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Magazine article
Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries
Since 2012, national teams in eight countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been identifying options for policy, legal and administrative mechanisms for the implementation of the multilateral system of access and benefit sharing (MLS) for plant genetic resources. This article summarises if and how access and benefit sharing...
Bhutan - Burkina Faso - Costa Rica - Côte d'Ivoire - Guatemala - Nepal - Rwanda - Uganda
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Video
Human urine as fertilizer
Land in Tororo district in Uganda has been intensively used and the soil fertility is low and declining. This video features a possible solution - using urine as a fertiliser.
Uganda
2016 - Access Agriculture
Policy brief/paper
Overcoming challenges for crops, people and policies in Central Africa
The story of CIALCA stakeholder engagement
The great lakes region of Central Africa is beautiful and abundant in hills, people and conflicts. Its high altitude and cooler climate make it ideal for crops. But soils have been exhausted, spare land is rarely available, and competition and struggle for resources has marked much of the region’s history...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Rwanda - Uganda
2016 - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Practices
Fish powder
Remaining fish parts that are not eaten are usually wasted. Fish powder made from fish remaining can be used to enrich staple foods such as maize and cassava, and therefore improve levels of micronutrients in the diet. This practice describes the benefits of the fish powder, how to produce fish...
Uganda
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Book
Agroecology: the bold future of farming in Africa
The 88 page illustrated book showcases 15 case studies, showing how agroecology benefits Africa in terms of food and nutrition, livelihoods, restoration of biodiversity, knowledge and innovation, and climate change resilience.
Leading experts in their fields explain how agroecology reforms food systems to promote better nutrition and health, especially among poor...
Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2016 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) & Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Newsletter article
The Karamoja Pastoralist
The first edition of a biannual magazine supported by the Karamoja Development Forum, this publication gives a glimpse into the life of a Karamajong herder. It compiles essays, opinion pieces and articles by individuals who come from the Karamoja region of Uganda, spanning pertinent issues such as climate change, resilience,...
Kenya - Uganda
2016 - Karamoja Development Forum (KDF)
Working paper
Promoting use of ICTs for empowerment of rural women farmers in Uganda
Access to information by rural farming communities is one of the major constraints to agricultural development in Uganda because of inadequate extension service delivery. The use of information communications technologies (ICTs) can potentially address this blockage. Although the application of ICTs in rural development is not new, its application in...
Uganda
2016 - Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
Blog article
A more diverse picture in small-scale farming?
Convened by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Dutch development organisation Hivos, and led from Bolivia, the network set out to generate and integrate its own knowledge on smallholders and globalisation. Their work has also been complemented by a series of debates in Europe on some of the core...
Uganda
2016 - The Guardian
Technical paper
How to amplify agroecology
The article shares some of the most compelling insights from a four days Learning Exchange gathering in Uganda, facilitated by the AgroEcology Fund and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
The meeting brought together grassroot organizers, advocates and donors to discuss, learn and come up with new successful strategies for...
Uganda
2016 - Agroecology Learning Exchange
Technical paper
Do beliefs about agricultural inputs counterfeiting correspond with actual rates of counterfeiting?
Evidence from Uganda
Adoption of productivity- and income-enhancing agricultural technologies is conspicuously low in Africa south of the Sahara. Farmers’ beliefs regarding the authenticity of agricultural inputs are important for explaining technology adoption: if farmers do not believe that inputs are genuine, they are unlikely to invest in them. The degree of alignment...
Uganda
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Report
Exploring the High Youth Uptake of Agriculture Employment in West Nile region, Uganda
Of the 35 million people in Uganda, more than 78% of the population are below the age of 30 and 18% are youth aged 18-30 years. Yet 11% of youth are unemployed (9% males and 14% females) and 26% youth are underemployed (28% males and 25% females). These youth unemployment...
Uganda
2016 - Applied Monitoring and Evaluation Institute (APMEI)
Technical paper
Strengthening agricultural water efficiency and productivity on the African and global level
Status, performance and scope assessment of water harvesting in Uganda, Burkina Faso and Morocco
This assessment targets agricultural water extension agents and technical experts, providing them with clear indications on how to improve water harvesting (WH) capacity for agricultural production in the three case study countries, as well as how to select feasible and suited WH techniques for different geographical areas. It is an...
Burkina Faso - Morocco - Uganda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
FAO-IGAD renew Drought Resilience Partnership Programme
FAO Sub-Regional Office for East Africa and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have signed a partnership agreement to coordinate cross-border efforts on animal health, trade and natural resources management coordination. The programme will address community engagement on policy and investment as well as cross cutting areas of work such...
Burundi - Central African Republic - Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - Somalia - South Sudan - Sudan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Social protection and the empowerment of rural women in Africa
With regard to genderdifferentiated impacts on child-specific outcomes, in Lesotho the programme had a strong positive impact on school enrolment and time spent in school (mainly driven by girls) and on a reduction of farm work (mainly driven by boys) for children aged 13–17. These gendered outcomes were also influenced...
Benin - Lesotho - Liberia - Rwanda - Uganda - Zambia
2016 - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
Video
IYFF+10 Family Farming Kampala Conference
On 15th to 16th Nov 2016, African National Committees for Family farming conference was held in Kampala to discuss critical issues affecting Agriculture. This was the first IYFF+10 Global Action for Family farming conference in Kampala Uganda. The two day conference drew participants all over the global for the detail...
Uganda
2016 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Newsletter article
Engaging women in family farming to eradicate hunger
Despite the potential of the agricultural sector, many regions of Uganda still suffer from hunger. As everywhere, the serious problem of hunger is linked to climate change, unequal resource allocation, illiteracy, attitude towards farming and poor policy implementation. One of the root causes is also the uneven access of women...
Uganda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level
Water harvesting for agriculture: Status, performance and scope assessment in Uganda, Burkina Faso and Morocco
This assessment targets agricultural water extension agents and technical experts, providing them with clear indications on how to improve water harvesting (WH) capacity for agricultural production in the three case study countries, as well as how to select feasible and suited WH techniques for different geographical areas. It is an...
Burkina Faso - Morocco - Uganda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
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
Book
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
Working paper
Technology adoption and risk exposure among smallholder farmers
Panel data evidence from Tanzania and Uganda
This paper investigates the empirical linkages between production risk and technology adoption decisions among agricultural farmers in Tanzania and Uganda using a balanced household panel dataset from the World Bank’s LSMS-ISA project. Applying a moment based approach and a MundlakChamberlain IV fixed effects model to control for endogeneity and unobserved...
Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - African Development Bank Group
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