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Economic and financial sustainability of an Acacia decurrens-based Taungya system for farmers in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Land Use Policy Volume 90

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Ethiopia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land use
research
The use of tree-based fallowing as a sustainable land management system may serve as an important developmental pathway out of poverty across drought-prone watersheds in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. This study employs a financial analysis technique, the computation of net present values, to explore the ﬁnancial viability of farmers’ investments in an intercropping farming system known as taungya. The analysis employs scenarios that include different farming systems, such as A. decurrens (J.C. Wendl.) Willd. cum teff (Eragrostis tef) intercropping, A.
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Preventing young farmers from leaving the farm: Investigating the effectiveness of the young farmer payment using a behavioural approach

Land Use Policy Volume 82

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land use
research
The number of young farmers has decreased over recent decades in several developed countries such as the United States and European countries. A recent strategy adopted by the European Union to address the resulting age imbalance is the Young Farmer Payment which provides an additional payment on top of the average basic payment introduced in the last Common Agricultural Policy reform. The objective of this study is to determine, by means of a behavioural approach, how this payment influenced the incentives of young farmers to stay in the farm.
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Knowledge flows: Farmers’ social relations and knowledge sharing practices in ‘Catchment Sensitive Farming’

Land Use Policy Volume 90

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land use
research
The move towards sustainable agriculture requires a more detailed understanding of farmers’ knowledge(s) and knowledge practices. Increasingly, it is important to understand not only what farmers understand, but how their knowledge practices incorporate others – especially given the emerging call for environmentally-orientated policy measures to move beyond an individual farmer focus. This paper considers how farmers engage with, utilise and share knowledge through a focus on the Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) initiative in the UK.
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Construyendo caminos de esperanza: Narrativas de jóvenes de la Amazonia colombiana

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2019
Colombia
waste (abuse)
tenant farmers
land conflicts
housing rights
Construyendo caminos de esperanza: Narrativas de jóvenes de la Amazonia colombiana

Andrea Susana Lopez Torres,

Luz Dary Sotto Carvajal, Luis Eduardo López Castro

Todos participan de la iniciativa “Semillero de Investigación Inti Wayra” desarrollada en la Universidad de la Amazonia, Caquetá, Colombia. Este ensayo obtuvo el primer lugar en la séptima versión del Concurso Alimentos y pensamiento siempre en agenda cuya temática propuesta fue “Historias de vida que sobreviven la violencia y persecución en el campo en Sudamérica”.
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SISTEMAS PARTICIPATIVOS DE GARANTÍA – SPG

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2019
Latin America and the Caribbean
farmers
agriculture
environment
SISTEMAS PARTICIPATIVOS DE GARANTÍA – SPG

Gabriela Paredes Porras, Ecuador; Valeria García López, México/Colombia; Lina Ramírez Avendaño, Colombia; Héctor Jair Beltrán Vargas, Colombia; Wilfredo Rojas, Bolivia; Zulma Gareca, Bolivia; Margarita del Pilar Arriagada, Chile

Todos fueron integrantes del Curso Virtual: Leyes de semillas en los países andinos, enfoque de los bienes comunes (2018), coordinado por el Campo virtual por la tierra y el desarrollo rural del Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica – IPDRS.
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Farmers’ Perspective on Agriculture and Environmental Change in the Circumpolar North of Europe and America

Volume 8 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2019
Canada, Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
farming systems
land use
environment
climate change
agriculture
Climate change may increase the importance of agriculture in the global Circumpolar North with potentially critical implications for pristine northern ecosystems and global biogeochemical cycles. With this in mind, a global online survey was conducted to understand northern agriculture and farmers’ perspective on environmental change north of 60° N.
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Dominican Republic and FAO

Institutional & promotional materials
January, 2019
Haiti, Dominican Republic
Land & Food Security
natural resources management
food security
farmers
farming systems
sustainable development
Long before opening a country office in Santo Domingo in 1979, FAO provided technical and financial assistance to the Dominican Republic to boost development of its agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors. Over the years, the Organization has implemented a large number of interventions covering a wide range of areas, including food security and nutrition, plant and animal health, sustainable natural resource use, forest management and institutional development.
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Conservation Agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2019
Germany, Moldova, Niger, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Italy, Madagascar, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Armenia, Paraguay, Turkey
natural resources management
land management
agriculture
farmers
Agriculture in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is diverse, and has great potential to revitalize the economy of the countries in the region via improved productivity (efficiency) and higher total yield for food, fodder and fibre crops. Conservation agriculture can rise to the major challenge of making sustainable intensification of production systems a reality.
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A reinvenção da democracia brasileira, os novos sujeitos coletivos e as lutas camponesas.

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2019
Brazil
land access
farmers
common rights
A reinvenção da democracia brasileira, os novos sujeitos coletivos e as lutas camponesas.

Por Claudio A. Dourado de Oliveira

As lógicas antropocêntricas do capitalismo enquanto civilização dominante e com os diversos socialismos reais que existiram até agora – deverão ser repensados a partir de posturas sociobiocêntricas e não serão atualizados simplesmentemudando seus sobrenomes. Não esqueçamos que socialistas e capitalistas de todos os tipos se enfrentaram e ainda se enfrentam no quadrilátero do desenvolvimento e do progresso (Acosta, 2016).