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  1. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Junio, 2014
    Kenya

    A focus edition on family farming would hardly be credible without giving the family farmers themselves an opportunity to speak. We talked to Moses Munyi, the owner of a six-hectare farm in Embu, Kenya, about his everyday life and about his views of the prospects for farming in the future.

  2. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Marzo, 2014
    Papua Nueva Guinea

    The Government extension services in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are weak. There is a general lack of money and staff, and the country has a poor infrastructure. Above all small-scale farmers in remote areas are left out of developments. This applies in particular to women farmers, despite their providing 85 per cent of the rural workforce.

  3. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Junio, 2014
    Global

    In a world of rapidly changing conditions, enhancing the adaptability and hence the resilience of family farms is crucial to their viability. Here, diversity plays an important role, as the following article demonstrates.

  4. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Noviembre, 2014
    Global

    Not only rabbits and guinea-pigs but sheep, goats, cattle and pigs also play a crucial role in the food and income situation of countless city-dwellers world-wide. However, when people and animals live in such close proximity, health risks are inevitable. But instead of banning urban animal husbandry, as was, for example, considered in the course of the swine influenza epidemic, framework conditions ought to be created that enable people to make use of this business branch to earn a profit without running risks.

  5. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Marzo, 2014
    África

    In many parts of Africa, formal education and training in agriculture is almost nonexistent. Swiss Biovision Foundation supports farmers via its Farmer Communication Programme. While it takes advantage of its close links with research institutions, the ideas and experiences of farmers also flow directly into its course contents.

  6. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Junio, 2014
    Kenya, Tanzania

    How can the private sector contribute to the fight against hunger, poverty and malnutrition in the remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa? This article looks at a model that has been applied in Kenya and Tanzania, addressing the right tools, skills and knowledge to make smallholder production a success.

  7. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Noviembre, 2014
    China

    China has a longstanding tradition of using biogas for decentralised energy supply. Already, there are nearly 42 million household digesters in the rural areas, a figure set to double by 2020. But the country has even more ambitious plans. In order to achieve its own climate targets and raise the share of renewables in overall energy supply to 15 per cent by 2020, it wants to set up 16,000 middle- and large-scale biogas plants. However, implementation isn’t quite so easy.

  8. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Marzo, 2014
    Global

    Rural extension services are an extremely complex affair. This is due to the wide range of constellations in which farmers operate nowadays, and also to the large number of players who are active in advisory services, with their different tasks, values and mandates. With reference to Germany’s rural extension services, our author shows who is taking on which role and where conflicts might potentially arise.

  9. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Marzo, 2014
    Global

    Publicly elected women representatives in India ought to take advantage of their influence to defend women’s rights.

  10. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Junio, 2014
    Global

    Is there good reason to make family farms a focus of global attention for a year? Or is it not rather reckless to advocate a concept while completely disregarding the fact that the necessary conditions are often not in place? A few entirely personal thoughts on the International Year of Family Farming.

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