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The changing role of women in the economic transformation of family farming in Asia and the Pacific
Asia and the Pacific is a very socially, culturally and economically diverse region. Family farming remains the predominant form of agriculture in Asia and the Pacific. Family enterprises in agriculture, forestry and fishery production play key roles in food security, local economies, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change...
2014 - International Fund for International Development (IFAD)
文章
Hollow Lives: Women Left Behind in Rural China
This paper explores the situation of women left behind in villages when men out-migrate for work and what it implies for gender relations in rural China. It is based on questionnaire survey data that covers 400 left-behind women and extensive interviews in 10 rural communities. It reveals how the women...
China
2014 - College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD)
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Sustaining the Farming Household to Sustain the Farming
In the literature on sustainability of agriculture, both labourers and workers are conspicuously absent. Here, the sustainability of agriculture has been defined in terms of whether the farm household in question is able to yield an energy surplus when its members and the animals in its possession are obtaining an...
India
2014 - Department of Policy Studies, TERI University
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Changing Sources of Growth in Indian Agriculture
Implications for Regional Priorities for Accelerating Agricultural Growth
Indian agriculture was transforming from a cereal-based production system toward high-value crops (HVC) during the 1990s. However, food security concerns resurfaced during the first decade of the 21st century, and the policy environment tilted in favor of cereal-based production systems, especially rice and wheat. This paper revisits an earlier study...
India
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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The Medium Term Cooperation Programme (MTCP2)
The Medium Term Cooperation Programme with Farmers’ Organisations in Asi and the Pacific, Phase II (MTCP2) aims to strengthen the capacities of farmers organizations in Asia and the Pacific to deliver better, improved and inclusive services to their members and to engage in effective dialogues with governments, thereby making FOs...
2014 - MTCP2
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Bong tree farming raises income of former rice farmers in Laos
Farmers in Laos are rediscovering the value of a traditional crop – the bark of the bong tree. Because the once-abundant bong trees are now on the endangered species list, smallholders are establishing profitable plantations to meet the growing demand for the aromatic bark.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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The state of food and agriculture 2014
Innovation in family farming
Innovation in family farming analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in ways that promote sustainable intensification of production and improvements in rural livelihoods. Innovation is a process through...
2014
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The state of food insecurity in the world 2014
Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
SOFI 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Haiti - Indonesia - Madagascar - Malawi - Yemen
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Food and Nutrition Security Country Profiles: Myanmar
FAO, in collaboration with other UN agencies, has produced Food and Nutrition Security Country Profiles for many Member States in Asia and the Pacific. These profiles are developed with the aim of providing a situation analysis on the current status of food and nutrition security in the countries. Related indicators...
Myanmar
2014
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Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small farmers control the largest share of the world's agricultural land. Inaugurating 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming, José Graziano da Silva, Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), sang the praises of family farmers but didn't...
2014 - GRAIN
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Non-timber forest products utilization in Vietnam: Who collects, who consumes, who sells?
In this study was analysed collection and utilization of non-timber forest products in rural areas of central Vietnam. This is an important issue for better understanding of household-forest interactions in rural areas near natural reserves, particularly in developing countries with rapid economic growth. This research aim was to (i) document...
Viet Nam
2014 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
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Smallholder farming and crop variety choice
Wheat variety choice in Pakistan
Zinc is an important nutrient for human health, especially for the growth of children (Caulfield and Black 2004). In 2011 Pakistan’s National Nutrition Survey found that zinc deficiency is high (47 percent) among children under-five years of age and women of child-bearing age. Nearly 42 percent of non-pregnant women, 48...
Pakistan
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Determinants of Indonesian shallot growers’ bargaining power in the Agrifood Transformation Era
A case in Brebes, central Java
The objective of this article is to identify the determinant of farmers’ bargaining power and analyse factors that explain the variation in bargaining power. A detailed set of variables covering farmers’ characteristics, assets, transaction types and information obtaining methods is used in the analysis. The emphasis in this article is...
Indonesia
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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From subsistence to profit
Transforming smallholder farms
Smallholder farmers in developing countries play a key role in meeting the future food demands of a growing and increasingly rich and urbanized population. However, smallholders are not a homogeneous group that should be supported at all costs. Whereas some smallholder farmers have the potential to undertake profitable commercial activities...
Malawi
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute
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Highlights of recent IFPRI food policy research for USAID
To meet the needs of a growing global population that is projected to reach 9 billion by 2050, agricultural production must increase significantly. As such, agriculture and rural development will continue to play a critical role in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. This brochure highlights some of the key collaborations between IFPRI...
2013
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Lessons learned note
Gender mainstreaming in small-scale fisheries
This document provides lessons learned (good and bad) from three years of RFLP field activities on mainstreaming gender across the six collaborating RFLP countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam
Cambodia - Philippines - Sri Lanka - Timor-Leste - Viet Nam
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Federation Of Free Farmers
The Federations of Free Farmers (FFF) is currently one of the largest and most effective non-governmental organizations of rural workers in the Philippines. It was organized in 1953 by a group of Catholic laymen soon after the break-up of the Communist-led revolutionary movement in the country during the term of...
Philippines
2013 - Federation Of Free Farmers
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Farmer Preferences for Drought Tolerance in Hybrid versus Inbred Rice
Evidence from Bihar, India
Recent efforts to develop rice cultivars with drought-tolerance (DT) traits have resulted in the release of several varieties that demonstrate significant resilience to drought stresses. This paper addresses the previously unanswered question of whether the private sector might play a future role in developing similar strains through applications of advanced...
India
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Kuaijishan Ancient Chinese Torreya Community
The Kuaijishan Ancient Chinese Torreya Community is located in the north of Zhejiang Province, N29°25′-29°47′and E120°17′ -120°38′. It includes 59 villages in 12 townships in Zhuji City, Shengzhou City and Shaoxing County. The total area is 402Km2 . There are around 1.05×105 ancient Chinese Torreya trees. Among them, 7.2×104 are...
China
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Determinants of trust in the Indonesian potato industry
A comparison among groups of potato farmers
This study explores chain participation differences among three different groups of potato producers in Indonesia. The three groups include (i) participants in Farmer Field School (FFS) programs; (ii) farmers working with a large food processors, Indofood; and (iii) a random sample of potato producers. FFS programs provide growers with an...
Indonesia
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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