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Agriculturas campesinas en Latinoamérica. Propuestas y desafíos

Reports & Research
januari, 2015
Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean

Agriculturas campesinas en Latinoamérica. Propuestas y desafíos es la publicación que recoge las ponencias del debate efectuado en La Paz, Bolivia, en 2013, en el marco del seminario internacional promovido el Consejo Latinamericanao de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO).
El capítulo II Agriculturas campesinas en Latinoamérica contiene el texto elaborado por Oscar Bazoberry Chali, Coordinador General del Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS), el documento lleva el título Procesos de integración regional y propuestas para las agriculturas campesinas.  

Can There Be Growth with Equity? An Initial Assessment of Land Reform in South Africa

januari, 2015
Africa
South Africa

The authors use evidence from a survey of about 1200 beneficiaries of South African land reform to assess the performance of the initial phase of the land reform program. They find that the program has not lived up to the quantitative goals set, but did successfully target the poor. It has led to a significant number of economically successful projects that already generate sustainable revenues.

Republic of Moldova Forest Policy Note

januari, 2015

This forest policy note (FPN) offers
an outside view of the Moldovan forestry sector, provides
some strategic guidance to help define sector goals, and
identifies opportunities for consideration in the continued
development of the sector and for the implementation of the
Moldova and World Bank (WB) country partnership strategy
(CPS). This study is based on a number of short visits to
Moldova and on a number of background studies undertaken

Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Rohal Suong village Aek Phnom district, Battambang province, Cambodia (CA01)

Reports & Research
januari, 2015
Cambodia
Asia
South-Eastern Asia

This report presents findings from a village baseline study conducted in Rohal Suong village in Cambodia. Findings have been gathered from focus group discussions and participatory resource mapping with community members in Rohal Suong. The site analysis is part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) Baseline Survey work and provides information on community resources, the organizational landscape, and information networks at the village level.

Evaluation of the Impact of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use Change in Quindío, Colombia

januari, 2015

The growing use of Payments for
Environmental Services (PES) for conservation has fostered a
debate on its effectiveness, but the few efforts to date to
assess the impact of PES programs have been hampered by lack
of data, leading to very divergent results. This paper uses
data from a PES mechanism implemented in Quindío, Colombia,
to examine the impact of PES on land use change. Alone among
all early PES initiatives, the Silvopastoral Project

Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture

januari, 2015

This paper uses farm panel data from
China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine
investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently,
China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion
of machine rentals and machine services provided by
specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization
of agricultural production. The empirical results show that
an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion

Myanmar : Rice Price Reduction and Poverty Reduction

januari, 2015

Myanmar is a low-income agrarian country
with a high poverty rate. The livelihood of many poor people
depends on the performance of agriculture, especially the
rice sector. Rice accounts for 70 percent of Myanmar s total
cultivated area and 30 percent of the value of its
agricultural production. Increasing returns to rice
production will be the key to increasing farm wages and
incomes in the short to medium run. Higher rice production

Adapting to Climate Change : Assessing World Bank Group Experience--Phase III of the World Bank Group and Climate Change

januari, 2015
Global

This paper constitutes the third and final volume of a series of assessments of the World Bank Group's engagement with climate change issues. The first focused on World Bank involvement in policy issues related to greenhouse gas mitigation. It was mainly concerned with the potential for energy price reform and energy efficiency policies to yield dividends in growth, fiscal savings, and climate change mitigation. The second volume examined project-level lessons related to greenhouse gas mitigation.

Water-smart agriculture in East Africa

januari, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa

The inspiration for this sourcebook came from a 2014 meeting of researchers, practitioners and policy makers in Addis Ababa under the auspices of an event co-convened by the Global Water Initiative East Africa (GWI EA), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Water, Land and Ecosystems programme of the CG system. The event agreed there was a pressing need for greater regional consolidation of knowledge on improving water management for smallholder farmers.

Alliances for Religions and Conservations (ARC) “Faith Engagement in Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

januari, 2015
Tanzania
Kenya
Uganda

This is a desk appraisal of the Alliances for Religions and Conservations (ARC) done for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) by the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

Are Returns to Investment Lower for the Poor? Human and Physical Capital Interactions in Rural Vietnam

januari, 2015
Vietnam

If the marginal gains from investment in physical capital depend positively on knowledge, but a household cannot hire skilled labor to compensate for low skills, then even if it has access to credit, the household will achieve lower returns than an educated household. If, as is common, the income-poor are less educated because of failures in the credit market, and because they live in areas where there is less access to schooling, then the poor will also have lower returns on investments. The author tests this argument for the case of irrigation infrastructure in Vietnam.