In close collaboration with FAO and SEWA EDP participants, SEWA members, and with the support of ... more In close collaboration with FAO and SEWA EDP participants, SEWA members, and with the support of Carina Hirsch,
Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty This publication was supported by the Ministry for... more Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty This publication was supported by the Ministry for Agriculture,
Empowering small-scale producers to participate fully in development is one of the main component... more Empowering small-scale producers to participate fully in development is one of the main components of the Food and Agriculture Organisation's efforts to improve food security and reduce hunger and poverty. As individual farmers are often dispersed, they may have little power to seize economic opportunities, or influence policies that affect them. Too often they are excluded from decision-making, whether in markets or in social and political fora. However, when rural producers come together in producer organisations, they can shape their own paths out of poverty, and make their voices heard. Well-functioning rural organisations, such as POs and co-operatives, are crucial for rural people to address the complex challenges they face today: improving agricultural productivity, accessing input and output markets, overcoming asymmetries in information and knowledge, accessing financial services, accessing and managing natural resources sustainably, and adapting to climate change. In t...
Theories of agrarian change in Africa normally treat agricultural intensification as a linear uni... more Theories of agrarian change in Africa normally treat agricultural intensification as a linear unidirectional process that gradually engulfs entire agrarian systems as human population increases. Focusing on soil management practices, this paper disputes the alleged uniformity of intensification and argues that periodic, contrary processes may occur simultaneously. Written and oral historical data, and survey data describing current farmers' practices and
... Officer-Latin America Region), Janus Juhasz (retired Cooperatives Officer), Bernd Seiffert (O... more ... Officer-Latin America Region), Janus Juhasz (retired Cooperatives Officer), Bernd Seiffert (Officer, Rural Producer Organizations), Vladimir Evtimov (interim Land Tenure and Rural Development Officer, Central and Eastern Europe Sub-region), Leith Deacon (intern) from ...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is the third in a ... more Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is the third in a series of four papers on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure. This paper describes why the tenure of land, fisheries and forests is the focus of the Guidelines. The first paper provides an overview of the Guidelines and briefly describes tenure and the need for the Guidelines. The second paper describes the preparation of the Guidelines and the fourth one addresses the implementation of the Guidelines. The Guidelines provide a framework that can be applied equally to land tenure, fisheries tenure and forest tenure. They recognize that there are important similarities in the tenure of land, fisheries and forests, and also intersectoral linkages. The livelihoods of many of the rural poor are diversified and are dependent on access to various natural resources. Moreover, the expansion of one type of use of a natural resource often comes at the expense of other users and use...
Policies and programmes that disregard local institutions, capacities, conditions and people 5 ar... more Policies and programmes that disregard local institutions, capacities, conditions and people 5 are frequently unsustainable and can result in a poor use of funds. For example, rural people have abandoned many apparently promising approaches introduced by projects, owing to the inaccessibility of spare parts, lack of capacity for maintenance and repairs, and insufficient resources for purchase and maintenance. 3 Worldwide, many agricultural and rural development good practices remain on a small scale. Scaling-up of SARD good practices, including promoting local innovation, can be a valuable and cost-effective strategy to optimize past efforts and investments and to broaden positive impacts of rural poverty reduction. 8 Over the centuries, rural people in many parts of the world have successfully resolved serious agronomic, economic, institutional, environmental and technological problems, through their own ingenuity, innovations and learning processes. These successes form part o...
In close collaboration with FAO and SEWA EDP participants, SEWA members, and with the support of ... more In close collaboration with FAO and SEWA EDP participants, SEWA members, and with the support of Carina Hirsch,
Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty This publication was supported by the Ministry for... more Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty This publication was supported by the Ministry for Agriculture,
Empowering small-scale producers to participate fully in development is one of the main component... more Empowering small-scale producers to participate fully in development is one of the main components of the Food and Agriculture Organisation's efforts to improve food security and reduce hunger and poverty. As individual farmers are often dispersed, they may have little power to seize economic opportunities, or influence policies that affect them. Too often they are excluded from decision-making, whether in markets or in social and political fora. However, when rural producers come together in producer organisations, they can shape their own paths out of poverty, and make their voices heard. Well-functioning rural organisations, such as POs and co-operatives, are crucial for rural people to address the complex challenges they face today: improving agricultural productivity, accessing input and output markets, overcoming asymmetries in information and knowledge, accessing financial services, accessing and managing natural resources sustainably, and adapting to climate change. In t...
Theories of agrarian change in Africa normally treat agricultural intensification as a linear uni... more Theories of agrarian change in Africa normally treat agricultural intensification as a linear unidirectional process that gradually engulfs entire agrarian systems as human population increases. Focusing on soil management practices, this paper disputes the alleged uniformity of intensification and argues that periodic, contrary processes may occur simultaneously. Written and oral historical data, and survey data describing current farmers' practices and
... Officer-Latin America Region), Janus Juhasz (retired Cooperatives Officer), Bernd Seiffert (O... more ... Officer-Latin America Region), Janus Juhasz (retired Cooperatives Officer), Bernd Seiffert (Officer, Rural Producer Organizations), Vladimir Evtimov (interim Land Tenure and Rural Development Officer, Central and Eastern Europe Sub-region), Leith Deacon (intern) from ...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is the third in a ... more Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is the third in a series of four papers on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure. This paper describes why the tenure of land, fisheries and forests is the focus of the Guidelines. The first paper provides an overview of the Guidelines and briefly describes tenure and the need for the Guidelines. The second paper describes the preparation of the Guidelines and the fourth one addresses the implementation of the Guidelines. The Guidelines provide a framework that can be applied equally to land tenure, fisheries tenure and forest tenure. They recognize that there are important similarities in the tenure of land, fisheries and forests, and also intersectoral linkages. The livelihoods of many of the rural poor are diversified and are dependent on access to various natural resources. Moreover, the expansion of one type of use of a natural resource often comes at the expense of other users and use...
Policies and programmes that disregard local institutions, capacities, conditions and people 5 ar... more Policies and programmes that disregard local institutions, capacities, conditions and people 5 are frequently unsustainable and can result in a poor use of funds. For example, rural people have abandoned many apparently promising approaches introduced by projects, owing to the inaccessibility of spare parts, lack of capacity for maintenance and repairs, and insufficient resources for purchase and maintenance. 3 Worldwide, many agricultural and rural development good practices remain on a small scale. Scaling-up of SARD good practices, including promoting local innovation, can be a valuable and cost-effective strategy to optimize past efforts and investments and to broaden positive impacts of rural poverty reduction. 8 Over the centuries, rural people in many parts of the world have successfully resolved serious agronomic, economic, institutional, environmental and technological problems, through their own ingenuity, innovations and learning processes. These successes form part o...
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