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صحيفة وقائع
Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization
Mechanization covers all levels of farming and processing technologies, from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated and motorized equipment. It eases and reduces hard labour, relieves labour shortages, improves productivity and timeliness of agricultural operations, improves the efficient use of resources, enhances market access and contributes to mitigating...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
نشرة إخبارية
Bulletin d’Information du bureau de la FAO en Mauritanie. N°1, Mai 2016
Dans le cadre du renforcement de la résilience à travers l’amélioration des moyens d’existence des communautés pastorales, la FAO met en œuvre, depuis 2014, une activité de production locale et d’utilisation de Blocs Multi-nutritionnels (BMNs) dans ses zones d’intervention notamment dans les Wilayas du Trarza, Brakna, Gorgol et Assaba. Dans...
Mauritania
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مشروع
Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction
The FAO Youth Mobility, Food Security and Rural Poverty Reduction (RYM) project aims at mitigating distress economic mobility in Tunisia and Ethiopia. With the support of the Italian Development Cooperation, the project will promote innovative mechanisms and rural development strategies with the objective of mitigating distress migration for rural youth...
Ethiopia - Tunisia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
فيديو
Revitalizing small scale agriculture in Zimbabwe Conservation Agriculture using the 2 wheel tractor
In Zimbabwe, small-scale farmers are contributing immensely to the agricultural production of the country. Since Independence, they have been the main players in the production of crops like cotton and maize and have lately even taken over tobacco production. They are not only growing food to feed themselves; they also...
Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
نشرة إخبارية
Dimitra Newsletter: Rural women’s empowerment and collective action
Just one year ago, world leaders committed to working towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) designed to change the course of the 21st century and address challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, education, etc. All these objectives are inextricably linked, and the success of one often depends on...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
وثيقة فنية
Les petites prospérités rurales en Itasy, Madagascar
Apport d’une analyse microéconomique des classes sociales intermédiaires dans l’étude des dynamiques du changement structurel
L’agriculture et le secteur rural jouent un rôle primordial dans le processus de développement des pays à base agricole. Cette fonction ne peut être assurée qu’à l’aide de politiques publiques qui tiennent compte de la diversité et de la complexité des milieux ruraux. Le préalable est donc d’avoir des connaissances...
Madagascar
2016 - Universite de Bordeaux
مقالة في مجلة
Perspectives: Strengthening people’s knowledge
For the past half century agricultural innovation has denied a voice to the many groups who work outside the profession of science – farmers, food providers, women and the urban poor. The value of their expertise gained through practical experience must be recognised in the production and validation of knowledge....
India - Mali
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
نشرة إخبارية
Regional Office for Africa Quarterly Newsletter for a Hunger Free Africa. January - April 2016
This edition of the RAF Newsletter is a special coverage from FAO-RAF that takes into account activities marking the 29th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa held in Abidjan. It presents to readers pictorial narratives and captions of the conference with key quotes from key personalities of the...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Financing Organic Agriculture in Africa
Mapping the issues
Organic Agriculture (OA) is a rapidly growing sector in Africa, with strong links to economic and sociocultural development in the continent (Willer and Kilcher, 2012; Auerbach, 2013). OA can also be seen as a relevant tool to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2, 12, 13 and 15 on sustainable...
2016 - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
وثيقة عمل
The unintended consequences of Agricultural Input Intensification
Human Health implications of agro-chemical use in Sub-Saharan Africa
While agro-chemicals such as pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides are often promoted as inputs that increase agricultural productivity by limiting a range of pre-harvest losses, their use may have negative human health and labor productivity implications. We explore the relationship between agro-chemical use and the value of crop output at the...
2016 - African Development Bank Group
تقرير
Make it rain
Floods, droughts, heat waves, cold spells, and other natural disasters are large sources of risk for farmers. For instance, in semiarid areas of India, 89 percent of farming households cited drought as the largest risk to agricultural production. Climate change may make weather patterns more extreme and unpredictable, further exposing...
Ethiopia - Ghana - India - Malawi
2016 - The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI)
مقالة في مجلة
FENOP INFO - le magazine du monde rural burkinabé
N° 024 de Janvier - Février - Mars 2016
Cette année le 8 mars a eu un accent particulier. Et cela pour deux raisons.
La première, les autorités ont placé la commémoration sous le thème
«Entrepreneuriat agricole des femmes : obstacles, défis et perspectives». Elles
sont allées plus loin que le thème de la journée internationale qui est «Planète
50-50 d’ici 2030 :...
Burkina Faso
2016 - Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes (FENOP)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Marking end of the International Year of Pulses through IPM-FFS learning event in Ethiopia
Pulses have a huge share in Ethiopia’s agriculture crop production. As figures show, Ethiopia annually produces over 400 000 metric tons of chickpea, which places the country among the top ten largest chickpea producers in the world.
About five million Ethiopian smallholder farmers are relying on the production of pulses for...
Ethiopia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
دراسة حالة
Malawi Farmer to Farmer Agroecology project
Malawi is a small landlocked country in southern Africa, bordered by Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The majority of Malawians are smallholder farmers, who grow crops for both food and income. More than half of the Malawian population lives in poverty, and the rate of food insecurity is very high. Typical...
Malawi
2016 - University of Malawi
تقرير
Mapping Farmer Seed Varieties in Manica, Mozambique
Report on initial investigations into agricultural biodiversity
This scoping exercise was carried on to deepen our understanding of the current context of seed use, main crops and varieties in the research localities, in order to gather evidence of the ongoing importance of farmer seed systems in the agricultural practices and livelihoods of smallholder farmers, to identify cases...
Mozambique
2016 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
حدث
Foire Internationale de l’Economie Rurale de Madagascar - 18th Edition
FIER MADA (Foire Internationale de l’Economie Rurale de Madagascar) 18ème Edition – 3d to 7th august : participation by TCP on NewCountrySTAT system, EU funded project (AINA) led by FAO, National Task Force for CSA (FAO ensuring executive secretary), TCPs on normative interventions (forestry, land) – Communications’ activities : Photos coverage,...
Madagascar
2016
وثيقة مؤتمر
The smallholder development by remittances of migrants
The following pages report the results of our survey conducted among (Malian, Senegalese and Mauritanian) Soninké migrants during the period of 14th to 4 December 2015, living in the social residences of the former home Pinel (first home of migrant workers in France). This survey had to aim to discuss...
Ethiopia
2016 - 5th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists
تقرير
A better balance: Revitalized pastoral livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda
Following years of conflict and national policies aimed at encouraging sedentarization of pastoral populations, international and bilateral actors are increasingly shifting their focus towards supporting animal production systems. This report reviews the state of animal-based livelihoods in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda and examines how animal ownership affects a...
Uganda
2016 - Feinstein International Center
كتاب
Potentially Important Food Plants of Uganda
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Uganda
2016 - Food Plant Solutions
الممارسات
Tecnologías para el ahorro de mano de obra: tracción animal y procesado mecánico de cultivos
Este artículo incluye algunos ejemplos de uso de la tracción animal como fuente de energía para operaciones de post-cosecha. Detalla las características del equipo de tiro impulsado por animales, molienda motorizada de granos (molinos de placa, de rodillos y de martillos), extracción de aceite motorizada (prensa de tornillo sinfín, prensa...
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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