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Caravan - An integrated ‘systems’ approach for dryland agroecosystems
This issue of Caravan presents some successes of the collaboration of scientists and other stakeholders from ICARDA and national partners, where participatory research with local communities and women’s groups in particular, has reaped a range of benefits through an integrated systems approach. These examples demonstrate a path forward for sustainably...
Afghanistan - India - Iraq - Jordan - Morocco - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia
2013 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Document de travail
Modern variety adoption and intensification in Indonesian shrimp aquaculture
Are poor farmers included?
The primary objective of this paper is to identify if smallholders are participating in the growth of the shrimp aquaculture industry in Indonesia, a modern globalized agriculture sector that is characterized by (1) bi-modal size distribution of farms — at one end is a large mass of small household farms,...
Indonesia
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Rapport
Linking smallholders with rapidly transforming markets
Modernizing smallholder agriculture through value chain development in China
Along with its rapid economic growth, increasing urbanization, and accelerating integration into the world market, China has experienced rapid transformation of its food value chains. There has been a surge in the number of its supermarkets and hypermarkets. The advent and rapid expansion of the modern self-service store has transformed...
China
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Document technique
The Status of Food Security in the Feed the Future Zone and Other Regions of Bangladesh
Results from the 2011–2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey
This report presents results of analyses of the IFPRI household survey data on various topics that, combined, represent the current food security situation in Bangladesh. Specifically, the study examines how that situation varies between the FTF zone of influence in the southern region and other regions throughout the country.
Bangladesh
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Document de travail
Determinants of small-scale farmer participation in supermarket channels and impact on household income
Evidence from Indonesia
This paper attempts to contribute to the emerging literature with focusing on one important high-value agricultural product in Indonesia: chili. More specifically we examine the factors that determine chili farmers participation in supermarket channel and to investigate the impacts of this participation on their income. This study focuses on chilies...
Indonesia
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Rapport
Organic supply chains for small farmer income generation in developing countries
Case studies in India, Thailand, Brazil, Hungary and Africa
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...
Brazil - Hungary - India - South Africa - Uganda
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Food Plants of Sri Lanka
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Sri Lanka
2013
Rapport
Conservation agriculture: opportunities for intensified farming and environmental conservation in dry areas
A synthesis of research and trials with smallholder farmers in drylands systems; benefits and constraints to adoption. Farmer experiences and potential for uptake in Iraq, Syria, Morocco and Tunisia.
This report presents examples, approaches and evidence on conservation agriculture and its potential for use in low-income countries. It is designed to help policy makers and development partners appreciate the issues and evaluate how conservation agriculture can contribute to rural development and food security goals, paving the way for its...
Australia - Iraq - Morocco - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Projet
Mission Report for Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific Islands
The mission to Palau and Guam, carried out under the project TCP/PAL/3301, was part of the initiative of FAO to establish a subregional aquaculture network in Micronesia. It was the latest activity in a process that drew impetus from a meeting called “Building on Progress: An Evening on Pacific Aquaculture”...
Guam - Palau
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Document de travail
The scaling up of agroecology: spreading the hope for food sovereignty and resiliency
The Green Revolution, the symbol of agricultural intensification not only failed to ensure safe and abundant food production for all people, but it was launched under the assumptions that abundant water and cheap energy to fuel modern agriculture would always be available and that climate would be stable and not...
2012 - Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA)
Note/document d'orientation
Pu’er Traditional Tea Agrosystem
Yunnan Province of China is the world’s provenance of tea trees. It’s also the province that boasts the largest area of wild tea tree communities and ancient tea plantations with the largest amount of old tea trees and wild tea trees. The area along the Lancang River is the center...
China
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manuel
Caja de herramientas para la seguridad alimentaria
La presente caja de herramientas está diseñada para ayudar a los profesionales de la seguridad alimentaria a desarrollar una estratégica de comunicación, y a comunicarse más eficazmente con los grupos que son el blanco de sus esfuerzos. Secciones específicas de la caja de herramientas enfocan a los formuladores de políticas...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO)
Vidéos
Shifting Undercurrents: Women seaweed collectors of Gulf of Mannar, India
The 5000 odd women who free-dive to collect seaweed in the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park off the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu find themselves struggling for their livelihoods now that their activities have been greatly curtailed. The Gulf of Mannar was declared a marine national park in...
India
2012 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de revue spécialisée
Agroecology Scaling Up for Food Sovereignty and Resiliency
The Green Revolution not only failed to ensure safe and abundant food production for all people, but it was launched under the assumptions that abundant water and cheap energy to fuel modern agriculture would always be available and that climate would be stable and not change. In some of the...
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Étude de cas
Farmer Organizations and the Market in Melanesia
Five case studies are included here as examples of attempts to link small farmers with markets in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The case studies explore the business model used and the lessons learned. They are drawn from among the loose network of the organizations that are members of...
Papua New Guinea - Solomon Islands
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can...
China
2012 - The Open University and the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP)
Projet
Food Security and Sustainable Livelihood Programme for Pacific Island Countries: National Capacity Building for Strategic Project Identification and Design.
The considerable food price rise and financial crises and already felt climate change effects on Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have highlighted food security and livelihoods vulnerability and fragility in the region. With many mainly very small islands dispersed in a vast ocean, the challenges for individual countries to address their...
Fiji - Papua New Guinea - Solomon Islands - Tonga - Trinidad and Tobago - Tunisia - Türkiye - Turkmenistan - Tuvalu - Vanuatu
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Site web
North East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society
NESFAS stands for the North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society. The organisation attempts to bring together partners from different sectors that can help in the enhancement of agrobiodiversity, leading to food sovereignty. As a platform, NESFAS believes that traditional ecological knowledge is equally important to modern science and therefore facilitates a mutually respectful dialogue for...
2012 - North East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society (NESFAS)
Rapport
Asia Regional Organic Standards (AROS)
The Asia Regional Organic Standard (AROS) was developed by a public-private partnership of stakeholders in East, South-East and South Asia under the auspices of the GOMA project, led by the Food and Agriculture Program of the United Nations (FAO), the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and the United...
2012
Document de travail
A case of Agricultural Heritage Systems
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations defines Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) as "remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaptation of a community with its environment and its needs and aspirations for sustainable development"....
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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