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Журнальная статья
Perspectives: Shifting African policy towards women and agroecology
The role of rural women and smallholder farmers in African society has been highly undervalued. This is so despite the fact that around 80% of Africa’s population is dependent on smallholder agriculture, it is the backbone of the rural economy, and women provide over two-thirds of the farm labour. There is clear evidence that agroecology is crucial for women farmers. Now we face the challenge of discovering how its principles can best be promoted and how practice can inform policy at local and national level.
Recently, we have seen unequivocal changes in policies that are transforming African agriculture to facilitate a ‘Green Revolution’. These policies articulate and promote a form of agriculture that focuses on monocropping, expensive external inputs such as agrochemicals and synthetic fertilizers, hybrid/GM seeds and large-scale land acquisition. These changes in policies...
Kenya
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Газетная статья
ASSESSING THE CURRENT STATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN THE NORTH-EAST REGION OF ROMANIA
The paper analyses the development of organic agriculture in the NorthEast Development Region of Romania, particularly during the current economic crisis. The organic agriculture sector represents a relatively new area of interest for farmers in Romania, as the first signs of organisation and utilisation of land and livestock according to...
Romania
2015 - ocial and Economic Institute "GH Zane" ROMANIAN ACADEMY, IASI Branch
Рабочий документ
Smallholders’ Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
A new landscape?
While scholars agree on the importance of land rental markets for structural transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their operation, including potential obstacles to their improved functioning, remains limited. This study uses household-level data from six countries to start filling this gap and derive substantive...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Niger - Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - World Bank Group
Рабочий документ
Investigating the gender gap in agricultural productivity
Evidence from Uganda
Women comprise 50 percent of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage plots that are reportedly on average 20 to 30 percent less productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using...
Uganda
2015 - World Bank
Статья в блоге
Italian Government to support FAO's malnutrition interventions in Eastern Sudan
FAO is launching a new project with a grant of 600,000 Euros from the Italian Government to respond to the food and nutrition needs of rural families in Kassala and Red Sea States . The project will include a comprehensive package of activities to facilitate the adoption of sustainable climate-smart technologies and...
Sudan
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Видеоматериал
Sao Tomé: A Brighter Future
Most of the island of Sao Tomé is without any electricity. People battle to build and grow their businesses when they are literally kept in the dark. Now solar energy is promising them a brighter future.
Sao Tome and Principe
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Книга
IV Censo Nacional Agropecuario: Resúmenes de investigaciones, experiencias y lecciones aprendidas
Programa de becas para jóvenes investigadores y tesis de maestría 2014-2015
Los censos agropecuarios son una fuente de información para el análisis de procesos de cambio que nos permitan pensar alternativas de desarrollo para la sociedad rural. Con este convencimiento, el Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA) y el Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (grade), con el financiamiento del Fondo...
Peru
2015 - Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA)
Раздел "Разное"
Building, defending and strengthening agroecology
The meaning and politics of agroecology from social movement perspectives is being explored in this article based on research. movement is growing. While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world, today we are witnessing the mobilisation of transnational social movements to build, defend and strengthen...
2015 - Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Справочник
Guía para la implementación de Centros Demostrativos de Capacitación -CDC- con enfoque Agroecológico
Fortalecimiento de la seguridad alimentaria y de la capacidad de generar ingresos a través de proyectos de innovación en las Zonas de Reserva Campesina
Los Centros Demostrativos de Capacitación se constituyen en espacios de formación participativa, que se basan metodológicamente en la construcción colectiva del conocimiento a partir de la implementación de sistemas agroalimentarios integrados (hortalizas, aromáticas, cultivos de pancoger, frutales, especies menores y elaboración de biopreparados) en un área determinada, donde se realizan...
Colombia
2015 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Журнальная статья
Bacău Vegetable Growing Research and Development Unit: the brands created in 30 years provide self-financing
Bacău Vegetable Growing Research and Development Unit was established in 1974 in the context of carrying out the programme of self-supply and development of a modern and efficient vegetable growing in the area of Moldavia, where production and research traditions related to the vegetable crop were relatively reduced. The Vegetable...
