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Farm equipment supply chains
Guidelines for policy-makers and service providers: experiences from Kenya, Pakistan and Brazil
The guidelines resulting from this report are principally directed towards sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the lack of farm power and appropriate machinery is having a deleterious effect on rural livelihoods. The farm power and machinery supply chain includes a range of stakeholders from manufacturers and importers through dealers, hire service...
Brazil - Kenya - Pakistan
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Доклад
The India MPA Workshop Proceedings - Social Dimensions of Marine Protected Areas Implementation in India: Do Fishing Communities Benefit?, 21-22 January 2009, IMAGE Auditorium, Chennai, India
‘Social Dimensions of Marine Protected Area Implementation in India: Do Fishing Communities Benefit?’ is a workshop organized by ICSF at Chennai on 21-22 January 2009. This publication—the India MPA Workshop Proceedings—contains the prospectus of the workshop, a report of the proceedings and the consensus statement that was reached by organizations...
India
2009 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Organic agriculture and fair trade in Pacific island countries
The increased demand for high quality products in export markets, coupled with Pacific Island Countries (PICs) national desire to protect the environment, biodiversity and family farming structures, lead to assume that organic agriculture could offer good prospects for PICs development. Besides market opportunities, organic agriculture could increase PICs food self-reliance...
Cook Islands - Fiji - Kiribati - Papua New Guinea - Samoa - Solomon Islands - Tonga - Vanuatu
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Технический документ
Remembering the Source
The traditional Vietnamese system of social and community organization, called van chai, can be the basis of a viable fi sheries management system
In parts of Vietnam, the van chai is an old, established institution for managing local fisheries and fishing communities. Its principal objectives are: (i) religious functions; (ii) mutual assistance; (iii) specification of the behaviour, rights and obligations of fisheries stakeholders; (iv) catch disposal; (v) governance of fishing operations; (vi) conflict...
Viet Nam
2009 - ICSF
Газетная статья
Agribusiness Involvement in Local Agriculture as a ‘White Knight’? A Case Study of Dole Japan’s Fresh Vegetable Business
In the past two decades, Japanese agriculture has been shrinking under policies of deregulation, with domestic production being replaced rapidly by imports, in which multinational agribusinesses are key players. Today there is an increasing presence of multinational corporations in Japanese rural sites. Dole Japan, a subsidiary of Dole Food Company,...
Japan
2009
Тематическое исследование
Inventory and Documentation of Tribal GIAHS in India
About 8 per cent of the Indian population belongs to a category listed as ‘Scheduled Tribes’ enumerated in the Schedule to Article 342 of the Constitution of India. Tribal people have been seen to be strongly associated with the forests, hills and remote areas, practicing a unique life style, having...
India
2009 - Schumacher Centre
Политический обзор/документ
Climate Change And Food Security In The Pacific
This brief has been prepared for the UN Convention on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen, December 2009, to raise awareness of the imminent impacts of climate change on food security in Pacific island countries and territories and to urge participants to consider the importance of mainstreaming food security in climate-related...
Cook Islands - Fiji - Micronesia (Federated States of) - Niue - Papua New Guinea - Samoa - Solomon Islands - Tonga - Tuvalu - Vanuatu
2009
Информационный сборник
Factors Affecting Conversion From Conventional To Organic Vegetable Farming In Thailand
There is barrier among farmers in developing countries to convert to organic farming. This study examines factors affecting the decision of Thai vegetable farmers to convert and suggests possible measures to improve conversion
Thailand
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Доклад
Organic Agriculture And Fair Trade In Pacific Island Countries
The increased demand for high quality products in export markets, coupled with Pacific Island Countries (PICs) national desire to protect the environment, biodiversity and family farming structures, lead to assume that organic agriculture could offer good prospects for PICs development. Besides market opportunities, organic agriculture could increase PICs food self-reliance...
