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Senegal: A Balanced Approach
Daouda Ndiaye of the National Collective of Artisanal Fishermen of Senegal (CNPS from the French)wears several hats. He is Co-chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and vice-president in charge of communication of the Joint Commission of the Professional Artisanal Fisheries Organizations of Senegal (CONIPAS). Edited excerpts of...
Senegal
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article
Tanzania: New National Strategy to Boost Organic Agriculture Looms
The government of Tanzania has drafted a strategy to improve the performance of organic agriculture and increase the production of organic foods in the country. The "National Ecological Organic Agriculture Strategy" is an eight-year initiative coordinated by the Ministry of Agriculture, which will officially launch in June 2023. The strategy...
United Republic of Tanzania
2023
Technical paper
Burkina Faso – Stratégie Nationale de développement de l’agroécologie (SND-AE)
La Stratégie nationale de développement de l’agroécologie au Burkina Faso (SND-AE) a été élaborée pour aider le pays à s’investir dans l’intensification agroécologique en vue de réaliser une sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle durable dans un contexte environnemental caractérisé par la baisse des précipitations, la dégradation des sols et des ressources...
Burkina Faso
2023 - Ministère de l'agriculture des ressources animales et halieutiques (Bukina Faso)
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Community seed banks
Because of our seed bank, we have native varieties again. By using indigenous seed our costs have reduced as we can grow and keep our own seed. So, we don’t have to depend on the market. In our seed bank, we also train farmers how to grow crops organically, free...
2023 - Access Agriculture
Report
National Land Policy Study Report on Togo
AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA’s Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries.
These reports aim to:
Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies and governance structures, focusing on how these policies affect peasants’ rights,...
Togo
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Case study
Seed sovereignty, a viable option for food and nutritional security in Africa
This publication is a significant contribution to the agroecological transition. It results from documenting good and little-known stories about traditional seeds, local seeds and farmers’ seed systems. Seed practitioners provide the initial stories. A multi-disciplinary review committee then helped finalize the stories to provide readers and policy-makers with the arguments...
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Technical paper
How do couples in rural Tanzania make decisions? Findings from a novel mixed-methods approach for understanding intrahousehold decision-making
This paper responds to current concerns about quantitative methods for studying decision-making by describing the development of and results from an innovative transdisciplinary and mixed-methods tool for researching intrahousehold decision-making. The tool focuses specifically on decision-making about agricultural- and expenditure-related matters by spouses in marital or cohabiting relationships, although it...
United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - CGIAR
Blog article
Smart projector -- a revolutionary tool for rural actors
Farmers are increasingly facing challenges relating to climate change. It is vital therefore to make them aware of good agricultural practices that can help them increase not only production, but also their resilience.
Having understood well such problems, Access Agriculture is working in Benin, West Africa, to provide rural actors with...
Benin
2023 - Access Agriculture
Case study
Reducing losses from fish harvests changes the work and future of Tanzania’s women fish processors
FAO’s FISH4ACP programme empowers women to address falling yields and discrimination
When Suzana Hamimu Kaleju began working as a fish processor 30 years ago in the port of Kigoma, she used to lay the sprat, a type of herring, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika before selling her dried fish in local and regional markets.
They would get dusty or sandy so...
United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
The Sudan: Food security crisis intensifies amid ongoing conflict and economic challenges
Urgent scale up of emergency humanitarian support to rural communities needed
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) raises a dire warning about the escalating food crisis in the Sudan. As conflict and economic decline continue to ravage the country, urgent and intensified humanitarian support for rural communities is urgently needed.
According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase (IPC) projections,...
South Sudan
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Video
Setting up an integrated farm
By installing an integrated farm, you can produce something on every inch of land, while reducing waste and buying fewer inputs. Draw a map of your farm and decide where to grow what crops, trees and vegetables, based on your knowledge of which crops need sun and which grow in...
2023 - Access Agriculture
Report
National Land Policy Study Report on Ghana
AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA’s Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries.
These reports aim to:
Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies and governance structures, focusing on how these policies affect peasants’ rights,...
Ghana
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Report
National Land Policy Study Report on Cameroon
AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA’s Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries.
These reports aim to:
Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies and governance structures, focusing on how these policies affect peasants’ rights,...
Cameroon
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Article
Le warrantage, un dispositif pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique subsaharienne
Le warrantage se développe actuellement dans plusieurs pays du Sahel. C’est un dispositif de crédit-stockage mis en place par une organisation d’agriculteurs et une institution financière. Il consiste à stocker quelques mois une partie des céréales après la récolte dans un entrepôt en échange d’un crédit individuel. Sans ce crédit,...
2023 - CIRAD
Report
The mangrove oyster value chain in the Gambia
FISH4ACP is an initiative of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) to support sustainable fisheries and aquaculture development. The five-year value chain (VC) development programme (2020 to 2025) is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with funding from the European Union...
Gambia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article
Assessing the contribution of livestock systems to development in drylands: indicators for appropriate public policies
In drylands, scientific research shows that mobile livestock systems derive the maximum social, environmental and economic benefits from these areas. These systems ensure both short-term security in case of shocks and, in the right conditions, investment capacity. However, it is difficult to develop indicators to understand and assess their contribution...
2023 - CIRAD
Blog article
As Africa Loses Forest, Its Small Farmers Are Bringing Back Trees
For decades, there have been reports of the deforestation of Africa. And they are true — the continent’s forests are disappearing, lost mainly to expanding agriculture, logging, and charcoal-making. But the trees? Maybe not, according to new satellite data analyzed by artificial intelligence and a growing body of on-the-ground studies....
2023
Blog article
New FAO project to safeguard forests and natural resources as part of humanitarian action
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new global project to integrate safeguarding forests and other natural resources in the way we respond to humanitarian crises.
The initiative, entitled ‘Greening the humanitarian response in displacement settings’, was conceived and driven by FAO’s Office of Emergencies...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Unlocking finance for African smallholder farmers
A major meeting this week brought together farmers, bankers, governments and development partners from across Africa and beyond to discuss ways to ensure smallholder farmers, the backbone of the region’s food system, have access to the finance they need to improve and scale up sustainable forest and farm management practices.
The...
Kenya
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report part
Community Food Projects: Emerging from a backyard garden
My wife and I have always dreamt about going back to the rural areas to start farming. Mainly to start growing our own food, spending days tending a flock of chickens, and maybe growing a big garden for our family and perhaps allow our children to enjoy what nature is...
Zimbabwe
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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