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Food Plants and Good Gardening for Healthy Diets in Swaziland
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...
Eswatini
2012 - Food Plant Solutions
Case study
Fisheries in Transition
50 Interviews with the Fishing Sector
This report provides 50 interviews from fisheries that are moving towards sustainability. It takes the approach of speaking to those who are directly involved in fishing, earn their livelihoods on a daily basis from fishing and often work at the sharp end in dangerous conditions. These are the people, together...
Australia - Bahamas - Canada - Chile - Colombia - Denmark - Ecuador - Fiji - France - Gambia - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Isle of Man - Japan - Madagascar - Mexico - Mozambique - Namibia - Nauru - New Zealand - Norway - Peru - Philippines - Russian Federation - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - South Africa - Spain - Suriname - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Viet Nam
2012 - Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit
Journal article
Adaptive strategies and local innovations of smallholder farmers in selected agri-food systems of central Kenya
Food production in Kenya is closely related to smallholder agricultural production. Paradoxically, many smallholders suffer extended periods of food crises. This underscores the importance of understanding the multiple pathways smallholders use to deal with food insecurity. Participatory action research, using both qualitative and quantitative methods was undertaken to identify adaptation...
Kenya
2012
Fact sheet
La Colaboración España-FAO
Un nuevo enfoque de la cooperación
La colaboración entre España y la FAO se ha consolidado en el tiempo y ha experimentado un notable crecimiento, gracias a los criterios en los que se ha basado: la eficacia de las actuaciones, la mejora en la rendición de cuentas, la búsqueda de sinergias, un sistema de monitorización y...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
Determinants of access and farmers’ use of Information and Communication Technologies (1CTs) in Edo State, Nigeria
This study assessed determinants of farmers’ access and use of new ICTS in the study area. Data obtained from 270 respondents through multi-stage sampling technique were subjected to descriptive and logit regression analysis. The results show that GSM is the only new ICT farmers have access to (mean= 2.66) and...
Nigeria
2012 - University of Benin
Report
WAW proposed methodological framework to monitor agricultural structural transformations and their contributions to sustainable development
Informed decisions on ‘agricultural transformation’, the rapidly changing diversity of agricultural holdings, could play a decisive role in society’s response to several global challenges, including food security and environmental sustainability. Improved stakeholder access to information on the social, economic and environmental impacts of transformations and likely future trends is a...
Mali
2012 - World Agricultures Watch (WAW)
Journal article
Factors affecting smallholder farmers’ responsiveness to climate variability induced hazards in Zimbabwe
Increasingly, unpredictable weather poses challenges to livelihoods as it requires greater investment of time, energy, and resources in order to maintain crops and animals through dry spells. Vulnerability to climate variability induced hazards can be reduced successfully with an understanding of the most vulnerable to the impacts and how the...
Zimbabwe
2012 - University of Zimbabwe
Journal
Caravan - Research that works for people and communities
This issue of Caravan looks to the field to present approaches and examples that have been developed through our research with partners in many dryland countries, and can be deployed to benefit smallholder farmers in many more locations. These technologies bring resistance to drought, temperature extremes, or diseases that damage and...
Afghanistan - Ethiopia - Lebanon - Uzbekistan
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Journal
Caravan - Research integration in practice
The CRP on Dryland Systems is all about integration: between different research disciplines, between biophysical and socio-economic factors, between crop farming and pastoralism, between research and development. The program aims to develop new technologies, new livelihood opportunities, stronger local institutions, enabling policies to support technology adoption, and ultimately higher incomes...
Eritrea - Ethiopia - Libya
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Manual
Training manual for improving grain postharvest handling and storage
This manual is intended to support trainers who are helping Farmer Organisations (FOs) and their members in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve the quality of their grain. In so doing, it is expected that the income earning opportunities and the food security of the learners’households will be increased. Learning how to supply quality grain...
