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Climate-smart agriculture
Practice brief Conservation Agriculture
Implementation Guidance for Policymakers and Investors
India - Malawi - Zambia
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
International Workshop on Towards Socially Just and Sustainable Fisheries: ICSF Workshop on Implementing the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines)- Report, 21 - 24 July 2014, Puducherry, India
This publication is a report of the proceedings of the ICSF ‘s Puducherry Workshop, which focused on the FAO's Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication (SSG Guidelines). The workshop brought together 71 participants from 20 countries representing civil society organizations,...
India
2014
Vídeo
The Sea of Change: Traditional fishworker's perception of climate change
Traditional fishworkers have long been forced to adapt to the forces of nature, and they are now confronted with the new threats of climate change, global warming, sea-level rise and ocean acidification. What will be the potential impacts of climate change on the already vulnerable and marginalized small-scale fishing communities...
India
2014 - The International Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICSF)
Libro
Deep roots
The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) has uncovered well-grounded resolve to place family farmers as protagonists in addressing a number of challenges we face, from eradicating hunger and poverty to conserving natural resources. Nothing comes closer to the sustainable food production paradigm than family farming. The diverse set of...
Albania - Australia - Brazil - Canada - Chile - China - Costa Rica - Croatia - Finland - France - Hungary - India - Japan - Kenya - Madagascar - Malaysia - Nepal - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - New Zealand - Norway - Philippines - Senegal - Serbia - Slovenia - South Africa - Thailand - Uruguay
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Revista especializada
The family business: Is there a future for small farms?
The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families. Because family farms are so prevalent, making them more productive could help combat poverty and hunger in many...
Ethiopia - Ghana - India - Kenya - Mexico
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de revista especializada
Peasant-managed Agricultural Growth in China: Mechanisms of Labour-driven Intensification
This article discusses the different mechanisms that sustain labour-driven intensification in contemporary Chinese agriculture. They include: labour investments directed at improving resources; the intensification of cropping schemes; fine-tuning production processes, resulting in yield increases; embedded specialization; the reorganization of space; and on-farm processing, which gives more value-added per unit of...
China
2014
Artículo de revista especializada
Conversion of Family Farms and Resilience in Southland, New Zealand
The well-known deregulation of New Zealand agriculture prompted the growth of dairy farming, particularly in the region of Southland. The formation of the giant cooperative Fonterra only exacerbated the conversion of sheep farms into dairy farms that challenged both farmers’ and the region’s traditional identity as a sheep country. Interviews...
New Zealand
2014
Documento de trabajo
Solutions through Stewardship: Managing Pesticide Residues in Farm Produce
Globally, agriculture is facing enormous pressure to produce more food for growing population while it is increasingly getting affected by shrinking cultivable land area, water availability and climate change. With impressive economic growth, homogeneity of diets across countries has increased in the last 50 years and is pushing more and...
India
2014 - CropLife Asia
Informe
ICARDA annual report 2014
As part of our larger strategy to adapt smallholders in drylands to climate change, ICARDA’s science has sharpened its focus on producing more with less in irrigated and agropastoral systems, and sustainably intensifying cereal-based rain-fed production systems through research platforms in Egypt, Ethiopia and Morocco.
Afghanistan - Egypt - Ethiopia - India - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Jordan - Morocco - Pakistan - Sudan - Türkiye
2014 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Informe
The changing role of women in the economic transformation of family farming in Asia and the Pacific
Asia and the Pacific is a very socially, culturally and economically diverse region. Trade liberalization and foreign investments have contributed to rapid economic, human capital and agricultural growth, and decreased price distortions. However, the benefits have been unevenly shared among and within countries and between men and women. Export-oriented policies...
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development
Informe
Regional overview of aquaculture trends in the Asia-Pacific Region 2014
The Asia-Pacific region is the world leader in total aquaculture production. In 2012 the region produced 58.5 million tonnes of aquaculture products (excluding aquatic plants), accounting for 89 percent of the global aquaculture production of 66.7 million tonnes. More than any other region, the review of aquaculture production by species,...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Informe
Harvesting from Family Farms
Stories of Feeding the Nation and Caring for the Earth
The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) is meant to drumbeat the issues of family farmers before policy makers and other stakeholders in the rural development community. But, it is not only that. It is also aimed at bringing back the dignity of farming by recognizing the contribution of family...
Philippines
2014 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)
Parte de un libro
Reducing Excessive Nitrogen Use in Chinese Wheat Production Through Knowledge Training
What Are the Implications for the Public Extension System?
Excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer in crop production in China leads to environmental problems, and farmers’ lack of knowledge is the primary constraint. The public extension system, however, lacks the accountability and capability to deliver ecoagricultural extension services to farmers. Previous studies show that extension staff had little incentive to...
China
2014 - Taylor & Francis Group
Revista especializada
Caravan - Gender focus: prioritizing the needs of women farmers
This issue of Caravan – a collaborative effort with the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems – focuses on gender related research being undertaken by ICARDA and national and CGIAR research partners across the world's dry areas, reflecting on experience and insights from Morocco to South Asia and beyond. Articles...
Afghanistan - Egypt - Jordan
2014 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Hoja informativa
The changing role of women in the economic transformation of family farming in Asia and the Pacific
Asia and the Pacific is a very socially, culturally and economically diverse region. Family farming remains the predominant form of agriculture in Asia and the Pacific. Family enterprises in agriculture, forestry and fishery production play key roles in food security, local economies, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change...
2014 - International Fund for International Development (IFAD)
Artículo
Hollow Lives: Women Left Behind in Rural China
This paper explores the situation of women left behind in villages when men out-migrate for work and what it implies for gender relations in rural China. It is based on questionnaire survey data that covers 400 left-behind women and extensive interviews in 10 rural communities. It reveals how the women...
China
2014 - College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD)
Artículo
Sustaining the Farming Household to Sustain the Farming
In the literature on sustainability of agriculture, both labourers and workers are conspicuously absent. Here, the sustainability of agriculture has been defined in terms of whether the farm household in question is able to yield an energy surplus when its members and the animals in its possession are obtaining an...
India
2014 - Department of Policy Studies, TERI University
Documento de trabajo
Changing Sources of Growth in Indian Agriculture
Implications for Regional Priorities for Accelerating Agricultural Growth
Indian agriculture was transforming from a cereal-based production system toward high-value crops (HVC) during the 1990s. However, food security concerns resurfaced during the first decade of the 21st century, and the policy environment tilted in favor of cereal-based production systems, especially rice and wheat. This paper revisits an earlier study...
India
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Hoja informativa
The Medium Term Cooperation Programme (MTCP2)
The Medium Term Cooperation Programme with Farmers’ Organisations in Asi and the Pacific, Phase II (MTCP2) aims to strengthen the capacities of farmers organizations in Asia and the Pacific to deliver better, improved and inclusive services to their members and to engage in effective dialogues with governments, thereby making FOs...
2014 - MTCP2
Artículo
Bong tree farming raises income of former rice farmers in Laos
Farmers in Laos are rediscovering the value of a traditional crop – the bark of the bong tree. Because the once-abundant bong trees are now on the endangered species list, smallholders are establishing profitable plantations to meet the growing demand for the aromatic bark.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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