Da formação de rede de mulheres à geração de trabalho em renda por meio da Agroecologia / From the formation of a women's network to the generation of work and income through Agroecology

O presente trabalho é fruto do projeto “Inventariando ervas medicinais em assentamento: relações entre usos tradicionais e legais de interesse do SUS- Sistema Único de Saúde” financiado pelo Programa de Produtividade e Pesquisa pelo Centro Universitário Estácio de Ribeirão Preto e parcerias de pesquisadores do NUPEDOR- Núcleo de Pesquisa e Documentação Rural/UNIARA e o projeto financiado pela FAPESP- “Pesquisa e validação tecnológica fundamentada na Agroecologia”. A pesquisa se desenvolve na região de Araraquara/SP no assentamento Monte Alegre.  A pesquisa buscou a partir de inventários de lotes de mulheres agricultoras de plantas medicinais fomentar grupo associativo por meio de uma rede de assentadas e pesquisadoras que através de cursos não formais e reuniões de trabalho tem desenvolvido formas de comercialização, produção e resistência. A metodologia utilizada foi visitas técnicas, reuniões focais para levantamento das demandas e observação de campo. A observação dos lotes das mulheres da rede e as práticas podem servir para compreensão de como a produção das plantas medicinais e a busca pela comercialização delas podem estar associadas não apenas à saúde, mas às práticas de cultivo criação de maneiras mais sustentáveis que ampliam um universo de possibilidades naturais para combater pragas, aumentar a produtividade, difundir conhecimentos e conservar o patrimônio genético biológico. Os resultados desse projeto geraram a formação da rede de mulheres, cursos não formais e reuniões focais com levantamento de demandas e propostas de ação para geração de renda e comercialização das plantas medicinais e outros produtos em feiras e cestas.

Fondo de Acceso Sostenible a Energía Renovable y a Tecnologías eficientes (FASERTe) Bolivia: documento base

El Fondo de Acceso Sostenible a Energía Renovable y Tecnologías eficientes, abreviado como FASERTe, tiene como objetivo general " Dinamizar el acceso a tecnologías de energías renovables y de eficiencia energética (TERe), a través de la creación del Fondo de Acceso Sostenible a Energía Renovable y Tecnologías eficientes (FASERTe) con especial énfasis en mujeres y jóvenes, contribuyendo a la mitigación de los efectos del cambio climático en Bolivia”. Asimismo, se proponen dos objetivos específicos: _Fortalecer las capacidades técnicas de la oferta y la demanda para acceder a las TERe, para uso en hogares, infraestructura social / comunitaria y usos productivos. _Fortalecer la capacidad financiera de la oferta y la demanda para acceder a las TERe para uso en hogares, infraestructura social / comunitaria y usos productivos

Manual para la elaboración de Proyectos Educativos Ambientales. Ecolegios: Proyecto de Educación en Ecoeficiencia para Instituciones Educativas Públicas

Propone como institución educativa ecoeficiente a un colegio que debe proyectar hacia su entorno ambiental y social, buscando mecanismos de participación ciudadana para mostrar los beneficios de este nuevo enfoque educativo e invitando a las comunidades colindantes a replicar y apoyar la solución de problemas, y los emprendimientos ambientales de interés común. Esta obra ha sido concebida como una guía para docentes, profesionales y especialistas en la educación ambiental, a quienes tenemos la intención de involucrar en el conocimiento de la ecoeficiencia y ayudarlos a planificar un proyecto educativo ambiental en ecoeficiencia (PEAe) que sirva para mejorar los procesos educativos, lograr aprendizajes adecuados y contribuir a una mejor calidad de vida de los miembros de la comunidad educativa

Ayuda Memoria Necesidades y soluciones para la imlementación de servicios energéticos en instituciones públicas y privadas Posibilidades para el FASERT

Presenta los principales hallazgos y resultados de los Talleres participativos, auspiciados por FASERT, a fin de conocer las necesidades de asistencia técnica y posibles soluciones que se vislumbran para el escalamiento de los programas sociales del sector público, desde la óptica los diversos actores involucrados

