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Report
Agriculture and livestock survey small scale commercial farms 2012
This Report presents the results of the 2011-2012 Agriculture and Livestock Survey (ALS) in Small Scale Commercial farms (SSCF) conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency.
Zimbabwe
2014 - Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency
Fact sheet
Investing in rural people in Egypt
According to the country’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, around 51 per cent of the population living in rural areas in Upper Egypt is poor. The factsheet focuses on this topic, arguing that although most people in Upper Egypt depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, smallholder farming in...
Egypt
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Website
Plataforma regional de agricultura familiar del Programa cooperativo para el desarrollo tecnológico agroalimentario y agroindustrial del Cono Sur (PROCISUR)
El objetivo de la plataforma es "Generar, adaptar, validar y transferir capacidades tecnológicas e institucionales, entre los países participantes, para la inclusión y el desarrollo sustentable de la agricultura familiar". Sus áreas de trabajo son:
Identificación y desarrollo de atributos de diferenciación por calidad en la AF que permita la valorización...
2014 - Programa Cooperativo para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agroalimentario y Agroindustrial del Cono Sur (PROCISUR)
Book
Agricultura Familiar en el Perú, garante de la seguridad alimentaria y la agrobiodiversidad
Aportes para el debate en el marco del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar
El presente documento se dirige a todas las organizaciones e instituciones públicas, privadas y de la sociedad civil involucradas o interesadas en el tema, y ofrece elementos para la reflexión y la toma de decisiones. Después de presentar brevemente los objetivos y retos del AIAF, proponemos algunas respuestas a la...
Peru
2014 - Coordinadora de Entidades Extranjeras de Cooperación Internacional (COEECI) Grupo temático “Soberanía alimentaria y agricultura familiar”
Journal article
Farmers’ involvement in capital markets investment as an alternative source of funding for agriculture in Ondo State, Nigeria
Farming in Nigeria largely takes place in peasant and small scale physical labour-fed farms where productivity diminishes with age. Given depleting productivity accounted for by loss of agility due to advancement in age and general insufficiency of capital, avenues capable of sufficiently salvaging this dearth must, therefore, be explored. The...
2014
Video
Soil, Struggle and Justice: Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement
This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. This MST cooperative is demonstrating the possibility of an alternative model of flourishing rural life, which provides thriving livelihoods for...
Brazil
2014 - SSJAgroecology
Project
Case studies of the best practice examples from Lithuania, Belarus and Kaliningrad district (Russia) of local food market formation
Case studies of best practices from: Lithuania, Belarus and Russian Federation
Belarus - Lithuania - Russian Federation
2014 - Council of the Baltic Sea States Expert Group on Sustainable Development, CBSS-Baltic 21
Working paper
Water Policy and Poverty Reduction in Rural Area: A Comparative Economy Wide Analysis for Morocco and Tunisia
Morocco and Tunisia are considered among the countries where the scarcity of water resources may cause a serious constraint to the development of their economies. During the past, huge efforts have been made by both governments in order to satisfy an escalating water demand expressed by all users. The main...
Morocco - Tunisia
2014 - Economic Research Forum (ERF)
Report
Understanding smallholder farmer attitudes to commercialization
The case of maize in Kenya
Using the case of maize production in Kenya, this study reframes the challenge of smallholder commercialization in the context of staplefood crop production and individual farm-level decision-making by a heterogeneous population of smallholder farmers. Whilemany smallholder growers of staple crops find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty, they differ greatly in their...
Kenya
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Working paper
Medium and large-scale farmers and agricultural mechanization in Ghana
Survey results
Successful commercialization of farming enterprises and farmer entrepreneurship are thought to embody the key features of structural transformation and provide a pathway out of poverty and subsistence agriculture for the rural farm households. The past decade has seen several African countries increase their agricultural growth, largely driven by increases in...
Ghana
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Website
Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)
The Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON) is intended to serve as an umbrella organisation for national FOs, to coordinate capacity building, share success stories and the lessons learnt, support regional exchanges of expertise between FOs and their associated private sector and donor agency partners.
