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Author : E. Cromwell,Steve Wiggins,Sondra Wentzel
Publisher : Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016035094
Author : Anthony Bebbington,John Farrington,David J. Lewis,Kate Wellard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134880218
Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organizations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over sixty specially commissioned case studies of farmer-participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented. Specific questions are raised. How good/bad are NGOs at promoting technological innovation and addressing contraints to change in peasant culture? How effective are NGOs at strengthening local organizations? How do/will donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the State?
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 925104323X
One of the major challenges facing most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is the need to invest significant resources into strengthening their capacity to increase the availability of good-quality seeds of a wider range of plant varieties. This publication presents the proceedings of the Regional Technical Meeting on Seed Policy and Programmes for sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Melinda Smale, Lamissa Diakité, Brahima Dembélé, Issa Seni Traoré, Oumar Guindo, and Bouréma Konta
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : David Cooper,Jan Engels,E. A. Frison
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
ISBN : 9789290432388
This paper argues that a comprehensive Multilateral System for plant genetic resouce for food and agriculture is required which ensures the conservation of plant genetic resources and their utilization form human benefit at a global level. Such a system would incorporate agreements on access to plant genetic resources which ensured their availability; mechanisms for the sharing of benefits derived from plant genetic resources; conservation networks and information systems, and research and plant breeding capacity which meets the needs of farmers worldwide. Such a system should be developed with the full participation of all groups involved in teh management genetic resources.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251045550
The meeting recognised the need for the sustainable use of plant genetic resources for sustainable agricultural development of the region. Discussions focused on the appropriate mechanisms required to ensure capacity for the maintenance, production and equitable distribution of good quality seeds from a wide range of plant varieties. The meeting agreed to establish the Seed Consultative Forum for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Author : D. Hogg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780333981252
Why do modern agricultural techniques, which are environmentally damaging, continue to be used? This path-breaking book seeks the answer to that question in an understanding of evolution of agricultural research in its cultural context.
Author : David Bigman
Publisher : CABI
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780851995755
The globalization process and the internal policy reforms that the developing countries have implemented during the past decade have changed the relative prices of practically all their inputs and outputs. Agricultural producers have therefore been forced to change the structure and methods of their production. The objective of this book is to review the impact of globalization on a number of issues. These include the effects of changes in global trading rules and regulations, the removal of trade barriers and the elimination of many country-specific trade agreements.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251044732
This publication presents the proceedings of the Regional Technical Meeting on Seed Policy and Programmes in the Near East and North Africa, held in Larnaca, Cyprus from 27 June to 2 July 1999. The meeting was organised by the Agricultural Research Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus in collaboration with the Seed and Plant Genetic Resources Service of the FAO. In line with the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action, the meeting recognised that one of the major challenges facing most countries in the Near East and North Africa is the need to invest significant resources in strengthening their capacity to increase the availability of good quality seeds of a wider range of plant varieties. This will contribute to the maximisation of both agrobiodiversity and productivity, in order to achieve national food security while reducing environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources. The meeting proposed and agreed to establish a Regional Consultative Forum on Seed Policy and Programmes for the Near East and Africa (CFS-NENA). The forum will facilitate intercountry scientific and technical co-operation on seed production and supply, and promote crop genetic resources evaluation, conservation and utilisation in the region.
Author : Virginia D. Nazarea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816523649
The re-emerging field of ethnoecology offers a promising way to document and analyze human-environment interactions. Case studies by international experts explore the varied views of scholars on the human dimension of conservation and the different views of local peoples regarding their own environments. Filled with peoples' voices from North and South America, Africa, and Asia, these cases cover a range of issues: natural resource conservation and sustainable development, the relationship between local knowledge and biodiversity, the role of the commons in development, and the importance of diversity and equity in environmental management. Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives is intended for a wide range of specialists not only in social and natural sciences but also in agricultural studies. It conveys the overriding importance of this powerful methodological approach in providing insiders' perspectives on their environments and how they manage them.
Author : Aparna Tiwari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811519062
Plant breeding has the potential to improve quality of life for millions of people, and to harmoniously link agriculture, societies and ecosystems. Global efforts have been made to improve awareness and create a better and brighter future for plant breeding worldwide. Though substantial international research funding is available, and tremendous efforts have been made to achieve food security and sustainability in agriculture, their success can only be ensured when they are complemented by counterparts at the national level. India is ideally poised to reap the benefits of plant breeding by integrating various parameters like adaptation, uncertainty, vulnerability and resilience into agriculture research strategies. Priorities include making agriculture more appealing to young talents, formulating farmer-friendly policies, combining advanced technologies with conventional plant breeding practices, and building the competencies needed to address emerging challenges in agriculture. This book provides an essential overview of modern plant breeding, and demonstrates how education, entrepreneurship training and professional approaches can help transform the image of agriculture from a poor and unattractive domain into a lucrative and business-oriented one. In addition, it presents strategies to help achieve sustainable, accessible and affordable outcomes with breeding programs. The book’s primary goal is to encourage policymakers, academics, private institutions and non-profit organizations to combine their efforts in order to achieve a major transition in plant breeding activities in Asia. Accordingly, it highlights the importance of partnerships and collaborations for making breeding programs more comprehensive and meaningful.
Author : Robin Pistorius
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9789290433088
How plant genetic resources conservation became a global issue; Breeding strategies and conservation strategies; Establishing a globa es situ conservation network.
Author : David Arthur Cleveland,Daniela Soleri
Publisher : CABI
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN : 085199881X
The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of and relationship between the knowledge of farmers and of scientists, and how these can be best integrated in plant breeding.
Author : K. Middlemas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230379893
'The best contemporary map available [of the British state].' Peter Hennessy The final volume of Keith Middlemas's acclaimed trilogy shows how, after a climactic crisis in the mid-1970s, the balance changed between government, interest groups, political parties, and public, whose competition had characterised the postwar years, and how emergence of new alignments among them altered the British state itself. Documented from over three hundred interviews with participants, as well as archives, it provides an object lesson in contemporary history.
Author : Juzhong Zhuang,Paul Vandenberg,Yiping Huang
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290928836
The economic success of the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the last three decades has brought with it new challenges. With a per capita gross national income of $4,930 in 2011, the PRC has just passed the threshold of upper-middle-income status and it still has a long way to go before becoming a high-income country. But with rising wages and population aging, growth will have to be increasingly driven by productivity improvement through innovation and industrial upgrading---the PRC needs to move from a lowcost to a high-value economy. Moreover, rapid growth has exposed several structural problems, in particular, economic imbalances, rising inequality, resource constraints, and environmental degradation. If not addressed, these problems could hinder PRC's efforts in moving toward a high-value economy and increase the risk of getting caught in what is increasingly known as the "middle-income trap."