Dinamizando el mercado de energía renobable térmica para incrementar los ingresos y mejorar la calidad de vida de los pobladores del Perú

El material presenta algunas estadísticas para contextualizar la situación en Perú y sus logros en cuanto a los proyecto que encentivan la energía renovable, además de una breve introducción a intentificar la tecnología para generar fuente renobable térmica.Presents statistics to contextualize the situation in Peru and its achievements projects that encourage renewable energy, as well as a brief introduction to trying the technology to generate renewable thermal sources

Integrating climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management policies in lake riparian zones: insights from African drylands

As river basin authorities and national governments develop policies to achieve sustainable development outcomes, conflicting signals between existing policies are undermining cross-thematic integrative modes of policy planning. This raises fundamental questions over how coherent portfolios of policy interventions across vital themes can best be advanced and managed. Taking the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) as an empirical example, we analyse transboundary policies and intervention documents relating to climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management to ascertain the interdependencies at the adaptation-water-peace nexus. Using a Qualitative Document Analysis (QDA) approach and a set of subjective integration scoring criteria, we assess whether and how integration is planned, setting out ways forward for mutually beneficial integration actions.Despite recent progress in addressing lake drying and recognising cross-thematic challenges, most LCB intervention plans continue to adopt standalone basin-scale agendas and seldom consider action plan preparedness based on local-level assessments. Analysis of a few (existing) cross-thematic, well-integrated initiatives indicates that the timings of societal challenges and funding arrangements appear to play a key role in shaping policy strategies, the manner in which climate adaptation, water or security are treated and the level of integration attained. Based on the notion that integration is inherently desirable, we suggest a new ‘policy integration thinking’ that embraces a development landscape logic and balances short-term and long-term development priorities

Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction

Climate variability is a major source of risk to smallholder farmers and pastoralists, particularly in dryland regions. A growing body of evidence links climate-related risk to the extent and the persistence of rural poverty in these environments. Stochastic shocks erode smallholder farmers’ long-term livelihood potential through loss of productive assets. The resulting uncertainty impedes progress out of poverty by acting as a disincentive to investment in agriculture – by farmers, rural financial services, value chain institutions and governments. We assess evidence published in the last ten years that a set of production technologies and institutional options for managing risk can stabilize production and incomes, protect assets in the face of shocks, enhance uptake of improved technologies and practices, improve farmer welfare, and contribute to poverty reduction in risk-prone smallholder agricultural systems. Production technologies and practices such as stress-adapted crop germplasm, conservation agriculture, and diversified production systems stabilize agricultural production and incomes and, hence, reduce the adverse impacts of climate-related risk under some circumstances. Institutional interventions such as index-based insurance, adaptive safety nets and climate services play a complementary role in enabling farmers to manage risk, overcome risk-related barriers to adoption of improved technologies and practices, and protect their assets against the impacts of extreme climatic events. While some research documents improvements in household welfare indicators, there is limited evidence that the risk-reduction benefits of the interventions reviewed have benefited significant numbers of chronically poor farmers. We discuss the roles that climate-risk management interventions can play in efforts to reduce rural poverty, and the need for further research on identifying and targeting environments and farming populations where improved climate risk management could accelerate efforts to reduce rural poverty

Ecosystems-based adaptation: Are we being conned? Evidence from Mexico

This paper scrutinises claims made about the promise and efficacy of ecosystems-based adaptation (EBA), through an exploration of EBA-relevant interventions in two fieldsites in Mexico. Our data starts to fill important gaps in current global debates about EBA. We find evidence of the important contribution of interventions relevant to EBA objectives at a small scale and under very specific conditions. However, the viability of similar interventions is substantially reduced, and arguably rendered null, as an incentive for conservation in a more populous fieldsites. Furthermore, evidence suggests that other adaptation options risked being overlooked if the context were viewed solely through the lens of EBA. We conclude that EBA needs to: a) engage with and address the trade-offs which characterised earlier attempts to integrate conservation and development, and; b) acknowledge the implications for its objectives of a globally predominant, neoliberal political economy