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Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...
Finland
الابتكار
2018
The government agriculture extension system in Ghana is in crisis, with the ratio of one agriculture extension agent to over six thousand farmers in some parts of the country. The situation is worse for women farmers, as socio-cultural factors further limit their ability to access extension services. Private sector extension...
Ghana
الابتكار
2018
Small-scale agroecological and organic farming systems require appropriate machinery and technologies, and a change of paradigm in the way they are conceived, produced, sold and patented. The mainstream agricultural model has led to machines that are getting increasingly bigger and more expensive and complicated, and thus inaccessible for many farmers...
France
الابتكار
2018
More than 12 million small-scale farmers and their families in the risk-prone, dryland areas of the Western Sahel have become chronically vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. This growing crisis is due to a constellation of factors, including the collapse of soil fertility and climate change. Agroecology Plus Six (AE+6)...
Burkina Faso - Mali - Senegal
الابتكار
2018
Haiti’s rural farming communities have been historically marginalized and disenfranchised. In this context, peasant farmers must resort to self organization to develop and spread sustainable farming innovations. Similarly, in order to sustainably grow local economies, they need to reduce dependence on intermediaries and address the growing consumption of cheap, imported,...
Haiti
الابتكار
2018
In Cambodia, small-scale farmers are facing the issue of low economic returns from their rice farming because of low productivity and high input costs. The system of rice intensification (SRI) allows farmers to use less inputs. In dry areas, SRI could result in an average yield of 3.6 tonnes/ha, while...
Cambodia
الابتكار
2018
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