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Impacts of Soil Salinity on the Productivity of Al-Musayyeb Small Farms in Iraq: An Examination of Technical, Economic and Allocative Efficiency
The objective of the study was to investigate how smallholder farm communities could sustain economically viable agricultural production in the salt-affected areas of Al-Musayyeb in ‘Central Iraq’. It aims at opening a new dimension to farmers and policy makers on how to increase production in soil-affected areas by determining the...
Iraq
2015 - CRP on Dryland Systems
Artículo de revista
Sustainable models for prosperity in the mountain areas
Within the Swiss – Romanian Cooperation Program, in 2014 the Project „ Sustainable agricultural models for the mountain area in Romania“, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The partners involved in implementing this project are the Swiss Center for Mountain Regions (SAB), agency coordinating this project, the...
Romania
2015
Artículo de revista especializada
Cosechar y sembrar agua en Santo Domingo de los Olleros
En el distrito de Santo Domingo de los Olleros, al suroeste de la provincia de Huarochirí, Lima, Perú, se inició en 2011 un programa de manejo del agua destinado a regar grandes extensiones de laderas áridas de los anexos, caseríos y centros poblados que pertenecen a las tres comunidades campesinas...
Peru
2015 - Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes (ETC Andes)
Informe
Encuesta Nacional Agropecuaria 2014
El INE, con el proyecto de encuestas agropecuarias continuas, tiene como misión desarrollar encuestas por muestreo, para investigar las variables seleccionadas, en el sector agropecuario y mantener actualizada la información de la situación agropecuaria nacional que se utiliza como base para la toma de decisiones en las estrategias de seguridad...
Guatemala
2015 - Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE Guatemala)
Artículo
Agricultural potential and food security in Central Asia in the light of climate change
The four Central Asian countries mentioned are heavily agrarian societies and have a low income per capita, except for Turkmenistan due to its large oil and gas revenues. The region is characterised by mountainous terrain and dry areas. The climate is continental, with cold winters and dry, hot summers. There...
Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
2015
Documento de la Conferencia
Seminario Regional sobre Agroecología en América Latina y Caribe
El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida.
Documento disponible solo en portugués.
2015 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Helping Uganda’s agriculture grow in a changing world
Faced with a rising population and changing climate, farmers learn new approaches to agribusiness.
Since 2012, 31 Chinese experts and technicians have been sent to Uganda to provide technical assistance in crop production, aquaculture, horticulture, livestock and agribusiness. The team has successfully transferred 25 new technologies, and introduced 17 new varieties such as hybrid rice, foxtail millet and maize, as well as four pieces...
Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Hoja informativa
Dimitra community listeners’ clubs: A unique approach
What is it that makes the Dimitra community listeners’ clubs so special? This fact sheet answers that question by highlighting the eight key features that are crucial to the functioning of the Dimitra listeners’ clubs, and which make the approach unique.
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
14 Ways Agriculture is Reducing Poverty
“Only by putting the poorest in charge of their own lives and destinies, will absolute poverty and deprivation be removed from the face of the earth.”
These words came from Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, 2015 winner of the prestigious World Food Prize, which was announced this summer. To celebrate the prize...
2015 - Farming First
Sitio web
The farm of La Noue, a family story
She began in 2000 with 12 goats, performing milking by hand "for five years""
France
2015
Informe
Beef and Sheep Report 2015
The annual published Beef and Sheep reports contain the main findings of the sector, emphasising the comparative analysis of the competitiveness of the production of beef and sheep, among the participating countries.
The 2015 report provides an update of global world maps and charts, a continuation of the country page information...
Germany
2015 - agri benchmark
Libro
Planning Communication for Agricultural Disaster Risk Management: a Field Guide
Reducing risk and increasing resilience to natural disasters and climate change requires access to knowledge, information and the active participation of vulnerable population. Planning Communication for Agricultural Disaster Risk Management is a field guide to orient ADRM teams and concerned stakeholders for the design and implementation of communication for development...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sitio web
Countries to look at ways of encouraging innovation on the region’s family farms
Farmers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are constantly innovating, adapting their farming techniques to cope with unfavourable weather or environmental conditions. But their efforts are far from systematic, and there is little government support for what they do.
A discussion at the 39th session of the European Commission on Agriculture,...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Informe
Innovative Short Food Supply Chain management
Short Food Supply Chains (SFCs) have potential to improve farm incomes, promote sustainable farming systems and contribute to local economic development. There are many different forms of SFC in Europe, but they share a common characteristic of reduced numbers of intermediaries between the farmer or food producer, and the consumer....
European Union
2015 - European Commission
Informe
Global food policy report 2014-2015
The report summarizes the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. It calls for a renewed focus on middle-income countries, which are home to the majority of the world’s hungry and malnourished and covers other issues that are integral to achieving...
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de blog
Jujuy adhiere a la Ley de Agricultura Familiar
La Legislatura jujeña aprobó por unanimidad la adhesión a la Ley Nacional 27.118 de Reparación Histórica de la Agricultura Familiar, con el fin de construir una nueva ruralidad en la Argentina.
Con la presencia de asociaciones de pequeños productores, agricultores familiares y funcionarios, se aprobó por unanimidad en la legislatura provincial...
Argentina
2015
Actas de conferencia
Family Farming & Research
This document was produced as a result of the “International Encounters on Family Farming and Research“ held in Montpellier, June 1-3, 2014. The conference brought together three hundred participants from the different continents representing family farmers, policy makers, the private sector, as well as teachers and researchers. Research agendas relating...
2015 - Agropolis International
Libro
Agricultura e desenvolvimento rural sustentável: desafios da cooperação técnica internacional
A presente iniciativa buscou reunir uma gama de temas gerais que fossem importantes para toda e qualquer área temática da cooperação internacional, sem se esquecer de dedicar uma parte á agricultura, tema central da ação do IICA. A Parte II, com foco na cooperação voltada á agricultura e ao desenvolvimento...
Brazil
2015 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Estudio de caso
Agricultura familiar agroecológica en el norte del gran Córdoba
La experiencia vivida en la localidad Villa los Llanos-Estación Juárez Celman tiene por objetivo conocer la realidad de la agricultura familiar integrando conceptos productivos agroecológicos y sociales a través del metodología que implica la observación y el diagnostico.
Observación que fue realizada de una forma no estructurada, llevada a cabo a...
Argentina
2015 - Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Artículo de revista
Bringing ‘life’ back to our food system
By prioritising human and non-human life over economic profit, and cooperation over competition, citizens of the city of Cordoba have been able to transform their food system into a thriving network of local food producers and consumers. Women have been at the forefront of this movement.
By prioritising human and non-human life over economic profit, and cooperation over competition, citizens of the city of Cordoba have been able to transform their food system into a thriving network of local food producers and consumers. Women have been at the forefront of this movement.
Spain
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
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