ابحث في قاعدة البيانات
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Africa’s food security
Learning from success
Successful examples of agriculture best practice offer a means to enhance current food security frameworks. Promoting and disseminating success stories from the field is vital for ensuring the efficient allocation of limited resources and avoiding the pitfalls of previous interventions. Critically best practice examples provide the opportunity to scale up...
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
كتاب
Agricultural value chain finance
Tools and lessons
Agriculture remains an important means of alleviating poverty, but shortage of finance can constrain its development. At the same time, agriculture is evolving towards a global system requiring high-quality, comptetitive products, and is organized in value chains which often exclude smallholders. Value chain financing in agriculture offers an opportunity to...
Bangladesh - Brazil - Colombia - Costa Rica - India - Kenya - Malawi - Mexico - Myanmar - Nicaragua - Niger - Peru - Philippines - Republic of Korea - Serbia - United Republic of Tanzania
2010
مقال صحفي
Risk factors for smallholder dairy cattle mortality in Tanzania
A retrospective cross-sectional study of mortality was conducted on smallholder dairy farms in 2 separate regions (Iringa and Tanga) of Tanzania during the period of January to April 1999. A total of 1789 cattle from 400 randomly sampled smallholder dairy farms (200 each from Iringa and Tanga regions) were included...
United Republic of Tanzania
2010
تقرير
Mobilizing the potential of rural and agricultural extension
This paper presents the position of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) on where agricultural extension stands today and where it needs to go in the future. The findings presented here are intended to better situate extension...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cameroon - China - Guinea - Honduras - India - Kenya - Peru - Sri Lanka - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
وقائع مؤتمرات
Sustainable crop production using hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) to enrich soil fertility and conserve soil moisture for maize cropping in smallholder farming systems in Zimbabwe
Crop production in smallholder farming systems of Zimbabwe is limited by low inherent soil fertility, particularly N and P and available soil moisture. One of the major agricultural challenges in developing countries is the development of technologies that are able to sustain soil fertility and conserve soil and moisture. The...
Zimbabwe
2010 - University of Zimbabwe
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Producer organisations
Reclaiming opportunities for development
Producer organisations are widely heralded as leading contributors to poverty reduction and the achievement of food security. Following the withdrawal of state support as part of measures for liberalization, producer organizations in Africa have been in a process of transition, attempting to define appropriate strategies in a competitive open market...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
تقرير
Africa’s smallholder farmers
Approaches that work for viable livelihoods
Most Africans depend on small-scale farming systems as the primary source of their livelihoods. Yet they are marginalized and often do not produce enough to enable their families to have sufficient food to eat throughout the year. Smallholder farmers are also particularly vulnerable to climatic and economic shocks. Despite these...
2010 - African Smallholder Farmers Group (ASFG)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Future Farmers ? Exploring Youth Aspirations for African Agriculture
Demographic trends point to more young people in the African population than ever before – approximately 70 percent of Africa’s 1 billion people is under the age of 30. Across the continent many young people are reportedly choosing not to pursue livelihoods in agriculture, especially as farmers. If this is...
2010 - Future Agricultures Consortium
مقالة
Le conseil agricole, une démarche porteuse à l'épreuve des réalités : premières leçons d'une expérience de changement d'échelle au Nord Cameroun
La Société de développement du coton du Cameroun (SODECOTON) utilise le conseil comme une innovation pour réformer sa démarche d’appui aux producteurs. L’objectif de cette recherche était d’étudier la transformation des dispositifs d’appuis aux producteurs à partir de l’analyse de l’application du conseil. Le dispositif comprend la SODECOTON, les producteurs et les...
Cameroon
2010
دراسة حالة
Good
for
who? Supermarkets
and
small
farmers
in
South Africa
A critical
review
of
current
approaches
to
market
access
for
small
farmers
in
developing
countries
Small‐scale
agriculture
is
one
of
the
few
tools
available
to
support
improved
rural
livelihoods
on
a
significant
scale
in
South
Africa.
Access
to
output
markets
is
a
key
obstacle
for
small
farmers
in
generating
higher
incomes.
Thus,
the
rise
of
modern
markets
(supermarkets
in
particular)
is
generally
viewed
as
positive
for
the
rural
poor,
although
most
commentators
accede
that
there
are
challenges
to
be
overcome
in
obtaining
access
to
...
