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Rapport
Les femmes, actrices de la transition agroécologique Retours d’expériences sur 10 ans de projets par SOL et Navdanya en Inde du Nord
Le rôle joué par les femmes dans l’agriculture est déterminant. La FAO1 estime qu’elles contribuent pour moitié à la production alimentaire mondiale. Souvent, ce sont elles qui assurent en grande partie la préparation des terres, l’arrosage, la récolte, le stockage, la transformation, le conditionnement mais aussi l’approvisionnement en eau ou...
India
2021 - SOL, Alternatives Agroécologiques et Solidaires and Navdanya
Étude de cas
PGS-Permettre un système de production organique pour les petits producteurs
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...
India
2017
Rapport
Mobiliser les potentialités de la vulgarisation rurale et agricole
Ce document présente la position de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) et du Forum mondial pour le conseil rural (GFRAS) sur la place actuelle des services de vulgarisation et de conseil agricole et sur les chemins qu’elle devra suivre à l’avenir.
Les résultats présentés dans le document...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cameroon - China - Guinea - Honduras - India - Kenya - Peru - Sri Lanka - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2010
Directives
L’agroécologie en pratiques
L’agroécologie s’inscrit dans le registre de l’écologie, qui s’intéresse aux interactions - et à leurs conséquences - entre l’homme et son milieu, en tentant de minimiser les effets négatifs de certaines des activités humaines. Elle vise la préservation de l’environnement, le renouvellement durable des ressources naturelles nécessaire à la production...
Angola - Brazil - Cambodia - Congo - Gabon - Haiti - India - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Madagascar - Mauritania - Morocco - Niger - Sao Tome and Principe - Senegal - Sri Lanka
2010 - Agrisud International
Fiche d'information
Strengthening Ecological Monitoring for Mangrove Management in West Bengal: Sundarbans
Coastal ecosystems and their diverse biodiversity are under threat due to the impacts of global climate change, specifically due to rising sea levels. Mangroves, crucial as socio-ecological systems, play a vital role in combating climate change, safeguarding coastlines, and sustaining the livelihoods of coastal communities.
India
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Ouvrage
Sakhis: Women for Action, Change, Growth
For the last 25 years, SSP has nurtured cadres of grassroots women leaders called Sakhis, who have won numerous honours and accolades for their own transformation, and for various sustainable solutions and projects they have initiated. Many of these Sakhis are feted as decision makers in their own communities, and...
India
2024 - Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)
Article de revue
Grains of Life: How Chotanagpur's Adivasis Are Reviving Native Varieties of Rice
Farmers and local NGOs say the indigenous rice varieties that are fast becoming extinct have unique nutrition, climate-resilience to ensure food security in increasingly unpredictable weather.
Sundargarh (Odisha), Latehar (Jharkhand): Deep inside the lush sal forest in Odisha’s Sundargarh, Albisia Lakda, an Adivasi farmer living in Subdega block had divided the rice crop on her two-acre plot of farmland in two sections. With the monsoon fluctuating widely last year, parts of Odisha experienced long dry spells and crop failures.
Now,...
India
2024 - The Wire
Article de revue spécialisée
Managing uphill cultivation under climate change
An assessment of adaptation decisions among tribal farmers in Nagaland state of India
Tribal farmers in the Himalayas are vulnerable to climatic changes, as their rain-fed cultivation systems, practiced on steep, sloping terrain, are susceptible to changes in rainfall while at the same time being the primary means of livelihood. Soil and water conservation practices (SWCP) can improve the resilience of these cultivation...
India
2024 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Article
The need for ground-up transitions: exploring the knowledge politics of agroecology in Gujarat, India
Despite a plethora of emerging alternatives under the broad rubric of agroecology, sustainable transitions in Indian agriculture are caught between institutional inertia and lock-ins of its vast agricultural establishment on the one hand and a pro-active state promoting a natural farming. This push for Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), while welcome...
India
2024
Rapport
How to bridge the missing middle working with climate-smart SMEs, intermediaries, financers and policy makers?
The objective of this impact report is to gain consolidated impact insights and lessons learned from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) financed SEED project: Financing and capacity building for micro and small climate-smart enterprises: Filling the gap of the missing middle.
The 5-year global SEED project was operating in Ghana, India,...
