Food is a human right. Yet hundreds of millions are still going to bed hungry. FAO´s Right to Food Guidelines recommend how to take action, so that everyone has access to sufficient, safe, nutritious and affordable food every day. The Guidelines are a powerful policy tool to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms. Many countries are taking steps in line with these guidelines. Only when everyone enjoys the human right to adequate food, will we be on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Este libro presenta la sistematización de la experiencias de implementación del aprendizaje basado en emprendimiento mediado por tecnologías digitales como ambientes virtuales de aprendizaje (AVA), recursos educativos digitales (RED) y herramientas web 2.0. Este método de aprendizaje le permite a los estudiantes establecer conexiones entre conocimientos nuevos y aquellos que ya tiene, lo cual desarrolla sus capacidades para aplicar conocimientos a la solución de problemas de su entorno y contribuye a la formación integral de los estudiantes.
Social learning processes can be the basis of a method of agricultural innovation that involves expert and empirical knowledge. In this sense, the objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of an innovation process, understood as social learning, in a group of small farmers in the southern highlands of Peru. Innovative proposals and its permanence three years after the process finished were evaluated. It was observed that innovation processes generated are maintained over time; however, new innovations are not subsequently generated
Many indigenous vegetables are generally underutilized across different cultures, but they remain alternatives to exotic vegetables that often are expensive. This study investigated effects of participation in indigenous vegetable production on livelihood of farmers. Multistaged sampling was used to collect data from 222 vegetable farmers sampled from using a semi-structured questionnaire. Principal component analysis and endogenous switching regression (ESR) were employed for analysis
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is considered as an ecological conservation technology for crop pests' management; however, the technology adoption is intensely affected by surrounding socio-psychological environment, which is poorly studied, particularly in developing nations. The present study therefore aimed at addressing this gap through application of an extended form of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in order to examine the determinants of Iranian farmers' ecological conservation behavior regarding the use of IPM practices.
In this study the farmers were first asked to answer two sets of statements related to views on climate change and experiences on changes so far in their own farm or nearby locations.
The EU rural development policy has addressed challenges related to climate change in agriculture by introducing public voluntary schemes, which financially support the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. Several factors, most of which are non-financial ones, drive adoption and continuation of these schemes by farmers. Despite the importance of these factors, only a few studies explore their role in the European context. This paper contributes to filling this gap from a twofold perspective.
Literature is scanty on how public agricultural investments can help reducing the impact of future challenges such as climate change and population pressure on national economies. The objective of this study is to assess the medium and long-term effects of alternative agricultural research and development investment scenarios on male and female employment in 14 African countries. The authors first estimate the effects of agricultural investment scenarios on the overall GDP growth of a given country using partial and general equilibrium models.
La investigación tuvo como objetivo generar un marco conceptual sobre las temáticas más relevantes y actualizadas de la innovación en la agroindustria. La metodología se fundamentó en una búsqueda sistemática de información que inicialmente permitiera conformar un marco conceptual sobre la innovaciónen agroindustria, hasta llegar a identificar los componentes, tendencias y distintas acciones en el sector agroindustrial.
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue identificar los principales problemas ambientales en relación al aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales y los conflictos ambientales que se viven en el municipio de Álamos.Metodológicamente la investigación se soporta en la evaluación rural participativa.