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Essai de typologie des exploitations agricoles axée sur le financement de la production agricole au Bénin
Le présent article s’est intéressé à analyser la dynamique du financement de la production agricole en lien avec le type d’exploitation agricole. Cet essai de typologie est fait à l’aide d’une méhode statistique basé sur l’analyse multi-variée et spécifiquement une analyse en composantes principales (ACP). Cette analyse a été appliquée...
Benin
2013
Artículo de revista
Finland, land of developing agriculture
Urbanisation is a global phenomenon that has long affected Finland. People are moving to towns and cities with an ever diminishing number working in agriculture. In Finland in the 1940s, agriculture employed about half the work force, today it employs fewer than 4%. At the same time the number of...
Finland
2013
Estudio de caso
Kunisaki Peninsula Usa Integrated Forestry, Agriculture and Fisheries System
The proposed GIAHS in the Kunisaki Peninsula Usa area is a system where forestry and agricultural production are made possible and are sustain by the connected system of Sawtooth Oak forests and multiple interlinked irrigation ponds.
Japan
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Previsiones legales para el acceso a tierras de parte del campesinado y los indígenas
El presente material es un breve compendio de las leyes y normativas vigentes, que regulan el acceso a la tierra por parte de la población, con particular detalle en el caso de los campesinos y campesinas. En el caso de las comunidades indígenas, se hará una breve mención a la...
Paraguay
2013 - Movimiento regional por la tierra
Parte de un libro
Changing Agrarian Labour Relations after Land Reform in Zimbabwe
The agrarian labour relations generated after the ‘Fast Track’ Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) tend to be neglected in most literature after 2000. This neglect largely resulted from the dismissal of the redistributive nature of the FTLRP and changing patterns of agricultural production by some studies (see Marongwe 2009; Masiiwa and...
Zimbabwe
2013 - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Estudio de caso
From farmer-pastoralist conflicts to profitable alliances
The area around Wum in the Northwest Province of Cameroon is notorious as a conflict hotspot. As pressure increases on available land, conflicts occur more frequently between sedentary family farmers and pastoral communities. Farmer-pastoralist alliances are helping to resolve the conflicts by transforming the relationships between these families.
Cameroon
2013 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Libro
El Desafío del Desarrollo Sustentable en América Latina
Desde el año 2007 el „Programa Regional de Políticas Sociales para América Latina” (SOPLA – por sus siglas en alemán Soziale Ordnungspolitik in Lateinamerika) de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer, ha venido elaborando en conjunto con 13 institutos económicos de la región, una serie de estudios sobre algunos de los retos...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Ecuador - Guatemala - Paraguay - Peru - Uruguay - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2013 - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Documento técnico
Demanda de Tierras en Paraguay
Este material incluye algunas estimaciones realizadas en relación a la demanda actual de tierras, la cantidad de familias sin tierras o con tierra insuficiente, informaciones del organismo de aplicación de la política de tierras en relación a sus beneficiarios, así como aspectos relevantes de la demanda de tierras a partir...
Paraguay
2013 - Movimiento regional por la tierra
Directrices
Integrated Crop Management Vol.23-2013
Agricultural Mechanization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Guidelines for preparing a strategy
This present guide is prepared from a compilation of many documents published by FAO in this domain and is a guide to the process of formulating an agricultural mechanization strategy. The aims are: To raise awareness of the main constraints which hinder the development of agricultural mechanization and especially those...
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Jeju Batdam Agricultural System
Jeju island is a volcanic island located in the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula. The topographic and geological characteristics of the volcanic island made Jeju, the barren island for farming. Jeju abundant with volcanic ash soil, rocks and winds. As farming started in Jeju, people utilized the stones in...
Republic of Korea
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Documento sobre Políticas Públicas
Este material incluye una breve referencia al marco jurídico que orienta la política de reforma agraria y distribución de tierras, una descripción de la política de tierras en los últimos años, el desempeño del organismo de aplicación de dicha política, el Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural y de la Tierra...
Paraguay
2013 - Movimiento regional por la tierra
Estudio de caso
Agro-ecology: beyond food
Some may view indigenous communities as being conservative and backwards. However, the Kabekwa in Costa Rica show that such communities can be adaptable and innovative. In response to changing circumstances, this community has been adapting its farming practices constantly, benefiting from it in multiple ways.
Costa Rica
2013 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Libro
Transforming Gender Relations in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book distils lessons learned about integrating gender equality into agricultural development initiatives in Africa, with case studies of efforts at all levels, from households to national government.
The authors start from the premise that empowered women and men are better, more successful farmers who can make the most of the...
2013 - Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI)
Estudio de caso
When family farmers lead their own development
Steven Kiranga Gichanga is a family farmer in Mugaari, a village in Kenya. He was trained in goat rearing but could not afford a goat to get started. He was also trained in bee keeping but could not afford a bee hive either. After a community reflection forum in 2012,...
Kenya
2013 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Informe
Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture, a key aim of the Rio+20 Outcome Document “The Future We Want” (UN 2012a), has a significant role to play in encouraging a move to a greener economy. Paragraph 111 states: “We reaffirm the necessity to promote, enhance and support more sustainable agriculture, including crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries...
2013 - United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
Estudio de caso
The food security through commercialization of agriculture programme in the Caribbean region
The projects reviewed in this paper were funded by the Italian Special Contribution to the Global Trust Fund for Food Security (GTFS). The Italian funded food security programme aimed to enhance food security by following a common strategy to improve the commercialization of agricultural value chains. The main objective was...
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Estudio de políticas agroambientales en Nicaragua
En el presente documento se sistematiza la experiencia de aplicación de políticas públicas que han iniciado el proceso de fomento de la agricultura ambiental en Nicaragua.
Nicaragua
2013 - Gobierno de Nicaragua
Artículo de revista especializada
Agricultural information needs of rural women farmers in Nkonkobe Municipality
The extension challenge
Access to agricultural information is vital for improving food security at the village level. This study accessed the agricultural information needs of women farmers in Nkonkobe Municipality of the Amathole District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Data was obtained from 118 households. The women farmers were identified from four villages...
South Africa
2013
Proyecto
Mussel Farming the new Baltic Sea Aquaculture Industry
The Baltic EcoMussel project aims to accelerate the adoption of mussel farming in the Baltic Sea Region by providing information and tools to support investments. Recent research shows that commercial farming of mussels in the Baltic Sea Region can be viable and offers socio-economic and environmental benefits. Commercial farming of...
Finland - Latvia - Sweden
2013
Estudio de caso
Cassava as animal feed in Ghana
Past, present and future
The study on the use of cassava as animal feed in Ghana was commissioned as part of FAO’s initiative supporting poverty reduction in northern part of the country. Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is one of the main staple food crops grown by almost all farming families in Ghana, contributing to large...
Ghana
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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