2012
Magazine article
Agriculture vivrière : les Africains confrontés à des choix controversés de modèles agricoles
L'auteur mène une réflexion sur l'effet des crises alimentaires récurrentes en Afrique et sur la réaction des États africains au Sud du Sahara, à la recherche de modèles de développement agricole capables d'en réduire durablement la fréquence. Il estime que le regain d’intérêt pour l’activité agricole pose, certes, des questions techniques mais...
2012 - Cahiers Agricultures
Manual
Farming as a family business
Training manual
Since October 2010, DAI has been implementing the Zimbabwe Agricultural Competitiveness Program (ZimACP), with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The project is a 4.5-year initiative designed to support and facilitate the farming and agribusiness sector, through their representative bodies, to dialogue and arrive at consensus...
Zimbabwe
2012 - United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Journal article
Drivers of use of information and communication technologies by farm households
The case of smallholder farmers in Kenya
Smallholder farmers’ access to markets has traditionally been constrained by lack of market information. The desire to strengthen farmer access to market has seen the emergence of a number of projects that employ ICT tools in the provision of market information. This study assesses the conditioners of the use of...
Kenya
2012
Technical paper
Globally Important Indigenous Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
extent, significance, and implications for development
GIAHS are found throughout the developing world, linked to centers of diversity. Agroecosystems cover more than one quarter of the global land area, reaching about 5 billion hectares. Agroecosystems are ecosystems in which people have deliberately selected crop plants and livestock animals to replace the natural flora and fauna.
Belize - Brazil - Malaysia - Mali - Mexico - Niger - Peru - Portugal - Spain
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
ICARDA annual report 2012
Science for better livelihoods in dry areas
The report stresses progress in linking research innovations to results in farmers' fields in a number of areas. These research-for-development initiatives are testing technology and policy packages with farmers in their production situations. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa ICARDA leads the wheat component of the regional initiative on Support to...
Afghanistan - Egypt - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Pakistan - Türkiye
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Case study
Les inégalités de genre en matière d’accès à la terre et de définition des politiques agricoles au Cameroun : Initiatives du CEFAP pour contribuer à l’accès à la terre des femmes rurales de Tonga dans la région de l'Ouest Cameroun
Communication faite au Colloque international genre et agricultures familiale et paysanne, regards Nord-Sud (Toulouse-France , mai 2012), concernant le Projet de Renforcement des capacités des femmes rurales pour éradiquer les Inégalités de Genre et améliorer la gestion des ressources dans l’agriculture familiale et paysanne au Cameroun – Cas des femmes rurales...
Cameroon
2012 - Cercle des Filles des Femmes Actives pour l’amélioration des conditions socio-économiques et culturelles des femmes et des filles (CEFAP-LADIES CIRCLE)
Video
Financing the future: Smallholder inventory credit in Niger
FAO is supporting a micro-financing scheme known as "warrantage" that is empowering smallholder farmers to make more money out of their crops and helping relieve food insecurity. (Ref.F0012/en)
Niger
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
Guidelines for Institutionalizing and Implementing Community-based Forestry Management in sub-Saharan Africa
This publication is one of FAO's attempts at providing support for viable community involvement in forest and wildlife management in Africa. It proposes key institutional, policy and legislative measures that need to be put in place for the sustainable engagement of local communities in forest management and development. Furthermore, the...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: The Dimitra community listeners’ clubs on the move
Welcome to Dimitra Newsletter 22. This issue places the spotlight on the Dimitra community listeners’ clubs, with a special dossier made up of several articles that focus on the impact of projects under way, the development of this approach and the launch of new initiatives.
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Mozambique - Niger - Uganda
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Influence of prices on market participation decisions of indigenous poultry farmers in four districts of Eastern Province, Kenya
Over 70% of the domesticated birds in Kenya are indigenous chicken (IC) providing meat and table eggs. They are frequently raised through the free range, backyard production system. Small flock sizes are characteristic of this production system and often, sales are mainly at the farmgate. Although IC production possesses enormous...
Kenya
2012 - Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
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