Ghana - India - Indonesia - South Africa - Thailand - Uganda
2024 - SEED
Article de revue spécialisée
Women’s empowerment and intra-household diet diversity across the urban continuum: Evidence from India’s DHS
Women’s empowerment has been associated with improved nutritional outcomes in various settings. However, the gains from empowerment do not necessarily accrue to different members of the same household in the same manner. Furthermore, the relationship between empowerment and nutrition itself is likely to be shaped by the overall level of...
India
2024
Article de revue spécialisée
Rural household vulnerability and COVID-19: Evidence from India
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected vulnerable households’ livelihoods in developing countries. Using high-frequency phone survey data from the World Bank, we assess rural Indian households’ vulnerability and poverty status during the pandemic. Results reveal that over three-fifths of Indian rural households are vulnerable to poverty in the...
India
2024 - International Food Policy Research Institute
Directives
Quality Planting Material through Good Nursery Management
Key for Successful Ecological and Economic Ecosystem of Agroforestry
This document is designed to provide comprehensive guidelines for the production and management of quality planting materials for the benefit of farmers, nursery operators, agricultural extension agents, and other stakeholders. It explores the significance of using Quality Planting Material (QPM) for successful agroforestry practices and focuses an the pivotal role...
India
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Article de revue spécialisée
Pastoralism in Changthang, Ladakh: Adaptations, Challenges, and Pathways for Sustainability
In the Changthang region of Ladakh, India, pastoralism serves as the cornerstone of both the local economy and the local way of life. However, recent socioeconomic shifts and environmental constraints put this economic structure, which has been expertly adapted to the difficult trans-Himalayan geography, in danger of becoming unsustainable. To...
India
2024 - Sher E Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, India
Article de blog
Reviving public extension for climate-resilient agriculture: Lessons and insights from India, Indonesia, and Nepal
With global temperatures already 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, climate change is having major impacts on agriculture that fall disproportionately on the Global South—from crops, to livestock, to aquaculture. Agricultural systems endure frequent heat waves, flooding, and drought—often all in one season. Climate-related extreme weather events such as intense...
India - Indonesia - Nepal
2024 - IFPRI
Article de blog
Building a culture of digital entrepreneurship among rural youths in Madhya Pradesh, India
At the just concluded smart projector training to make natural farming accessible in rural areas, five newly selected Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) teams from Madhya Pradesh, India, were equipped with digital and entrepreneurial tools and skills for running a business from bringing training videos to farmers using a smart...
India
2024 - Access Agriculture
Ouvrage
Global Organic Agricultural Innovations
Global Organic Agricultural Innovations covers major innovations and research in organic agriculture from 18 countries and areas around the world. This edition showcases the diversity and robustness of the growth of organic agriculture around the world. More than seventy innovators and researchers contribute to this edition which covers themes from climate...
Bangladesh - Bhutan - Cambodia - China - India - Indonesia - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Iraq - Japan - Kyrgyzstan - Pakistan - Philippines - Sri Lanka - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia - Viet Nam
2024 - IFOAM Organics Asia
Rapport
CGIAR Research Initiative on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
Annual Technical Report 2023
In 2023, the CGIAR Research Initiative on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) addressed the nexus of poverty, social inequities, malnutrition, environmental degradation, and climate change through research and innovation. Collaborating with 10 CGIAR Research Initiatives, engaging with five bilateral projects aligned with Initiative goals, and partnering with two...
Bangladesh - India - Nepal - Pakistan
2024 - CGIAR
Vidéos
Nipping of pigeon pea
The more pigeon peas produce secondary branches, the more pods it will produce, leading to higher yields. 6 to 7 weeks after sowing, remove the tips of the main branches. This is called nipping. After a week, use half a mug of biofertiliser per plant or add it to irrigation...
India
2024 - Access Agriculture
Note/document d'orientation
Understanding informal agrifood trade between India and Bangladeshs benefit from the proportion of tropical forest regardless of its edge length
An analytical framework
Informal trade
Informal cross-border trade plays a major role in the BIMSTEC region, given the shared borders between member countries such as India with Bangladesh and Nepal.
Informal trade is defined through the exchange process and consists of unrecorded trade flows that escape official statistics. “Informality” refers to the nature of the...
Bangladesh - India
2024 - IFPRI
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