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High Nature Value Farming in the Western Balkans:
Current Status and Key Challenges – a Scoping Document
The Western Balkan countries are all in a process of accession to the European Union. Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro have the status of candidate countries. Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99 are potential candidate countries, with the prospect of joining the EU when they meet the...
Albania - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Croatia - Montenegro - Serbia - North Macedonia
2011 - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
Artículo de revista
Direct sales: Italy’s Baugiano Farm Oasis and youth White Bar
Italy is a country well known for the quality and diversity of its cuisine. Traditional foods and family recipes form an integral part of national culture. Preservation of these food values is important to many Italians (as it is for other Europeans as well) and in recent years the concept...
Italy
2011 - THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (ENRD)
Vídeo
Producción orgánica familiar en Bolivia
Este video presenta un informe sobre cómo se desarrolla la agroecología familiar orgánica en diferentes partes de Bolivia.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2011 - Comunidad Andina (CAN)
Artículo de revista especializada
Feasibility of some adaptation measures of on-farm irrigation in Egypt under water scarcity conditions
The aim of this investigation is to evaluate some proposed adaptation measures in order to overcome the projected impacts of climate change over on-farm irrigation system in Egypt. Improve irrigation systems efficiencies, change irrigation systems, and deficient irrigation were evaluated by using multi-criteria approach of evaluation. Adaptation measures were studied...
Egypt
2010
Documento de trabajo
Policies and Institutions to Support Smallholder Agriculture
In the developing world, smallholders form the backbone of the agricultural sector and their importance in rural areas is almost uniform across countries. There is no unique and unambiguous definition of a smallholder. Often scale, measured in terms of the farm size is used to classify producers. For example, households...
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
The World of Community Supported Agriculture
All the way around the world in countries as diverse as the United States, Japan, France, China or Mali, people who farm and people who eat are forming communities around locally grown food. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Teikei, AMAP, Reciproco, ASC – the names may be different but the essence...
2010 - URGENCI
Artículo de revista especializada
Agroecología: Potenciando la agricultura campesina para revertir el hambre y la inseguridad alimentaria en el mundo
En este artículo se analizan las potencialidades de la agroecología basada en el control de las comunidades locales para hacer frente a enormes problemas humanos como el hambre y el deterioro ambiental. Para ello se revisa la literatura existente y se analizan diversas experiencias locales como la milpa mexicana, las...
Cuba - Mexico
2010 - Revista de Economía Crítica
Estudio de caso
Sistematización de buenas prácticas en el marco de la prevención y mitigación de siniestros climáticos en el sector agropecuario en el Altiplano Central, Bolivia
El cambio climático es una preocupación tanto para decisores como para la gente común, ya que afecta los medios de vida de los más vulnerables, en este caso, de los pequeños productores que se encuentran en el altiplano andino. El presente documento presenta la sistematización de las buenas prácticas más...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2010 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Les origines et l’évolution de l’agriculture soutenue par la communauté
l’initiative d’Alliance Provence, une rencontre a été organisée entre des représentants des réseaux Equiterre, Urgenci, Alliance PEC Rhône-Alpes et Alliance Provence. Cette rencontre a permis de revenir sur les origines de l’Agriculture soutenue par la communauté (traduction française littérale des Community Supported Agriculture américaines), et la façon dont le modèle...
2010 - URGENCI
Estudio de caso
Enquête sur la valorisation des bas-fonds au Bénin
Etude de cas sur les logiques paysannes et les dynamiques locales dans la commune de Djidja
Les bas-fonds sont aujourd’hui au centre de nombreux projets de développement visant une sécurisation alimentaire à travers des projets de petite irrigation. La première partie de ce travail traite des stratégies mises en oeuvre par le gouvernement béninois qui a fait de l’aménagement des bas-fonds une de ses priorités. Cependant,...
Benin
2010 - Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Estudio de caso
A bright future for small fruit farmers in southern Ethiopia
With financial assistance from the Irish embassy and the embassy of the kingdom of The Netherlands, SNV supports since 2007 fruit marketing cooperatives in Southern Ethiopia. SNV strengthens the cooperatives through facilitating business to business arrangements, business planning and improved operational management, and access to critical services. Results of the...
Ethiopia
2010 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Documento/nota de orientación
Urban agriculture, poverty, and food security
Empirical evidence from a sample of developing countries
Urban agriculture may have a role to play in addressing urban food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly important with the secular trend towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing regions. Our understanding of the importance, nature and food security implications of urban agriculture is...
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Modern Day Problems Of Small Scale Farmers In India
Thousands of small scale farmers in India commit duicide, because they can no longer solve their debt problems. Two decades ago they took up modern farming and with the help of government subsidies they started growing commercial crops. In the beginning harvests were good, but as time went on, the...
India
2010 - rosaryfilms
Estudio de caso
Community based pasture management in Kyrgystan
Pasture is one of the most vital natural resources for Central Asia countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It accounts for nearly 260 million hectares of land resources being a basis for livestock breeding which is an income source for the majority of Central Asia population. Pasture land is...
Kyrgyzstan
2010
Libro
Rural family agribusiness and the quality of the artisanal production at the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre
The approach of the theory of conventions
The rural familiar agroindustry is an alternative in the search for new niche markets, using the greater diversity of existing products and product differentiation by transforming them inside the property. Its implementation is considered an effective alternative as policy fot Rural Development, but despite all efforts there are many limitations ...
Brazil
2010 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Libro
Reconnecting the production to consumption
The foodstuffs acquisition of family farming for the school feeding programme
In the face a complex food problems consists of a scenario of nutritional transition and a productive model guided by the industrialization of agriculture and food, causing the marginalization of most family farmers, in Brazil there is political and social actions that tend to destabilize supply chains dominate. In the ...
Brazil
2010 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Informe
Central Asia: Acting locally – cooperating regionally
Sustainable use of natural resources in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
In close cooperation with the German Development Service (DED) and the Centre for international Migration and Development (CIM) a number of projects have been carried out in recent years, ranging from direct support of communities to the promotion of trans-border cooperation and regional partnerships. The successes of the initial years...
Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
2010
Estudio de caso
The remarkable history of polder systems in The Netherlands
The traditional polders in The Netherlands have been formed from the 12th century onwards, when people started creating arable land by draining delta swamps into nearby rivers. In the process, the drained peat started oxidizing, thus soil levels lowered, up to river water levels and lower. Throughout the centuries farmers...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
Agro-ecologie et developpement durable
De façon à répondre aux exigences d’économies d’échelle manifestées par les grandes firmes semencières et agroindustrielles, nombreuses ont été les agricultures ayant connu récemment des évolutions non compatibles avec les exigences du développement durable, tant par la dégradation des agro écosystèmes qu’elles induisent, que par le primat des logiques de...
2010 - ISDA 2010
Artículo de revista especializada
Agroecology and sustainable development
In order to meet economy of scale demands made by large seed and agroindustrial companies, many areas of agriculture have recently evolved in ways which are incompatible with sustainable development, both in terms of damage to agroecosystems and by the continued belief in principles of land concentration and underuse. Farming...
2010 - Archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire (HAL)
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