This guide is developed by synthesizing successful field experiences within a project known as Improving Productivity & Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers Project or IPMS Project. The main purpose of the IPMS project was to test methods, approaches, and processes that can help transform Ethiopian smallholder agriculture from subsistence to a market‐oriented agriculture.
Extension services are a keystone of information diffusion in agriculture. This paper exploits a large randomized controlled trial to track diffusion of a new technique in the classic Training and Visit (T&V) extension model, relative to a more direct training model. In both control and treatment communities, contact farmers (CFs) serve as points-of-contacts between agents and other farmers. The intervention (Treatment) aims to address two pitfalls of the T&V model: i) infrequent extension agent visits, and ii) poor quality information.
"Seeds in resistance" is an animation developed in connection with the documentary "Seeds: commons or corporate property?", produced in 2017 by a collective of Latin American organisations from all across the continent that are working to defend native seeds as the basis of peoples' food sovereignty. We are sharing this animation as one more tool to help people understand and become familiar with these issues.
This paper, presented at "Food 360°: International Conference-cum-Exhibition on Agribusiness and Food Processing, November 05-06, 2012, Hotel Taj Krishna, Hyderabad", focuses on Indian agriculture, which remains the most important sector for India. However, despite its importance, various indicators from the sector show that all is not well.
Face aux limites du système agro-industriel productiviste, des résistances et des alternatives positives proposent de nouvelles façons de penser et de pratiquer l’agriculture.
To meet multiple environmental objectives, integrated programming is becoming increasingly important for the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). Integration of multiple environmental, social and economic objectives also contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a timely and cost-effective way. However, integration is often not well defined. This report therefore focuses on identifying key aspects of integration and assessing their implementation in natural resources management projects.
The farmer field school (FFS) concept has been widely adopted, and such schools have the reputation of strengthening farmers’ capacity to innovate. Although their impact has been studied widely, what is involved in their scaling and in their becoming an integral part of agricultural innovation systems has been studied much less. In the case of the Sustainable Tree Crops Programme in Cameroon, we investigate how a public–private partnership (PPP) did not lead to satisfactory widespread scaling in the cocoa innovation system.
Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar y discutir qué tecnologías tradicionales utilizan los campesinos de pequeño porte y si en las últimas siete décadas se ha realizado investigaciones y transferencias de nuevas tecnologías para estos agricultores.
La cañahua (Chenopodiun pallidicaule), es un cultivo originario de los Andes altos de América del Sur. Bolivia y Perú son los principales países productores de este grano andino, cuyas características alimenticias son destacables, por ejemplo, se registran contenidos de proteína que van desde los 17 a 19%, se cuenta con una amplia variabilidad genética que le confiere al cultivo grandes posibilidades de usos culinarios e industriales.
Hoy en día, los saberes locales y las prácticas ancestrales de producción agropecuaria, cobran una singular relevancia; por cu además de permitir la vida de los pueblos originarios y poblaciones rurales tradicionales, han demostrado ser claves para pre ambiente y los recursos naturales; la biodiversidad y los hábitats de especies terrestres y acuáticas, en equilibrio con el entorno. En Paraguay, existe un pleno consenso en que estos saberes tienen su origen y difusión en los conocimientos adquiridos de generación en generación, basados en la cultura de los pueblos guaraníes.