2014 - Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)
Report
Fulfilling the promise of African agriculture
IFAD in Africa
Agriculture plays a significant role in Africa, accounting for about 30 per cent of GDP south of the Sahara, as well as a significant proportion of export value. Not surprisingly, in most African countries, 60 per cent or more of employees work in agriculture. Yet this barely scrapes the surface...
Kenya - Madagascar - Morocco - Nigeria
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Newsletter
Spore Special Issue - August 2014
The beginning of a renaissance
Family farming offers solutions to global challenges. More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture – ensuring food security, fighting poverty and hunger, providing employment, and enhancing sustainable resource management. Despite challenges, family farms can become prosperous businesses. Forming part of CTA’s support to the UN International Year of Family...
2014 - CTA
Working paper
La commercialisation des produits agricoles vivriers au Burundi – Pertinence et conditions de succès de possibles initiatives s’inspirant de l’expérience tanzanienne des marchés de gros
Cette étude vise à apprécier la pertinence qu’il y aurait à s’inspirer de l'expérience de marchés de gros paysans impulsée par Mviwata en Tanzanie, visant à favoriser l’accès au marché pour les paysans de différentes régions du pays et à améliorer les conditions de commercialisation en leur faveur, pour l'implanter au...
Burundi
2014 - Professionnels du développement solidaire (Gret)
Fact sheet
Las tierras comunales
Este folleto trata sobre las tierras comunales y los derechos tanto de la comunidad como de los comuneros y presenta de manera ágil la información que se encuentra en las leyes o normas que regulan dicha temática.
Este material se ha preparado como complemento para las labores de sensibilización y difusión...
Peru
2014 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Report
The effectiveness of advisory services in responding to demands of diverse types of small-scale farmers
The role of advisory services for the new established and semi subsistence farmers in Bulgaria
The small-scale farms are the main group that is of importance for the development of the agriculture and rural areas in Bulgaria. This is a family type business and almost the entire required employment power is provided by the family members of the farmers. On average, only one family member...
Bulgaria
2014 - Agricultural University Plovdiv
Working paper
Impact of Improving Irrigation Water Use Efficiency on the Valorization of Water Resources: Case of Irrigated Wheat Production Systems in Central Tunisia
The main objectives of this paper are to evaluate the impact of water use efficiency improvement on water value and to estimate the potential of water cost reductions in durum wheat production in Central Tunisia. Results show that significant inefficiencies exist in the sample of farms under investigation. The effects...
Tunisia
2014 - Economic Research Forum (ERF)
Article
Why small farms are key to feeding the world
Between 1990 and 2009 the number of small farms in Switzerland halved and the average farm size doubled. With family farming chosen as the theme for this year's World Food Day, leading activist Vandana Shiva is calling for more support to small farmers.
Shiva is an “earth democracy” activist and founder...
Switzerland
2014
Journal
Revista de agroecología Leisa, junio 2014: agricultura campesina, respuestas para mejorar
En este número de LEISA se presentan experiencias que muestran cómo la agricultura campesina puede romper las limitaciones que impiden salir del círculo de pobreza y marginalidad. La sostenibilidad de la producción de alimentos y de la vitalidad de los agroecosistemas exige el enfoque integrador de la agroecología que involucra...
Argentina - Brazil - Cuba - Honduras - Mexico - Peru
2014 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes
Report
Escuela de Formación Territorial y Agroecológica Manuel Quintín Lame
Aprender haciendo, investigando y transformando el territorio en el sur del Tolima
Este documento recoge los resultados de los grupos de investigación de la Escuela Territorial y Agroecológica Manuel Quintín Lame. Durante un año los escuelantes participaron de esta iniciativa coordinada por el Grupo Semillas y las organizaciones del Sur del Tolima FICAT, ACIT, Utritol, Manos de Mujer-Coyaima y Asociación Futuro con...
Colombia
2014 - Grupo Semillas
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