AFINET is one of the seventeen thematic networks that the European Union has financed under the H2020 framework and it is supervised by the EIP-Agri in order to foster innovation in Europe. The main topic of AFINET is agroforestry a practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation with crops and/or animal systems and the promotion of this practice to foster climate changes. AFINET follows a multi-actor approach linked to the nine Regional Innovations Networks created to identify main challenges and develop main innovations about agroforestry.
In this paper administrative datasets are utilised to study farms that have converted to organic beef production in Ireland, to draw lessons for future CAP scheme design. The analysis confirms anecdotal evidence in relation to a leakage of animals from the organic to the non-organic (conventional) beef sector. As a result of this differential response across the value chain, there is sub-optimal production of organic meat relative to the investment in incentives for conversion from non-organic to organic production.
Este libro describe los resultados específicos del proyecto GEF-BM "Desarollo de capacidades para implementar en Colombia el Protocolo de Cartagena en Bioseguridad - Convenio de Diversidad Biológica". El objetivo fundamental del proyecto se centró en el desarrollo de competencias técnicas y científicas institucionales para que el país esté en capacidad de implementar los compromisos del Protocolo de Cartagena.
Este trabajo da cuenta de las diferencias y similitudes de los enfoques de extensión rural que han utilizado la universidad de caldas y la Asociación Hortifrutícola de colombia (Asohofrucol), durante los últimos seis años, con productores de mora de los municipios de Aranzazu y manzanares (caldas).
El objetivo del trabajo es realizar un análisis de los diversos procesos de innovación en la producción local integrada de alimentos y energía en el medio rural cubano en el contexto del proyecto Biomas-Cuba. Para la identificación y la valoración del proceso de innovación local en la producción integrada de alimento y energía (PIAE), se establecieron tres preguntas: 1) ¿qué procesos de innovación se han desarrollado o introducido?, 2) ¿en qué ha consistido la vinculación?, y 3) ¿cuáles han sido los aprendizajes clave?
Esta presentación describe las actividades del Porgrama de investigación SGR: Desarrollo e implementación de recursos forrajeros para sistemas de producción bovina sostenibles en el departamento del Cauca, Colombia. Está dividida en seis partes: Introducción al proyecto; Marco teórico; Metodología; Resultados; Conclusiones; Recomendaciones
This paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Applying a cross-sectional instrumental-variable regression method to a data set of 707 maize farm households from western Kenya, we find that women’s empowerment in agriculture significantly increases maize productivity.
The shift to industrial agriculture in Europe brought along a range of environmental and social externalities. This led policy makers, researchers and civil servants to consider and explore the potential of diversified farming systems (DFS) to address current problems in agriculture. However, because of multiple obstacles adoption of these DFS by farmers is not obvious. In this study we investigate the case of agroforestry (AF) systems in Flanders, where a government incentive scheme initiated in 2011, did not lead to the expected uptake of AF systems by farmers.
This paper reviewed the potential of underutilized indigenous and traditional crops to bring about a transformative change to South Africa’s food system. South Africa has a dichotomous food system, characterized by a distinct, dominant agro-industrial, and, alternative, informal food system. This dichotomous food system has inadvertently undermined the development of smallholder producers.
Based on farmer and value chain actor interviews, this comparative study of five emerging dairy clusters elaborates on the upgrading of farming systems, value chains, and context shapes transformations from semi-subsistent to market-oriented dairy farming. The main results show unequal cluster upgrading along two intensification dimensions: dairy feeding system and cash cropping. Intensive dairy is competing with other high-value cash crop options that resource-endowed farmers specialize in, given conducive support service arrangements and context conditions.