L’agroécologie est multidimensionnelle, car elle correspond à la fois à une discipline scientifique, à un ensemble de pratiques et à un mouvement social de contestation. Mais il serait erroné d’affirmer que tous les avis sont unanimes à propos de l’agroécologie. Ce dossier croise les analyses de plusieurs experts, d’acteurs du Sud et du Nord, concernés pas cette agriculture à la fois ancienne et nouvelle, qui a l’ambition d’apporter de vraies solutions pour l’avenir de la planète.
This article presents a different dimension of the innovation systems approach, going beyond analysis and shedding light on how these processes can be facilitated in practice. This is based on 20 years' experience with innovations systems. The focus is on the role of facilitation in triggering the changes, as well as in integrating learning and knowledge management (KM) in the innovation process.
The present manual provides a reference framework for the strategic and operational work in the field of capacity development. It is addressed to all staff of ADC in Austria as well as in the coordination offices, to non-governmental and implementing organisations, to stakeholders in partner countries, other donors and members of the public interested in development policy.
La Red Nacional de Programas de Desarrollo y Paz, Redprodepaz, ha venido reflexionando sobre la importancia y el gran papel de la educación en la apuesta del Desarrollo Humano Integral y Sostenible liderada por los Programas y ha reconocido su vinculación con los aspectos relacionados con la democracia, el respeto a los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales, las aspiraciones de desarrollo económico, social, tecnológico y cultural, y el fortalecimiento de la propia identidad de los habitantes de un territorio.Los Programas Regionales de Desarrollo y Paz, PDP, han rechazado la exist
This report is the result of a study that was carried out for the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), to make an inventory of experiences with ‘market-oriented agricultural advisory services’ (MOAAS). Lessons learned have been drawn from the cases studied. These lessons are the basis for guidelines formulated for setting up market-oriented agricultural advisory services.
El presente estudio se orienta a sistematizar la experiencia de la Alianza Institucional para el Desarrollo Competitivo de la Papa y sus Derivados (de aquí en adelante se le denomina en el texto como Plataforma de Puno), destacando el sector productivo de la tunta, dada la importancia social y económica que tiene este producto en el altiplano peruano.
The aim of this study was to explore the interactions that exist among agricultural stakeholders in the southwestern highlands of Uganda as a way of identifying opportunities and gaps for operation of Innovation Platforms (IPs) under the proof of concept of Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) research project.
Este documento complementa el análisis cualitativo de la estructura productiva agroindustrial con resultados cuantitativos de un modelo de cadena de valor y busca, explícitamente, capturar las interrelaciones entre los múltiples eslabones de las cadenas agroindustriales.
The Centre for Development Research (CDR), in collaboration with local partnership managed by the Bangladesh Agricultural University worked to establish a platform (i.e. a participatory rural video centre) that acts upon fostering rural women’s capacity for agricultural innovation in the north-west and north-east region of Bangladesh. In this paper, the authors elaborate principles of establishing the centre, and some evidences on Farmers’ Participatory Research (FPR) in the community.
Les échanges commerciaux sur le marché mondial s’accélèrent. On constate l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs ainsi que l’intensification des rapports Sud-Sud. Ces caractéristiques peuvent-elles modifier la face de la mondialisation et ouvrir de nouvelles formes de négociation aux filières agricoles du Sud ? Les ONG et autres associations à but non lucratif ne seraient en tous les cas plus les seules à défendre la durabilité et l’agriculture familiale. Mais alors, quel est le rôle de ces ONG ?