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Northern Mali’s Timbuktu region is one of the most food insecure regions in the Sahelian nation. Agriculture depends on the floodwaters of the Niger River and highly variable rainfall that averages less than 200 mm per year. Annual rice yields average less than one ton per hectare, and irrigated rice...
Mali
Тематическое исследование
2015
Himo Environmental Management Trust Fund has worked to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers facing low productivity and soil erosion on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Farmers have been trained in soil and water conservation techniques and built small rural infrastructures.
United Republic of Tanzania
Тематическое исследование
2015
Since the early 1980s, farmers in the northern part of Burkina Faso’s Central Plateau have made significant investments in low-cost soil and water conservation techniques. These techniques greatly improved agricultural, social, economic and ecological conditions and reversed declining agricultural yields, migration, poverty, and environmental degradation.
Burkina Faso
Тематическое исследование
2015
As part of its food security and livelihood programs, Action Against Hunger (ACF-USA)* has organized seed fairs in rural areas of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to provide farmers with seeds. The fairs have been widely spread and had a great number of direct beneficiaries and vendors, successfully...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Uganda
Тематическое исследование
2015
A highly successful, ecologically based pest and weed management system was introduced in 1999 to resource-poor smallholder maize farmers in Kenya. Used by thousands of farmers in East Africa, the “push-pull” strategy significantly increases maize yields, helps control pests and reduces reliance on pesticides.
Kenya
Тематическое исследование
2015
A collaborative project between farmers in northwest Tanzania’s Karagwe District, the development organization Community Habitat Environmental Management and Matunda Mema, an organic produce exporter, demonstrates that small-scale East African farmers can benefit from the growing demand for organic products.
United Republic of Tanzania
Тематическое исследование
2015
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