This book documents a unique series of 19 case studies where agricultural biotechnologies were used to serve the needs of smallholders in developing countries. They cover different regions, production systems, species and underlying socio-economic conditions in the crop (seven case studies), livestock (seven) and aquaculture/fisheries (five) sectors. Most of the...

The issue of rural education and/or farm, though still lacking of research, has been increasing in the discussions  and  studies  on  Brazilian  family  farming over  the  recent  decades.  This  is  due to  the recognition of the contribution of education to rural development. If, on the one hand, the State has...

This work deals with the situation of women’s life and work in family farming in the North of Minas Gerais semiarid, focusing on the work social division and gender in the Jaíba Project. In this context the Step I was chosen inthis project in the area A: NS1 and NS2...

This  study  thesis  proposes  a  discussion  on  the  connections  between  the  professional qualification  courses,  gestated  by  government  programs  PLANFOR and  PNQ,  and  the formation  of  professional  identity  of  the  farmers  in  the  region  Januária  -  MG.  These programs, gestated in the early 1990s, in a context of profound changes in...

Agricultural mechanization is a crucial input to agricultural crop production. It is frequently very capital intensive, compared to other (usually annual) inputs and it has repercussions on the efficiency of all other inputs used in crop production, including seeds, fertilizer, water, and time/labour. It is also much more complex in...

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...

El presente documento corresponde al Informe Final de Consultoría de apoyo a la identificación de un Programa de Trabajo conjunto MDA - Gobierno del Estado de Río Grande del Sur – BANRISUL – FIDA-MERCOSUR. La iniciativa de articulación de las diferentes instituciones integrantes de este programa, tiene como principal objetivo el preparar...

While many contemporary rural social movements once argued for increased industrial farming inputs and machinery for their members, the past few years have seen an accelerating shift toward the promotion of agroecology as an alternative to the so-called Green Revolution. In this paper we both describe this phenomenon in its...

Pretende visualizar de manera más clara el concepto de huerto escolar pedagógico sostenible, por medio de las vivencias de diferentes municipalidades que trabajaron y obtuvieron resultados positivos en el tema de Huertos Escolares. El objetivo del estudio fue sistematizar las experiencias exitosas de huertos escolares en los municipios y identificar...

This document was prepared under the supervision of Nadia El-Hage Scialabba, as part of “Preparations and Follow-up to Rio+20”, a project of the FAO Natural Resources Management and Environment Department (NRD). It highlights the positions and common agenda of small-scale farmers´ organizations who participated in Rio+20 with the support of...

As famílias rurais que vivem no Semiárido brasileiro, em geral, têm sua dieta alimentar afetada tanto no aspecto da quantidade quanto no da qualidade, em decorrência principalmente da irregularidade das chuvas. Em anos de grandes secas, a situação é ainda mais preocupante, pois a pouca água acumulada nos barreiros, açudes...

El número 4 de Revista Eutopía, correspondiente a octubre de 2013, contiene: Reconversión agroindustrial, recomposición de las relaciones laborales y reestructuración del territorio.La vitivinicultura mendocina entre 1995 y 2010 (Argentina) Territorialidad campesina en el sur de Argentina. Cambios productivos y laborales como formas de resistencia Las negociaciones en turno a estándares de comercio...

This dissertation has as a theme the insertion of family farmers products in the state schools of Rio Grande  do  Sul.  In  the  year  2009  was  created  a  law  n°  11.947  which  would  have  a fundamental change in the Brazilian National School Feeding Program (PNAE –  Programa Nacional de  Alimentação ...

This article compares the main findings of Brazilian agricultural census data of 1996 with the same of 2006 by applying the methodology known as ‘FAO/INCRA’ (Food Agriculture Organization/Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária) which allows the characterization of family farms in relation to the total universe of farms. In...

This paper seeks to analyze an endogenous development scheme implemented by farming families, involving innovations in the organic production of watermelons; this was a novel local initiative reflecting the creative drive of the farmers themselves, against a background marked by considerable political and institutional uncertainty. The scheme was evaluated in...

La declaración contiene los acuerdos de los países de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), reunidos en la I Reunión de Altos Funcionarios sobre Agricultura Familiar, los días 5 y 6 de noviembre de 2013, en Brasilia.

El evento tuvo como objetivo evaluar y enriquecer el diagnóstico de políticas públicas agroambientales destacadas del país como herramienta para la reducción de la pobreza rural y la inseguridad alimentaria del Brasil, a partir del estudio de identificación y sistematización realizados en el marco del Proyecto.

Se presentan los resultados del análisis de informes nacionales y documentos de 16 países de América Latina (Argentina, Belice, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú y Uruguay) relacionados con la aplicación de un instrumento armonizado de diagnóstico para la Acuicultura de...

Despite the increasing attention given to organic supply chains over the past decade, there are still significant market opportunities to pursue. The demand for organic products in developing countries continues to grow and price premiums for organic certified products are available, albeit not comparable with those of a decade or...

Cooperatives in the small-scale fisheries sector are a way of maximizing long-term community benefits to deal with the threats of fisheries mismanagement, livelihood insecurity and poverty – harsh realities for many of the world’s small-scale fishers. Communities with successful community-based organizations are better off than those without (Ostrom, 1990). Successful...