Through the “Integrated Dairy Development Project in Albania,” Heifer International has empowered 630 families in rural areas to increase their food and income by transforming subsistence farms into a sustainable resource while increasing cooperation between farmers. The donation of heifers, combined with effective technical assistance and training on community development,...

This document summarizes a series of case studies done in nine countries—Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania and Thailand—on the role of communities in the planning and implementation of marine protected areas (MPAs). The studies demonstrate that communities can be powerful allies in efforts for conservation and...

Adoptée en 2007, elle vise à assurer à l’ensemble des acteurs ruraux, l’accès équitable au foncier, la garantie de leurs investissements et la gestion efficace des différends fonciers dans le but de promouvoir une agriculture productive et durable. Cette politique est renforcée par la loi N°034‐2009/AN portant régime foncier rural...

n partnership with the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of seven countries in WANA (Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and UAE), and with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD), and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID),...

En este artículo se analizan las estrategias encaradas por productores familiares en un área no prototípica de la región pampeana en la cual se ha difundido la fruticultura como actividad trabajo-intensiva principalmente orientada al mercado interno, que ha desarrollado encadenamientos locales y un mercado de trabajo estacional. Tal actividad experimenta...

The rural familiar agroindustry is an alternative in the search for new niche markets, using the greater diversity of existing products and product  differentiation by transforming them inside the property.  Its  implementation  is  considered  an  effective  alternative  as  policy  fot  Rural Development,  but  despite  all  efforts  there  are  many limitations ...

CONAMUCA es una organización de cobertura nacional, fundada el 1ero. de noviembre del año 1986, que promueve los intereses y derechos de las mujeres y reivindica la lucha por una vida digna. Su misión es construir un modelo de producción agrícola que recupere la agricultura campesina basada en la igualdad de...

Policies to stimulate the modernization have not achieved the small family farm producers, and many of them have started to consider the agroindustrialization as a productive alternative as well as  a  source  of  family  income.  However,  the  challenge  is  the  commercialization  of these products,  considering  that  most  of  these  negotiations ...

Durante el 2010 las agencias de extensión del INTA trabajan en red en la provincia de Córdoba con el cultivo de papa (Solanum tuberosum) variedad Calén INTA (tubérculos oval alargados, calibre grande, piel lisa, carne crema y alto rinde) para la producción de papines con la participación de familias e...

Este número de Mundos Rurales incluye artículos sobre: Cambios necesarios en tiempos de cambio climático Gestión del bosque en el Norte Amazónico de Bolivia Miradas a un año del inicio de los Asentamientos en Pando Implementación de las Autonomías Indígena Originario Campesinas en Potosí Autonomías interculturales, democráticas y productivas El conflicto potosino desde las perspectivas vivenciales Marcha...

Rice is the staple food of about half of the world’s population, the majority of which is located in Asia. Rice supplies as much as 80% of the daily caloric intake of the teeming population of Asia, where two-thirds of the world’s impoverished population lives. It is estimated that 2.3...

La agencia de extensión INTA La Carlota (Córdoba) desarrolla trabajos dentro de su área de influencia referidos a enmiendas orgánicas en una secuencia de cultivos hortícolas en forma coordinada con una familia vinculada al Proyecto Pro-Huerta; y en el marco del PNTER 3331 de Producción Agroecológica, Prohuerta. El objetivo principal de esta experiencia es...

In  the  face  a  complex  food  problems  consists  of  a  scenario  of  nutritional  transition  and  a productive  model  guided  by  the  industrialization  of  agriculture  and  food,  causing  the marginalization of most family farmers, in Brazil there is political and social actions that tend to destabilize  supply  chains  dominate.  In  the ...

Este número de Mundos Rurales incluye artículos sobre: Charagua, líder en las reivindicaciones del pueblo guaraní, avanza a la Autonomía Indígena. Vivencias en elecciones Largo camino para ejercer el derecho Amazonía: día esperado, entre incertidumbre y esperanzas Asentamientos humanos en Pando: explorando mejores condiciones de vida Pese a la Constitución y las leyes, las mujeres...

Sustainably managed forests have multiple environmental and socio-economic functions important at the global, national and local scales, and play a vital part in sustainable development. Reliable and upto-date information on the state of forest resources - not only on area and area change, but also on such variables as growing...

Women fishworkers in India, as in other parts of the world, play critical roles within the fisheries and fishing communities, roles that are often not recognized or supported. Women are particularly active in postharvest fisheries; in marine fishing communities in India, for example, women comprise about 75 per cent of...

“Recasting the Net: Defining a Gender Agenda for Sustaining Life and Livelihoods in Fishing Communities” is a workshop that was meant to reflect on what needs to be done to develop a ‘gender agenda’ for sustaining life and livelihoods in fisheries. It was also organized against the backdrop of the...

The study aimed at examining how the policies and regulations in place (or lack thereof) impact on smallscale banana farmers in Isingiro district and share possible solutions with the government, farmers, interested donors and other stakeholders.

This is the report on the workshop on “Small Indigenous Freshwater Fish Species: Their Role in Poverty Alleviation, Food Security and Conservation of Biodiversity”, organized by the ICSF in collaboration with the Inland Fisheries Society of India (IFSI). The workshop was a forum for exchange of views on the role...

A new kind of sustainable intensified agriculture based on CA is emerging and new production systems often also include trees grown as hedge rows to control grazing and provide habitats and fuel, or include trees as strip crops with annual crops rotated in adjacent strips. Trees in crop-livestock systems often...