La agricultura tiene una importancia estratégica en la agenda para el desarrollo. Es una de las principales fuentes de empleo, un motor del desarrollo económico y un sector cuyo crecimiento incide ampliamente en la reducción de la pobreza y en la erradicación del hambre.
Este artículo de revista describe el papel de La alianza de información y documentación agropecuaria de las Américas (SIDALC) en sus diez años de experiencia. De acuerdo con el texto el SIDALC ha permitido a más de 150 instituciones de la América Latina y el Caribe, gracias a la cooperación técnica del IICA, a mantener en operación un sistema de información y documentación sobre agricultura, ambiente, alimentación y áreas afines en el hemisferio.
Este artículo de revista describe la experiencia de un agricultor de la viticultura, que gracias a su visión a podido establecer metas y lograr conquistas. Enseña a otros emprendedores rurales a desarrollar una visión y a establecer metas y describe la ruta para alcanzarlas.
Este artículo no publicado describe un estudio realizado para determinar la existencia o no de una cadena de valor del miel en el país (Costa Rica), se realizó talleres investigativos con apicultores en dos de las principales provincias productoras, además de entrevistas semiestructuradas y encuestas a actores clave dentro de los eslabones de la cadena.
Georeferenced data are a key factor in many decision-making systems. However, their interpretation is user and context dependent so that, for each situation, data analysts have to interpret them, a time-consuming task. One approach to alleviate this task, is the use of semantic annotations to store the produced information. Annotating data is however hard to perform and prone to errors, especially when executed manually. This difficulty increases with the amount of data to annotate.
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.
This presentation on capacity development has been illustrated by Patrick Kalas (Capacity Development Officer at FAO) in occasion of the CTA & FAO Expert Workshop 22-23 October 2014 in Rome, Italy.
The first part of the working document on the global strategy brings together the ideas of some 40 experts involved in gender and participatory research who took part in the workshop ‘Repositioning Participatory Research and Gender Analysis in Times of Change’ in Cali, Colombia (June 16–18, 2010).The workshop participants firmly believe that gender responsive participatory research (GRPR) offers some of the most powerful and useful approaches for achieving sustainable development, including alleviating poverty, improving well being, achieving sustainable levels of natural resource use, and
The workshop objectives were to harmonize understanding of what innovation platforms (InP) are, why they are necessary, why stakeholders should promote formation of County InPs and development of a tentative action plan for each county. The workshop participants comprised diverse county agricultural sector stakeholders in Bungoma and Nakuru and in Kwale including representatives from three national level institutions.
This study focuses on Smart Farming Innovations (SFI) of the Philippines. It is motivated by the 5th-agenda of the current Philippine President to increase agricultural and rural enterprise productivity. The study presents a strategy to lead research, development, and market of organic foods as medicine and build social entrepreneurs in using SFI.