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The Market Potential and Patterns of Contemporary Agriculture in Romania's North-western Plain
Romanian Agriculture went through major transformations after the political changes of December 1989, due especially to the structural reorganization of land ownership. Agrarian reform started in 1990 with the liquidation of the socialist cooperatives and regulated by the new land ownership law (No. 18/1991), along with a whole series of...
Romania
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Artículo de revista especializada
Subsistence Farming in Bulgaria: Between Tradition and Market Requirements
Subsistence agriculture is a phenomenon that is presently encountered not only in developing countries, but also in the Central and Eastern European transition countries (CEECs). The various land reforms implemented in Eastern Europe have led to differences in the land tenure and farming systems and have influenced the access to...
Bulgaria
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Hoja informativa
Implementing conservation agriculture - 1 2 3 step by step
This leaflet covers the steps for implementing Conservation Agriculture.
When correctly implemented and under adequate circumstances, conservation agriculture can constitute a valid tool for improving rural livelihoods and fostering bottom-up sustainable rural development.
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
The Significance of Subsistence Farming in Georgia as an Economic and Social Buffer
The aim of this contribution is to show what official data are available and what statements can be made concerning the importance of subsistence farming in Georgia. Combining the official figures with observations of the Georgian situation provided insight to the significance of subsistence farming for the Georgian society. It...
Georgia
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Artículo de revista especializada
Agrarian Reform and Subsistence Agriculture in Russia
Three of the most important Russian agrarian institutions are the subsistence household farm (personal auxiliary farm), the collective farm, and the district administration. Before collectivisation, the Russian peasant farms were primarily subsistence farms. Each peasant farm had two types of land plots: a farmstead plot and field plot(s). After 1917...
Russian Federation
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Artículo de revista especializada
Economic Background and Development Opportunities of Individual Subsidiary Holdings in the Ukraine: Some Empirical Evidence
During transition, many Ukrainian agricultural enterprises found themselves in a deep economic crisis. Generally, the privatisation and restructuring of the enterprises was merely formal. Agriculture mainly suffers from an adverse overall economic situation, liquidity problems, and poor infrastructure. In the 1990s the accumulated decline of agricultural output was 51%. In...
Ukraine
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Artículo de revista especializada
Modelling Subsistence Agriculture in Russia: Effects of Total Productivity Changes and Reduction of Marketing Margins
The transition process in Russia, which started vigorously at the beginning of the 1990s, has yielded negative economic growth rates for almost a decade, with the exceptions of 1997 and 1999. Agriculture and domestic food industries in particular have suffered from the ongoing transition process and the associated restructuring of...
Russian Federation
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Artículo de revista
Las comunidades campesinas en la reforma de la Constitución
Como parte de las reformas de la Constitución, se ha incorporado un capítulo denominado sobre los "Derechos de los pueblos orginarios" en el título II, Del Estado y la Nación
Peru
2003 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Artículo de revista
Los supermercados y los agricultores
Una serie de estudios recientes han encontrado que los supermercados se han transformado en un actor dominante de los sistemas agroalimentarios de América Latina y el Caribe.
Peru
2003 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Artículo de revista especializada
Soil fertility management and insect pests: harmonizing soil and plant health in agroecosystems
Cultural methods such as crop fertilization can affect susceptibility of plants to insect pests by altering plant tissue nutrient levels. Research shows that the ability of a crop plant to resist or tolerate insect pests and diseases is tied to optimal physical, chemical and mainly biological properties of soils. Soils...
2003 - Elsevier Science B.V
Artículo
Fishing, Families, and the Survival of Artisanal Boat-Ownership in the Bigouden Region of France
Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite the difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions they almost constantly have experienced during the past several decades. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic and historical research in the Bigouden region of France, this paper asks why and how family-based fishing enterprises continue in...
France
2003 - MAST 2003
Artículo de revista
Comunidades campesinas las "tres íes", de nuevo en debate
En el debate por reformar la actual Constitución, nuevamente se ha planteado la conveniencia o no de mantener el régimen de protección de las comunidades campesinas, restableciendo las llamadas "tres íes" sobre la propiedad de sus tierras: imprescriptibles, inembargables e inalienables, tal como lo prescribieron las Constituciones de 1920 y...
Peru
2003 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Libro
Soil fertility and land productivity
A guide for extension workers in the eastern Africa region
The eastern Africa region faces serious and worsening problems of food security, decreasing per capita food production and massive poverty. Agriculture in this region is dominated by smallholder farmers. Yield levels on these farms are generally very low for a variety of reasons. One important reason is the declining soil...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2003 - Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA)
Proyecto
Rural development project for mountain zones in the north of the Wilaya of M'sila
This project, designed to reduce rural poverty, focused particularly on small farmers, unemployed young people and rural women. It was in line with the government's strategic development aims in mountain areas with a high incidence of poverty.
The project served as a platform for continuing policy dialogue with the government on...
Algeria
2003 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Informe
Mountain fisheries in developing countries
Mountains of the world cover about one-fifth of the land surface, are home to one-tenth of the world's population, and provide livelihood to some of the poorest communities in the world. Mountain lakes and streams are a source of freshwater for countless riparian human communities, support industries, provide water for...
2003
Documento/nota de orientación
Conservation Agriculture for Soil Moisture
This brief explains the potential of conservation agriculture to retain soil moisture, through rainwater harvesting and optimizing soil moisture.
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
Transformations in West African agriculture and the role of family farms
This paper was prepared as an initial scoping study for the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) Secretariat to provide the basis for developing a longer term programme of work to examine the transformations underway in West African agriculture, and the challenges faced by smallholder production systems. The following question...
2003 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Hoja informativa
Conservation Agriculture Soil moisture - Improving soil moisture management for enhanced crop production
This leaflet covers the main aspects of soil moisture in Conservation Agriculture
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Hoja informativa
Conservation Agriculture Organic matter - Improving soil fertility and structure
This leaflet explains how to improve soil fertility, achieving conservation of soil organic matter (SOM).
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
The culture of access to mountain natural resources
Policy, processes and practices
The Livelihood Support Programme (LSP) evolved from the belief that FAO could have a greater impact on reducing poverty and food insecurity, if its wealth of talent and experience were integrated into a more flexible and demand-responsive team approach. The LSP, which is executed by FAO with funding provided by...
2003
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