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A FAO successful project in Burundi: ''Support to post-harvest fisheries technology''
Fisheries play an important role in the economic and social life in Burundi. Yet, about 10 to 15% of the harvest was lost during the processing phase. Fish drying, which is the most common processing technique in the country, was done generally on bare ground. This has led to partial...
Burundi
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Working paper
Does institutional finance matter for agriculture?
Evidence using panel data from Uganda
Smallholder agriculture in many developing countries has remained largely self-financed. However, improved productivity for attaining greater food security requires better access to institutional credit. Past efforts to extend institutional credit to smaller farmers has failed for several reasons, including subsidized operation of government-aided credit schemes. Thus, recent efforts to expand...
Uganda
2014 - World Bank Group
Conference paper
Caribbean agricultural transformation: Family farming
Family farming
This presentation includes the following contents:
International Year of Family Farming – An Opportunity
Family Farming in the Caribbean – Conceptual Challenges
Small/Family Farming in the Caribbean – Characteristics
Alternative Vision and Family Farming – Policy and Program Priorities
FAO’s support for Family Farming in the Caribbean
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Atlas of African agriculture research and development
Revealing agriculture's place in Africa
Comparing and contrasting where the challenges to and opportunities for growth in productivity are located, and doing so at multiple scales and over time, can give us powerful insights that can enrich our understanding of the variables that affect agricultural productivity. The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development presents...
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Journal article
What do we really know about the number and distribution of farms and family farms in the world?
Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2014
The agricultural economics literature provides various estimates of the number of farms and small farms in the world. This paper is an effort to provide a more complete and up to date as well as carefully documented estimate of the total number of farms in the world, as well as...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Magazine article
The certified Maltese environmentalism
The beneficiary of the project is a tradition female farmer who deals with cultivating and trading vegetables in Malta. This is where the project idea came from and the financing possibility allowed her to put it into practice, transforming her traditional vegetal farm into a farm with bio-products. The general...
Malta
2014
Policy brief/paper
Rural economic diversification in sub-Saharan Africa
David Booth investigates the scope for reforming African agricultural policy choices. While recognising the difficulties that many countries face in developing the agricultural policies they need to transform their economies, he encourages policymakers to abandon 'pessimistic' political-economy diagnostics. Instead he provides evidence that social and economic reforms can be achieved...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Working paper
Understanding the agricultural input landscape in sub-Saharan Africa
Recent plot, household, and community-level evidence
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely from expanded use of inputs that embody improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet following...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Niger - Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - World Bank Group
Magazine article
Flanders: how to install the new generation of farmers
The applicant of this project is a 38 years old farmer who meets the minimum requirements in terms of education, by graduating the Melle Agricultural College in the year 1990. Between 1990 and 2008 he supported his father in the development of the farm activity. In 2008, when his father...
Belgium
2014
Book part
Reducing Excessive Nitrogen Use in Chinese Wheat Production Through Knowledge Training
What Are the Implications for the Public Extension System?
Excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer in crop production in China leads to environmental problems, and farmers’ lack of knowledge is the primary constraint. The public extension system, however, lacks the accountability and capability to deliver ecoagricultural extension services to farmers. Previous studies show that extension staff had little incentive to...
China
2014 - Taylor & Francis Group
Working paper
Credit constraints, agricultural productivity, and rural nonfarm participation
Evidence from Rwanda
Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the extent and nature of credit rationing in the semi-formal...
Rwanda
2014
Book
Limited rationality of tobacco producers family farmers at Rio Pardo Valley - Rio Grande do Sul
This dissertation aimed to analyze the process of rationality that sustains the decision of family farmers to produce or stop producing tobacco. To that end, 63 farmers from Vale do Rio Pardo microregion, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, were interviewed. The information was analyzed with the analytical...
Brazil
2014 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Report
Aprendizajes de las transformaciones de los sistemas de extensión y transferencia tecnológica de Panamá
Una propuesta de lineamientos de política para el futuro
La extensión agrícola juega un papel preponderante para la mejora de la calidad de vida de los productores. El Estado está trabajando en la búsqueda de nuevos modelos de extensión y asistencia técnica y este documento esboza, desde un contexto histórico y actual, las lecciones aprendidas del proceso y algunas...
Panama
2014 - Organización de la Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Manual
Guía básica para la formación de cajas urbanas
Las manos de todos a la obra
Esta Guía básica para la formación de Cajas Urbanas: Las manos de todos a la obra es un esfuerzo por recoger, por un lado, las innovaciones y los hallazgos de las Cajas Urbanas formadas en las zonas periurbanas de Honduras durante el año 2011 y darlas a conocer a un...
2014 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Sharing experiences on family farming
The IYFF-2014’ National Committee in Gambia promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing in the West African region
Gambia
2014
Article
Reduction of soil erosion in Norway
In Norway, land use changes have led to increased erosion and decreased biodiversity. Norwegian agriculture was significantly restructured in the 1950s. Dairy farming was concentrated in the western and northwestern parts of the country. Arable farming was directed to the southeast. The consequences were that mixed farms in the southeast...
Norway
2014
Report
Agricultural policy choice
Interests, ideas and the scope for reform
African countries face serious difficulties in getting the agricultural policies they need to help turn economic growth into economic transformation. Nonetheless, radical pessimism may not be justified for two reasons. By comparing Southeast Asian and African experience in other policy fields, this paper suggests that changing policy ideas may play...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Report
ATELIER D’EXPLOITATION DES INITIATIVES ECONOMIQUES DES ORGANISATIONS PAYSANNES EN VUE DE VALORISER LES PRODUITS DE RECOLTE DE L’AGRICULTURE FAMILIALE
Les producteurs céréaliers sont confrontés à la mévente répétée des récoltes qui sont excédentaires depuis plus de cinq (5) années successives et pour ce faire, la CPC-Togo pour une première édition organise, avec l’appui du projet PADAT au Togo, une rencontre d’opportunité commerciale observée par ses membres lors de leur...
Togo
2014 - Centrale des Producteurs de Céréales du Togo (CPC)
Magazine article
Diversification of farming activities
Diversity is beneficial not only in everyday life but also in business. A poultry farm, a riding school and agricultural tourism services makes up the business run by a woman farmer in Hungary, as a beneficiary of his project. To develop the business, the beneficiary resorted to EU and national...
Hungary
2014
Video
ECOFERM - The circular farm
Animal husbandry produces not only meat, milk and eggs but also manure, urine, heat, ammonia and CO2.These materials are not used optimal, they are regarded as waste. That is why InnovationNetwork started to develop the ECOFERM - The circular farm. Here, minerals, CO2 and heat are used to grow duckweed...
2014
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