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 trabajo describe la experiencia de cinco años de trabajo con cooperativas, asociaciones y comunidades Mapuche. Este trabajo describe las estratégias empleadas por los productores para desarrollar canales de comercialización que así lograron aprovechar los buenos precios de la lana para capitalizarse.
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.
African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) have the potential to increase food and nutritional security and contribute to improved livelihoods, but farmers’ capacity to meet the growing demand for them has been constrained by a lack of good quality seed and technical knowhow. The Good Seed Initiative (GSI), funded by Irish Aid and active in Tanzania from 2013 to 2015, targeted both seed and vegetable growers, linking them to markets through an innovation platform (IP) approach.
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.
Agriculture is crucial for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), involving approximately 50% of the economically active population and contributing an estimated 25% to the gross national product. However, agricultural production has remained low due to soil degradation and pest damage in cabbage and maize (particularly due to lepidopteron pests), amongst other reasons. To help improve productivity and address food security issues, CABI has been working in DPRK since 2002 to introduce integrated pest management (IPM).
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.
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.