The paper defines and explains the concept of gender equality in advisory services and discusses the opportunities that gender equality in RAS would potentially create for global and local food production, women’s economic empowerment, household food security and nutrition as well as the challenges in achieving this.
The aim of this document is to produce a state-of-the-art of the academic literature in order to identify theories and concepts available for: a) describing the structure, the dynamics and the functioning of agricultural advisory services; b) understanding how these services are embedded into national Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), and into various agricultural and rural policies across the European Union (EU) countries; c) providing some conceptual elements to support the methodology for an inventory of agricultural advisory services in EU 27 countries (WP3 of the PR
To respond to threats of climate change, Benin has joined the international community in the development and implementation of climate policies.
Este documento recoge los aspectos más relevantes de la experiencia de transformaciones productivas, de gestión y de capacidades asociativas de cara a la comercialización por parte de pequeños productores del altiplano guatemalteco y sus organizaciones, y evalúa aquellos aspectos de sus entornos que han facilitado y que han limitado el cambio.
Despite its vast agriculture potential, Africa is increasingly dependent on food imports from the rest of the world to satisfy its consumption needs. Food output has not kept pace with population growth, and more than 80 percent of production gains since 1980 have come from the expansion of cropped areas rather than from greater productivity of areas already cultivated. This paper looks at the current requirements for seed trade in Africa, the obstacles, status of ongoing plans for regional harmonization, challenges of harmonization, and opportunities for near-term improvement.
En dépit de son vaste potentiel agricole, l’Afrique est de plus en plus tributaire des importations alimentaires du reste du monde pour satisfaire ses besoins de consommation. La production alimentaire n’a pas suivi le rythme de la croissance démographique et plus de 80 % des gains de production depuis 1980 proviennent de l’expansion des superficies cultivées plutôt que d’une meilleure productivité des zones déjà cultivées (Rakotoarisoa et al. 2012).