Iran faces environmental challenges such as erosion and extreme events, namely droughts and floods. These phenomena have frequently affected the country over the past decades and temperature rise has led to a more challenging situation. Iran started to implement national and provincial policies in the 1950s to cope with these phenomena. To provide an overview of Iran’s efforts to tackle land degradation and climate change, this paper examined through literature since 2000 the stakeholders’ policies, their interventions and obstacles to the mitigation of these environmental challenges.
Existing studies which have examined the impact of group farming on farm productivity have focused predominantly on former socialist regimes, usually comparing production under various types of collectivised/cooperatized farms with farm enterprises that emerged in the post-reform period, or after decollectivisation. Given this specificity, their experience is at best indicative; it cannot provide substantive lessons on the potential outcomes of group farming in today’s developing countries. This paper seeks to do so.
Las empresas de familia contribuyen en alto grado a generar riqueza y empleo en la economía, así como al crecimiento económico mundial. Esto demanda que la academia responda a los desafíos de gestión que este tipo de empresas tiene, tanto en contextos de economía local, como en mercados internacionales, y que les permita desarrollar ventajas competitivas.
The Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of Vietnam is characterised by great physical, social and cultural diversity. It covers a large geographical area, is home to many ethnic minority populations, has an under-developed infrastructure with low levels of urbanisa-tion, and agricultural production plays a highly important role. Since the 1950s, Vi-etnam’s agricultural sector has had several ups and downs due to being significantly in-fluenced by shifting national policies.
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now and summarizes some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of innovations have built an institutional environment to boost the agricultural sector, particularly in the past few decades. It is not easy to describe the path of Brazilian agricultural development , but organizing some important historical facts can help creating a full picture.
The analysis of the concept of resilience in supply chain management studies mostly focuses on the downstream side of the value chain and tacitly assumes an unlimited supply of raw materials. This assumption is unreasonable for agricultural value chains, as upstream disruptions clearly have a material impact on the availability of raw materials, and indeed, are a common source of supply problems. This paper aims to present a framework for the operationalisation of the concept of socioecological resilience in agricultural value chains that incorporates upstream activities.
The present study aims to characterize a new type of business ventures-agtech companies. Researchers conducted 3 interviews with the owners of agtechs located in Agtech valley and then by using a quantitative approach, collected secondary data of 74 firms from the Brazilian largest agricultural technology Science Park. This article contributes to the literature by characterizing the emerging type of new technology-based ventures within the agribusiness context.
En esta publicación, el IICA recopila las principales características de los servicios de extensión rural de nueve países latinoamericanos, presentadas en la cita efectuada en México, así como un repaso por dos redes regionales de investigación en esta área. Con este documento, el Instituto confía en aportar a sus Estados Miembros una herramienta valiosa para fortalecer el trabajo realizado por sus propias instituciones y extensionistas.
El objetivo central de la estrategia es alcanzar la seguridad alimentaria de los más de cuatro millones de pequeños productores rurales e incrementar su productividad, alcanzando la sustentabilidad en el largo plazo, por medio de una estrategia que garantice la operación eficiente de una red de extensión rural con enfoque territorial que incremente sustantivamente la cobertura de los servicios.
El objetivo del Sistema es el ampliar cobertura a productores/as que no tienen o tienen poca frecuencia de asistencia técnica por el sistema MAG, brindando respuestas a sus consultas sobre producción y comercialización de rubros agrícolas y pecuarios, a través de comunicación por vía telefónica:
• El productor/a recibirá información relevante para tomar decisiones.
• Se tendrá un monitoreo permanente de la situación agropecuaria.