Los casos incluidos en el presente documento se construyeron a partir de información suministrada, mediante entrevistas, por personas vinculadas a las organizaciones socias de ACORDAR, que son las protagonistas de estos casos. La escritura de los 10 casos de éxito fue realizada por el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) y retroalimentada por las organizaciones que suministraron la información y por Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Most of today’s information services on the web are designed for PC users. There are few services fit to be accessed by mobile devices. In the countryside of China, most of the mobile phone users can not access the Internet. For this reason, was developed a General Agriculture Mobile Service Platform. The Platform is designed to make these information services fit to be accessed by mobile users, and to make those mobile phone users can use these services without Internet connection.
In this article is presented an emergent capacity development approach that the authors have developed through participatory action research in Peru and Ecuador, which they call ‘systemic theories of change’ (STOC), for organisational capacity development. They argue that capacity development should be understood as systemic learning. The STOC approach promotes reflection about how we as individuals, organisations, and broader social groups and societal configurations, understand how change occurs.
USAID’s Agribusiness and Trade Expansion Program (USAID-ATEP) aims to improve productivity and sales for farmers, processors, traders, and exporters in Ethiopia by improving agronomic practices, introducing value-added and productivity-enhancing technologies, promoting investment, establishing grades and standards, improving access to inputs, and upgrading infrastructure.
This quarterly report covers January to March 2010 (second quarter of PY 2010). Major achievements this quarter include:
This presentation at the GCARD Montpellier, in March 2010, focuses on the Danish model for agricultural advisory services.
All over the world, one of the main purposes of extension is to increase the level of living standards of the rural family through non-formal education. Extension has a very crucial role to play in sustainable development and organic agriculture. For that reason, extension activity is implemented by different institutions. Extension systems worldwide are operated by governmental (86%) and non-governmental (14%) organizations. In this paper, allelopathy is accepted as a technology to implement for weed control and biological control of other useful traits.
El propósito del presente artículo es aplicar, como instrumento metodológico, el esquema teórico de los conglomerados para analizar la cadena productiva del aloe en Falcón (Venezuela), y derivar del mismo potenciales elementos clave que es necesario atender para evolucionar de una actividad tradicional y semiindustrial, hacia un competitivo conglomerado industrial sostenido en los atributos de este sector productivo
Farmers Training Center (FTC)-based farmer training is an emerging extension strategy geared towards human capital development through need-based, hands-on practical training in order to facilitate agricultural transformation and rural livelihood improvement. Although FTCs were established and made functional in the Tigray National Regional State and Alamata Woreda no systematic assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of the training were made.
Este trabajo tiene como objetivos conducir un análisis de mercado, económico y financiero para instalar un centro de acopio y envasado de miel en Delicias, Chihuahua. Busca cuantificar la demanda real y potencial de la miel en el mercado de Delicias, Chihuahua y definir las características del producto que desea el consumidor adí como elaborar y evaluar un proyecto de inversión de un centro de acopio y envasado de miel
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar el análisis FODA del sistema nogal en Chihuahua y describir los contextos en que se produce y comercializa, así como las principales características y problemas que se presentan en la producción de la nuez pecanera, además de vislumbrar su futuro con base en las condiciones de manejo y producción actuales