La FAO a adopté une approche multidimensionnelle pour aider les exploitants familiaux pauvres à faire face aux difficultés qu’ils rencontrent au quotidien et renforcer leur capacité de création de revenus, afin de réduire la pauvreté rurale.
Selon Olivier De Schutter, l’agroécologie peut doubler la production alimentaire en 10 ans, tout en réduisant la pauvreté rurale et en apportant des solutions au changement climatique. Au Burkina Faso, des initiatives et projets agroécologiques voient le jour. Ce reportage de 17 minutes part à la rencontre de ces praticiens de l’agroécologie.
Esta tesis fue elaborada en Brasil para la empresa Fazenda da Toca con la finalidad de sistematizar la experiencia de esta empresa como parte de dos cadenas productivas orgánicas (pulpas y huevos) en el Estado de São Paulo. Se hizo una investigación descriptiva por medio de información secundaria, así como la participación de los distintos actores que están involucrados en el negocio.
El artículo se divide en cinco secciones, incluida esta Introducción. Mientras que en la segunda se examina la literatura sobre los sistemas de innovación y desarrollo regional, en la tercera se muestra la evolución de los indicadores de ciencia, tecnología e innovación en el Brasil entre 2000 y 2010. En la cuarta sección se presenta el índice de desarrollo regional del SNI, cuyo objetivo es evaluar la distribución o el ámbito espacial del SNI brasileño, y en la quinta y última sección se detallan las consideraciones fnales del trabajo.
El presente artículo analiza la forma como se desarrolla el cambio en los campos organizacionales a partir del emprendimiento institucional en el caso de la industria cafetera colombiana desde una perspectiva teórico-conceptual.
The literature reviewed in this document is global in its focus to attend to broad trends in the field and practice of agricultural extension. We do not aim for an extensive literature review but to identify implications for not including gender, ways to do so, and means to move forward. The aim of this report to highlight the importance of gender integration into agricultural extension programs in various parts of the world in order to raise much needed awareness on the subject
Women empowerment through increasing the access of resources in local situation is the highlighted issue in the present context. Women involve in different types of activities in agricultural sphere and shoulder the responsibility in playing the roles of different actors in agricultural innovation system. The dimension of agricultural innovation always prefers to go along with the concepts of the dynamics around different activities and roles that poor women communities engaging towards addressing their social and economic needs through agricultural production system.
In order to address food insecurity, the New Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A) promotes tighterintegration of African smallholder farmers, especially women, into formal markets via value chains to improve farmers’ input access and to encourage the sale of crop surpluses. This commentary offers a theoretical and practical critique of the GR4A model, drawing on early findings from a five-year study of value chain initiatives in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mozambique.
This paper studies the relationship between the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and market orientation of farm production in India. This is the first time that the WEAI has been used in an Indian agricultural context and the first time that it is being associated with market orientation. Was used data on 1920 adults from 960 households in the Chandrapur District of Maharashtra and classified the households into three groups—(1) landless, (2) food-cropping, and (3) cash-cropping—that reflect increasing degrees of market orientation
People, places, and production contributing the least to climate change will suffer the most. This calls for adaptation as a key climate change response. But adaptation is surrounded by problems. Finance is uncertain and fragmented, mainstreaming into development is complicated, and technical solutions often overshadow existing social relations and institutions.