Este documento refleja las demandas de los distintos sectores y provee pautas para alcanzar la sustentabilidad de la producción forestal en la región, varias de las cuales ya han sido puestas en práctica con resultados alentadores. El consenso entre los actores involucrados ha sido clave en este proceso.
En esta nota breve se analiza, desde una perspectiva crítica, la práctica de la extensión rural realizada por profesionales agrónomos en Mendoza, Argentina. En base a una amplia revisión bibliográfica y análisis documental sobre programas de desarrollo rural, analizamos los condicionamientos socio-culturales de dicha práctica, elementos que inciden sobre la concepción, ejecución y orientación de las estrategias de desarrollo promovidas por estos sujetos y sus instituciones
Este articulo describe la actuación de los promotores del programa Pro-Huerta. El Pro-Huerta (PPH) es un programa estatal nacional que aborda la seguridad alimentaria, dirigido a la población pobre. La zona Gran Córdoba comprende la ciudad de Córdoba y un amplio territorio que involucra los pueblos cercanos en un radio aproximado de unos 50 km de la capital, donde se trabaja con más de 120 promotores y 14.500 huerteros.
This publication provides a collection of papers, commentaries, expert opinions and reflections on state-of-the-art innovation systems thinking and approaches in agriculture. It is the direct output of a CTA and WUR/CoS-SIS collaboration which had its genesis in an expert consultation on ‘Innovation Systems: Towards Effective Strategies in support of Smallholder Farmers’.
This paper presents an overview of current opportunities and challenges facing efforts to increase the impact of rural and agricultural extension. The starting point for this analysis is in recognition that the days when agricultural extension was synonymous with the work of public sector agencies are over.
This report describes issues presented and discussed at a workshop held in Rwanda from 6 - 8 September 2012, focused on strengthening capacity in agricultural innovation in post-conflict and protracted crisis (2PC) countries. It was the first workshop of its kind that attempted to bring participants from 2PC countries around the globe to rally around a common cause.
Starting with background information, the report presents a summary of the plenary presentations of the workshop, which includes a brief on the post-conflict and protracted crisis environment in the 15 participating countries (Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan). Some countries like Afghanistan qualified all in one as conflict, post-conflict and protracted crisis country.
Land and property rights, migration, and citizenship are complex issues that cut across all social, economic, and political spheres of West Africa. This paper provides an overarching scoping of the most pressing contemporary issues related to land, migration, and citizenship, including how they intersect in various contexts and locations in West Africa. The way issues are analytically framed captures structural challenges and sets them against the regional and global meta-trends of which policy makers and practitioners should be aware for conflict-sensitive planning.
This report summarizes the findings of the study on Competitive Commercial Agriculture for Africa (CCAA). The objective of the CCAA study was to explore the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture.
Agricultural innovation systems are complex, multi-layered, and can be difficult to define and analyse. In this paper, we provide examples of ‘systems analysis’: describing the context, what was done, and how the outcomes informed broader research and development activities. The five cases describe analyses of: i) agricultural systems in North-West Vietnam; ii) household food security in Central Vietnam; iii) agricultural innovation systems in Central Africa; iv) wheat commodity systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, and v) the national agricultural research system in Papua New Guinea.