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Policy brief/paper
Plan Sectorial de Agricultura Familiar 2011-2014

Vitrina tecnológica de hortalizas en ambientes protegidos, Estación Experimental Enrique Jiménez Núñez
En el documento se abordan en forma matricial, dos tipos de acciones, con sus objetivos, metas e indicadores: 1) un primer grupo que son aquellas tareas que ya han sido incorporadas por las instituciones responsables en los respectivos presupuestos institucionales y en el Plan Sectorial de Desarrollo Agropecuario 2011-2014 y...
Costa Rica
2012 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG)

Policy brief/paper
Llineamientos de la política pública nacional de equidad de género para las mujeres

La Política Pública Nacional de Equidad de Género, reconoce el aporte que las mujeres hacen a la producción y reproducción de nuestra sociedad. Las mujeres como sujetos sociales contribuyen al desarrollo del país en todos los ámbitos, sin embargo, aún persisten diversas formas de discriminación que aún las afectan y...
Colombia
2012 - Alta Consejería Presidencial para la Equidad de la Mujer

Report part
Poverty assessment in Sudan: mapping natural resource potential

This is Part 3 of a study, presented in three reports that detail the results of a poverty assessment and mapping project in North and Southern Sudan. The study’s objective was to produce a rural poverty analysis and poverty maps for North and Southern Sudan, and based on these findings,...
South Sudan - Sudan
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Magazine article
El empleo de las mujeres rurales en América Latina

En este Tema Especial del Panorama Laboral 2012 se presentan algunos datos estadísticos sobre el empleo de las mujeres rurales en América Latina, así como evidencia cualitativa generada a partir de una serie de estudios de casos sectoriales llevados a cabo conjuntamente por la Organización de las Naciones para la...
2012 - Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT)

Journal article
Relación entre parámetros océano-atmosféricos y la producción del café verde en Colombia

Se determina la influencia de la migración de la zona de convergencia intertropical (ZCIT) y de El Niño oscilación del sur (ENOS) en la producción de café verde en Colombia durante el periodo de 1960 a 2007. Se dan a conocer las relaciones temporales entre la serie de producción de...
Colombia
2012 - Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia

Journal article
Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution

In the face of recurrent global food crises, institutions of the corporate food regime propose a new Green Revolution coupled with a continuation of neoliberal economic policies. Because these are causes of the crises to begin with, this approach can worsen rather than end hunger. Building a countermovement depends in...
2012 - Taylor & Francis

Conference proceedings
Quality and processing potential of goats produced by smallholder farmers in Malawi

This research will evaluate carcass quality and processing potential of goat meat produced by smallholder farmers in Malawi. The farmers will keep local Malawi goat and Norwegian goats under three management systems (intensive, extensive and semi-intensive). The carcasses from these goats will be analyzed for gross and chemical composition. They...
Malawi
2012 - Bunda College of Agriculture

Project
Innovating Agriculture: "Fresh and Ready to eat" Produce in Umbria

A consortium composed of the University of Tuscia, Novamont – Research and innovation centre in agriculture – and three farms (Azienda Agricola Luca Treppaoli, Azienda Agraria Il Poggiolo, Azienda Agraria Pizzi Giorgiomaria) was formed to address the need for innovative solutions to the regional farms' struggle to survive in a...
Italy
2012

Project
Expanding a Semi-Subsistence Goat Farm

Marina Dicheva established her farm with 20 dairy sheep and 2 female goats in Alekovo in the region of Silistra in 2002. The farm began to focus solely on goat breeds in 2005 due to excellent conditions and the fact that, while goat breeding is a local tradition, few people...
Bulgaria
2012

Project
Setting up a Young Farmer's vegetable farm

Leonard-Alin Plesea is a young farmer from the Jirlau Commune, famous across the country for its bountiful vegetable production. Eager to continue his family’s traditions, he attended a vegetable farming course and acquired practical experience at his family’s farm. In 2009 he leased 4 hectares of agricultural land from his...
Romania
2012

Video
Escuelas de campo y plan de agricultura familiar en El Salvador

Video sobre escuelas de campo realizadas en El Salvador. Se muestra a pequeños y medianos productores de camarón beneficiarios del “Plan de agricultura familiar” desarrollado por el Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería con el apoyo del IICA y otros organismos. Se les capacita en conocimiento técnico, comercialización, emprendimiento y normas...
El Salvador
2012 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)

Fact sheet
Las escuelas de campo en el plan de agricultura familiar

Guía de fácil entendimiento sobre los principales aspectos del Plan de agricultura familiar y específicamente sobre las escuelas de campo. Incluye historias en formato cómic para dinamizar el contenido.
El Salvador
2012 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)

Newsletter
Family farming newsletter for Latin America and the Caribbean, July-September 2012

Family farming in some Latin American and Caribbean countries represents more than 80% of all farm activities, more than 60% of food production and overall farmlands, and more than 70% of farm jobs. Not only does family farming provide food for cities, create jobs and generate income for the poor, it also contributes to the balanced development of...
Brazil - Ecuador - El Salvador
2012

Report
Social protection for food security

A report by The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’. Yet no clear consensus has so far emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation modalities of...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Website
Food Security Portal

The Food Security Portal, facilitated by IFPRI, aims to provide improved food security for the world's poor and increased resilience of global food systems against food and financial crises. The project brings together international, regional, and country-level data, news, and research aimed at meeting countries' immediate food security needs, as...
2012 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Video
Views on Smallholder Farming in Malawi with Alice Kachere

Alice Kachere, a smallholder farmer from Malawi, talks about the challenges she faces as well as the training she has benefited from.
Malawi
2012 - FarmingFirst

Report
Organic farming in Italy

The Italian organic sector has in fact significant growth opportunities in terms of supply, given the increase in demand that has continued for more than six years. However, organic surface has been substantially stationary for about ten years, while the number of organic farms, especially smaller ones, continues to shrink....
Italy
2012 - National Rural Network 2007-2013

Case study
A review of available knowledge on land degradation in Morocco

This publication reviews the historical and current literature on land degradati on in Morocco andpresents the results of a case study in the western part of the country. It is intended as a reflection on the baseline causes for land degradation, so contributing to the development of enabling agricultural policies and the...
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Journal article
L'agriculture familiale, indispensable au développement de l'Afrique

Alors que l'agriculture a occupé une place de choix dans les débats de Rio+20,  et que les forces de la société civile y ont défendu l'agriculture familiale,  l'étude "RuralStruc" permet d'éclairer sous un jour nouveau son rôle  dans la lutte pour le développement. A l'initiative de la Banque mondiale, du ...
2012 - Banque mondiale

Fact sheet
Problemáticas y oportunidades ambientales de la producción porcina familiar

A nivel mundial, la carne de cerdo es una de las preferidas por los seres humanos, y según estimaciones, se espera que su consumo siga aumentando conforme crezca la población. En nuestro país se observa un fuerte crecimiento anual, registrándose en el año 2009 7,95 kg/hab/año; en el 2010 8.06...
Argentina
2012 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria Argentina (INTA)
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