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Southern african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Mozambique
Africa, in general, is vulnerable to climate change, mostly due to its dependence on agriculture. Mozambique is a prime example. Agriculture is an important sector of the country’s economy, and, as indicated by the 2007 FAO country factsheet, around 80 percent of the population (about 19.4 million people in 2007)...
Mozambique
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento/nota de orientación
Managing Aso Grasslands for Sustainable Agriculture
The Aso Grasslands are located in Aso region of Kumamoto Prefecture, which situates in the middle of the Kyushu Island in Japan. Aso region spreads around active volcanic craters and huge caldera. The Aso volcano has one of the world’s largest caldera stretching 18 km from east to west and...
Japan
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Après le « printemps arabe » : pour de nouvelles politiques alimentaires, agricoles et rurales en Afrique du Nord
L'actualité quotidienne nous rappelle en permanence que la situation économique, sociale et politique en Egypte et dans les pays du Maghreb demeure très fragile. L'avenir est lourd d'incertitudes. Les évènements du « printemps arabe » et leurs suites, qui se déroulent actuellement, ont de multiples dimensions et soulèvent de nombreuses...
2013 - Fondation pour l'agriculture et la ruralité dans le monde (FARM)
Libro
Rural education and teaching in the context of family farming
The acting school program (EAP/MEC) at the municipality of Salinas - Minas Gerais
The issue of rural education and/or farm, though still lacking of research, has been increasing in the discussions and studies on Brazilian family farming over the recent decades. This is due to the recognition of the contribution of education to rural development. If, on the one hand, the State has...
Brazil
2013 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Estudio de caso
Traditional tea-grass integrated system in Shizuoka
“Chagusaba”(“semi-natural grasslands”) represents an exemplary system of traditional agricultural techniques, where grasslands are maintained around tea fields to supply mulch that improves the quality of tea cultivation. Chagusaba is a rare example of codependence between agricultural production and biodiversity, each of which enhances the other’s value (See Photo 1). For...
Japan
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista
Faciliter l’accès aux facteurs de production pour renforcer la résilience des exploitations familiales : l’expérience novatrice du PAFA dans le Bassin arachidier, au Sénégal
Au Sénégal, les activités économiques en milieu rural et particulièrement dans le Bassin arachidier sont dominées par la production agricole, principale source de revenus des populations. Avant l’arrivée du Projet d’Appui aux Filières agricoles (PAFA), les exploitations familiales évoluaient dans un environnement socio-économique difficile : dégradation des terres, faible diversification...
Senegal
2013 - Innovation environnement développement Afrique (IED Afrique)
Documento de trabajo
Soil conservation and water harvesting to improve community livelihoods and fight land degradation in the mountains of Syria
In the mountainous and arid regions of northwest Syria, water and land resources are under pressure from natural and human-induced forms of land degradation. This has resulted in lower incomes for families dependent on olive farming. This study explores the impact of natural resource management, supported by a micro-credit system,...
Syrian Arab Republic
2013 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Informe
Parcela demostrativa de cultivares de zapallo anco (Cucurbita) en una huerta de la localidad de Los Cisnes
La experiencia se realiza en la huerta de Esteban Antonio Zárate (promotor del Proyecto Integrado Pro-Huerta), ubicada en zona urbana de la localidad de Los Cisnes. Destino de la producción: consumo propio y venta en chacra y a domicilio. Con apoyo de la Cooperativa local (Colevisep) adquirió un rotocultivador y produce lombricompuesto aprovechando...
Argentina
2013 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Libro
East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Eritrea - Kenya - Madagascar - Rwanda - Sudan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Informe
Family farmers for sustainable food systems
A synthesis of reports by African farmers' regional networks on models of food production, consumption and markets
Family farming is the basis for modern food provision in Africa, today and tomorrow. Its multifunctionality and sustainable productive potential is supported by extensive research evidence. Family farming and small-scale food production generates food and well-being for the majority of the population and the wealth of the region, and conserves...
