我在云南迪庆藏族自治州德钦县云岭乡红坡村 作调查的时候，正赶上村里种植玉米和青稞，又 逢当地政府支持村民种植葡萄。村里除了在外打 工的，老弱妇孺都在田地农忙。红坡村每家平均 每家有7亩地，本村地处山区，土地大部分都在山 上，而且每家分配到的田块也不一定靠近农舍， 有的甚至有好几里的路程，这便无形中加重了农 民的劳动强度。

在云南省滇西北广大的农村地区，妇女在畜牧业生产中扮演着一个非常重要的角色。然而，在以政府为主导的技术推广与培训活动中，妇女往往被排斥在外或很少有机会参与。近年来，为了改善妇女的这种状况，云南省生物多样性和传统知识研究会的“滇西北农牧区生计改良项目”采取和实施了一系列的针对妇女发展的措施和策略。通过增加女性村民对项目活动的参与和提高女性兽医技术人员的专业能力，降低了畜牧业生产中的风险和提高了家庭的经济收入。同时，在农业生产中，女性村民变得更加自信并意识到她们的决策权利。

This paper presents the position of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) on where agricultural extension stands today and where it needs to go in the future. The findings presented here are intended to better situate extension...

Small-scale forestry – here meaning all activities related to forest ownership, management and enterprise – can contribute significantly to social and economic development when the circumstances are right. This issue of Unasylva examines the conditions and support that make it work. We don’t define “small” by numbers, but use the...

This publication reflects the outcome of an ambitious initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the...

The People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) project is a largely farmer-driven demonstration project consisting of five ecosystem clusters and spread over eight countries: Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, China, Papua New Guinea and Brazil. PLEC was initiated in 1992 by the United Nations University (UNU) as an international...

The Trans-Himalayan region encompasses a number of countries situated in the midland and highland areas of the Himalayas, Karakoram, and in a broad sense also in Hindu Kush and Pamir. The mountains are characterized by a very low level of human development, with full exploitation or overexploitation of the natural...

The thirteen papers presented in this publication review fish stocks and fisheries of mountainous areas of Asia: Himalayas (Bhutan, Nepal, northern states of India within the Himalayas), Western Ghats (India), Karakoram-Hindu Kush (Pakistan, Afghanistan), Pamir (Tajikistan), Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), Altai (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China), high altitude lakes of Mongolia and...