Tikapapa. Linking urban consumers and small-scale andean producers with potato biodiversity
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Publisher: International Potato Center
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9789290603412
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Innovation for inclusive value-chain development
Author: Devaux, André
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2016-10-21
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0896292134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGovernments, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and the private sector have increasingly embraced value-chain development (VCD) for stimulating economic growth and combating rural poverty. Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Successes and Challenges helps to fill the current gap in systematic knowledge about how well VCD has performed, related trade-offs or undesired effects, and which combinations of VCD elements are most likely to reduce poverty and deliver on overall development goals. This book uses case studies to examine a range of VCD experiences. Approaching the subject from various angles, it looks at new linkages to markets and the role of farmer organizations and contract farming in raising productivity and access to markets, the minimum assets requirement to participate in VCD, the role of multi-stakeholder platforms in VCD, and how to measure and identify successful VCD interventions. The book also explores the challenges livestock-dependent people face; how urbanization and advancing technologies affect linkages; ways to increase gender inclusion and economic growth; and the different roles various types of platforms play in VCD.
The Social Organization of Innovation
Author: Paul G. H. Engel
Publisher: Kit Pub
Published: 2003-02-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789068321449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRAAKS (Rapid Rural Appraisal of Agricultural Knowledge Systems) is a participatory method that facilitates networking and communication processes. It can be used to improve the generation and use of knowledge and innovation. The set includes a CD-ROM which contents a guide to the RAAKS method, plus "windows" -- specific ways to gain a new perspective on the situation - and "tools" to be used in practice. The book can be purchased without the CD-ROM, under the title The Social Organization of Innovation.
Agrobiodiversity Conservation Securing the Diversity of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces
Author: Nigel Maxted, M. Ehsan Dulloo, Brian V. Ford-Lloyd, Lothar Frese, José Iriondo and Miguel A.A. Pinheiro de Carvalho
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781845938529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the 2010 conference 'Towards the establishment of genetic reserves for crop wild relatives and landraces in Europe', this book is the cutting-edge discussion of agrobiodiversity conservation. By considering the benefits of understanding and preserving crop wild relatives and landraces, it encompasses issues as wide-ranging and topical as habitat protection, ecosystem health and food security. "Agrobiodiversity Conservation" focuses on Europe, but is globally relevant. It is suitable for postgraduate students of conservation and environmental studies, conservation professiona.
Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 21
ISBN-13: 9789292250034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Addis Ababa principles and guidelines for the sustainable use of biodiversity provide a framework for assisting governments, indigenous and local communities, resource managers, the private sector and other stakeholders, about how to ensure that their uses of biological diversity will not lead to its long-term decline. The practical principles in most instances apply to both consumptive and non-consumptive uses of biodiversity components. They take into account requirements related to policies, laws, and regulations; management of biological diversity; socio-economic conditions; and information, research, and education.
Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Author: Muhammad Farooq
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 627
ISBN-13: 3030231690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a ready reference on sustainable agriculture and reinforce the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It describes ecological sustainability of farming systems, present innovations for improving efficiency in the use of resources for sustainable agriculture and propose technological options and new areas of research in this very important area of agriculture.
The Social Organization of Innovation
Author: Paul G. H. Engel
Publisher: Kit Pub
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a two-volume boxed set with the common title: Faciliating innovation for development : a RAAKS resource box
Farmer First Revisited
Author: Ian Scoones
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world's most pressing issues- climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, launched a movement to encourage farmer participation in agricultural research and development (R & D), responding to farmers' needs in complex, diverse, risk-prone environments, and promoting sustainable livelihoods and agriculture. Since that time, methodological, institutional and policy experiments have unfolded around the world. Farmer First Revisited returns to the debates about farmer participation in agricultural R & D and looks to the future.The book presents a range of experiences that highlight the importance of going beyond a focus on the farm to a wider innovation system, including market interactions as well as the wider institutional and policy environment. If, however, farmers are really to be put first, a politics of demand is required in order to shape the direction of these innovative systems.
