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Estudio de caso
Renewable energy for smallholder irrigation
This study summarizes experiences using Renewable Energy (RE) water pumping options as irrigation by smallholder farmers in developing countries. It includes an overview of conventional technologies (petrol and diesel pumpsets),along with an inventory of RE alternatives (wind pumps, solar Photo Voltaic (PV) pumps, solar thermal pumps and biogas) and compares,...
Ethiopia
2014 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Informe
The state of food insecurity in the world 2014
Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
SOFI 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Haiti - Indonesia - Madagascar - Malawi - Yemen
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Conservation agriculture contributes to Zimbabwe economic recovery
An estimated 300 000 Zimbabwe farmers have adopted conservation agriculture
The economy of Zimbabwe – once considered the breadbasket of southern Africa – has begun to turn around after a decade-long recession that saw a sharp drop in agricultural production, falling incomes and increasing food shortages. With some 70 percent of people relying on agriculture for their livelihoods, the strength...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Building livestock farmer resilience in emergencies
In June and August 2012 the Department of Livestock & Veterinary Services (DLVS) carried out assessments that confirmed the severity of drought in some parts of southern Zimbabwe. FAO, with funding from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture Mechanization and...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Boletín informativo
ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 78: Building resilience for family farming
ICT4Ag is a bimonthly printed and on-line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying e-mail newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses on building resilience for family farming.
2014 - CTA
Boletín informativo
ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 78 : Renforcer la résilience de l'agriculture familiale
ICT Update est un magazine bimestriel édité par le CTA et disponible sur Internet (http://ictupdate.cta.int), en version papier et sous forme d'une newsletter diffusée par e-mail. Ce numéro est consacré au renforcement de la résilience de l'agriculture familiale.
2014 - CTA
Documento de trabajo
Developing a typology of agricultural holdings for improved policy design
Developing a typology of agricultural holdings for improved policy design
In Malawi, where most of the population relies on agriculture and is considered “small farmers”, better characterizing the diversity of agricultural holdings and the drivers of their transformation is key to inform policy makers and design programs better fitted to the diverse needs and capacities. The World Agriculture Watch (WAW)...
Malawi
2014 - World Agricultures Watch (WAW)
Informe
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small farmers control the largest share of the world's agricultural land. Inaugurating 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming, José Graziano da Silva, Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), sang the praises of family farmers but didn't...
2014 - GRAIN
Parte de un libro
Organic agricultural practices among small holder farmers in South Western Nigeria
Organic farming represents a deliberate attempt to make the best use of local natural resources and is an environmental friendly system of farming. It relies much on ecosystem management which excludes external input, especially the synthetic ones. Ander son, Jolly and Green (2005) stated that organic farming is a production...
Nigeria
2014
Informe
Policy options to enhance markets for nutrient-dense foods in Tanzania
There is an urgent need to reduce alarming rates of undernutrition in Tanzania. This report analyses options for policies and interventions to improve the functioning of markets that deliver nutrient-dense foods. Currently, a set of constraints inhibit businesses from making nutrient-dense foods that reach the poor. These constraints affect businesses...
United Republic of Tanzania
2014
Artículo de blog
Les exploitations agricoles familiales du Sénégal sont très productives
Etude de la productivité des exploitations agricoles familiales au Sénégal basée sur les données de l’Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANDS) sur les zones de production et sur celles issues des enquêtes du projet de caractérisation et de typologie des exploitations agricoles familiales au Sénégal (EXFAM) menée...
Senegal
2014
Estudio de caso
“No Tree, No Bee – No Honey, No Money”
The management of resources and marginalisation in beekeeping societies of South West Ethiopia
The paper analyses the impact of the two most prominent elements of a traditional societ y in South West Ethiopia: institutionalized traditional beekeeping as main cash income source and high segregation of a society through a caste system, which marginalizes especially a certain huntergatherer group. Beside the high ecological value...
Ethiopia
2014 - United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
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Specialization or diversification?
Divergent perspectives on rice farming in three large dam-irrigated areas in the Sahel
This report is based on the main lessons and recommendations from three case studies analysing the strategies, aspirations and constraints of the various types of farmers living around the dams of Bagré (Burkina Faso), Sélingué (Mali) and Niandouba/Confluent (Senegal). This document aims to contribute to the reflections national and regional...
Burkina Faso - Mali - Senegal
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Libro
Lessons in supporting family farming
Stories from Swaziland
Many rural development initiatives attempt to improve the lives of family farmers. Some succeed, some fail – but all of them can offer valuable lessons for the future. In a two-phased documentation workshop, farmers, field workers and other experts working in IFAD-funded projects in Swaziland described, analysed and wrote down...
Eswatini
2014 - Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture ( ILEIA)
Artículo
La Coordination Togolaise des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs Agricoles (CTOP) rend visite aux exploitations familiales agricoles sénégalaises
La Coordination Togolaise des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs Agricoles (CTOP) qui a mis en place le Projet d’appui au développement agricole au Togo (PADAT), a effectué une visite d’échange et d’étude au Sénégal, sur les services économiques aux organisations de producteurs, du 7 au 16 mai 2014. Cet article rend compte...
Senegal - Togo
2014 - Fédération des ONG du Sénégal (FONGS – Action paysanne)
Informe
Défis, propositions et engagements des organisations des organisations de producteurs et de la société civile pour la promotion de l'agriculture familiale en Côte d’Ivoire
Le présent document porte sur l’analyse des défis de l’Agriculture familiale en Côte d’Ivoire, la proposition de mesures politiques en vue de soutenir les systèmes alimentaires auxquels elle donne vie, ainsi que les engagements des acteurs de la société civile, les organisations de producteurs en première ligne, pour contribuer à...
2014 - INADES-Formation
Documento de trabajo
Ghana Agriculture Production Survey (GAPS): 2011/2012 Minor Season Survey
Report on Data Quality and Key Indicators
Since 1999, the Statistics, Research, and Information Directorate (SRID) of Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has been collecting data and administering surveys using a Multi-Round Annual Crop and Livestock Survey (MRACLS) system to inform agricultural policy formulation and implementation. MRACLS provides information on agricultural production by giving estimates...
Ghana
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento/nota de orientación
Barriers to trade for smallholder farmers in Tanzania
A review and analysis of agricultural related market policies in Tanzania
The study noted that, small-scale farmers are placed at the centre of almost all agricultural policies and strategies, ranging from the Vision 2025 to the National Strategy for economic Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP) or in Kiswahili, MKUKUTA and individual policies and projects. Statements such a ensuring food self-sufficiency...
United Republic of Tanzania
2013 - PELUM Tanzania
Vídeo
'Schools without walls': Agro-pastoralist field schools in the Horn of Africa
This video shows how members of Arbale Pastoral Field School in Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia are applying knowledge gained to implementing community managed disaster risk reduction action plans for the protection of vast areas of communal grazing lands.
Ethiopia
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo
Time to recognise African smallholder farmers as entrepreneurs
Our farmers are entrepreneurs, just like their counterparts in the telecoms industry. Yet they face even greater risks in getting their goods to market. This is particularly true of our smallholder farmers, most of them women, who cultivate plots about the size of a football field or two. She typically...
2013 - Africa Progress Panel (APP)
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