The devastation caused in Philippines by Typhoon Reming was the trigger for the Government request to FAO for the project “Strengthening Capacities for Climate Risk Management and Disaster Preparedness in Selected Provinces of the Philippines (Bicol Region)”. This technical project summary report provides a consolidated overview about the specific project activities, the implementation processes, main findings and the establishment of institutional mechanisms that were established to promote ongoing collaboration between farmers, agriculture extension workers, researchers and local governme
This paper, part of the Social Sciences Working Paper Series, presents studies undertaken by nine community-based, natural resource management (CBNRM)-oriented organizations in China, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Mongolia. The partner organizations, representing three broad types: academic, regional network, and community based, were brought together by a 2006 initiative in an informal network to develop and pilot methods for evaluating capacity development in community-based natural resource management.
LenCD has prepared a joint statement on results and capacity development (presented in this publication), which stresses that meaningful, sustainable results are premised on proper investments in capacity development and that these results materialize at different levels and at different times, along countries’ development trajectory. To provide evidence in support of this statement, LenCD launched a call for submission of stories.
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 report documents those detailed gender dimensions of root and tuber crops (RTC) farming practices, showing how differently men and women engage in them, and it also provides a critical analysis of the gender considerations required for interventions. There are certain commonalities across field sites in the four countries.
Based on 25 case studies from the global comparative study ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation’, this paper explores rural young women’s and men’s occupational aspirations and trajectories in India, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines. The study draw upon qualitative data from 50 sex-segregated focus groups with the youth to show that across the study’s regional contexts, young rural women and men predominantly aspire for formal blue and white-collar jobs
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.
En este estudio se obtiene información para el análisis de la red de valor de los productos orgánicos en México, fundamentalmente del tejido comercial de exportación. Se utilizó un primer instrumento de análisis que fue aplicado a 108 productores y/o exportadores con el objetivo de conocer algunos aspectos económicos, y de opinión sobre expectativas del mercado de orgánicos e intervención gubernamental.
En este artículo se analizó el sistema de agronegocios en el Perú en busca de identificar los factores, las herramientas, los procesos y las estrategias que han permitido la transformación de la agricultura familiar en negocios agroalimentarios.
Este trabajo de investigación forma parte de un proyecto más amplio que tiene por objetivo identificar y aprovechar las posibilidades reales de conjuntar los recursos por remesas, ingresos propios de productores y las aportaciones gubernamentales para generar más organización y mayor inversión en el municipio de Hidalgo Durango. Se incluye cómo antecedente algunas características de los programas de gobierno y una gama de experiencias de aportaciones de inmigrantes en obra pública con fines filantrópicos