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Here you can find our publications and publications, which have been commissioned by Sustainet. You can order printed versions or CD-Roms of these publications at our Project Secretariat.

The three Sustainet publications "Sustainable Agriculture: A pathway out of poverty for the rural poor" are available for download here. The publications document good agricultural practices from our partners and their potential for scaling-up.

		India publication includes 14 examples of successful sustainable agriculture approaches, plus how to realize the potential of sustainable agriculture in the areas of organic farming, land and water management, and tapping new products and new markets: Part 1 (PDF, 1.2 MB) Part 2 (PDF, 1.0 MB)

		East Africa publication shows nine examples of successful projects, plus lessons on policy changes and approaches to scaling up sustainable agriculture approaches: Part 1 (PDF, 1.4 MB) Part 2 (PDF, 1.4 MB) Photo section (PDF, 0.6 MB)

Peru/Bolivia publication contains 16 successful examples of sustainable agriculture, plus chapters on scaling up and agricultural policy in Peru and Bolivia.

This publication is only available in spanish language:

Sustainet publication, complete, spanish (PDF, 3.8 MB)

Part 1 (PDF, spanish, 1.3 MB)
Part 2 (PDF, spanish, 1.1 MB)
Part 3 (PDF, spanish, 1.1 MB)
Part 4 (PDF, spanish, 1.5 MB)
Part 5 (PDF, spanish, 0.7 MB)

		Adaptation of small-scale farmers to climatic risks in different states of India (PDF, short version, 3.8 MB)

Adaptation of small scale farmers to climatic risks in India
(PDF, long version, 2.2 MB)

The publication "Adaptation of small scale farmers to climatic risks in India" contains five case studies, which depict traditional adaptation practices of small scale farmers to climatic risks in five different states of India. Additionally, the authors make recommendations on the possible focus of future development projects in the study regions.

The Sustainet partner projects in Latin Amercia compiled descriptions of their projects with the help of the SLE-Self-Evaluation guidelines. The pulications can be downloaded here. Up to now, three publications are available for download (in spanish):

The Instituto de Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente (IDMA) sistematized the project on organic agriculture and answers many questions regarding organic agriculture and small-scale farming.
The Programa Integral para el Desarrollo del Café (Pidecafé) is dealing with market access and support of small-scale farmers, who produce and distribute their coffee organically.
The publication of Asociación Arariwa documents findings from their project on integrated pest management.

Chacra Agroecológica Integral. Alternativa de desarrollo de familias campesinas (PDF, spanish, 2.4 MB)

Organización y Articulación a Mercados. Especiales de los Pequeños Productores de Café de la Sierra de Piura
(PDF, spanish, 1.7 MB)

Manejo Integrado de Plagas en la mi croregión Calca-Urubamba (PDF, spanish, 1.6 MB)

Our flyer "A cooperative project to ensure food security through sustainable agriculture" is available for download here. The two-page flyer provides a brief overview of the goals and measures of the Sustainet project.

Sustainet Flyer (PDF, 0.4 MB)

The flyer is also available in two other languages:

Spanish:
"Un proyecto asociado para la seguridad alimentaria mediante la agricultura sostenible"
Sustainet Flyer, spanish (PDF, 0.4 MB)

German:
"Ein Kooperationsvorhaben zur Ernährungssicherung durch nachhaltige standortgerechte Landnutzung"
Sustainet Flyer, german (PDF, 0.4 MB)

Our flyer "Sustainet India position paper on Sustainable Agriculture" is available for download here. The two-page flyer outlines how Sustainet India approaches current issues concerning sustainable agriculture.

Sustainet India Position Paper (PDF, 0.5 MB)

The flyer is also available in Hindi.

Sustainet India Position Paper, Hindi (PDF, 0.5 MB)

Our brochure Combating world hunger through sustainable agriculture is available for download here.

The 16-page brochure provides background information on the subject of hunger, describes the Sustainet concept and presents four partner projects in India, Tanzania and Bolivia as examples.

Sustainet brochure (PDF, 2.5 MB)

Here you can download the SLE Study Self-Assessing Good Practices and Scaling-up Strategies in Sustainable Agriculture.

With this evaluation framework the organisations involved in Sustainet in Africa, Latin America and Asia can evaluate the impacts of their best practices in the field of sustainable agriculture to date, and assess whether the Scaling-up strategies are successful.

A summary you can download here:

Summary (PDF, 0.1 MB)

The entire SLE-Study is available in english and spanish:

English (Part 1 - 5):

SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 1 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 2 (PDF, 0.2 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 3 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 4 (PDF, 0.9 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 5 (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Spanish (Part 0 - 5):

SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 0 (PDF, spanish, 0.2 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 1 (PDF, spanish, 1.1 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 2 (PDF, spanish, 0.6 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 3 (PDF, spanish, 1.3 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 4 (PDF, spanish, 1.1 MB)
SLE Self-Assessment-Guidelines, Part 5 (PDF, spanish, 1.7 MB)

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