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Journal article
Productive potential, market access and smallholder livestock production

Evidence from southern Zambia
This paper uses household data collected from livestock-rearing communities in 3 districts in Southern Province of Zambia and corner-solution econometric models to measure the effect of productive potential and market access on livestock production. We also test for the existence of heterogeneous effects across agro-ecological regions, livestock species and poverty...
Zambia
2014

Journal
Agricultures familiales au pluriel

Les Nations unies ont désigné 2014 comme l’Année internationale de l’agriculture familiale. À l’échelle de la planète, la population agricole est estimée à 2,6 milliards de personnes, soit 40 % de la population totale. Avec 1,3 milliard d’actifs, l’agriculture demeure le premier secteur d’emploi au niveau mondial. Dans les pays...
2014 - SAO Faim

Magazine article
Agriculture familiale

Le commerce intra-régional pour nourrir le continent africain
37% de la population africaine est sous-alimentée en Afrique de l’Est, 12% en Afrique de l’Ouest. La demande alimentaire du continent va continuer à augmenter fortement ces prochaines décennies, du fait de la croissance démographique et de l’amélioration espérée du niveau de vie. Le commerce entre pays africains peut contribuer...
2014 - Professionnels du développement solidaire (Gret)

Report
Plaidoyer pour la promotion de l'Agriculture Familiale en RDC (A.I.A.F.-2014)

En 2014, Année Internationale de l'Agriculture Familiale , les organisations paysannes et les organisations d'appui, en République Démocratique du Congo, ont mis en place le Comité National de l'Année Internationale de l'Agriculture Familiale, CN-AIAF qui avait pour mission principale de plaider en faveur de la promotion et la protection de l'agriculture familiale...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014 - Comité National de a RDC pour l'anne Internationale de l'Agriculture Familiale en RDC (CN-AIAF/RDC-2014)

Audio
Afrique : l’agriculture familiale d’un point de vue régional

L’Année internationale de l’agriculture familiale a été lancée dans le cadre d’une campagne mondiale visant à rehausser l’image de l’agriculture familiale et à soutenir les petits exploitants agricoles du monde entier. L’action de la société civile, en particulier du Forum Rural Mondial, a contribué à mettre l’accent sur l’importance de...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Project
Projet de professionnalisation de la filière poivre et épices à São Tomé e Principe

Les îles de São Tomé et de Principe orientent leur développement sur les cultures vivrières mais aussi en grande partie sur la promotion de filières agricoles d’exportation de produits agricoles de qualité (cacao, café et poivre). Dans ce contexte, l’objectif est de promouvoir, avec 300 planteurs, une production durable de...
Sao Tome and Principe
2014 - Agrisud International

Report
Specialization or diversification

Divergent perspectives on rice farming in three large dam-irrigated areas in the Sahel
This report is based on the main lessons and recommendations from three case studies analysing the strategies, aspirations and constraints of the various types of farmers living around the dams of Bagré (Burkina Faso), Sélingué (Mali) and Niandouba/Confluent (Senegal). The research, initiated by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) and funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, aims to contribute to...
Burkina Faso - Mali - Senegal
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Audio
Family poultry production - Socio-cultural aspects of family poultry production

The video is describing the importance of family poultry production in particular for smallholders and how to consider influences of season and gender roles in promoting better husbandry and improved management practices. Examples are given how to prepare and design appropriate extension messages that are clear and could be easily...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Magazine article
Place de l'agriculture itinérante familiale dans la foresterie communautaire au Gabon

Production forestière; Systèmes et modes de culture
L'agriculture itinérante reste un système de production partagé par une grande majorité de groupes ethnolinguistiques au Gabon. Elle s'exprime généralement dans un rayon de cinq kilomètres autour de l'unité de résidence. Au Gabon, cette zone est précisément celle destinée à accueillir depuis fin 2013 les premières forêts communautaires. Les préceptes...
Gabon
2014 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)

Journal article
Constraints to farmers’ labour group productivity in Eastern Kogi State, Nigeria

 Smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria face farm labour shortages and the need to find ways of dealing with this problem is therefore apt for food security and socioeconomic improvement. In an attempt to deal with this problem, Nigerians rural farmers constitute themselves into farmers’ labour groups in other to meet...
Nigeria
2014 - Kogi State University

Conference paper
Effectiveness of information and communication technologies in dissemination of agricultural information to smallholder farmers in Kilosa District, Tanzania

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have the potential to act as effective information dissemination channel that facilitates sustainable relationships between farmers and other stakeholders in agriculture sector. Past and on-going efforts in fostering dissemination of agricultural messages have not had the desired impacts of transforming the agricultural systems and impacting livelihoods....
United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Makerere University

Project
Programme de Développement et d’Investissement Agricole au Gabon (PRODIAG)

Le développement agricole est un des fondements de l’économie gabonaise. Le PRODIAG est un des pilier de ce cadre stratégique et fait suite au Projet d'Appui au Développement de l'Agriculture Périurbaine mis en œuvre par l’IGAD (Institut Gabonais d’Appui au Développement), ces dernières années. Il vise à poursuivre les expérimentations...
Gabon
2014 - Etat Gabonais

Report
Les agricultures familiales à Madagascar

un atout pour le développement durable
Document de valorisation des acquis et principales recommandations d’une semaine d’animation et de débats sur les Agricultures Familiales à Madagascar, où la très grande majorité des exploitations agricoles sont familiales (près de 99% selon le recensement agricole de 2004/2005).
Madagascar
2014 - FOibem-pirenena momba ny FIkarohana ampiharina amin’ny Fampandrosoana ny eny Ambanivohitra - FOFIFA (Centre National de Recherche Appliquée au Développement Rural)

Policy brief/paper
Inclusive business models in agriculture?

Learning from smallholder cane growers in Mozambique
Amidst the increasing corporate investment in African farmland the term ‘inclusive business model’ has become a catchphrase touted as an opportunity for incorporating smallholder farmers alongside large-scale commercial farming projects. Inclusive business models require an enabling institutional and regulatory framework. Such frameworks now exist at the international level: the African...
Mozambique
2014 - Future Agricultures Consortium

Video
Family poultry nutrition and feeding - The free range system

The video explains the feed resources and feeding practices in the free range poultry production system. Suggestions are made for increasing the feeding opportunities of free range poultry and the importance of proper protein and fiber supply for preventing feather pecking is highlighted. Ensuring sufficient protein and fiber supply will...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Smallholder farmers’ decision and level of participation in the potato market in Uganda

Smallholder potato farmers in Uganda face many production and marketing challenges including limited access to markets and low surpluses for sale into the market. This study sought to underscore the factors that influence smallholder farmers’ decision to participate in the potato market and level of participation in such markets. Data...
Uganda
2014

Video
Building Resilience in Rural Communities in Southern Africa

This video shows some of the activities that FAO is implementing in the field to support rural communities in areas that are periodically affected by natural hazards in Southern Africa, mainly droughts, floods and cyclones. While these natural hazards will happen again in the future, and, as a result of...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Practices
Rainwater harvesting systems for tomato growing in Uganda

This technology describes utilizing rooftop water harvesting facilities to increase the availability of water for domestic use and irrigation of backyard tomato gardens. This measure allows small-scale farmers to harvest rainwater from roofs and store it in tanks, ensuring tomato production also during the dry season, when it would be otherwise...
Uganda
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
Family poultry nutrition and feeding - The scavenged based system

The video explains the feed resources and feeding practices of scavenged based poultry production system. The concept of the scavengeable feed resource is introduced and its assessment through estimation of the scavengeable feed resource inventory and the scavengeable feed resources harvest is explained. Suggestions are made for optimum use of...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Community listeners’ clubs empower rural women and men

Working with community radio stations, the listeners’ clubs empower their members to become actors in their own development.
Thanks to improved access to information and a powerful participatory communication approach, villagers in isolated communities across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Niger are making strides to improve gender equality and empower women. FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are helping rural populations participate in the development of...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Niger
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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