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,...

Social farming, delivered on family farms across Northern Ireland and Ireland, has started on a journey to realise its’ potential as a valuable and cost effective option that provides a range of benefits which connect people and ultimately improves lives. The Social Farming Across Borders (SoFAB) Project has raised awareness...

This infographic explains why Family farming is inextricably linked to national and global food security. Both in developing and developed countries, family farming is the predominant form of agriculture in the food production sector.  Family farming includes all family-based agricultural activities, and it is linked to several areas of rural development. 

Este número de Vitrina Rural, incluye artículos sobre: Una nueva ExpoMundoRural Nuevas oportunidades de comercialización generan ferias de INDAP Alianzas productivas que amplian mercados Antofagasta y Salta estrechan vínculos Oportunidades de exportación para la agricultura familiar ExpoMundoRural da paso a conferencia internacional Paulo Freire y los campesinos chilenos Reforma educacional en el área técnico profesional Felipa Condori: tejiendo historias...

The SSF Guidelines hope to promote a human-rights-based approach to fisheries development and management as well as the use of aquatic, coastal, riparian and lakeshore space. The vicissitudes of the process leading to the adoption of the SSF Guidelines, as well as various aspects of small-scale fisheries and fishing communities...

Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) are a simple methodology for teaching vulnerable children and young people about farming, entrepreneurial skills and how to take care of themselves. These schools follow a “living classroom” approach in which the students or children out of school observe the crops throughout the...

Par essence, l’agriculture, l’aquaculture et la pêche ainsi que certaines activités artisanales et industrielles du secteur alimentaire, sont liées au rythme des saisons et aux éléments naturels, notamment météorologiques, qui conditionnent leurs productions tant en termes de quantité que de temporalité. Toutefois, la saisonnalité recouvre plusieurs dimensions qui, i, au...

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.

This thesis examines the role and demand for water in Macedonia from an economic perspective with an emphasis on agricultural use. The first paper provides an overview of the Macedonian agricultural sector and assesses the productivity growth in the period 1999-2010. In the study period, the sector experienced an average...

En este número se publican artículos que se refieren al valor de la pequeña escala de producción, desde lo ambiental –conservación de los recursos naturales– y lo nutricional, especialmente para el caso de aquellos países que son centros de origen de la agricultura y donde el conocimiento acumulado de siglos...

Esta presentación, desarrollada por Carolina Martínez del Proyecto Estratégico de Seguridad Alimentaria (PESA), describe la comunicación y los productos desarrollados por este programa, como materiales de comunicación, ferias, giras y diplomados.

El Proyecto Regional Andino Mercados Campesino de Agrónomos y Veterinarios Sin Fronteras –AVSF ha sido un proyecto financiado por la Unión Europea que ofrece un marco de trabajo común a nivel de 3 países andinos, su objetivo ha sido generar conocimientos, capacidades y políticas públicas para el desarrollo de sistemas...

Respondiendo a la necesidad de resaltar la importancia del desarrollo rural del país, la Red de Agroindustria Rural del Perú (Redar Perú) expuso cinco casos de éxito en nuestro país, iniciativas que a su vez viene apoyando con capacitaciones. La Dra. Sonia Salas Domínguez, presidenta de esta organización, fue la encargada...

Esta presentación, desarrollada por Zavier Escobar del Centro Andino para la Formación de Líderes Sociales (CAFOLIS), Ecuador, describe el proceso de conformación del comité nacional del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar en Ecuador, además del Programa de Sistematización Participativa que surgió en el marco del AIAF.

The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) has uncovered well-grounded resolve to place family farmers as protagonists in addressing a number of challenges we face, from eradicating hunger and poverty to conserving natural resources. Nothing comes closer to the sustainable food production paradigm than family farming. The diverse set of...

La visión integral del espacio rural que presentan algunos de los artículos publicados en este número de LEISA están basados en experiencias con una visión igualmente integral de la gestión y donde se comprueba, como es el caso de la conservación del bosque para una producción sostenible de yerba mate...

Access to credit and credit constraint are critical determinants of competitiveness in agriculture; they have an impact on the technical efficiency of farms. The objective of this study was to analyze how credit variables influence the technical efficiency of two groups of specialized smallholder farmers in Chile. The translog stochastic...

The weaknesses in the financial and technical capacity of Nigeria’s agrodealers came to light when many of them could not provide the financial backing for their role in distributing inputs under the growth enhancement support scheme. They are also not adequately equipped, organized, or buoyant enough to be able to...

Historically, economic development and growth in Nicaragua have strongly relied on agriculture. Depending on the periods, different value chains mostly oriented toward exports, have played a major role in agricultural growth and in the Nicaraguan economy: cattle and indigo before 1890, coffee from 1890 onward, agroindustrial crops (banana, cotton, and...

Organic food is growing in popularity worldwide. Organic market growth has been faster than production growth in recent years. There were 43.1 million hectares of organic land and 2 million organic producers in the world in 2013, of which 11.5 million hectares and 330,000 farmers were in Europe. The world...