This short film explores the role of women fishworkers in selected regions of India. It looks at some of the problems they face in their daily work and the initiatives they have taken to deal with them. Many of these issues are highlighted in an interview with a woman fish...

This is the proceedings of the Workshop on Issues in Fisheries Development organized by the SIFFS (South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies) and the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, India, from 20-25 November, 1986. On the 25th November 1986 the formation of ICSF at Trivandrum, India was made possible....

Rimisp – Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural, es una organización regional sin fines de lucro, que desde 1986 realiza investigación aplicada para apoyar procesos de cambio institucional, transformación productiva y fortalecimiento de las capacidades de actores y grupos sociales en las sociedades rurales latinoamericanas. La misión de Rimisp es impulsar...

An Antiguan farmer put it this way: “Just giving a man a piece of land and not providing other facilities like water... I think farmers will still find themselves in a lot of trouble.” These words summarize some recent research findings on Caribbean land tenure. The researchers to whom the farmer’s...

The International Center for Agricultural Research for the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is located in Syria. Its headquarters are in Tel Hadya, a 948 ha farm 30 km south of Aleppo. ICARDA was founded in 1977 and had its administrative headquarters in Beirut until all offices were moved to Tel Hadya...

This report documents the international conference of fishworkers and their supporters that took place in Rome, Italy from July 4-8, 1984. The conferences was an historical event, fishworkers the main actors of fisheries development have been excluded from discussions and decision making, both at broad policy level and concrete project...

The topic of land use planning has featured on a number of occasions in this series of Natural Resource Economics Discussion Papers. Within the wider topic of land use planning, the issue of rural smallholdings has received attention in Discussion Papers Nos. 3, 5 and 8. This ninth Discussion Paper...

In New Zealand, as in other industrialized western countries, important changes in community values are taking place. There is increasing interest in the quality of life. The expansion of cities which took place post World War II often resulted in a deterioration of urban living conditions. As people became dissatisfied...

La revista tiene como tema general todos los aspectos que se tejen alrededor del desarrollo rural en el contexto colombiano e iberoamericano. Enfoca sus diferentes artículos en temas relacionados con políticas agrícolas, economía agraria, problemas rurales, gestión ambiental, innovación y cambio tecnológico y, en general, todos los aspectos que se...

In the last three decennia there has been a sizable shift of labour out of Brazilian agriculture in response to the higher returns to be gained in non-farm employrnent . The shift has not been rapid enough to equalize the income differences between the farm and non-farm sectors. Nonetheless, it...

La misión de UOC es promover un desarrollo organizativo gremial que contribuya a elevar las capacidades y habilidades en la gestión económica y social de los pequeños agricultores agrícolas y trabajadores asalariados del sector rural.

Brassica crops may be infested and infected by a wide range of pest and pathogen species. For example, as many as 50 species of insect from several orders (Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera) are considered to be Brassica pests. Some of these species are specialists in that they colonise plants...

La Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología Rural (ALASRU) es una asociación de carácter profesional sin fines de lucro fundada el 6 de noviembre de 1969 en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trabaja en la generación de espacios de interacción académica con distintos organismos, instituciones e investigadores que tienen como eje el estudio de...

This is a documentary from one of the last farms who practiced transhumance an pastoralism before the industrialization. After the 1960s most of the summer mountain farms delivered the milk to the factory for processing the milk. The film shows how the animals are brought ut to the summerfarm, milking, milk...

The life of a Romanian village

El Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) es el organismo especializado en agricultura del Sistema Interamericano que apoya los esfuerzos de los Estados Miembros para lograr el desarrollo agrícola y el bienestar rural. Su misión es estimular, promover y apoyar los esfuerzos de los Estados Miembros para lograr...

In connection with the economic advisory work of the College, the accounts of 13 smallholdings have been completed for the year 1932-33. With only one exception the holdings were brought into existence under the smallholdings scheme of the Department of Agriculture for Scotland; five of them are "demonstration holdings" selected...

La Federación Agraria Argentina es una entidad gremial y de servicios que nuclea a pequeños y medianos productores y agricultores familiares. Su origen fue una declaración de huelga colonos, arrendatarios y aparceros que tuvo lugar el 25 de junio de 1912 y que la historia recogió como “Grito de Alcorta”....

The congress aim is to gather researchers from different disciplines, practitioners and policy makers at different governance levels that deal with the management and sustainability of silvo-pastoral systems. In this way the congress will create a fertile context to progress through interdisciplinary research approaches that can help translate scientific knowledge...