Este trabajo se trata de una sistematización del Programa de Desarrollo de Cooperativas (CDP) que busca responder a las necesidades de cooperativas en países en desarrollo al vincularlas con los conocimientos y experiencias de cooperativas ya desarrolladas en los Estados Unidos. La empresa Equal Exchange, la organización solicitante a este trabajo, es una cooperativa de comercio justo que trabaja directamente con pequeños productores organizados en cooperativas y comercializa sus productos en mercados en los Estados Unidos.
El presente trabajo se sustenta en la necesidad de la Asociación Empresas B Costa Rica de desarrollar un proceso de planificación estratégica, que le permita adaptar a la realidad nacional el marco estratégico adoptado, y en base a este definir su propio plan. La planificación estratégica de la asociación debe garantizar que se conserva la esencia del movimiento e igualmente se adapta a las condiciones locales.
El objetivo del proyecto es contribuir a la generación de oportunidades de desarrollo económico y social que permitan cerrar las brechas socioeconómicas existentes entre esta región y las más avanzadas del país. Del mismo modo, cerrar las brechas territoriales pretende conseguir mayores cotas de progreso económico y social a nivel nacional, al tiempo que se avanza hacia un modelo de desarrollo más robusto, resiliente e inclusivo.
These toolkit aims to enhance stakeholders' understanding of the need to integrate gender in an Innovation Platform, the rationale for doing so and how to do. This toolkit is a guide for mainstreaming gender issues and develop and innovative platform in order to discuss and overcome this issues in an agricultural context.
En este artículo se procura identificar, describir y comparar la concepción de extensión rural que guía a nivel subjetivo las prácticas de extensión de técnicos que trabajan en diez diferentes países latinoamericanos, para luego comparar estas concepciones con los modelos y lineamientos de extensión propuestos por la bibliografía. Para esto, primero se describen distintas concepciones de extensión que han tenido importancia en América Latina a lo largo de la historia, luego se presenta la metodología de investigación utilizada, presentándose por último los resultados a los que arribó
This report synthesizes findings from seven country scoping studies on gender‐responsive approaches to rural advisory services (RAS) in Africa. The studies, which were conducted in Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda, were meant to identify existing policies, programmes, approaches, and tools into which gender considerations had been injected, and then to provide them as RAS to farmers, with specific focus on women and youth. The goal was to propose a road map for mainstreaming RAS to promote sustainable agriculture in Africa
The rise of new powers in development has generated much debate on the extent to which South–South Cooperation (SSC) constitutes a new paradigm of development more relevant to African needs or a disguise for a new form of imperialism. This paper critically examines the rise of Chinese and Brazilian technical and economic cooperation in African agriculture with two cases drawn from Ghana and Mozambique.
The sustainability of food value chains is an increasing concern for consumers, food companies and policy-makers. Global food chains are often perceived to be less sustainable than local food chains. Yet, thorough food chain analyses and comparisons of different food chains across sustainability dimensions are rare. In this article it is analyzed the local Belgian and global Peruvian asparagus value chains and explore their sustainability performance.
Although many smallholder communities are yet to embark on their journey towards gender empowerment, this report presents best practice examples which demonstrate that significant strides can be achieved in relatively short time periods. Women’s Coffee initiatives are engaging consumers about the role of women in coffee production, and providing additional premiums that fund projects targeted at women, such as the projects implemented by UNICAFEC in Peru and Soppexcca in Nicaragua.
The Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project supports the efforts of the GoE to transform the smallholder agriculture sector to a more market-oriented sector. LIVES uses a value chain framework to develop targeted livestock and irrigated agriculture commodities through integrated technical and institutional innovations. Such a framework recognizes that value chain actors add value at different stages of the value chain and that individuals and organizations provide inputs and services to the value chain actors.