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دراسة حالة
Targeting of rural financial services to women
Marital and enterprise-related factors will affect women’s control over the enterprise for which they borrow.
These days, many credit and savings activities, including those under IFAD-supported projects, target rural women. A 2000 FAO/IFAD study in Uganda highlights the role of microfinance in women’s empowerment. Two questions asked were: (1) Is it appropriate and efficient to provide credit lines exclusively for women? (2) Are women in...
Uganda
2000 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
نشرة إخبارية
Dimitra Newsletter: High Level Consultation on Rural Women and Information
FAO is organising a High Level Consultation in Rome from 4 to 6 October with a view to improving information for decision-makers, the media and the public at large on the essential role of rural women in agricultural development and their contribution to food security. Emphasis will be laid on...
Gambia - Kenya - Zimbabwe
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقال صحفي
Cultural practices and production constraints in smallholder banana-based cropping systems of Uganda's Lake Victoria Basin
Identification of environmentally-sound options for agricultural resource management is necessary to obtain food security for smallhold farming communities in Uganda. Qualitative and quantitative appraisals were conducted in Bukoto county, Masaka district to assess the socioeconomic and biophysical status of the banana and coffee farming system. Three main hypotheses were tested:...
Uganda
1999 - Makerere University,
مقال صحفي
The significance and management of maize cob rots in smallholder farms in Central Malawi
The main objective of this study was to describe the importance of cob rots in farmers' maize fields and reduced food quality through spoilage. During the 1997/98 season disease incidence and severity levels were evaluated in the Local, MH18, NSCM41, and NSCM51 varieties on farmers' maize from two villages in...
Malawi
1999 - University of Malawi
مقال صحفي
Opportunities for improving integrated nutrient management by smallholder farmers in the Central Highlands of Kenya
Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) is an important strategy for soil improvement in smallholder systems of East Africa but successful implementation depends upon identification of opportunities for intervention, which are in turn dependent upon a practical knowledge of farm enterprises and decision making. Surveys addressing soil fertility management were conducted among...
Kenya
1999 - University of Nairobi
نشرة إخبارية
Dimitra Newsletter: EndaPronat, FAN and IRED
In this issue, you can read more about EndaPronat, FAN and IRED, about their working methods and the countries they will be covering within the framework of the collection of information for the Dimitra project. Furthermore, you will find several articles in this issue covering a wide range of subjects...
Kenya - Niger - Senegal
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقال صحفي
A small push goes a long way
Farmers’ participation in rainwater harvesting technology development
Farmer participation in decision making at various phases of project implementation contributes very highly to project success. The Soil-Water Management Research Programme (SWMRP) has gained valuable experience in the involvement of farmer in all phases during the implementation of the programme. The programme used the following instruments to ensure farmer...
United Republic of Tanzania
1999
مقال صحفي
Sources of growth in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
The role of vertical integration of smallholders with processors and marketers of high value-added items
The point of departure of this paper is that African nations cannot afford to ignore smallholder agriculture, however difficult its prospects may seem. Region wide, at the beginning of the 1990's, 85 percent of Africa's population was rural, and more than a quarter of the labour force was actively engaged...
Cabo Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Comoros - Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius - Sao Tome and Principe - Seychelles - Somalia - South Sudan
1999
وقائع مؤتمرات
The scope and effect of family poultry research and development
Smallholder poultry production (i.e. family poultry) is an appropriate system that makes the best use of locally available resources. Family flocks are important providers of eggs and meat as well as being valued in religious and cultural life. There are three production systems for family poultry - free range, backyard...
India - Mozambique - Pakistan
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
نشرة إخبارية
Dimitra Newsletter: Brief historical summary of the Dimitra Project
The Dimitra Project on Rural Women and Development started in 1994 at the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels, Belgium, with the support of the European Commission. The Dimitra Guidebook, printed in 1996, contains information on 255 European NGOs, research institutes and information centers working with and for rural women in...
1998 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture in southern Africa in the context of agricultural services reform
This paper summarizes the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation. In this context, moves toward...
Botswana - Malawi - Namibia - South Africa - Zambia - Zimbabwe
1998 - Overseas Development Institute
وثيقة فنية
A strategic reassessment of fish farming potential in Africa
The present study is an update of an earlier assessment of warm-water fish farming potential in Africa, by Kapetsky (1994). The objective of this study was to assess locations and areal expanses that have potential for warm-water and temperate-water fish farming in continental Africa. The study was based on previous...
Kenya - Malawi - Uganda - Zimbabwe
1998 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
دراسة حالة
Women's farm implements in Uganda
Women farmers in Uganda need both better hand tools and access to animal traction.
Uganda was one of countries included in a 1997 IFAD/FAO/Government of Japan study on agricultural implements used by women. The study areas in Uganda were the District of Mubende in central Uganda and the District of Soroti in the northeastern part of the country. These areas have quite different farming...
Uganda
1998 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi
Implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity, and crop income
In Malawi, maize is the major crop and food staple. Given limited off-farm employment opportunities, much-needed increases in household income for improving food security must come from gains in agricultural productivity through better technology and more profitable crops. In the past, agricultural policy promoted hybrid maize and, more recently, tobacco...
Malawi
1997 - International Food Policy Research Institute
وثيقة فنية
Encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture in Namibia
Farming in Namibia’s Northern Communal Areas (NCAs) is predominantly for subsistence purposes, and is characterised by very low and even declining productivity due to a combination of low and uneven rainfall and poor soils, with conditions of extreme income inequality and poverty, under nutrition, out-migration of labour and high population...
Namibia
1997
كتاب
Globalization, Gender and Fisheries: Report of the Senegal Workshop on Gender Perspectives in Fisheries - Women in Fisheries No. 4
The fourth in the Women in Fisheries series, this contains the report of the concluding workshop of the first phase of the Women in Fisheries programme of ICSF. Held in Rufisque, Senegal, in June 1996, the Workshop attracted 33 participants from 12 countries.
Senegal
1997 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقال صحفي
Response of farmers to agricultural insurance in Kogi State, Nigeria
This study conducted in Kogi and Adavi Local Government Areas of Kogi State, assessed farmers response to the Agricultural Insurance Scheme of the Nigerian Insurance Company (NAIC). The willingness of farmers to take up the scheme was also determined. The data obtained were subjected to descriptive statistics and multiple Regression...
Nigeria
1996
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Financing smallholder farmers
This paper discusses the merits and de-merits of different means of financing smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, with special reference to Zimbabwe. This financing includes inter alia multilateral and bilateral agreements with governments and other agencies, micro-financial institutions coming from both the private sector and nongovernmental organizations.
Zimbabwe
1996 - Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, Zimbabwe
مقال صحفي
Intensifying production among smallholder farmers
The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda
While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...
Rwanda
1995 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture
مقال صحفي
Intensifying production among smallholder farmers
The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda
While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...
Rwanda
1995 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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