Cook Islands - Fiji - Kiribati - Niue - Papua New Guinea - Samoa - Solomon Islands - Tonga - Vanuatu
2009
Рабочий документ
The Market For Organic Products In Asia–Pacific
This paper presents the general trends of demand and supply of organic products in Asia and the Pacific. This regional market is put in perspective within the global organic agrifood market and the current economic conditions that may have a great impact on the development of organic agriculture in Asia...
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Тематическое исследование
The Vanuatu Organic Cocoa Growers Association (VOCGA): A Case Study of Agriculture for Growth in the Pacific
During two decades of monopoly cocoa marketing by the Vanuatu Commodity Marketing Board (VCMB) farmers were not able to take advantage of significant price premiums available for organic and single origin cocoa. It is only now that these markets have become a realistic prospect. The VOCGA case study looks at...
Vanuatu
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Тематическое исследование
Bio-cultural community protocol of gunis and medicinal plant conservation farmers of Mewar
We are Gunis (traditional healers) and medicinal plants conservation farmers from the Mewar Region of Rajasthan in India. The Gunis among us take our name from guna, which is a Sanskrit word that has three meanings: knowledge, healing and virtue. Anyone can have knowledge, but Gunis are those of us...
India
2009
Доклад
Integrated Crop Management Vol.6-2008
An international technical workshop Investing in sustainable crop intensification: The case for improving soil health
This publication is a report of a Workshop that brought together people from a wide range of institutions - farmers, researchers, ecologists extensionists, policy makers, donors – from 40 countries who share a common concern about the non-sustainability of ways in which farm land is now being used and who...
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Технический документ
A scientific conceptual framework and strategic principles for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme from a social-ecological systems perspective
In developing the Scientific Conceptual Framework for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, FAO seeks to accomplish the challenging task of integrating perspectives from those sciences that are most directly concerned with conservation and development: ecology, agronomy and forestry, economics, and anthropology. The goal is to scientifically conceptualise...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Nepal - Peru - Uganda
2008
Газетная статья
Farmers’ use of integrated soil fertility and nutrient management practices for sustainable crop production:
A field-level study in Bangladesh
Problem statement: The most pressing problem for Bangladesh agriculture is the current state of gradual decreasing of soil fertility, stagnating crop yields and declining productivity in a range of food crops. According to crop production scientists, Integrated Soil Fertility (ISF) and Nutrient Management (NM) is an advanced approach that can...
Bangladesh
2008
Доклад
Value Chain Analysis Report - Cambodia, Philippines & Vietnam
Linking Small Farmers to Market Project
The researchers and studies conducted under the LSFM project were intended to contribute to the process of effectively linking small farmers to market and maximize their benefits from the value chain. In addition, the studies also aimed to help decision-making of the project's in-country anchors and in formulating strategic directions,...
Cambodia - Philippines - Viet Nam
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)
Доклад
Mapping of Marketing Initiatives by CSOs in Indonesia
Value Chain Analysis Report of Organic Rice in Indonesia
This publication contains the initial outputs of the research component of AsiaDHRRA's Regional Project on Linking Small Farmers to Markets (LSFM) as implemented by Dina Besa (InDHRRA) in Indonesia. This report is part of the outputs of the participatory market researchers and studies on specific commodities chosen in each pilot...
Indonesia
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)
Доклад
Linking small farmers to the market
The private sector can help smallholders to participate in modern supply chains. This type of collaboration will be critical to agricultural development.
2008 - World Bank
Доклад
Mapping of Marketing Initiatives by CSOs - Cambodia, Philippines & Vietnam
This report is part of the outputs of the participatory market researchers and studies on specific commodities chosen in each pilot in four countries: tea in Vietnam, fresh calamansi fruit in the Philippines, free-range native chicken in Cambodia and organic rice in Indonesia.
Cambodia - Philippines - Viet Nam
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)
Тематическое исследование
An assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security in the Pacific
A Case Study in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
The development of subsistence agriculture is a key strategy for supporting the growing population of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. However, this approach is likely to be affected by climate change. Other factors, such as urbanization and a shift away from traditional food to imported items, are also having...
Marshall Islands
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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