El Cacao y sus transformados: Caso Asproabelén y Asoproagro
RESUMEN El presente documento recoge las conclusiones y recomendaciones generadas durante un primer ejercicio de colaboración entre el personal técnico de AgriLAC resiliente, AGROSAVIA y ASOANEI quienes diseñaron un protocolo metodológico mixto (cualitativo/cuantitativo), con el fin de conocer las dinámicas actuales de comercialización del frijol, ...
In South Asia, over 80% of farmers cultivate two hectares or less. Most farms are technically constrained and economically non-viable. As a novel experiment, between 2015-2019 a set of farmer collectives were piloted by a consortium of NGO and research partners in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, to see if this could help marginal and small farmers ove...
Contextualization: The article addresses the application of multivariate data analysis techniques in the agricultural sector, in order to characterize two groups of hass avocado farmers, based on data collected by entities that traditionally provide rural technical assistance in the country, the municipal technical assistance units (UMATAS), as wel...
European Union / International Fund for Agricultural Development
Widespread adoption of new varieties can be valuable, especially where improved agricultural production technologies are hard to access. However, as farmers adopt new varieties, in situ population structure and genetic diversity of their seed holdings can change drastically. Consequences of adoption are still poorly understood due to a lack of crop...
NUS, or Neglected and Underutilized Species, are wild, cultivated or semi-domesticated non-commodity crops at the margin of mainstream agriculture. Their contribution to tackling food and nutrition insecurity and climate change vulnerability is huge and can no longer be overlooked. They might not be ‘neglected’ for much longer.
Transitioning to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in the African context requires a transformational architecture — a systematic shift away from business as usual and a comprehensive programme for building the adaptive capacity of physical, socio-economic, human and institutional dimensions of farming systems. Manyewu Mutamba of the Southern African...