• Agricultrices dans la solitude des champs d'oignons
    • Visionscarto
    • 11 January 2017

    L’objectif de cette étude n’est pas de décrire le rôle des agricultrices dans toute sa complexité. Il serait vain et illusoire, dans un simple billet, d’en détailler toute la diversité, tant les disparités sont grandes entre, d’une part, les branches agricoles, les modes de production, et, d’autre part, les aires géographiques, continentales, nationales ou régionales. Non. Le propos est d’en dégager les constantes, les obstacles qui pavent le parcours des femmes. Des obstacles qui freinent leur carrière, qui les empêchent de vivre décemment, qui les empêchent de faire vivre décemment leur famille. Ces obstacles, plus marqués dans les pays en voie de développement qu’ailleurs, ont pour origine une seule et même cause : le sexisme.

  • Transgénicos. A favor o en contra?
    • Transgénicos
    • 09 Mar 2016

    En este artículo analizamos los transgénicos intentando dar respuesta a la pregunta de si son beneficiosos o no en el ámbito del medio ambiente y salud, la economía y ante el consumidor.

  • Por qué era necesario un acuerdo final del COP21
    • Causas del cambio climático
    • 16 December 2015

    El sector de la agricultura es uno de los grandes implicados en el cambio climática. Por tanto, los agricultores deben participar en el desarrollo de las estrategias de mitigación y adaptación al mismo amparados con la ayuda de los gobiernos y administraciones pertinentes para cumplir con los objetivos establecidos

  • Bioenergía: Potencial y riesgos.
    • 30 July 2015

    La bioenergía debiera ser un debate básicamente energético y ambiental es materia de oportunidades de negocios para el sector del agro pero en realidad allí comienzan los problemas.

  • General-Governador toma de assalto terras do Kwanza-Sul
    • Maka Angola
    • 27 November 2014

    General Eusébio de Brito Teixeira tem vindo a requerer a si próprio autorização para a legalização de terrenos destinados à agro-pecuária e à construção de condomínios. Através de um esquema habilmente montado, o governador e os seus filhos somam já a posse de mais de 30 000 hectares.

  • South Africa: land reform - cloud cuckoo land or calculus of power?
    • Daily Maverick
    • 12 August 2014

    Significant strands within the ruling ANC appear to believe the answer to poor black marginalisation and de-agrarianisation lies in the recreation of a rural idyll of ‘vibrant’ local economies, disciplined workers, benign farm owners, virtuous peasant farmers and omnipotent chiefs.

  • Can We Prevent A Food Breakdown?
    • 12 Mar 2014

    As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.

  • Can the World Feed China?
    • 25 February 2014

    Overnight, China has become a leading world grain importer, set to buy a staggering 22 million tons in the 2013–14 trade year. As recently as 2006—just eight years ago—China had a grain surplus and was exporting 10 million tons. What caused this dramatic shift?

  • India's Dangerous 'Food Bubble'
    • 04 December 2013

    Unfortunately, a growing share of the water that irrigates three-fifths of India's grain harvest is coming from wells that are starting to go dry. This sets the stage for a major disruption in food supplies for India's growing population.

  • Moving Up the Food Chain
    • 25 November 2013

    In every society where incomes have risen, the appetite for meat, milk, eggs, and seafood has generated an enormous growth in animal protein consumption. Today some 3 billion people are moving up the food chain.

  • Dealing With Desertification
    • 25 September 2013

    With desertification becoming more of an apparent issue, are we doing enough to stop it from becoming a widespread irreversible problem?

  • Weekly roundup of the most insightful farmland investment & agribusiness themed reports and whitepapers
    • Land Commodities
    • 17 September 2013

    Newly released reports, academic papers and research with relevance to agriculture.

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