The Agribusiness for Trade Competitiveness Project (ATC-P), branded as Katalyst, is a pioneer market systems development project contributing to sustainable poverty reduction in Bangladesh. It is implemented by Swisscontact under the umbrella of the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh. The project has been operating in Bangladesh since 2003 in three phases.
A new generation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is finding a small foothold among poor, small-scale farmers in developing countries. Even so, many barriers still prevent poor rural people from accessing, using, and benefiting from new ICT tools and platforms, and those barriers are arguably higher for rural women. The relationship between gender and agriculture has been studied intensively over the years, and many agricultural interventions now include gender as a crosscutting issue or mainstream gender throughout their operations.
Súmario: 1 Antecedentes. 2 El hambre cero. 3 Conceptos y principios. 4 Estado y sociedad en la promoción de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. 5 Desarrollos y desafíos en el combate a la inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional. 6 Características del sistema nacional de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. 7 Directrices de la política nacional de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. 8 Biocombustibles, cambios climáticos y seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. 9 Brasil en el escenario internacional. 10 Principales desafíos.
The Progress towards Sustainable Agriculture initiative (PROSA) is a framework that seeks to complement ongoing efforts on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and particularly indicator 2.4.1, to support country-level assessments using data already available at the national level. Making agriculture more sustainable – productive, environmentally friendly, resilient and profitable is fundamental, as agriculture remains the main source of livelihood for the majority of the world’s poor and hungry.
Este estudio de caso realizado para el Banco Mundial por la Cátedra Latinoamericana de Decisiones Ambientales para el Cambio Global (CLADA) del CATIE en colaboración con el Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible (CLACDS) del INCAE Business School, tiene como objetivo el diseño y aplicación de una metodología para el análisis conjunto de los diferentes elementos del Crecimiento Verde e Inclusivo a nivel territorial, que sirva como insumo para un diálogo que permita llegar a acuerdos sobre prioridades de política y de acciones que promuevan actividades produc
Este documento resume las actividades desarrolladas durante el Foro “Experiencia de Investigación Agrícola para el Desarrollo: las Escuelas de Campo (ECAS)-Una Apuesta Innovadora hacia la Investigación Acción Participativa del Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano (MAP) en la Región Trifinio” celebrado en San Ignacio, Chalatenango (El Salvador) entre el 25 y el 27 de octubre, 2011.
La seguridad de la tenencia es un requisito previo importante para la gestión forestal sostenible. La diversificación de los sistemas de tenencia podría proporcionar una base para mejorar la gestión de los boques y los medios de vida locales, especialmente cuando la capacidad de gestión forestal del Estado no es suficiente.
This review seeks to assess the usefulness of innovation systems approaches in the context of the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) in guiding research agendas, generating knowledge and use in improving food security and nutrition, reducing poverty and generating cash incomes for resource-poor farmers. The report draws on a range of case studies across sub-Saharan Africa to compare and contrast the reasons for success from which lessons can be learned.
The study describes the historic development of the Danish Agricultural Advisory Services (DAAS). This is the case of a national advisory system owned and managed by the farmer organizations and financed with public subsidies combined with farmer/user payments, gradually developed to full user payment. The links and relations between the empowerment of farmers and their organizations, their evolving roles in advisory systems, and the innovative financial mechanisms in extension, especially pull-mechanisms, are analyzed.
This case study in the development of hot pepper marketing in the Caribbean covers the period from the early 1980's to 2000. During the period several partnerships were forged among a host of public and private research institutions, export agencies, private companies and farmer groups to solve major constraints along the commodity chain.