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Rural sociology (including gender) and economics
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Plants, people and nature: Benefit sharing in practice
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Phillips, L.D. (ed)
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2010
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Plants, people and nature is a book about benefit sharing between private enterprise and the community. It provides practical examples from around the globe of how private companies involved in the production, processing and marketing of natural products interact with national and regional governments, local industry and, above all, village communities. This publication grew out of a workshop on benefit sharing held in Cape Town during the 4th World Congress of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (WOCMAP) in November 2009. It includes 22 case studies of benefit sharing in practice.
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Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure / Tesauro plurilingüe de tierras / Thésaurus multilingue du foncier
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2009
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The question of land tenure is returning on the agenda and many countries are showing renewed interest in the different ways of accessing natural resources with a view to eventually introducing land reforms. in the context of food security, world-wide poverty alleviation, environmental protection or quality of life. This is why FAO has prepared this multilingual thesaurus. This publication will contribute to clarifying the debate on land subjects as well as to making the related field interventions more efficient thanks to the presentation of an unambiguous or unequivocal terminology of the various subject matters related to land tenure. / Les questions foncières reviennent à l'ordre du jour, et de nombreux pays manifestent un regain d'intérêt en ce qui concerne la diversité des modes d'accès aux ressources naturelles dans la perspective d'éventuelles réformes, que ce soit dans le contexte de la sécurité alimentaire, de l'allègement de la pauvreté dans le monde, de la préservation de l'environnement ou de la qualité de vie. C'est pourquoi la FAO a entrepris la préparation de ce thesaurus, contribuant ainsi à la clarté des débats sur ces questions ainsi qu'à l'efficacité des interventions sur le terrain, grâce à la mise au point d'une terminologie précise et rigoureuse, permettant d'éviter tout équivoque dans ce domaine.
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Women feeding cities: Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security
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Hovorka, A., de Zeeuw, H., Njenga, M.
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2009
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Poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition have become critical urban problems. Women play a crucial role in household food production, growing vegetables in gardens and vacant urban spaces, raising animals and trading in foods. Their vital contribution has however for a big extent been neglected by city officials, economic planners and development practitioners who have tended to concentrate on the industrialization of food production. This book analyses the roles of women and men in urban food production and through case studies from three developing regions suggests how women´s contribution might be maximized. In the second part of the publication, detailed guidelines and tools show how to bring women into the mainstream of urban agriculture research and development. Providing evidence from around the world as well as field-tested guidelines, the book is essential reading for policy makers, planners, researchers and practitioners working in urban agriculture programmes.
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Farmer first revisited: Innovation for agricultural research and development
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Scoones, I., Thompson, J. (eds)
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2009
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Agriculture is an urgent priority worldwide and farmers in the developing world find themselves in the front line of some of the world´s most pressing issues – climate change, globalization and food security. This publication is essential reading for students, policy makers, agricultural scientists and social scientists aiming to bring the concerns of grassroots farmers to the fore. Unlike other books, which disregard the needs of the people they deal with, this publication offers a new bottom-up approach to the topic. It helps the reader to gain a valuable insight in agriculture which and is as well appropriate to farmer´s social, physical and economic needs. The book presents accounts of Farmer First workshops at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK and summarizes successes as well as failures and the lessons that have been learned. Agricultural innovation now takes place less within national public-sector and research organizations and more in diversified public-private systems. Therefore this book asks: How do farmers engage in these public and private systems? In the context of increasingly globalized and complex agricultural supply chains, how do farmers take part in the policy processes defining access to markets, and to agricultural research and development.
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Mitigação dos efeitos do VIH/SIDA na agricultura de pequena escala in the Agrodok series
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Lengkeek, A., Koster, M., Salm, M.
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2008
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Nas regiões tropicais as comunidades de pequenos agricultores lutam contra o impacto desvastador do VIH/SIDA. Este manual destina-se a agentes extensionistas agrícolas e a todos aqueles que os apoiam a nível governamental, de ONG ou organizações internacionais. Contém os capitúlos seguintes: Identificação do problema; Tornar possível a mitigação; Participação orientada: fortalecer as comunidades através do acesso à informação; Explorar os recursos; Utilizar os recursos; Edificar a cooperação; Criação de animais; Actividades geradoras de rendimentos, dentro e fora da exploração agrícola.
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Mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS in small-scale farming
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Lengkeek, A., Koster, M., Salm, M.
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2008
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This booklet is a handbook for agricultural extension officers and those who support them in government, NGOs and international organizations. Much of what is contained in this booklet has been dealt with in much greater detail in related publications in print and online. Unlike more specialized literature this publication provides a brief, straightforward account of how HIV/AIDS undermines community welfare and the productive capacity of farmers. It suggests some ways in which farming practices can be adapted to mitigate these effects. The tools and approaches described in this publication will be familiar to many readers. They have been tested in small-scale farming communities throughout the world. Many of the insights and experiences referred to here com from Sub Saharan Africa. They can be used and adapted to encourage community members – irrespective of age, sex, material status or ethnic and religious identity – to work together to define their problems and find solutions using their own local resources.
