Ante las situaciones de cambio y transición experimentadas en Venezuela a distintos niveles y con diferentes alcances, la agroindustria se perfila como un elemento determinante para la transformación y la consolidación del sistema agroalimentario rural.
El objetivo del trabajo consistió en diagnosticar el subsector de la soya, diseñando y evaluando las estrategias que potencien su desarrollo en una de las regiones en México que concentran la mayor parte de la superficie y producción nacional del producto. En el año 2011 la región de El Mante albergaba cerca de la tercera parte de toda la superficie nacional y más del 20% de la producción de soya del país.
La presente investigación intenta abordar la dinámica de la cadena triguera argentina. El objetivo del trabajo consistió en recuperar analíticamente algunas experiencias desarrolladas en la última década en relación con la confi guración de nuevas formas de gobernanza en la cadena argentina de trigo. Para ello se caracterizaron las principales estructuras de gobernanza presentes en la citada cadena, explorando bajo qué condiciones surgen aquellas que responden al nuevo contexto competitivo del mercado triguero y cuáles son sus implicaciones en relación con su mejora.
En este estudio se diseñó una investigación documental y de campo, de tipo analítica basada en un muestreo aleatorio, con el objeto de analizar la cadena de valor de dichas unidades empresariales de los municipios Libertador y Campo Elías del estado Mérida.
This book contains a collection of papers that discuss the experience of an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) capacity building program in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The program was the AusAID-funded Agricultural Research and Development Support Facility (ARDSF), which ran for fi ve years from 2007 to 2012, and which sought to improve the delivery of services by agricultural research organisations to smallholder farmers.
LenCD has prepared a joint statement on results and capacity development (presented in this publication), which stresses that meaningful, sustainable results are premised on proper investments in capacity development and that these results materialize at different levels and at different times, along countries’ development trajectory. To provide evidence in support of this statement, LenCD launched a call for submission of stories.
This publication describes the activities carried out in the tripartite event ‘Transforming Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chain Development in the Pacific Islands.” It was implemented by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in collaboration with MORDI Tonga Trust, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO). The document starts discussing the main events and field trips that were realized after talk about the lessons learned and in the end brings some case studies and sucess stories.
As digitalisation transforms agriculture, the implications of cumulative innovation processes are essential to consider in order to mitigate risk and capitalise on opportunities. One project that involves imagining the future of the sector and aims to develop the necessary tools and infrastructure is the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Digiscape Future Science Platform (FSP). This paper explores the policy framework encompassing these technologies and elucidates considerations for future governance in Australia and beyond.
The Fiji Islands, like many small Pacific island nations, are thought to incur high rates of postharvest loss. Little work has been undertaken to quantify the amount of loss within Pacific horticultural value chains, or identify the key determinants. This study sought to quantify postharvest loss within Fijian smallholder tomato value chains and to examine the relative importance of current on-farm practices as possible contributors to this loss.
The implementation and ongoing adoption of agricultural sustainability tools are challenging and not well addressed in the literature on sustainability assessment. Co-production of sustainability assessment and reporting systems between researchers and stakeholders has been promoted to increase the successful adoption of sustainability tools. Scientific attention has focused primarily on the development of sustainability assessment tools and has given less attention to the factors that encourage or discourage adoption and implementation.