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Agricultural supply chains in developing countries are undergoing a transformation towards higher-value products, stricter standards, and vertical integration. This can have far-reaching consequences for rural development. Recent research has concentrated on the export sector. But domestic supply chains are changing, too, often driven by supermarkets and their procurement channels.
A high-level panel on the role of the private sector in sustainable rural development
How can smallholders and producers be integrated into local, regional and global value-added chains ? What are the opportunities and challenges that cooperation among smallholders and local producers with internationally organised trade chains poses ? These questions were at the centre of the High-Level Panel “Small farmers – big business ?” at the European Development Days 2012 in Brussels on the 17th October, which was organised by the Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation, the (...)
Rural 21 Volume 18 – No 2/2011
Au Sommaire : Thème phare : Initiatives en faveur de la sécurité alimentaire
Un contrôle qualité des initiatives mondiales
Le nouveau Comité de la sécurité alimentaire mondiale : cygne où canard boiteux ?
Initiatives du NEPAD en faveur de la sécurité alimentaire : l’enjeu de la nutrition Thème phare : Exploitation responsable des forêts
Notre précieuse ressource
Pourquoi il est si difficile d’appliquer une politique de gestion durable des forêts
Un réseau pour la protection des forêts : le Partenariat pour les Forêts du Bassin du Congo
Les combustibles bois au (...)
Cet article synthétique (4 pages) présente les enjeux d’un investissement accru des banques et des gouvernements dans le secteur agricole en Afrique. L’augmentation des fonds de l’aide publique est un nouveau pas dans cette direction, mais les fonds de l’aide publique devraient davantage servir de catalyseur pour les investisseurs privés et aider les gouvernements des pays bénéficiaires à mettre sur pied le cadre institutionnel nécessaire à la mobilisation d’investissements privés et à la promotion d’une croissance équilibrée. Les progrès réalisés dans l’amélioration du système bancaire national et des (...)
L’étude « Bonnes pratiques de CES/DRS. Contribution à l’adaptation au changement climatique et à la résilience des producteurs – Les expériences de quelques projets au Sahel » compile les approches de conservation des eaux et des sols adoptées ces dernières décennies dans la coopération allemande au développement.
À l’aide de cartes et d’illustrations en couleurs, l’Atlas des sols africains explique, de manière simple et claire, la diversité des sols du continent africain.
Article de Rural 21
http://www.rural21.com//nc/francais/news/detail/article/premier-atlas-des-sols-africains-0000709/
Site web de l’atlas des sols africains
http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/maps/africa_atlas/index.html
The cooperative model has been sidelined for many years now in development cooperation – for various reasons : On the one hand, cooperatives have been completely overestimated as an instrument and were expected to solve a whole bunch of problems at one stroke. On the other hand, they were long misused for state purposes and therefore regarded with mistrust. The fact that the United Nations has declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives is a good opportunity to take a closer look at this special form of enterprise. In this issue of Rural 21, we wish to give you an idea of the (...)
Is organic agriculture, which does not seek output maximisation, able to feed a growing world population, or will it always remain a fine but small niche ? Can smallholders in the South achieve stable incomes by converting to organic production ? Or is it possibly even grossly negligent to entice them to join the markets – doubtlessly expanding – for organic food as they may never actually be able to enter them due to the high quality standards and entry costs ? While our authors do not have simple answers to these questions, they are very instructive.
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Organic agriculture in (...)
Since the 2007/2008 world food price crisis at the latest, the international community has tirelessly reiterated the key role played by the agricultural sector and rural areas in efforts to combat hunger and poverty. The many years of neglect of the sector in international cooperation – and in many of the policies adopted by the affected countries themselves – is now to be remedied as quickly as possible. Large sums have been pledged and, in the best case, have been deployed. But will those for whom they are intended, namely the smallholders and rural poor, profit from all this investment ? (...)
La production de biocarburants a été un des facteurs de la crise alimentaire de 2007-2008 (Headey et Fan 2010). Entre 2000 et 2007, 30 pour cent des augmentations du prix des céréales sont à mettre au compte de l’expansion des biocarburants (Rosegrant, 2008).
