Does indigenous and campesino traditional agriculture have anything to contribute to food sovereignty in Latin America? Evidence from Chile,Peru, Ecuador,Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico

The current challenge for world agriculture is to provide food for a growing population, within a context of environmental degradation and economic inequality. The challenge is how to produce accessible, healthy, diverse, nutritious, safe and abundant food in a way that is sustainable, allowing farmers to exert food sovereignty while at the same time addressing ecosystem conservation. The aim of this study is to explore the potential contribution of traditional agriculture to food sovereignty and also to understand the challenges that indigenous communities are facing today. Our case studies are from six Latin-American countries: Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, where we carried out semi-structured, guided visits and field observations. Our results shed light on how traditional agricultural knowledge, techniques and practices can contribute to these issues, but also to the need of protecting and recovering the cultural and ecological heritage. There is a need to resolve public management issues, related to development investment, technological packages, cultural loss and gender. If these are not addressed, the potential contribution of ancient agricultural knowledge will fail to contribute to strengthen food sovereignty and maintain the local markets, which are also places for seed exchange, knowledge sharing and social networking.     

Impact of agricultural innovation adoption: a meta‐analysis

The impacts of adopting agricultural innovation and technology are widely examined. This paper synthesises 154 studies, which yielded a total of 600 estimates of the impact of adopting agricultural innovation and technology on production, social and economic outcomes. Using meta‐regression analysis, the empirical results show that the reported impact of adopting agricultural innovation and technology rises significantly over time, notwithstanding a significant publication bias. Whether studies find significant impacts of adopting agricultural innovation and technology depends on the use of experimental research designs, parametric method, endogenous switching regression and region. Our results show a large bias in the literature towards agricultural innovations and technologies that focus on high‐yielding varieties and thus, neglect other forms of complementary innovations and technologies.     

乡村振兴战略下要素国际流动的环境效果

乡村振兴战略和环境保护是当前经济工作中的重点。伴随经济全球化和“一带一路”战略的不断深入,生产要素国际流动日趋频繁。乡村振兴是国家重要发展战略,其重要抓手是实现农业现代化。因此,在小农户与现代农业共存的经济背景下,分析要素国际流动的环境效果,并根据现代农业发展的不同特征,对乡村振兴战略实施初始阶段和全面实施阶段分别进行分析后发现:在战略实施初始阶段,劳动流入加剧污染,反之改善环境;在战略全面实施阶段,资本流入改善环境,反之恶化环境。     

制约边疆民族地区贫困村发展生态农业的关键因素研究

以调查问卷和实证研究为主,以典型的边疆民族地区——云南省为例,对制约边疆民族地区贫困村发展生态农业的关键因素进行研究。根据产业布局理论,从地理位置因素、自然因素、人力资源因素、社会经济因素、科学技术因素5个维度,构建了影响边疆民族地区贫困村发展生态农业的20个指标。400份调查数据显示,承包土(山)地确权登记情况整体较好,有助于农村土地实施“三权分置”;生态农业发展水平整体较差,仍以传统农业为主。运用灰色关联分析方法提取出排名前五位的因素,分别是生态产品的市场销路、村两委的领导能力、基础设施、发展生态农业的技术人才、发展生态农业的资金。相对于其他因素,这五个因素是优先解决的关键问题。     

荷兰农业绿色转型经验与政策启示

[目的]与我国的农业资源禀赋条件相似,荷兰人多地少,农业资源贫乏,却是世界农业强国,其20世纪80年代开始的农业转型之路对促进我国当前农业绿色发展具有重要借鉴意义。[方法]结合实地调研与文献研究,文章梳理了荷兰40年来在农业环境治理方面的具体政策设计和实施效果,并分析了其主要经验做法及对我国发展的启示。[结果]从畜禽养殖数量控制到化学投入品控制、再到农业资源全管理,荷兰始终坚持以种养结合的可持续发展模式应对农业资源环境挑战,不断强化循环利用技术推广应用,逐步建立了严格的农业资源环境监管体系和政府支持体系,在农业污染得到有效治理的同时,依然很好地保持了国际市场竞争力。[结论]荷兰曾经面对的养殖业污染、化学品过度投入等问题也是我国当前农业环境的突出问题,其当时采取的转型思路与我们目前的绿色发展理念高度一致,借鉴荷兰经验,加快推进我国农业绿色发展,亟需创新循环农业发展模式,加强绿色发展技术支撑,建立并完善农业绿色发展制度体系,协同推进农业资源环境保护和农业竞争力提升。     