Cameroon - Kenya - Mali
2013 - EuropAfrica Consortium
Informe
Relevamiento y sistematización de problemas de tierra de los agricultores familiares en la Argentina
Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar, relevar y sistematizar problemas vinculados al acceso, tenencia (garantía de la tenencia actual y regularización dominial) y distribución de la tierra, así como los conflictos que ellos generan. La finalidad perseguida es ofrecer información necesaria a técnicos y decisores políticos para establecer líneas de...
Argentina
2013 - Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca de la Nación - PROINDER, Proyecto de Desarrollo de Pequeños Productores Agropecuarios.
Libro
Women in family farming at the semiarid of Northern Minas Gerais
Social division of labor and gender in jaíba project
This work deals with the situation of women’s life and work in family farming in the North of Minas Gerais semiarid, focusing on the work social division and gender in the Jaíba Project. In this context the Step I was chosen inthis project in the area A: NS1 and NS2...
Brazil
2013 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Artículo de revista especializada
La agroecología como un enfoque transdisciplinar, participativo y orientado a la acciónn
Este artículo examina las múltiples direcciones en la evolución de la agroecología, desde su temprano énfasis en los procesos ecológicos de los sistemas agrícolas, hasta su desarrollo como planteamiento multidimensional amplio, y orientado hacia los sistemas agroalimentarios. La publicación de esta edición especial es muy oportuna, pues la agroecología se...
2013 - Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group (ARLG)
Libro
The qualification and the professional identity formation of the family farmers at Januária Region - Minas Gerais
This study thesis proposes a discussion on the connections between the professional qualification courses, gestated by government programs PLANFOR and PNQ, and the formation of professional identity of the farmers in the region Januária - MG. These programs, gestated in the early 1990s, in a context of profound changes in...
Brazil
2013 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Vídeo
River of milk: Afghan dairy farmers prosper
The dairy sector in Afghanistan is thriving. Thousands of small farmers are benefiting from an FAO project funded by Italy that is improving the collection, processing and marketing of their milk. Women control almost 90 % of the profits. Milk producers are organized into cooperatives. Demand for milk products is...
Afghanistan
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manual
Instrumentos de Gestión para el desarrollo económico local en la promoción alpaquera
Proyecto: Organización de un sistema local de innovación y extensión agraria para el desarrollo sostenible de la actividad alpaquera, en la macro región Apurímac-Ayacucho
Soluciones Prácticas y REMURPE a través de la implementación del Proyecto PAQOCHA presenta este documento “Instrumentos de Gestión para el Desarrollo Económico Local en la Promoción Alpaquera”; que parte de la necesidad estratégica de las autoridades y funcionarios de los gobiernos regionales y de las municipalidades provinciales y distritales, quienes...
Peru
2013 - Red de Municipalidades Urbanas y Rurales del Perú (REMURPE)
Vídeo
Unlocked credit lines allow poor Tanzanian farmers to invest in vineyard
In Dodoma, Tanzania, a group of poor smallholder farmers is planting grapes and setting up a vineyard in a bid to pull themselves out of poverty. It's a project they hope will ensure they and their families have an income for the next 30 years. To get started, they needed...
United Republic of Tanzania
2013 - World Food Programme (WFP)
Informe
Highlights of IFPRI's partnerships and impacts in China 2013
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on agricultural production, but also on the policies that affect food systems from farm to table. In response, the International...
China
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Estudio de caso
Apple-Producing Family Farms in South Tyrol
In Northern Italy, the autonomous province of South Tyrol has the biggest single area producing apple trees in Europe. The 19 000 ha of apple production area in South Tyrol supplies up to 50% of the national Italian apple market, 15% of the European and 2% of the global apple...
Italy
2013
Informe
The inclusion of small producers in national innovation systems in Peru and Colombia
A comparative analysis of the coffee and dairy sectors
The report specifically analyses the NIS in Peru and Colombia in the coffee and dairy sectors due to their economic importance for both countries and the large percentage of small producers in these sectors. In order to analyse the NIS, we have utilised an innovations systems approach to form the...
Colombia - Peru
2013 - The London School of Economics and Political Science
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