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Latin American Maize Germplasm Conservation: Regeneration, In situ Conservation, Core Subsets, and Prebreeding
This publication describes progress in collaborative efforts to document, characterize, regenerate, and conserve (both in seed banks and on-farm in situ) maize seed collections from the Americas since 1998. Participants from North, Central, and South America took part in a workshop at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)...
Argentina - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Ecuador - Guatemala - Mexico - Paraguay - Peru - United States of America - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2005 - International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Artículo de revista especializada
The advent of organic farming models: analysis of the current situation and perspectives in Brazil
This text analyses the development o f organic farming in Brazil. Itfshows the great variability of social models of organic production recognised by Brazilian Law: organic, agroecological, ecological or biodynamic agriculture, pcrmaculturc etc. It dcpicts how the political and social concerns in the spheres of family farming and environment caused...
Brazil
2005 - EMBRAPA Meio Ambicnt
Informe
Mercadeo de los productos orgánicos en Bolivia
El caso ASOPEC
De acuerdo con los análisis de la FAO y otras instituciones, la información de mercados (Market Information) ayuda a los agricultores en la toma de decisiones sobre aspectos importantes del proceso de mercadeo. Además contribuye a: la reducción del riesgo asociado con la comercialización; la selección de mercados convenientes para...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Cuba - Ecuador - Honduras - Mexico - Peru - Uruguay
2004 - Università di Perugia
Informe
People, land management and environmental change (PLEC)
FINAL EVALUATION
The People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) project is a largely farmer-driven demonstration project consisting of five ecosystem clusters and spread over eight countries: Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, China, Papua New Guinea and Brazil. PLEC was initiated in 1992 by the United Nations University (UNU) as an international...
Brazil - China - Ghana - Guinea - Papua New Guinea - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2003 - United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
Artículo de revista especializada
Social theory, family farming and pluriactivity
This paper aims at presenting an analytical reference that allows understanding pluriactivity as a strategy for social and economic reproduction for rural families. In the introduction, we present the context in which the study of family farming and pluriactivity emerges in Brazil. In the first section, we discuss the origin...
Brazil
2003 - Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais (ANPOCS)
Estudio de caso
Conservation Agriculture in development
The case of Africa
The rising world population is increasing the pressure on agriculture to produce more food. This is more so for the African continent, where it is not just about food supply, but also a critical factor in economic development, poverty alleviation and improving living standards especially in rural areas. On the...
Botswana - Brazil - Kenya - Namibia - South Africa - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista
Agricultura familiar y desarrollo territorial
El modelo de crecimiento urbano que Brasil está experimentando en los últimos quince años podría constituir un momento positivo para reactivar su sector rural. Las políticas dirigidas al fortalecimiento y a la creación de nuevas unidades familiares en el sector rural tendrán tanto más éxito cuanto más importantes sean las...
Brazil
2000 - Reforma Agraria
Libro
An econometric study of the agricultural labour market in Brazil
A test of subsistence and commercial family farm models
In the last three decennia there has been a sizable shift of labour out of Brazilian agriculture in response to the higher returns to be gained in non-farm employrnent . The shift has not been rapid enough to equalize the income differences between the farm and non-farm sectors. Nonetheless, it...
Brazil
1972 - Purdue University
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