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Manejo e identificación de enfermedades que causan malformaciones y distorsiones de hojas y vainas en el frijol
La producción de frijol (Phaseolus vulgaris) es influenciada por muchos factores bióticos y abióticos que interaccionan durante su ciclo de crecimiento. Las enfermedades son uno de los mayores factores bióticos que afectan la producción de frijol. Muchos de los organismos que causan estas enfermedades son portados por las semillas derivadas...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Planting their way to self-reliance
A little idea can go a long way. This is what Simon Adriko learnt when he started showing farmer-training videos to residents of the refugee settlements in the West Nile region of Uganda to increase agricultural productivity, improve their livelihood and make them self-reliant.
Uganda
2021 - Access Agriculture
Practices
Manejo e identificación de plagas alimentadoras de vainas y semillas en el cultivo de frijol
La producción de frijol (Phaseolus vulgaris) es influenciada por muchos factores bióticos y abióticos que interaccionan durante su ciclo de crecimiento. Las enfermedades son uno de los mayores factores bióticos que afectan la producción de frijol. Muchos de los organismos que causan estas enfermedades son portados por las semillas derivadas...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Manejo e identificación de plagas en el almacenamiento del cultivo de frijol
La producción de frijol (Phaseolus vulgaris) es influenciada por muchos factores bióticos y abióticos que interaccionan durante su ciclo de crecimiento. Las enfermedades son uno de los mayores factores bióticos que afectan la producción de frijol. Muchos de los organismos que causan estas enfermedades son portados por las semillas derivadas...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Knowledge transfer and practical learning/training model (s) in Africa
In Africa, agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accounts for more than 20 percent of the total GDP. The farmers’ income is mainly from the farming industry, and it accounts for more than 80 percent of total household income. However, despite Africa’s plentiful agricultural resources, the continent still faces serious food...
Benin - Kenya - Lesotho - Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
What can smallholder farmers grow in a warmer world? Climate change and future crop suitability in East and Southern Africa
According to a new study, rising temperatures and decreased rainfall in eight Southern and East African countries are likely to reduce the production of vital food crops in the region by 2050. The International Fund for Agricultural Development has issued the scientists' report, which covers Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda,...
Angola - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Rwanda - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2021 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Manual
African Coronavirus stories
Perspectives on COVID-19 Challenges to Livelihoods and Food Systems
The impact of COVID 19 on food security in Africa has been among the most widely discussed subjects since the first cases of COVID-19 in Africa broke in February 2020. Most of the narratives were alarming. The headlines put Africa at the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis caused by...
Benin - Botswana - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - South Sudan - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2021 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA)
Practices
Concentrated plant liquid manure
Concentrated plant liquid manure is easy to make and store. It supplies plants with nutrients which as well manage pest and diseases in crops.
Plant liquid manure is made from plants rich in both micro and macro nutrients, such plants includes Russian confrey, Lantana camara, Pumpkin leaves, Calliadra, Pumpkin leaves, Tethonia, Wandering Jew and...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Young Ugandan entrepreneurs get hands-on experience with digital tools
Seven young entrepreneurs belonging to four teams from Uganda participated in a hands-on learning course to familiarise themselves with the solar-powered smart projector kit that they had won through the Access Agriculture Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund initiative. The smart projector contains the entire library of Access Agriculture farmer-training videos in...
Uganda
2021 - Access Agriculture
Practices
Biochar fertilizer
The biochar fertilizer provides not only nutrients to crops, but also microclimate favourable conditions for plants growth, mostly during the dry season. Materials used to make this biochar fertilizer is locally sourced from crop residues form beans, maize, ground nuts, coffee husks, residues of fodder, assorted plants rich in NPK...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Controlling pests using Tephrosia
Tephrosia pesticide can be used to controlling pests such as Army worm, Aphids, and Mites. Tephrosia plant grows naturally in most parts of Uganda, it is a legume with pods and seeds that are easy to germinate. The leaves of Tephrosia are quite hard in texture and even difficult to pound, therefore some water can...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Case study
Effectiveness and duplicability of the Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture Initiative
Lessons learned from Uganda
This case study, Effectiveness and duplicability of the Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture (YIYA) initiative, is an output deriving from the assessment of the YIYA Initiative in Uganda. In 2017, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Uganda, with the Ministry of Agriculture,...
Uganda
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Solutions to youth agripreneurship challenges
Lessons learned from youth agripreneur champions in Uganda
This case study, “Solutions to youth agripreneurship challenges”, is an output deriving from the assessment of the Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture (YIYA) Initiative in Uganda. In 2017, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) as...
Uganda
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
Youth-to-youth mentorship approach in agripreneurship development
Lessons learned from the Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture (YIYA) initiative in Uganda
Peer-to-peer learning can be very effective in sharing knowledge and experience, and encouraging the adoption of new practices and technologies among farmers including youth. FAO training approaches, like the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS), encourage youth facilitators to share their knowledge in the respective communities, mobilizing and sensitizing...
Uganda
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Co-creation of Agroecology Knowledge in Western Uganda
In light of the 10 elements of agroecology and the 13 agroecological principles adopted by the High-Level Group of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE), the importance of rethinking the production of knowledge and its sharing, and include agroecological transition processes in participatory approaches, is today largely a consensus.
On paper, these principles seem fairly...
Uganda
2021 - Iles de Paix
Journal article
Manure matters: prospects for regional banana-livestock integration for sustainable intensification in South-West Uganda
In South-West Uganda, manure is highly valued for sustaining yields of East African Highland Banana, but it is in short supply. As a result, banana growers import manure from rangelands up to 50 km away. We aimed to explore the potential of this regional banana-livestock integration to meet crop nutrient requirements...
Uganda
2021 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Report
Youth-to-youth mentorship approach in agripreneurship development
Peer-to-peer learning can be very effective in sharing knowledge and experience, and encouraging the adoption of new practices and technologies among farmers including youth. FAO training approaches, like the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS), encourage youth facilitators to share their knowledge in the respective communities, mobilizing and sensitizing...
Uganda
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Guidelines
Horticulture Agroecological Production Manual
Uganda made impressive economic development in the last three decades. Poverty headcount declined from 56% in 1992 to 27% in 2018 and 33% of the total population belongs to the middle class. However, the rosy economic growth is marred by inequalities and social exclusion. Youth; majority of the total population...
Uganda
2021 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development
Miscellanea
On Air Dialogues – Listening to rural people
The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit was designed to create a path towards transforming the global food system so that it feeds the world sustainably, equitably, and inclusively. Small-scale farmers and other rural people must play an essential role in doing that. They are the backbone of the global...
Burkina Faso - Ghana - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2021 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Book
Potentially Important Leafy Greens and Vegetables 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
2021 - Food Plant Solutions
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