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Xuanhua Traditional Vineyards System
Garden cultivation of Xuanhua milk grapes, with a long history of 1,300 years of cultivation in the local area, and which mainly includes the traditional technology of funnel frames and polyclonal hole-planting methods, has extremely important historical value and cultural connotations. The plantations are mainly distributed in Guanhou village, Penyao...
China
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statement
Declaración de Antigua
Esta Declaración fue aprobada por la Asamblea de Miembros de la ILC en Antigua, Guatemala, el 25 de abril de 2013. La Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC) es una alianza mundial de organizaciones intergubernamentales y de la sociedad civil que trabajan en colaboración para fomentar y garantizar...
2013 - International Land Coalition (ILC)
Case study
Traditional Gudeuljang Irrigated rice terraces in Cheongsando
Traditionally, Cheongsando Island had an agricultural environment that was somewhat disadvantageous for paddy agriculture due to steep slopes, sandy soil with rocks and rapid drainage, and a scarcity of water for paddy farming. “Gudeuljangnon,” a product of efforts of Cheongsando Island residents, are rice paddies created by re-engineering the natural...
Republic of Korea
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of North West China
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...
China
2013
Case study
Biotechnologies at work for smallholders
Case studies from developing countries in crops, livestock and fish
This book documents a unique series of 19 case studies where agricultural biotechnologies were used to serve the needs of smallholders in developing countries. They cover different regions, production systems, species and underlying socio-economic conditions in the crop (seven case studies), livestock (seven) and aquaculture/fisheries (five) sectors. Most of the...
Argentina - Bangladesh - Brazil - Cameroon - China - Colombia - Cuba - Ghana - India - South Africa - Sri Lanka - United Republic of Tanzania
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Managing Aso Grasslands for Sustainable Agriculture
The Aso Grasslands are located in Aso region of Kumamoto Prefecture, which situates in the middle of the Kyushu Island in Japan. Aso region spreads around active volcanic craters and huge caldera. The Aso volcano has one of the world’s largest caldera stretching 18 km from east to west and...
Japan
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Traditional tea-grass integrated system in Shizuoka
“Chagusaba”(“semi-natural grasslands”) represents an exemplary system of traditional agricultural techniques, where grasslands are maintained around tea fields to supply mulch that improves the quality of tea cultivation. Chagusaba is a rare example of codependence between agricultural production and biodiversity, each of which enhances the other’s value (See Photo 1). For...
Japan
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Highlights of IFPRI's partnerships and impacts in China 2013
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on agricultural production, but also on the policies that affect food systems from farm to table. In response, the International...
China
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Book
Mechanization for rural development
A review of patterns and progress from around the world
Agricultural mechanization is a crucial input to agricultural crop production. It is frequently very capital intensive, compared to other (usually annual) inputs and it has repercussions on the efficiency of all other inputs used in crop production, including seeds, fertilizer, water, and time/labour. It is also much more complex in...
Bangladesh - Brazil - China - India - Nepal
2013
Case study
The mother of our breath
In the westernmost region of the Caroline Islands of Micronesia lies the Republic of Palau. Palauan traditional farming shows how agriculture, family values and culture are interconnected. Despite these connections, family farms are facing challenges. By joining forces, the small-scale family farms of these islands are standing up for their...
Palau
2013 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Case study
Kunisaki Peninsula Usa Integrated Forestry, Agriculture and Fisheries System
The proposed GIAHS in the Kunisaki Peninsula Usa area is a system where forestry and agricultural production are made possible and are sustain by the connected system of Sawtooth Oak forests and multiple interlinked irrigation ponds.
Japan
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Jeju Batdam Agricultural System
Jeju island is a volcanic island located in the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula. The topographic and geological characteristics of the volcanic island made Jeju, the barren island for farming. Jeju abundant with volcanic ash soil, rocks and winds. As farming started in Jeju, people utilized the stones in...
Republic of Korea
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Save and grow: Cassava
A guide to sustainable production intensification
This guide is the first on the practical application of FAO’s “Save and Grow” model of agriculture to specific smallholder crops and farming systems. It comes as cassava production intensifies worldwide, and growers shift from traditional cultivation practices to monocropping, higher-yielding genotypes, and greater use of agrochemicals. Intensification carries great...
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Event
APAARI Executive Committee Meeting
Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) in the Asia-Pacific region is effectively promoted and facilitated through novel partnerships among NARS and other related organizations so that it contributes to sustainable improvements in the productivity of agricultural systems and to the quality of the natural resource base that underpins agriculture, thereby enhancing...
Thailand
2013 - Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
Conference proceedings
Enhancing the contribution of small-scale aquaculture to food security, poverty alleviation and socio-economic development
About 70–80 percent of all those actors involved in fish farming worldwide are considered small-scale. The small-scale aquaculture (SSA) sector, is recognized as making an important contribution to food security, poverty alleviation and socio- economic development. However, assessing its contribution in a systematic way has been an uphill task. An...
China - Nepal - Papua New Guinea - Philippines - Thailand - Viet Nam
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
家庭农场 (农业经营形式)
家庭农场,一个起源于欧美的舶来名词;在中国,它类似于种养大户的升级版。通常定义为:以家庭成员为主要劳动力,从事农业规模化、集约化、商品化生产经营,并以农业收入为家庭主要收入来源的新型农业经营主体。[1]
家庭农场是指以家庭成员为主要劳动力,从事农业规模化、集约化、商品化生产经营,并以农业收入为家庭主要收入来源的新型农业经营主体。2008年的党的十七届三中全会报告第一次将家庭农场作为农业规模经营主体之一提出。随后,2013年中央“一号文件”再次提到家庭农场,称鼓励和支持承包土地向专业大户、家庭农场、农民合作社流转。
[2] 2013年中央一号文件提出,坚持依法自愿有偿的原则,引导农村土地承包经营权有序流转,鼓励和支持承包土地向专业大户、家庭农场、农民合作社流转,发展多种形式的适度规模经营。
China
2013
Conference proceedings
The Bangladesh model and other experiences in family poultry development
Stimulated by work pioneered in Bangladesh, the paper outlines a conceptual framework for using poultry as a tool in poverty alleviation. There is now evidence from several coun- tries that small poultry enterprises with adequate institutional support targeting the poorest rural women and their families can help them take the...
Bangladesh - Benin - Burkina Faso - Kenya - Morocco - Mozambique - Uganda - Viet Nam
2013 - International Network for Family Poultry Development (INFPD)
Article
Pastoralism: the custodian of China’s grasslands
Scientific evidence is mounting that rangeland degradation is intensifying and expanding in China’s rangelands, as a consequence of 30 years of inappropriate policies, as well as climate change. Such policies have simultaneously brought negative impacts to herder livelihoods and to the development of pastoral society. Policies have included grasslands property...
China
2013 - The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Project
Market and Pasture Management Development Project
The objective of the Market and Pasture Management Development Project is to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods of nomadic herder households and households living in permanent settlements in soums (districts) and aimags (provinces).
The project focuses on three components:
• Market development• Pasture management• climate change adaptation
The project is aligned with Mongolia's Agricultural Development Strategy...
Mongolia
2013 - International Fund for International Development (IFAD)
Working paper
The Role of Agriculture in China’s Development: Performance, policy determinants of success, and lessons for Africa
The lost decades for China in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s look remarkably like the lost decades of Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Poor land rights, weak incentives, incomplete markets and inappropriate investment portfolios. However, China burst out of its stagnation in the 1980s and has enjoyed three decades...
China
2013 - Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
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