Inscrites sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco pour leur témoignage des techniques préhispaniques d’agriculture sur l’eau, les chinampas de Xochimilco sont le dernier grand espace non urbanisé de la ville de Mexico. Le site est le support d’une multitude de fonctions dont la promiscuité engendre inévitablement des tensions entre les acteurs. Localisées au cœur de la capitale, les chinampas subissent également les effets de la pression urbaine qui tend à concurrencer spatialement les autres activités et à accentuer les dégradations environnementales.
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the challenges and the practical successes that a selected number of countries are experiencing in moving towards 'climate-smart' agriculture while also meeting the food requirements of a growing population, broader economic development and green growth objectives. It complements papers prepared in 2010 on technologies and policy instruments, research, and farmers' perspectives.
El objetivo general de este estudio fue evaluar la competitividad de la cadena productiva del arroz en el área de influencia del molino de arroz “San José”, en la región sur del estado de Morelos, México, mediante el enfoque CADIAC bajo el análisis de cadena, el diálogo y la concertación entre actores.
The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures final report provides an overview of the evidence and discusses the challenges and choices for policy makers and others whose interests relate to all areas that interact with the food system.
This paper presents findings of an explorative case study that looked at 22 organisations identified as fulfilling an intermediary role in the Kenyan agricultural sector. The results show that these organisations fulfill functions that are not limited to distribution of knowledge and putting it into use. The functions also include fostering integration and interaction among the diverse actors engaged in innovation networks and working on technological, organisational and institutional innovation.
This paper presents the processes, general guidelines lessons and experiences pertaining to “good practices” for organizing and forming Agricultural Innovation Platforms in the Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site, covering three countries (Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo) with widely differing social political environments to address agricultural development challenges.
This paper examines how the different institutional innovations arising from various permutations of linkages and interactions of ARD organizations (national, international advanced agricultural research centres and universities) influenced the different outcomes in addressing identified ARD problems.
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.
The report builds on the 'towards a vision for agricultural innovation in Chile in 2030' report and is further based on a series of background papers and a consultation process that took place between December 2010 and May 2011. The current study is the third in a series of three that were agreed between the Government of Chile and the World Bank to support the development of a long-term agricultural innovation strategy. The first paper reviewed the functioning of the three main public technological institutes and recommended how their performance can be improved.
Dans cet article, à travers l’étude du cas de la filière forêt-bois-papier aquitaine, nous soulignons la nécessité d’intégrer une plus forte prise en compte des ressources naturelles dans les analyses en termes de systèmes d’innovation. Prenant appui sur la principale spécificité de cette filière, à savoir sa forte dépendance à la ressource ligneuse, le présent article est focalisé sur la manière dont cette dépendance configure le système.