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Diversity of Family Farming Around the World
This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world. To do so, it documents family farming diversity by using the sustainable rural livelihood (SRL) framework exploring their ability to adapt and transform to changing environments. In 18 case studies in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, it shows how family farms resist under adverse conditions, seize new opportunities and permanently transform. Family farms, far from being backwards are potential solutions to face the current challenges and shape a new future for agriculture taking advantage of their local knowledge and capacity to cope with external constraints. Many co-authors of the book have both an empirical and theoretical experience of family farming in developed and developing countries and their related institutions. They specify «what makes and means family» in family farming and the diversity of their expertise draws a wide and original picture of this resilient way of farming throughout the world.
Family Farming and the Worlds to Come
What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the “International Year of Family Farming,” the United Nations has placed this form of production at the center of debates on agricultural development. These debates are often reduced to two opposing positions. The first advocates the development of industrial or company agriculture, supposedly efficient because it follows industrial processes for market-orien...
Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change. This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently ...
Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity
The proceedings book of the GSOBI21 contains all papers presented both orally and in poster format during the symposium. The papers have provided sufficient scientific evidence that the loss of soil biodiversity is a global threat, and shows the place we are standing on and where we need to go to prevent soil biodiversity loss and to reinforce knowledge about soil biodiversity.
Charcoal Making in Developing Countries
Originally published in 1986, this book provides a detailed examination of programmes to introduce improved charcoal making techniques throughout the developing world. Charcoal making is widely regarded as an extremely wasteful use of scarce wood resources. The book includes a section on the physics and chemistry of charcoal and descriptions of the various traditional methods of charcoal making. Patterns of charcoal supply and distribution are analysed and efforts to introduce improved charcoal making techniques are described and evaluated.
Living territories to transform the world
What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, regulation of sectors, and services? How are territorial public policies conceived and applied? What methods and tools can be used for territorial development? This book presents a wide range of studies illustrating how actors, scales and scopes of intervention interact in the development of rural spaces in countries of the Global South.
La transition agro-écologique des agricultures du Sud
Sécurité alimentaire, emplois, transition écologique des modes de production et de consommation... Inscrite dans les 17 Objectifs du développement durable, l’agro-écologie pourrait être l'une des solutions pour répondre aux défis à venir de l’humanité. Le Cirad et l’AFD livrent leurs réflexions sur l’agro-écologie comme moyen pour les agricultures du Sud de s’adapter aux changements globaux et sur les conditions de réussite de la transition agro-écologique.
The Courier
"European Community-African-Carribean-Pacific" (varies)
Agricultures familiales et mondes à venir
Que sont les agricultures familiales ? Quels peuvent être leurs rôles face aux défis de la planète et leurs contributions à un développement durable et plus équitable ? Mode d’organisation dominant de l’agriculture, en particulier dans les pays du Sud, l’agriculture familiale est aussi une agriculture de demain. Les Nations unies, en décrétant 2014 « Année internationale de l’agriculture familiale », placent cette forme de production au centre des débats sur le développement agricole. Ceux-ci sont souvent réduits à une opposition entre l’essor d’une agriculture de firme, soi-disant performante parce que relevant de processus industriels de production de masse dest...