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Giving youth a voice (highlights)
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Minderhoud-Jones, M.
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2006
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This report is based on a CTA Observatory meeting in 2004, ‘Giving Youth a Voice – ICTs for the Livelihoods of Rural Youth´. The meeting brought together young people from ACP countries working in ICTs and encouraged them to share their experiences and provide practical examples of how ICTs can contribute to agricultural and rural development.
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The future of ACP-EU fisheries relations: Towards more sustainability and improved social and economic well being for ACP coastal communities
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2006
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Fishing provides a source of income for millions of people in ACP countries, working on a small-scale, labour-intensive basis. Drawing on a series of meetings organised by CTA on the future of ACP-EU fisheries relations, this study covers ACP-EU cooperation in the fisheries, ACP access to the European market and fisheries partnerships agreements.
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Como viver de forma positiva : um manual prático para facilitar a acção comunitária nas áreas afectadas pelo HIV/SIDA (CD-ROM)
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Page, S.L.J., Nyakanda, F.
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2006
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O CD Rom contém o manual prático que foi produzido para consciencializar os agricultores de subsistência na África Sub-Sahara sobre assuntos de saúde relativos ao vírus da SIDA e como se pode reduzir entre eles a susceptibilidade à enfermidade (ver também 1312). O CD consiste de 2 documentos, um em formato ‘Word´ e outro em formato ‘PDF´.
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How to live positively: a practical manual for facilitating community action in HIV/AIDS-affected areas
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Page, S.L.J., Nyakanda, F.
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2006
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This CD contains the training manual produced to raise awareness among subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa of HIV-related health issues and how to reduce their susceptibility to disease (see also 1308). There are two documents on the CD, one in Word format, the other a PDF.
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Como viver de forma positiva : um manual prático para facilitar a acção comunitária nas áreas afectadas pelo HIV/SIDA
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Page, S.L.J., Nyakanda, F.
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2005
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Com mais de 25 milhões de pessoas que vivem com o vírus da SIDA na região Sub-Sahara de África, este manual prático consiste em uma série de discursos interactivos e exercícios de grupo para os workshops. Ele foi produzido para fornecer informação, à maioria dos agricultores de subsistência afectados pela SIDA, a fim de consciencializá-los sobre a saúde e reduzir a susceptibilidade à enfermidade (ver também (1313) (CD-ROM).
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How to live positively: a practical manual for facilitating community action in HIV/AIDS-affected areas
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Page, S.L.J., Nyakanda, F.
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2005
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With more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa living with HIV, this training manual consists of a series of interactive discussions and group exercises for workshops. It was produced to provide the majority of those affected – subsistence farmers – with information to raise health consciousness and reduce susceptibility to disease. See also 1309 (CD-ROM).
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Gender and ICTs for development: a global sourcebook
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Valk, M., Cummings, S., van Dam, H. (eds)
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2005
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This book brings together case studies on women and their communities in developing countries and how they have used and been influenced by ICTs in development. The studies are drawn from Bhutan, China, Sierra Leone, Ghana and the Caribbean. There is an extensive bibliography of print and online resources on the topic.
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The faces of energy-related poverty as seen through the eyes of women and men in Senegal
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Denton, F., Seck, E.
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2005
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Energy-related poverty mainly affects women living in rural areas. This booklet looks at this issue in the context of Senegal, providing accounts by women in several villages on how the lack of energy sources affects their daily tasks. The accounts are frank and informative, and are accompanied by commentary, photographs and a list of lessons learned from the survey.
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Urban agriculture: growing vegetables in cities
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Boland, J.
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2005
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This easy to read booklet deals with urban agriculture described as follows: “All forms of agricultural production in or directly adjacent to the city, which mainly provide urban markets with food products for sale to consumers or for consumption by the city-dwelling growers themselves.” The publication has primarily been written for women and men involved in urban agriculture: those new to crop growing in towns, as well as the producer with prior experience in rural agriculture or horticulture who plans to grow food or market garden crops in urban areas. It will also be useful for those responsible for guidance of urban agriculture: district information services and community workers of community based organisation, non-governmental organisations, and government services, agricultural and nutritional extension. Urban agriculture covers a whole range of production systems, methods, techniques and socio-economic aspects. The diversity of the products can be divided into: vegetable horticulture, animal husbandry, fuel and food forestry (including agroforestry) and integrated waste-water aquaculture, including fish production. This booklet concentrates on a number of facets. It mainly focuses on vegetable growing, primarily intended for one´s own food supply, which can be achieved by means that are simple, cheap and locally available and it is based on small-scale techniques. The wide range of vegetable species grown in towns by horticultural techniques will only be mentioned in general terms. This publication helps you to make specific choices and describes aspects of safety, environment and health. It contains techniques for small-scale horticulture around the house or in the yard. Soil and water problems get extra attention and even though socio-economic aspects are not the main objective of this booklet they are considered to be important enough to be mentioned as well.
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