El  presente  trabajo  presenta  un  análisis  del  Comercio  Exterior  paraguayo – constituido básicamente de materias primas de origen agrícola-  lo que da una idea de  su inserción en el Mercado Mundial de Materias Primas desde los primeros pasos que se dieron en el campo internacional para llegar a la solución...

While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris  L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...

Cette étude fouillée réalisée auprès de 1157 opérateurs de la filière. En publiant cette recherche, ICSF voudrait permettre aux scientifiques et aux décideurs de mieux connaître le milieude la pêche artisanale et sa complexité. La discussion des résultats devrait aussi être source d’inspiration pour les responsables des organisations de pécheurs...

While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris  L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...

Draught animal power (DAP) is well established as the traditional farming technology of smallholder farmers in Botswana. However, in recent years, the use of tractor farm technology is increasingly becoming important among smallholder farmers in spite of the on-going debate on the desirability of mechanizing smallholder crop production systems. Using...

All over the world women play a unique and vital role in fixing our broken food system. The prevailing view on agriculture and food in Europe and in European institutions is limited to economics and trade. In these places (old) men in suits discuss amongst themselves and take decisions. In...

In this article it is developed, based on existing data and post-socialism discourse, a theoretical perspective on the research into the privatization of agriculture in the Baltic republics. As much as estate ownership in the 19th century, small farming established in sweeping land reforms characterized Baltic agriculture between the World Wars....

Este trabajo es de resultado de un estudio solicitado por la Fundación Interamericana (IAF) en el marco de un proceso interno de evaluación del programa de la IAF en el Paraguay, que abarcó el análisis de algunos de sus proyectos de apoyo tanto a Organizaciones Campesinas (OCs), como a Organizaciones...

Los días 25 y 26 de octubre de 1994 se realizó en Montevideo la "Consulta Regional sobre Juventud  Rural  del  Cono  Sur  Latinoamericano",  oportunidad  en  la  que  además  se  constituyó formalmente la Red de Juventud Rural (REJUR). Este documento intenta recoger, en base a un trabajo  presentado en  dicha  ocasión, ...

This dossier puts together documents relating to a unique Public Hearing, held at Cochin, India in June 1995, on the problems faced by women workers in India's fish processing industry. Apart from a comprehensive report on the sector, this Dossier includes transcripts of oral testimonies of some of the women...

Proposals for post apartheid agrarian reconstruction in South Africa are founded on assumptions about gender relations and households that obscure the underlying basis of gender differentiated access to productive resources. Based on their assumptions, policy makers believe that legalistic approaches in themselves will be sufficient to redress existing gender inequalities...

El estudio fue realizado en la comunidad campesina de Qosqo Ayllu (Región Inka) durante la campaña agrícola 1991-1992, el cual intenta formalizar el conocimiento campesino, demostrar la racionalidad de su tecnología y analizar el alcance del enfoque de sistemas en la zona andina, a través de la determinación de las...

La Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC-Vía Campesina), es una instancia de articulación continental con 16 años de compromiso constante con la lucha social que representa a movimientos campesinos, de trabajadores y trabajadoras, indígenas y afrodescendientes de toda América Latina.

This study stresses the need for the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to put in place a seed system which would meet the seed needs of a wide range of farmers, classified according to their risk tolerance capacity and resource endowments. Obviously, a single strategy cannot meet this objective. The study...

The First European Convention on Farming Systems Research and Extension marked the beginning of an exploration and a sharing. Those of us who have participated in the meetings of the Association of Farming Systems Research and Extension (AFSRE) have got to know each other through our work in developing countries....

Conceived as a project by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Neglected crops: 1492 from a different perspective was copublished with the Botanical Garden of Córdoba, Spain. This cooperation came about as a result of the "Etnobotánica 92" congress, convened in September 1992 by the Botanical Garden...

Cooperativas de las Américas (antes ACI-Américas) es la representación regional de la Alianza para el continente americano. La Oficina Regional de las Américas se estableció en 1990 en San José, Costa Rica. Su objetivo primordial es "promover el reposicionamiento del modelo cooperativo en el nuevo entorno económico, político, social y comercial...

This publication is the official record of what transpired at Cebu conference held between 2 and 7 June 1994. It is a compendium of papers, reports and special contributions on topical concerns in global fisheries management. It also contains the reports of the various working groups which tackled the conference's...

Ce dossier contient deux contributions distinctes. Elles rapportent certains résultats issus de deux recherches menées sur le terrain de la pêche sénégalaise et issues de la collaboration entre le CREDETIP (Centre de Recherche et de Développement des Technologies intermédiaires dans la Pêche) de Dakar, ONG de réflexion et de soutien...

Increase in agriculture productivity are fundamental to the sustainable development of many African economies. While efforts are being made to provide more appropriate policies to encourage policies to encourage production, progress on technology development is disappointing. This is an area in which African science can, and must, make a greater...