmente el 26 de junio de 1979, mediante Resolución suprema nº 200352 de fecha (1-8-85). Es la máxima organización natural que representa al conjunto de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia con...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2015 - Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB)
Blog article
La agricultura familiar presente en FeriCerdo
Qué es lo que se debe tener en cuenta en la producción porcina de pequeña escala?. Para responder a esa pregunta se llevó a cabo hoy en el marco de FERICERDO 2015 una charla sobre La Cadena Porcina de la Agricultura Familiar. Lo que se analizó es qué estrategias son las...
Argentina
2015 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Newsletter
Agricultures familiales en Afrique de l’Ouest: nuancer les affirmations pour faire avancer le débat
nuancer les affirmations pour faire avancer le débat
Les Bulletins de synthèse Souveraineté alimentaire sont une initiative conjointe d’Inter-réseaux Développement rural et de SOS Faim Belgique. Ils visent à produire une synthèse sur un thème lié à la souveraineté alimentaire, à partir d’une sélection de références jugées particulièrement intéressantes. Ils paraissent tous les trimestres et sont diffusés par...
2015 - Inter-réseaux Développement rural
Blog article
Productividad e inclusión rural orientarán el diálogo de los Ministros de Agricultura
Del 19 al 23 de octubre, los Ministros de Agricultura de las Américas se reunirán en la Riviera Maya, México, para debatir sobre las alternativas que tiene la región para impulsar su productividad agrícola y el desarrollo de sus territorios rurales.
Con el tema “Productividad agrícola sustentable e inclusión rural”, el...
Costa Rica
2015 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Magazine article
Agroécologie en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre : réalités et perspectives
Grain de sel est la revue semestrielle d’Inter-réseaux Développement rural. Chaque numéro est consacré à une thématique précise et vise à faire participer aux débats et réflexions autour de ce thème une diversité d’acteurs et de points de vue.
2015 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural
Magazine article
More and more women assume the management of agricultural holdings
The area where the beneficiary of this project activates is in a vegetable area with tradition in Braila County, but which is insufficiently exploited due to the population aging process. Considering the growth of the consumption of vegetables and fruit, especially of the local and natural ones, Aurelia Dunose decided...
Romania
2015
Website
OK-Net Arable for more knowledge exchange in organic farming
The complexity of organic farming requires farmers to have a very high level of knowledge and skills. But exchange on organic farming techniques remains limited. OK-Net Arable promotes exchange of knowledge among farmers, farm advisers and scientists with the aim to increase productivity and quality in organic arable cropping all...
2015
Magazine article
My farm - Domeniul Coroanei Segarcea, business with a royal emblem
After they took over the royal vineyards in Segarcea, Cornelia and Mihai Anghel now produce some of the best known wines in the country, which have been rewarded at great international competitions of the industry. They are convinced that wine means art, science, emotion, passion, work and divine goodwill. Mihai...
Romania
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Video
Campaña para mujeres rurales
Aida Pesquera de Oxfam habla de la campaña #apoYOmujerRural que busca que por fin se respeten los acuerdos con las mujeres rurales.
Colombia
2015 - OXFAM - Colombia
Blog article
Consideraciones sobre la agricultura familiar en Venezuela
Marcelo Resende, Representante de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) en Venezuela
En Venezuela desde el inicio del gobierno del ex presidente Hugo Chávez hasta el actual mandato del presidente Nicolás Maduro, el compromiso político con la agricultura familiar ha sido evidente.
Para comenzar, destaca que la Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela condena el latifundio y dispone que el Estado debe...
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2015 - Fundación de Capacitación e Innovación para Apoyar la Revolución Agraria (CIARA)
Conference/Meeting
Organic Opportunities for Sustainable Rural Development to 2020
Today, the crisis situation in the European dairy sector clearly highlights the failures of our current EU policies for supporting viable farm enterprises and balanced rural development. As a result the programme will include a panel discussion looking at whether EU agri-food policies are capable of supporting sustainable farming and...
Italy
2015
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