Farm management, for many extension workers, presents a challenge as their experience and practice is largely on production and technology transfer. This requires advice in marketing and business management as a way to increase farm income. What do we mean by farm management? Briefly it is a process of decision-making...

A warm welcome to Dimitra newsletter 23, which outlines the project’s most recent activities and achievements, especially the development and growing impact of the Dimitra listeners’ clubs. These successes are producing growing recognition for the Dimitra approach and a strong increase in the number of partnerships. This issue also presents...

ARC2020 is organising a 10 day EU-wide Speakers’ Tour on land grabbing in Romania. It will take place from 21-30 April 2013. Mr Attila Szocs who monitors large scale agricultural land purchases in Romania, and Mr Dan Cismas a biodynamic farmer and co-president of the EcoRuralis peasant association, will tour European capitals...

El objetivo general de esta estrategia, es contribuir al alivio de la pobreza y mejorar los medios de subsistencia en los países en desarrollo, y proteger y ampliar el comercio regional y global de animales y productos de origen animal. El objetivo específico es mejorar el control en las regiones...

El mensaje global que el informe pretende transmitir es que el reciclaje de las aguas residuales urbanas es un elemento clave en la Gestión Integrada de los Recursos Hídricos (GIRH) que puede cumplir objetivos diferentes, pero interrelacionados. Estos se expresan como propuestas que ofrecen beneficios simultáneos a agricultores, ciudades y...

Esta edición especial de Umbrales está dedicada a compartir las experiencias y los conocimientos adquiridos de la “bolivianización” del Desarrollo Económico basado en la Comunidad (DEC), que han realizado conjuntamente el CSCD y CIDES. Para ello comienza por el punto de partida, es decir, por apoyar la toma de conciencia comunitaria,...

2014 was designated the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly.  The implementation of the IYFF is being coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with the objective of raising the profi le of family farming. The IYFF will focus world attention on the role of family farms...

Présentation d'un projet au Togo , dans la région des Savanes, qui vise à initier une dynamique de préservation, de gestion durable et de restauration des sols et du couvert ligneux, notamment à travers le développement des pratiques agro écologiques et des systèmes agroforestiers. 

Improving food security and agricultural livelihoods in Northern Uganda is an EU-funded Government of Uganda's Agricultural Livelihoods Recovery Project (ALREP) implemented by FAO in northern Uganda targeting people that have resettled in their homes after the 20 years of war. The video highlights how farmer field schools are being used...

La publicación de este número de Unasylva tiene lugar a raíz de la celebración de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible Río+20, que, entre otros frutos, publicó el documento intitulado El futuro que queremos. En ese documento, los dirigentes de todo el mundo reafirmaron su compromiso...

Presentación realizada con fines expositivos, al cierre de un proceso de investigación de tesis, por lo que da cuenta de los resultados.

The purpose of this article is to provide some theoretical and empirical knowledge regarding the profound transformations undergone by the rural sector in the Argentinean Pampa, where technological changes have had a significant impact both on productive and everyday life never seen before in the history of this area. We...

Over the last fifty years food production per person in Africa has grown disappointingly slowly at little more than 10%. The population of Africa is growing rapidly at an average annual rate of 2.5% and is expected to almost double by 2050 to close to two billion people. Chronic hunger...

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...

This Working Paper reviews the current knowledge on feed legumes development in drylands of Iran and presents the results of studies done by the Iran’s Dryland Agricultural Research Institute (DARI) in different agro-climatic zones of the country. The study includes the existing technologies, and advocates policy, and institutional innovations that...

In collaboration with the World Rural Forum, the International Cooperative Alliance and the World Farmers Organization, FAO plans to hold a series of regional dialogues to enhance local, regional and global discussions on family farming, including small-scale farming. The outcomes of these regional dialogues will set the ground to provide...

Este artículo informa que representantes de organizaciones campesinas, gremios agropecuarios de las nacionalidades  de pueblos indígenas y autoridades del Ministerio de Agricultura Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP), participaron la reunión preparatoria a la Conformación de la Red Especializada de Agricultura Familiar (REAF), capítulo Ecuador. Los objetivos de la REAF implican crear...

Participatory programming provides scope for the unlocking of potential competence and optimizing available resource use in order to improve plant nutrition and plant health; while safeguarding the integrity of the scarce land resource base in St. Lucia.

The project leader for the third phase of the project joined ICARDA in July 2012, and a project instigation meeting was conducted in Amman where the previous progress was reviewed, objectives discussed, and a comprehensive work plan developed. In the autumn of 2012, 29 zero-tillage (ZT) demonstrations were established in...

In line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this study defines climate change as any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity. The study report is based on case studies from Bangladesh (Sulaiman, 2010), Bolivia (Pafumi and Ulloa, 2010),...