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Smallholder irrigation technology
Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa
This report is a review of irrigation technologies for smallholders in the context of improving rural livelihoods, especially in regard to the prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. The role of traditional technologies is evaluated and modern water distribution technologies, such as sprinkler and trickle irrigation, are reviewed. Low-cost irrigation systems, including...
2001 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista
Agricultura familiar y desarrollo territorial
El modelo de crecimiento urbano que Brasil está experimentando en los últimos quince años podría constituir un momento positivo para reactivar su sector rural. Las políticas dirigidas al fortalecimiento y a la creación de nuevas unidades familiares en el sector rural tendrán tanto más éxito cuanto más importantes sean las...
Brazil
2000 - Reforma Agraria
Estudio de caso
Socio-economic impact of smallholder irrigation development in Zimbabwe
Case studies of ten irrigation schemes
Smallholder irrigation development has shown throughout the developing world that it can be used as a key drought mitigation measure and as a vehicle for the long-term agricultural and macro-economic development of a country. Successful smallholder irrigation schemes can result in increased productivity, improved incomes and nutrition, employment creation, food...
Zimbabwe
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Boletín informativo
Dimitra Newsletter: Centre de Recherches, d’Etudes, de Documentation et d’Information sur la Femme
In this issue, we conclude with the last two presentations of our local partners with a description of CREDIF, covering North Africa, and of POSDEV, covering a number of countries in West Africa. Ruth Ochieng, from Isis-WICCE in Uganda, presents the work undertaken by her organisation, which strives to empower...
Ghana - Malawi - Tunisia - Zimbabwe
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Boletín informativo
Dimitra Newsletter: Proposals for the Future
In the present issue, a large proportion of the columns will be been devoted to the Reflection and Self-Evaluation Workshop held in Brussels on 16-18 October with the partners of the Dimitra Project. We hand over to the partners, who have drawn up two documents on the proceedings of the...
Algeria - Ghana - Kenya - Senegal - Uganda
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Farm Sector Restructuring in Belarus
A farm-level survey was carried out in Belarus in the second half of 1999, providing a detailed examination of changes in the three main components of the farming sector - large farm enterprises, households of farm employees, and independent private farms. This report presents a description and analysis of the...
Belarus
2000 - World Bank
Artículo
Organic Farming in Cyprus
Agriculture has always been an important sector of the Cypriot economy. Following the Turkish invasion of 1974 and the occupation of 38 percent of the country’s territory, including Cyprus' most valuable land and water resources, an accelerated declining trend set in, which is still continuing today. Also, due to the...
Cyprus
2000
Libro
Nets for Social Safety - An Analysis of the Growth and Changing Composition of Social Security Programmes in the Fisheries Sector of Kerala State, India
Nets for Social Safety is a first –of –its-kind study, specially commissioned by the ICSF, to focus on the growth and changing composition of social security provisions in the fisheries sector of Kerala, a small coastal State in southwest India. John Kurien and Antonyto Paul, the authors of the study,...
India
2000 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Estudio de caso
Apatani wet rice cultivation: an example of a highly evolved traditional agroecosystem
The tribal societies of north-eastern India have wet rice cultivation as a land use activity, alongwith shifting agriculture (locally called `Jhum'), and the 'home gardens', which is an imitationof a forest but with economically important species. Wet rice cultivation is done at valleybottoms and sometimes on small terraces constructed at...
India
2000 - School of Environmental Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University
Artículo de revista especializada
Experience of offshore fish farming in Cyprus
During the early nineties the Cyprus government chose the technology of offshore cage culture to develop marine aquaculture, due to the already high exploitation of coastal land by tourism, concerns for environmental issues and the lack of sheltered inland sea sites. Currently there are 8 privately owned commercial sea cage...
Cyprus
2000
Actas de conferencia
Land-water linkages in rural watersheds
This report synthesizes the proceedings of the electronic workshop “Land Water Linkages in Rural Watersheds” hosted by the FAO Land and Water Development Division from 18 September to 27 October 2000. The workshop examined relationships between land use and water resources in rural watersheds. It identified mechanisms and instruments for...
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Hoja informativa
Escuelas de campo de agricultores (ECAs). Mejoremos la toma de decisiones para una agricultura más rentable y ecológica
Folleto que da cuenta de la Escuela de Campo de Agricultores, metodología de capacitación participativa. Se basa en el concepto de aprender por descubrimiento y se enfoca en los principios ecológicos. Los agricultores y facilitadores intercambian conocimientos, tomando como base la experiencia y la experimentación a través de métodos sencillos...
Ecuador
2000 - Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP)
Artículo de boletín informativo
No todo lo que brilla es oro: minería y desarrollo rural
Si bien no se puede cuestionar la importancia de la minería en el país y lo que ella representa en términos de ingresos para el fisco, no todo lo que brilla es oro, pues quedan muchas interrogantes detrás de la expansión minera actualmente en curso. Aborda el paro convocado por...
Peru
2000 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Artículo de revista
Pequeños extractores de madera: Reclaman acceso al bosque
El Ministerio de Agricultura, a través de la Resolución No. 0107 fijó los precios de las maderas en estado natural para el presente año y recategorizó especies de uso comercial. Estas medidas han elevado significativamente los derechos que deben pagar los extractores forestales al Estado. En Ucayali, la Asociación de...
Peru
2000 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Estudio de caso
An investigation into the options and prospects of family farming in South Africa
Implications for agricultural policy
In South Africa the racial and agricultural policies aimed at national food self-sufficiency created an agricultural structure dominated by large, mechanised farms that are owned and operated by a small number of individuals or companies. New agricultural policy should therefore focus more on peasant farming in the subsistence sector in...
South Africa
2000 - Stellenbosch University
Artículo de revista
Los campesinos se defienden
Ante la proliferación de procesos judiciales iniciados por los ex-hacendados para que se les restituyan las tierras afectadas por la reforma agraria, los agricultores beneficiarios de ese proceso están exigiendo se dé cumplimiento a la legislación que garantiza sus derechos adquiridos. El Frente de Defensa que los agrupa tiene ahora...
Peru
2000 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Artículo de revista
La pequeña agricultura en el Perú: ¿qué produce y qué recibe?
En una primera sesión de trabajo realizada el 14 de diciembre, Conveagro presentó un conjunto de 34 propuestas para atender problemas urgentes del sector, avanzar en el diseño de lineamientos estratégicos y modificar la relación entre el sector público agrario y los productores. La propuesta considera indispensable establecer mecanismos estables...
Peru
2000 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Desarrollo agrario, desarrollo rural, desarrollo local
Es de esperar que una buena política sectorial agraria puede estimular la producción y aún modernizar la economía, pero la población probablemente no mejore mucho su situación material de manera significativa.
Peru
2000 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Documento/nota de orientación
IFAD’s Gender Strengthening Programme in Eastern and Southern Africa
This publication is intended to inform IFAD-supported project management units (PMUs), other donors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Eastern and Southern Africa about IFAD’s Gender Strengthening Programme in the region. The programme is currently in the process of identifying challenges faced by projects, emphasizing empirical findings from field diagnostic...
Angola - Botswana - Burundi - Comoros - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Rwanda - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2000 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Estudio de caso
Targeting of rural financial services to women
Marital and enterprise-related factors will affect women’s control over the enterprise for which they borrow.
These days, many credit and savings activities, including those under IFAD-supported projects, target rural women. A 2000 FAO/IFAD study in Uganda highlights the role of microfinance in women’s empowerment. Two questions asked were: (1) Is it appropriate and efficient to provide credit lines exclusively for women? (2) Are women in...
Uganda
2000 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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