基于TOPSIS模型的现代农业发展水平评价*——以内蒙古自治区为例

［目的］现代农业发展是新时代背景下我国社会经济发展到一定阶段的必然选择，通过对内蒙古自治区现代农业发展水平进行评价分析，能够为其今后社会经济发展和精准扶贫提供更为有效的理论依据。［方法］以内蒙古自治区为例，构建基于熵值-TOPSIS模型的现代农业发展评价体系，通过分析2010—2018年内蒙古自治区现代农业发展总体得分值变化趋势和达标率变化趋势，评价该区域现代农业发展水平，同时结合资源指标、经济指标、科技指标和可持续发展指标等多指标要素综合分析，探究内蒙古自治区现代农业发展水平影响因素。［结果］（1）2010—2018年内蒙古自治区现代农业总体发展水平呈现上升趋势，整体发展态势较好。（2）内蒙古自治区现代农业发展资源指标、经济指标、科技指标和可持续发展指标均有较大幅度提升，但仍需进一步加强各指标的投入，尤其是科技指标的投入。［结论］内蒙古自治区现代农业发展要实现进一步发展，需要加大各指标投入，加强现代农业发展支持力度，实现该区域现代农业高效可持续发展。     

乡村振兴背景下浙江省绿色农业发展评价研究*——基于农业资源综合利用的视角

［目的］在系统梳理浙江省绿色农业发展进程基础上，文章从农业资源综合利用的视角，基于经济社会发展、资源减量投入、资源循环利用和资源环境安全4个维度构建绿色农业综合评价指标体系，并评价浙江省绿色农业发展水平。［方法］借鉴BPEIR概念模型构建浙江绿色农业生产系统概念模型和评价指标体系，采用灰色关联分析法并结合宏观统计数据，从动态视角评价了2002—2016年浙江省绿色农业发展状况，并静态比较2015年浙江省11个地级市农业绿色发展的基本状况。［结果］浙江省绿色农业资源综合利用指数呈波动上升趋势，在不同的发展阶段，农业资源综合利用指数也呈现出规律性变化； 浙北地区绿色农业资源综合利用指数明显高于浙南地区； 杭州、嘉兴、宁波位居前三，金华市绿色农业资源综合利用指数最低。［结论］浙江绿色农业发展水平呈不断上升趋势，不同地区差异明显； 实行差异发展、完善政策体系、提高质量品牌、强化科技支撑是推进浙江农业绿色发展的关键。     

Farming systems and Conservation Agriculture: Technology,structures and agency in Malawi

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is advocated as an agricultural innovation that will improve smallholder famer resilience to future climate change. Under the conditions presented by the El Niño event of 2015/16, the implementation of CA was examined in southern Malawi at household, district and national institutional levels. Agricultural system constraints experienced by farming households are identified, and in response the technologies, structures and agency associated with CA are evaluated. The most significant constraints were linked to household health, with associated labour and monetary impacts, in addition to the availability of external inputs of fertiliser and improved seed varieties. Our findings show that such constraints are not adequately addressed through current agricultural system support structures, with the institutions surrounding CA (in both Government extension services and NGO agricultural projects) focusing attention predominantly at field level practice, rather than on broader system constraints such as education and health support systems. Limited capacity within local institutions undermines long term efforts to implement new technologies such as CA. It is vitally important that the flexibility of farmers to adapt new technologies in a locally-appropriate manner is not closed down through national and institutional aims to build consensus around narrow technical definitions of a climate-smart technology such as CA. To enable farmers to fully utilise CA programmes, interventions must take a more holistic, cross-sectoral approach, understanding and adapting to address locally experienced constraints. Building capacity within households to adopt new agricultural practices is critical, and integrating healthcare support into agricultural policy is a vital step towards increasing smallholder resilience to future climate change.     

新疆农村产业融合发展研究

现运用面板回归模型结合产值贡献度的方法评价了新疆农村产业融合度,结果表明,新疆农业与农产品加工业融合度、农业与农业服务业融合度均较低。通过地理信息可视化表达发现,新疆农村产业融合度且存在明显的区域差异。最后,结合新疆农村产业融合发展所面临的困境,提出了需要完善农业教育服务体系;培育区域特色品牌;加强对各种利益联结方式的监督引导等建议。     

Community supported agriculture membership: The benefits of spousal involvement

Fresh vegetables originating from alternative food networks (AFNs) are an increasingly popular choice all over the world. Being part of an AFN frequently redefines consumption and participation of family members in food‐related activities. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a type of AFN, providing increased access to produce in a form of risk‐sharing model between farmers and consumers, which at the same time influences organization of household resources. Thus, not only the given member of a CSA, but also his/her spousal activities in household processes should be taken in account. It is clear that entering into CSA significantly affects lifestyles and frequently requires a great deal of adaptation, possibly leading to a crisis of whether to stay within the CSA or cease membership. The objective of this study was to reveal how spouses influence CSA membership. Using an explorative design, this study has identified three emerging patterns of spousal influence: coherent, integrative and neutral/antagonistic. The spousal influence on CSA membership may represent partner activities regarding food issues but also has an effect on food preparation and culinary choices at home. Our findings suggest that membership in CSA presents challenges and thus spousal support is crucial in the long term. As a consequence, spousal influence should be examined in relation to CSA participation. Inconveniences associated with CSA membership could be avoided by providing more information about the importance of spousal support.