Romania
2015
Видеоматериал
Escuela Campesina de Teorías Críticas al Desarrollo Rural
Registra audiovisualmente las experiencias e intercambios que han tenido los integrantes del Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO Desarrollo Rural "disputas territoriales, campesinos y descolonialidad" con las realidades campesinas colombianas y la situación de despojo territorial y desplazamiento rural de la que han sido objeto. La escuela, es un espacio de reflexión...
Colombia
2015 - Consejo Latinomaericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Журнальная статья
El Perú debe utilizar su riqueza genética para enfrentar al cambio climático
Un reciente informe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) subraya la gran importancia del uso y aprovechamiento de los recursos genéticos para reducir los impactos negativos del cambio climático. El informe lleva a reflexionar acerca de si en el Perú las políticas...
Peru
2015 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Видеоматериал
Ghana : Une action local
Le Ghana importe aujourd’hui plus d’un milliard de dollars de produits alimentaires, qui sont particulièrement sujets à des hausses de prix. Pour y remédier, on peut notamment investir dans des entrepreneurs locaux comme Janet Gyimah-Kessie. Elle possède une grande usine de transformation du manioc qui non seulement augmente la production...
Ghana
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Работа конференции
Family Farming & Research
The “International Encounters: Family Farming & Research” event was held from 1 to 3 June in Montpellier (France) with the aim of sharing information and analyses on the state and dynamics of family farming worldwide, as well as assessing their contribution to major challenges in the future, so as to...
2015 - CIRAD
Статья информационного бюллетеня
Kazakhstan: Rise in organic produce
The market of organic products in Kazakhstan is estimated at 95 billion tenge (more than US $500 million), Zhibek Azhibayeva, secretary of the Trade Committee of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan, told a media briefing on March 12. She also said that Kazakhstan is introducing an organic...
Kazakhstan
2015
Журнальная статья
Vers une transformation des systèmes agricoles ouest-africains
Cet article reprend des travaux de prospective réalisés sur l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Il souligne la tendance à l’augmentation de la taille et à la concentration des exploitations agricoles. Selon les auteurs, cette évolution nécessitera pour l’agriculture familiale une transition vers une vocation plus commerciale.
2015 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural (IR)
Рабочий документ
Mobile applications for weather and climate information
Their use and potential for smallholder farmers
Mobile phones are increasingly being used to provide smallholder farmers with agricultural and related information. There is currently great interest in their scope to communicate climate and weather information. Farmers consistently identify demand for weather information and whilst ICTs may be one way of delivering this at scale there are...
2015 - CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Журнальная статья
Nueva Estrategia Nacional de Agricultura Familiar 2015-2021
Una primera mirada
El pasado 23 de junio se aprobó la Estrategia Nacional de Agricultura Familiar (ENAF). ¿Por qué la agricultura familiar (AF) necesita una estrategia nacional? Las razones son muchas, y de peso: a) reúne a la inmensa mayoría de unidades agropecuarias (UA) del país; b) es el principal productor de alimentos;...
Peru
2015 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Статья в блоге
Agrobiodiversidad y agricultura familiar
La agroecología como enfoque productivo, que armoniza con la naturaleza y sus recursos, cobra protagonismo en el país y el exterior. Al respecto, el Diario ABC Color ya ha realizado varias jornadas que apuntan a la producción agroecológica-orgánica, buscando despertar el interés y generando espacios de diálogo y debate entre...
Argentina
2015 - ABC
Конференция/совещание
Pilot Project Exchange Programme for Young Farmers
At this conference, the preliminary results of the Pilot Project "Exchange programme for young farmers", proposed by the European Parliament and supported by the European Commission, were presented. For this study, some 2,205 young farmers (max 40 years old) had been interviewed.
2015 - European Commission
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