Impactful innovations. Lessons from family agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN
978-92-9248-514-6Fecha de publicación
2014Autor
Henríquez, Priscila
Li Pun, Hugo
Insituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Proyecto Insignia Productividad y Sustentabilidad de la Agricultura Familiar
Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (FONTAGRO)
Ubicación
San José, Costa Rica
Tipo
Plan o proyecto
Metadatos
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This document summarizes the fifteen projects that were selected by a panel of international experts as those which best represent the technological, institutional and organizational innovations carried out with and by small farmers – known as family farming - in LAC. This is the result of a hemisphere-wide competition organized in 2012 by FONTAGRO, with the aim of (1) showcasing success stories in which innovations having positive economic, social, and environmental impacts have been implemented and, (2) raising awareness regarding the importance of investing in innovation. The cases selected document the many successes achieved by producers, processors or traders who, alone or with occasional support from the public sector and NGOs, are increasing productivity, reaching more demanding markets, adding value to their products and obtaining better prices.
Palabras clave
2809-00, Explotación agrícola familiar||family farms||exploração agrícola familiar||exploitation agricole familiale, Adopción de innovaciones||innovation adoption||adopção de inovação||adoption de l'innovation, Empresas pequeñas||small enterprises||pequena empresa||petite entreprise, Mercados||markets||mercado||marché, Competencia económica||economic competition||concorrência económica||concurrence économique, Sector agrario||agricultural sector||sector agrícola||secteur agricole, Biotecnología||biotechnology||Biotecnologia||biotechnologie, Trigo||wheat||trigo||blé, Apicultura||apiculture||apicultura||apiculture, Organismos indígenas||indigenous organisms||organismo autóctone||organisme indigène, Explotaciones ganaderas, Theobroma cacao, Forrajes||forage||forragem||fourrage,
Representación
Representación Costa Rica
Publicador
Insituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
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