Traditional approaches addressing hunger, typically based on agricultural development, are deemed insufficient alone to address the problem and attention is now being directed to food value chains, although experience is currently limited. To assess the state of science and identify knowledge gaps, an integrative review of the broad topic of value chains and diet quality was undertaken, with particular focus on interventions and their related impact pathways.
Este flyer describe las nuevas actividades de la Federación Mexicana de Palma de Aceite, y describe las nuevas instalaciones del entro de Investigación e Innovación para la Sustentabilidad de la Palma de Aceiteción e Innovación para la Sustentabilidad de la Palma de Aceite en Villahermosa, Tabasco, México
La organización de las mujeres indígenas y rurales en grupos productivos y microempresas pretende ser un mecanismo hacia el empoderamiento, el combate a la pobreza y la equidad de género, siendo los tres Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas. En México, dichos objetivos se abordan desde el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo (2013-2018), donde además se establece como estrategia transversal la perspectiva de género para ser aplicada en el diseño e implementación de políticas, programas y presupuestos sectoriales.
A model is proposed for the management of innovation in marginalized or depressed areas in three different countries, following the methodology of the Field Schools and taking advantage of the resources available in the region, work began with producers of areas with high marginalization and speakers of its original language, based on the fact that producers are subjects and not only beneficiaries, to say that, based on their decisions, they are the ones who cause the changes in their way of acting and producing, in such a way that in addition to the technological offer that allows access t
Companies’ environmental responsibility has significantly increased in the last decade. However, the question about the benefits that this responsible decision has on the company’s performance in the market remains. In this scenario, the main goal of this study is to analyze the conditions that improve the performance of companies in the agri-food industry, paying specific attention to technological eco-innovation and different types of cooperation (in the use and in the development of eco-innovations). The initial sample contains data of agri-food companies operating in Spain.
This chapter presents an innovation system approach for urban agriculture. It argues that urban agriculture is a systemic concept – agriculture intertwined with urban dynamic – but that a systemic approach is often missing. Such an approach allows identifying strengths and weaknesses of urban agriculture for a particular city, region or country, in a comprehensive way. Based on these insights, more precise and targeted policies can be designed to stimulate urban agriculture and innovations needed in its context.
Agriculture in South Asia is vulnerable to climate change. Therefore, adaptation measures are required to sustain agricultural productivity, to reduce vulnerability, and to enhance the resilience of the agricultural system to climate change. There are many adaptation practices in the production systems that have been proposed and tested for minimizing the effects of climate change. Some socioeconomic and political setup contributes to adaptation, while others may inhibit it.
En este trabajo se analizan las características del sistema de innovación agrícola de exportación en el estado de Sonora, como estrategia de competitividad de los agricultores en el contexto del TLCAN. Para ello, se identifican tanto los actores principales del sistema como las interacciones entre éstos y los factores que incentivan o restringen su vinculación. Metodología: se recolectó, analizó y relacionó información cuantitativa y cualitativa y se hicieron entrevistas semiestructuradas.
Con el objetivo de proponer lineamientos conceptuales para un sistema de innovación y co-producción de tecnología a fin de coadyuvar en la planeación, evaluación y fortalecimiento institucional de la extensión rural en la Ciudad de México (cdmx), se evaluó la experiencia de 35 campesinos, 7 extensionistas, 3 funcionarios de gobierno y 2 coordinadores de una organización Sistema-Producto en Milpa Alta, Xochimilco y Tláhuac, durante 2015.
This research aims to add to the literature new insights about the interaction processes, which are implemented in different interactive extension approaches, by analysing how farmers attending different extension events shape a network of indirect interactions