Rural women’s small businesses engaged in the production of local agri‐food products have been flourishing in the Greek countryside the last years responding to an emerging consumer demand for food of “specific quality”. Such successful initiatives have been particularly developed with co‐operative form, scattered throughout the country, both in the...

Sustainably managed forests have multiple environmental and socio-economic functions important at the global, national and local scales, and play a vital part in sustainable development. Reliable and upto-date information on the state of forest resources - not only on area and area change, but also on such variables as growing...

在全世界有25亿以上的小农户从事粮食的 种植、收获和加工，其中半数以上是妇女。妇 女们的知识、劳动在当地多样化的食物体系的 可持续发展中，特别在发展中国家，发挥了重 要作用。

The paper aims to investigate factors responsible for the resilience2 and long term survival of short, local food supply networks formed in mountain areas characterised by low population density, remote location and underdeveloped infrastructure. A case study of an alternative food network established with participation of local government and umbrella...

This work aims at analyzing different management practices for the improvement of the agricultural production in the Central Jordan Valley. The optimization of the cropping pattern has been done under different water scarcity and drought conditions and prevailing environmental and socio-economic constraints. The ISAREG model was used to estimate crop...

El presente estudio ha sido elaborado por el Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP) en el marco del proyecto de investigación “Pobreza, política comercial y políticas complementarias” organizado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), como un componente del programa de cooperación...

The aim of this investigation is to evaluate some proposed adaptation measures in order to overcome the projected impacts of climate change over on-farm irrigation system in Egypt. Improve irrigation systems efficiencies, change irrigation systems, and deficient irrigation were evaluated by using multi-criteria approach of evaluation. Adaptation measures were studied...

L’agropastoralisme est un système agraire combinant productions animales extensive et cultures végétales sur deux espaces bien distincts : d’une part des espaces dit naturels dédiés à l’élevage de parcours, d’autre part des espaces cultivés, organisés, dédiés aux productions végétales et fortement marqué par l’activité humaine. Cette répartition initiale des productions...

在云南省滇西北广大的农村地区，妇女在畜牧业生产中扮演着一个非常重要的角色。然而，在以政府为主导的技术推广与培训活动中，妇女往往被排斥在外或很少有机会参与。近年来，为了改善妇女的这种状况，云南省生物多样性和传统知识研究会的“滇西北农牧区生计改良项目”采取和实施了一系列的针对妇女发展的措施和策略。通过增加女性村民对项目活动的参与和提高女性兽医技术人员的专业能力，降低了畜牧业生产中的风险和提高了家庭的经济收入。同时，在农业生产中，女性村民变得更加自信并意识到她们的决策权利。

In the developing world, smallholders form the backbone of the agricultural sector and their importance in rural areas is almost uniform across countries. There is no unique and unambiguous definition of a smallholder. Often scale, measured in terms of the farm size is used to classify producers. For example, households...

All the way around the world in countries as diverse as the United States, Japan, France, China or Mali, people who farm and people who eat are forming communities around locally grown food. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Teikei, AMAP, Reciproco, ASC – the names may be different but the essence...

Using lessons from the case studies this paper draws out five practical steps in reaching and supporting women marginal farmers: 1) take the lead from women marginal farmers themselves in helping build their networks and groups, 2) promote alliances and external links, 3) organising needs based training workshops and regular...

Community forest management (CFM) initiatives comprise a range of efforts to involve people who live in and around forests in forest management decisions. CFM initiatives often vest in communities some degree of decision-making power over forest management and rights to the benefits from such management. These initiatives are expected to...

Les paysages culturels de l’agro pastoralisme sont fortement liés aux pratiques techniques et culturelles des éleveurs utilisateurs et gestionnaires des espaces qu’ils occupent. C’est particulièrement vrai sur la zone de Djelfa, haut lieu du pastoralisme algérien, sur les hauts plateaux. Ce pastoralisme, comme dans l’ensemble du monde méditerranéen, subit des...

L'objectif de cette recherche est d'analyser les performances productives des exploitations familiales agricoles (EFA) de la localité de Zoetelé au Sud Cameroun. Recherche qui s'est intéressée particulièrement aux EFA pratiquant le système de culture à base d'arachide et de maïs. En effet, c'est l'un des systèmes de culture les plus...

Une inscription des steppes du Proche-Orient au patrimoine mondial des paysages culturels de l’agro pastoralisme pourrait s’imposer comme une évidence. Lieu d’émergence de l’agriculture et du pastoralisme, elles recèlent des vestiges de toutes les formes d’exploitation agricole et pastorale du proto élevage néolithique aux aménagements hydro agricoles des époques byzantine...

This guide addresses the linkages between pastoralism, biodiversity, and development / poverty reduction. It aims to raise awareness of tools relevant to the pastoralism sector, which have demonstrated benefits to biodiversity as well as development. Readers can make use of the tools by consulting the supplementary references and sources

The Statistics in Focus are part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) in years 2007, 2005 and 2003. They provide brief but comprehensive insight into the farm structure in Czech Republic. Farm structure in Czech Republic – 2010 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Agricultural_census_in_the_Czech_Republic Farm structure in Czech Republic...

Building sustainable future of rural areas requires more sustainable farming systems with better working conditions for farmers. Liveability is defined as the characteristics of the systems which satisfy farmers' expectations with respect to farming and relations with family and other activities. Farmers expectations of farming conditions are diverse, and deal...

Throughout Europe many examples exist to highlight how farmers and other rural businesses can  succeed in entering new market places. Success factors involved in the process include  identifying a viable market niche, personal perseverance, and making good use of rural development assistance. One such case is evident in Sweden where...