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Journal article
Psychological aspects of organization problems and their relation to social dilemmas in a rural community of the peruvian northern coast

This study is a psychological diagnosis of some aspects related to organizational problems within a rural community from the Peruvian northern coast. To accomplish this objective, a qualitative research was elaborated. The main community problems were inquired through collective and individual interviews. Results showed that social community agents were unable...
Peru
2012 - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Article
Afforestation of savannah with cocoa agroforestry systems: a small-farmer innovation in central Cameroon

Cocoa cultivation is generally considered to foster deforestation. Contrary to this view, in the forest–savannah interface area in Cameroon, farmers have planted cocoa agroforestry systems on Imperata cylindrica grasslands, a soil-climate zone generally considered unsuitable for cocoa cultivation. We undertook a survey to understand the agricultural and ecological bases of this innovation....
Cameroon
2012 - Springer

Video
Basta de violencia hacia las mujeres del campo - CONAMURI

La Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas (CONAMURI) de Paraguay aglutina a mujeres rurales e indígenas, que tiene entre sus principales objetivos el logro de igualdad de derechos entre hombres y mujeres en la familia, la organización y la sociedad. Tiene un enfoque específico en las discriminaciones...
Paraguay
2012 - CONAMURI

Video
Alli Ñambi - Camino al Buen Trato. Superando el temor y el silencio

En Ecuador, ocho de cada diez mujeres sufrieron algún tipo de violencia física, psicológica o sexual. Superar el temor y el silencio es el primer paso hacia una vida sin violencia. El video incluye los testimonios de mujeres indígenas de la nacionalidad kichwa de la Amazonía ecuatoriana que han sufrido algún...
Ecuador
2012 - Fundación Interarts

Technical paper
Producción de cerdos en galpones de piso de paja o cama profunda

Documento donde describe los aspectos mas generales y basicos del sistema de produccion de cerdos en galpones con cama de paja.
Argentina
2012 - Departamento Técnico y Comercial, Área Monogástricos, Vetifarma.

Project
Agricultural Biodiversiy of Global Significance and GIAHS: Project outline following logical steps proposed by John Hough

There are traditional and indigenous agricultural systems which contain Agricultural Biodiversity of Global Significance (ABGS). In the proposed project, we will apply the CBD definition of agricultural biodiversity. Building on articles 8j and 10c of the CBD, which recognise the importance of indigenous and traditional practices for the maintenance of...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Guidelines
Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security

The new Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security outline principles and practices that governments can refer to when making laws and administering land, fisheries and forests rights. The guidelines are based on an inclusive consultation process started...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Repeasantization in the Argentina of the 21st century

In Argentina, families from the countryside decide to remain in their areas or reproduce themselves in new places, resorting to direct production, under technological conditions that seek to maintain independence from external supplies, and deploying modes for controlling resources anchored in the community. While some of these situations take place...
Argentina
2012 - Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Journal article
Effectiveness of extension services in enhancing outgrowers’ credit system

A case of smallholder sugarcane farmers in Kisumu County, Kenya
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of extension services in enhancing effectiveness of outgrowers’ credit system in Kisumu County, Kenya. The study specifically sought to determine whether public and private extension services play a significant role in enhancing effectiveness of out-growers’ credit system among smallholder sugarcane...
Kenya
2012

Book
Riqueza Latente II

Esta publicación muestra en imágenes algunos de los proyectos de productoras y productores del Programa de Desarrollo rural del Noroeste Argentino (PRODERNOA). 
Argentina
2012 - Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR)

Manual
La Guía Descalza 1

Para el Trabajo con Organizaciones y Cambio Social
Esta es una guía práctica (hágalo-usted-mismo), para líderes y facilitadores que quieren ayudar a organizaciones a funcionar y desarrollarse de maneras más saludables, humanas y efectivas en su lucha por contribuir a la construcción de una sociedad más humana. Ha sido desarrollada por el Colectivo Descalzo. La Guía y su...
2012 - Colectivo Descalzo

Manual
Manual de buenas prácticas en el manejo de la producción lechera

Guía práctica y didáctica para productores
La crianza del ganado vacuno en el Altiplano Andino tiene grandes bondades; una de ellas –y la más importante– es la producción de leche fresca, alimento fundamental en la nutrición de las familias campesinas, especialmente en los niños. La implementación de una adecuada infraestructura productiva (establos, bebederos, heniles, comederos y...
2012 - Soluciones Prácticas

Manual
An on-farm Assessment of Carbon Monitoring and Mapping Scaling Up in No Till Fields

For this reason reproducible, reliable and feasible methods need to be developed to measure and demonstrate carbon changes in agricultural soils. The present manual is based on long term practical field work. The author tried to adjust the IPCC methods for field scale and developing such methods for carbon monitoring...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Manual
Caja de herramientas para la seguridad alimentaria

La presente caja de herramientas está diseñada para ayudar a los profesionales de la seguridad alimentaria a desarrollar una estratégica de comunicación, y a comunicarse más eficazmente con los grupos que son el blanco de sus esfuerzos. Secciones específicas de la caja de herramientas enfocan a los formuladores de políticas...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO)

Book
No-Till Agriculture in Southern Brazil

- Factors that facilitated the evolution and the development of mechanization of the conservation farming
The present publication is an account of the technological developments in no-tillage systems that took place in southern Brazil from the viewpoint of the principal actors in this process. Special emphasis is given to the technological development of mechanization of conservation agriculture as it is in this area that the...
Brazil
2012 - The Food and Agriculture Organizati on of the United Nati ons

Journal article
Rural families and their process of transformation: case study in a scenario of tensed rurality

The rural world has undergone many transformations due to the processes of modernization and globalization. Little is known about rural families, and knowledge about urban families is usually transferred to rural families, as if the reality was the same for both. This study sought to understand. The practices in the...
Chile
2012 - Universidad Católica del Maule Chile

Fact sheet
Las Micorrizas

Formas de reproducción de micorrizas y aplicacion en cultivos.
Costa Rica
2012 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG)

Journal article
Assessing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for smallholder agricultural systems in Uganda

The debate on whether climate change will impact on peoples’ livelihoods and, hence, the need to act is essentially over and has instead shifted to the development of strategies needed by different regions and countries to adapt to climate change effects. However, there is still scanty information necessary to ably...
Uganda
2012 - Makerere University

Book
Empleo y condiciones de trabajo de mujeres temporeras agrícolas

Tomo 1
Los trabajos que se presentan a continuación constituyen una nueva colaboración entre agencias de Naciones Unidas en este tema. Parte de este camino de colaboración ha sido el Grupo de Trabajo conjunto FAO/OIT, que ya en 2008 señaló: “El logro de condiciones más justas de empleo signifi ca la provisión...
Argentina - Brazil - Chile
2012

Report
Estudio de saberes locales sobre gestión de riesgo de desastres, adaptación al cambio climático y medios de vida

Callejón de Huaylas - Región Ancash
Este documento conceptualiza los saberes locales, establece una metodología para su estudio y presenta hallazgos, percepciones y prácticas de reducción de riesgo, adaptación al cambio climático y medios de vida. 
Peru
2012 - Soluciones Prácticas
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