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La adopción tecnológica en sistemas agropecuarios de pequeños productores
Partiendo de un marco teórico que considera al cambio tecnológico como un componente normal de la conducta campesina, este trabajo analiza las principales características del proceso de adopción tecnológica por parte de pequeños productores rurales. El proceso de adopción tecnológica es complejo debido a que no sólo están en juego...
Argentina
1997 - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Book
Globalization, Gender and Fisheries: Report of the Senegal Workshop on Gender Perspectives in Fisheries - Women in Fisheries No. 4
The fourth in the Women in Fisheries series, this contains the report of the concluding workshop of the first phase of the Women in Fisheries programme of ICSF. Held in Rufisque, Senegal, in June 1996, the Workshop attracted 33 participants from 12 countries.
Senegal
1997 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
Women for Sustainable Fisheries: Report of the First Phase of the Women in Fisheries Programme of ICSF - Women in Fisheries No. 3
This, the third in the Women in Fisheries series, draws on reports from seven countries to arrive at an understanding of the issue of gender in fisheries. In the process, it questions traditional norms in male-dominated fishworker organizations, both in the North and in the South.
1997 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
Women First: Report of the Women in Fisheries Programme of the ICSF in India, Volume 1 - Women in Fisheries No.2
The second in the Women in Fisheries series, this contains details of women's involvement in fisheries in each of the nine maritime States of India. This Dossier is an acknowledgement of the role women have played in sustaining coastal communities through thick and thin. It is an effort to make...
1997 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Privatisation de la terre et éclatement des structures familiales dans le Sud tunisien : cas d'El Hamma-Gabès
La privatisation des terres collectives dans la région d'El Hamma (gouvernorat de Gabès) a entraîné des mutations socio-économiques touchant les pratiques agro-pastorales. En effet, cette privatisation des terres s'est traduite par la fixation des anciennes nomades et par l'extension des plantations arboricoles. Elle a fait baigner les Beni-Zid dans un...
Tunisia
1997 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Journal article
Impacts socio-économiques et écologiques de la privatisation des terres sur la gestion des espaces et la conduite des troupeaux : cas de la commune de Telagh (Sidi-Bel-Abbès, Algérie)
Les restructurations et réorganisations successives des terres productives, et leur orientation à très court terme vers la privatisation, ont des répercussions certaines sur la structure de l'espace. L'impact de cette dynamique sur le régime foncier dans sa globalité influence la relation entre l'espace et ses utilisateurs. Cette relation a été...
Algeria
1997 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Journal article
La privatisation du foncier : impact sur l'environnement et sur les ressources génétiques en Algérie
L'accès à la propriété foncière a des conséquences énormes sur l'environnement et sur les ressources génétiques, particulièrement au niveau des régions arides et semi-arides. L'utilisation de techniques (souvent inadéquates) et le choix de systèmes d'exploitation des terres provoquent la dégradation non seulement de la végétation spontanée mais aussi des sols....
Algeria
1997 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Journal article
Response of farmers to agricultural insurance in Kogi State, Nigeria
This study conducted in Kogi and Adavi Local Government Areas of Kogi State, assessed farmers response to the Agricultural Insurance Scheme of the Nigerian Insurance Company (NAIC). The willingness of farmers to take up the scheme was also determined. The data obtained were subjected to descriptive statistics and multiple Regression...
Nigeria
1996
Policy brief/paper
Financing smallholder farmers
This paper discusses the merits and de-merits of different means of financing smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, with special reference to Zimbabwe. This financing includes inter alia multilateral and bilateral agreements with governments and other agencies, micro-financial institutions coming from both the private sector and nongovernmental organizations.
Zimbabwe
1996 - Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, Zimbabwe
Working paper
Planning and Policies on Extensive Livestock Development in Central Asia
The main objective of this review is to identify policy and research issues on range livestock production in Central Asia. This report reviews collected material in English, and presents a bibliography and abstracts of works in Russian, on extensive livestock production systems dependent on natural pastures in the ex-Soviet Central...
Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Turkmenistan
1996 - Overseas Development Institute
Website
Instituto Plan Agropecuario
Sitio donde se encuentra toda la información de la Institución "Plan Agropecuario", áreas de trabajo, publicaciones, proyectos y servicios que presta.
Entre sus objetivos, este Instituto realiza actividades de extensión, transferencia de tecnología y capacitación relacionadas con la producción agropecuaria, con la finalidad de promover el desarrollo del sector. También abarca...
Uruguay
1996 - Instituto Plan Agropecuario
Journal
Las Organizaciones Campesinas Paraguayas y el Desarrollo Rural Sustentable
Las más de 250.000 familias de pequeños productores rurales con menos de 20 has. Del país es quizás el grupo social que de manera más notoria ha estado excluido de estos programas gubernamentales que intentan propiciar el desarrollo rural. Es en función a esta realidad que el presente Proyecto tiene,...
Paraguay
1996 - Base Investigaciones Sociales (BaseIS)
Journal
Sustentabilidad económica del modelo de desarrollo rural vigente: el Paraguay y su vinculación a los organismos de comercio agrícola internacional.
El presente trabajo presenta un análisis del Comercio Exterior paraguayo – constituido básicamente de materias primas de origen agrícola- lo que da una idea de su inserción en el Mercado Mundial de Materias Primas desde los primeros pasos que se dieron en el campo internacional para llegar a la solución...
Paraguay
1996 - Base Investigaciones Sociales (BaseIS)
Journal article
Intensifying production among smallholder farmers
The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda
While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...
Rwanda
1995 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Book
Le Crédit à la pêche artisanale en Afrique de l’ouest
Cette étude fouillée réalisée auprès de 1157 opérateurs de la filière. En publiant cette recherche, ICSF voudrait permettre aux scientifiques et aux décideurs de mieux connaître le milieude la pêche artisanale et sa complexité. La discussion des résultats devrait aussi être source d’inspiration pour les responsables des organisations de pécheurs...
1995 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Intensifying production among smallholder farmers
The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda
While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...
Rwanda
1995 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Journal article
Empirical Evidence of Mechanization Effects on Smallholder Crop Production Systems in Botswana
Draught animal power (DAP) is well established as the traditional farming technology of smallholder farmers in Botswana. However, in recent years, the use of tractor farm technology is increasingly becoming important among smallholder farmers in spite of the on-going debate on the desirability of mechanizing smallholder crop production systems. Using...
Botswana
1995
Statement
Opinion: Women farmers in Europe
All over the world women play a unique and vital role in fixing our broken food system. There is a strong need in Europe to strengthen women farmers in their work, through education and training, argues Hanny van Geel.
All over the world women play a unique and vital role in fixing our broken food system. The prevailing view on agriculture and food in Europe and in European institutions is limited to economics and trade. In these places (old) men in suits discuss amongst themselves and take decisions. In...
1995 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Journal article
The Family Farm Ideology, the Baltic Countries, and Theories of Development
In this article it is developed, based on existing data and post-socialism discourse, a theoretical perspective on the research into the privatization of agriculture in the Baltic republics.
As much as estate ownership in the 19th century, small farming established in sweeping land reforms characterized Baltic agriculture between the World Wars....
Estonia - Latvia - Lithuania
1995
Journal
La promoción de organizaciones campesinas, ONGs y la cooperación para el desarrollo
Este trabajo es de resultado de un estudio solicitado por la Fundación Interamericana (IAF) en el marco de un proceso interno de evaluación del programa de la IAF en el Paraguay, que abarcó el análisis de algunos de sus proyectos de apoyo tanto a Organizaciones Campesinas (OCs), como a Organizaciones...
Paraguay
1995 - Base Investigaciones Sociales (BaseIS)
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