South Africa
2010 - Stellenbosch University
مقال صحفي
Evaluation of women farmers’ perception of the impact of Women-In-Agriculture programme on yield, income and decision-making power in South-eastern Nigeria
One of the reasons that necessitated the establishment of Women-in-Agriculture (WIA) Programme in 1989 was the perception that women farmers were not having adequate access to extension services compared to their male counterparts. Feminists argued that the inadequate access to extension services resulted in women farmers having poor farm yields,...
Nigeria
2010 - University of Abuja
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Agricultural mechanization and the smallholder farmers in Nigeria
The majority of Nigeria’s smallholder farmers are often too poor to employ modern tools, such as tractors and ploughs, even with substantial government support. In this respect, an agricultural mechanization policy would need effective targeting with regard to particular farming activities and types of farmers for which different forms of...
Nigeria
2010 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
وثيقة مؤتمر
Market-chain innovation enhances smallholders’ access to markets: Insights from the sweet potato sub-sector in Uganda
Smallholder farmers in developing countries such as Uganda are faced with the difficulty of accessing sustainable markets. Such farmers include those growing sweet potato, and are becoming increasingly marginalized as urban markets demand better quality, quantity and sustainable supply of agricultural commodities. Research and Development (R&D) actors on the other...
Uganda
2010 - Mukono Ronal Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MUZARDI)
وثيقة مؤتمر
Unveiling opportunities of farming trees in Malawi: Economic impact of integrating trees on smallholder agriculture
The aim of this research is to raise and provide empirical evidence for promoting tree farming in Malawi. It addresses questions such as: Is tree farming a viable system for small-scale farmers in Malawi? Trees have multiple products for subsistence use and are also a source of income security to...
Malawi
2010 - University of Malawi
وثيقة عمل
What is a 'smallholder'?
Class-analytical perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa
This paper argue that a class-analytic perspective centred on the key concepts of ‘petty commodity production’ and ‘accumulation from below’ is essential for understanding the differentiated character and diverse trajectories of small-scale agriculture within capitalism. The paper explores the policy implications of such a class-analytic approach, and proposes that land...
South Africa
2010 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
وثيقة عمل
Smallholder agriculture in East Africa
Trends, constraints and opportunities
Despite the importance of smallholder agriculture in East Africa, the strategic, conceptual and empirical analysis in the context of the crisis, which would guide policymakers and development practitioners in their efforts to revitalise agriculture in the aftermath of the crisis, is sparse. Moreover, recent studies tend to examine specific constraints...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2010 - African Development Bank
دراسة حالة
Technology for improved income of smallholder pineapple
Pineapple is by far the most important crop within the horticultural sub-sector of the Ghanaian economy. The crop employs over 15,000 individuals out of which 40% are women and generates rural incomes of over 6 million USD. Large and medium commercial farms account for about 70% of production with the...
Ghana
2010 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Dar voz a los hombres y mujeres de medio rural a través de Dimitra
Las mujeres y la tierra, los problemas relacionados con el VIH a los que se enfrentan las mujeres de Kenya y la creación de redes de mujeres en la República Democrática del Congo. Estos son solo algunos de los temas tratados en el boletín de Dimitra de la primavera de 2010.
Dar voz a las poblaciones rurales, en particular a las mujeres, es el principal objetivo de Dimitra, un proyecto participativo de información y comunicación en la FAO. Dimitra también pretende destacar las contribuciones de las poblaciones rurales a sus comunidades para poner de relieve su papel decisivo en el desarrollo.
Este proyecto...
Niger
2010 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
دراسة حالة
Making agricultural demonstrations work
The case of raising smallholder banana production in Zimbabwe
A livelihoods study by SNV in 2007 concluded that it was possible to increase the income of banana producers four-fold by increasing productivity and quality per acre grown by the average household. To take up this method, a robust and effective method of transforming the mindset and practices of farmers...
Zimbabwe
2010 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
فيديو
Livestock Insurance for Pastoralists in Kenya
January 2010 saw the launch of the world's first livestock insurance for remote African pastoralists as a result of years of research.
Kenya
2010 - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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