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Dimitra Newsletter: Women’s access to land
This issue focuses on particularly innovative activities that enable women to have better access to land in several African countries. In Niger, thanks to the debates that began in their listeners’ club, the women of Banizoumbou now have secure access to a large plot of land for 99 years. This...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Madagascar - Mali - Niger - Senegal
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
L'agriculture familiale peut-elle nourrir le Sénégal?
Ce film court présente d'une façon didactique et concrète les contraintes et difficultés des exploitations agricoles familiales au Sénégal (accès à la terre, aux intrants, à l'eau et au crédit), en insistant sur les différents types d'exploitations et sur les revendications des organisations paysannes. Les cartes et données chiffrées permettent...
Senegal
2011
Fact sheet
Working together to eradicate poverty
Partnerships are IFAD’s main mode of operation. The Fund is, in fact, a unique partnership of members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), other developing countries, and member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). IFAD works with developing country governments, poor rural people’s...
Bangladesh - Jordan - Pakistan - Senegal - Sudan - Türkiye
2011 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Journal
Nature & Faune: Climate change implications for agricultural development and natural resources conservation in Africa
This edition of Nature & Faune magazine explores climate change implications for agricultural development and natural resources conservation in Africa. It provides a rich menu spanning many dimensions of climate change as it relates to the African rural farmer, fisher-folk and herdsman who are on the frontline of managing and...
Cameroon - Chad - Ghana - Mauritania - Nigeria - Senegal - Sudan - Zimbabwe
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Communicating gender for rural development
Integrating gender in communication for development
Meeting food security, nutrition and gender equality objectives entails applying development approaches that allow rural communities to participate and take control of their future. Of the many approaches used by FAO, there is one that is particularly effective at enabling the most marginalised groups, including women, to take ownership of...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Niger - Senegal
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
The Business of Food - Senegal: Faith, Work and Fashion
On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part television series, produced in cooperation...
Senegal
2011 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: Access to information
This newsletter also contains a special Dossier on Radio & ICTs in Rural Areas that puts together a variety of experiences in this field, from an electronic forum on Gender, ICTs and Rural Livelihoods, over participatory community radio to empower rural women and men, to the use of different methodologies...
Burkina Faso - Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Senegal - Uganda
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Regenerative agriculture in Senegal
Similar to other countries in the Sahel region, Senegal’s indigenous food production is hampered by lack of moisture and sandy soils low in organic matter. Soil erosion and degradation threaten large areas of farm land. In central Senegal’s groundnut basin, the low-lying area between the Ferlo and Gambia rivers, the...
Senegal
2010 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Guidelines
Agroecology, best practices
Agroecology is the application of ecological principles to the interactions between human beings and their environment, as well as to their consequences, with the goal of minimising the negative effects of certain human activities. It aims at protecting the environment, ensuring the sustainable renewal of the natural resources (water, soil,...
Angola - Brazil - Cambodia - Congo - Gabon - Haiti - India - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Madagascar - Mauritania - Morocco - Niger - Sao Tome and Principe - Senegal - Sri Lanka
2010 - Agrisud International
Case study
Overcoming the constraints of agriculture
Senegal, like all Sahelian countries, suffers from the combined effects of population growth and climate disturbances that affect its productive bio- system and induce degradation. This is manifested in different forms depending on the physical environment and production systems in different eco-geographic areas. Several factors are responsible for the degradation...
Senegal
2010 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Journal
Nature & Faune: The relevance of mangrove forests to African fisheries, wildlife and water resources
The present edition offers a collection of 14 diverse articles highlighting different aspects of mangroves - from the lush natural stands, wildlings, nursery practices, enrichment planting, to the various uses of the mangrove ecosystems as paddy rice fields, along with fisheries and wildlife sanctuaries and salt exploitation areas. The Special...
Cameroon - Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana - Kenya - Madagascar - Nigeria - Senegal
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Boosting smallholder production for food security
Some approaches and evidence from studies in sub-Saharan
This paper uses the sustainable livelihoods framework to explore the contribution of smallholder production to food security in some sub-Saharan African countries and relates it to the South African case. Noting that many of the world’s hungry are smallholder farmers, it is clear that food insecurity is closely linked to...
Angola - Benin - Botswana - Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Chad - Congo - Eritrea - Eswatini - Ethiopia - Gabon - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Kenya - Lesotho - Liberia - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Niger - Nigeria - Rwanda - Senegal - Sierra Leone - South Africa - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2009
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: New Listeners’ Clubs in Katanga
Welcome to Dimitra Newsletter No. 16! This issue is devoted – as all our newsletters are – to the empowerment of women and men living in rural areas. FAO’s efforts in the Great Lakes Region highlight the fact that Farmer Field Schools can be instrumental in addressing a range of...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Kenya - Senegal - Uganda
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: Economic empowerment of rural women
On 16 October 2008, FAO celebrated World Food Day with a parallel event entitled “Women have solutions to the food crisis: towards long-term structural changes”. This issue of the Dimitra newsletter focuses in particular on how – in an international context of rising food prices and raw material shortages –...
Burkina Faso - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Niger - Senegal - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: Information, communication and gender
This 13th edition of the newsletter provides an opportunity for Dimitra and its partners to inform you about their activities over the last six months. It will also present other issues, such as the situation and rights of rural women producers, the right and access to land, food and sustainable...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Madagascar - Niger - Senegal - Uganda
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: The dynamics of women’s networks
This is the 11th Dimitra newsletter. Our last edition was replaced by the distribution of the Dimitra CD-ROM. Many of you took time to return the short survey we enclosed with it and we would like to thank you for this valuable feedback. We have also received numerous messages telling...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Namibia - Niger - Senegal
2005 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Mieux connaitre la réalité de l’exploitation familiale ouest-africaine
La notion d’exploitation agricole familiale trouve son origine dans l’organisation de la production agricole en Europe. Elle a pris corps et s’est consolidée dans le discours théorique des agronomes et des économistes agricoles à partir du début du XX ème siècle. Elle repose sur une dominance historique longue en Occident...
Chad - Mali - Niger - Senegal
2004 - Coopération Suisse au développement
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: Proposals for the Future
In the present issue, a large proportion of the columns will be been devoted to the Reflection and Self-Evaluation Workshop held in Brussels on 16-18 October with the partners of the Dimitra Project. We hand over to the partners, who have drawn up two documents on the proceedings of the...
Algeria - Ghana - Kenya - Senegal - Uganda
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
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)
Book
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)
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