Este trabajo tiene como objetivo general mostrar la relación entre las variables de la cultura organizacional del sistema de empresas de la comunidad indigena de Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacán y las formas de manejo forestal a través del análisis situacional.
Esta investigación se desarrolló a través de la herramienta metodológica de la malla del Marco Lógico, estableciendo la consistencia en el fenómeno a analizar a través de la construcción del siguiente objeto de estudio: La pequeña organización artesanal de productores de chocolate en Chiapas. Se tomaron en cuenta las dimensiones teóricas (abstractas), producción, cultura y familia, y desde el campo de la investigación científica de los estudios de agronegocios y ciencias económico-administrativas.
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by: advancing scientific and technological research; investing in infrastructure; fostering higher technical training; and creating regional markets.
This report provides a synthesis of all findings and information generated through a “stocktaking” process that involved a desk study of Prolinnova documents and evaluation reports, a questionnaire to 40 staff members of international organizations in agricultural research and development (ARD), self-assessment by the Country Platforms (CPs) and backstopping visits to five CPs. In 2014, the Prolinnova network saw a need to re-strategise in a changing context, and started this process by reviewing the activities it had undertaken and assessing its own functioning.
This paper explores how a 'conflict and violence sensitive' framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of competition and dispute, and promotes sustainable development over the longer term. It discusses the role of renewable resources in perpetuating conflict and violence, and distills lessons from selected development programming experiences in managing conflict risks associated with these dynamics.
Many indigenous vegetables are generally underutilized across different cultures, but they remain alternatives to exotic vegetables that often are expensive. This study investigated effects of participation in indigenous vegetable production on livelihood of farmers. Multistaged sampling was used to collect data from 222 vegetable farmers sampled from using a semi-structured questionnaire. Principal component analysis and endogenous switching regression (ESR) were employed for analysis
evelopment projects on interventions to reduce postharvest losses (PHL) are often implemented largely independently of the specific context and without sufficient adaptation to the needs of people who are supposed to use them. An approach is needed for the design and implementation of specific, locally owned interventions in development projects. This approach is based on Participatory Development and includes Living Lab and World Cafés. We applied the approach in a case study on reducing PHL in tomato value chains in Nigeria. The approach consists of nine steps.
This paper proposes the adoption of small-scale friendly postharvest techniques in the form of small-scale postharvest practices (SSPPs). To justify this proposal, the impact of SSPPs adoption on self-reported losses were investigated in Rivers State Nigeria. The factors influencing plantain farmers and traders intention to use SSPPs were also studied. Multistage and snowball sampling techniques were used to obtain data from farmers and traders, respectively
En esta investigación, realizada en el Programa Académico de Administración de Empresas Agropecuarias de la Universidad De La Salle, se confirma que la incorporación de técnicas pedagógicas de creatividad e innovación contribuye a generar una mejor formulación de proyectos relacionados con emprendimiento. Se deduce que no basta con disponer del acervo básico sobre técnicas de creatividad y de innovación sino que se hace necesario un desarrollo permanente, para reforzar el avance de los proyectos.
El objetivo de ese estudio fue identificar y analizar características relacionadas con procesos de gestión de la innovación tecnológica en doce microempresas chihuahuenses (México). Los resultados revelan que las microempresas objeto de estudio presentan las características que la literatura considera clave para la innovación; sin embargo, sus calificaciones resultan inferiores a evaluaciones aplicadas a pequeñas y medianas empresas.