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Socio-productive strategy and family agriculture: new technologies and their implications on family and productive relationships in a town of southern Santa Fe
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...
Argentina
2013 - Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Document technique
Leaping & learning
Linking smallholders to markets
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...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Mali - Mozambique - Nigeria - Senegal - South Africa - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2013 - Agriculture for Impact
Rapport
Diagnóstico de la Acuicultura de Recursos Limitados (AREL) y de la Acuicultura de la Micro y Pequeña Empresa (AMYPE) en América Latina
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...
Argentina - Belize - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Ecuador - El Salvador - Guatemala - Mexico - Nicaragua - Panama - Paraguay - Peru - Uruguay
2013 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Document de travail
Development of feed legumes as suitable crops for the drylands of Iran
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...
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2013 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Document de travail
Family farming: a Europe and Central Asia perspective
Background Report for Regional Dialogue on Family Farming: Working towards a strategic approach to promote food security and nutrition
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...
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
MAGAP junto a organizaciones campesinas y nacionalidades indígenas trabaja en la REAF, capítulo Ecuador
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...
Ecuador
2013 - Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP)
Manuel
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) Manual
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.
Saint Lucia
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Projet
Development of conservation cropping systems in the drylands of northern Iraq
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...
Iraq
2013 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Rapport
Facing the challenges of climate change and food security
The role of research, extension and communication for development. Occasional papers on Innovation in Family Farming
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),...
Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Congo - Ghana
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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)
Rapport
Competitividad de la Agricultura en América Latina y el Caribe
Matriz de Análisis de Política: Ejercicios de Cómputo
La Matriz de Análisis de Política a la que se refiere este documento es una herramienta de análisis cuantitativo microeconómica relativamente fácil de aplicar. Ante la dificultad que representa el analizar el complejo y heterogéneo sector agropecuario, y dada la escasez de estudios microeconómicos, se considera que los Ministerios de...
2013 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Comptes rendus de conférence
A strategic partnership to strengthen policies for water and food security
The International Conference on Policies for Water and Food Security in Dry Areas was co-organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land reclamation and its Agricultural Research Center, ICARDA, FAO, IFAD and IRDC. The conference was held in Cairo on 24-26 June, 2013 and attended by some 200 policy...
2013 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Bulletin d'information
Family Farming Newsletter for Latin America and the Caribbean, January-March 2013
The year 2013 is of particular importance: it is the year we celebrate the International Year of Quinoa (IYQ), and we formally begin to prepare for the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) in 2014. Quinoa and Family Farming go hand in hand: both can contribute substantially toward the fight against hunger. However, to tap their...
Nicaragua - Paraguay - Peru - Suriname - Uruguay
2013
Document technique
Financing smallholder farmers to increase incomes and transform lives in rural communities
Without financial access and sufficient yearly earnings, many farmers also lose up to 50 percent of their annual potential income because they must gain quick access to cash to afford household expenses all year. In the time leading up to harvest, farmers often experience a “hungry season” in which they...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Rwanda - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2013 - Opportunity International
Rapport
Sistematización de acceso a mercados a pequeños y pequeñas productoras agrícolas en Centro América
El problema de la distribución de beneficios, producto del desequilibrio en las relaciones de poder en la toma de decisiones entre productores y empresas, es la que amerita el establecimiento de políticas públicas para proteger a los pequeños productores. De forma general se ha identificado que los productores rurales son...
Guatemala - Honduras
2013 - Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Guatemala (FLACSO)
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
Modelling agri-food policy impact at farm-household level in developing countries
This report presents a farm household model for use in the context of developing countries to gain knowledge on food security and rural poverty alleviation under different economic conditions and agri-food policy options. This model, called FSSIM-Dev (Farming System Simulator for Developing Countries), is an extension of the FSSIM model...
Sierra Leone
2013 - European Commission
Document de travail
Agricultural mechanization in Ghana
Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model?
The Government of Ghana (GoG) since 2007 has been providing subsidized agricultural machines to individual farmers and private enterprises established as specialized Agricultural Mechanization Services Enterprise Centers (AMSECs) to offer tractor-hire services to small-scale farmers across the country. Current demand in the country is primarily focused on land preparation services,...
Ghana
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Ouvrage
Cartera de Programas y Proyectos de la UCAR
Esta publicación bilingue fue realizada para brindar información sobre la cartera de programas y Proyectos de la Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR) respecto a objetivos, áreas de intervención, estrategias, montos de inversión, etc.
Argentina
2013 - Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR)
Note/document d'orientation
Voluntary standards
Impacting smallholders' market participation
Voluntary standards are part of a growing trend in global markets. As a result, FAO and member countries are being asked to respond adequately to the opportunities and challenges presented by business models that could foster both increased food security and better market access for small-scale producers. FAO reviewed the...
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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