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Sénégal : Semer le bon grain
La hausse des prix alimentaires au Sénégal était telle que les Sénégalais ne pouvaient même pas acheter des produits de base car tout était importé. Sans accès à des semences de bonne qualité, ils ne pouvaient pas produire leur propre nourriture. Un projet visant à cultiver des semences de meilleure...
Senegal
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Magazine article
The faces at the frontline
Working with principles of agroecology, women around the world are pioneering new practices in food and farming. Farming Matters proudly presents Esther, Ann, Allu, Lilian, Elizabeth, Mariama and Esther.
The biggest challenge we face now is the limited awareness of ecological practices and lack of land for smallholders. We are very much against the current push for hybrids and GMOs and the dependence that comes with them. Thus we call upon our government to declare Tanzania free of such...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - India - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Senegal - Uganda
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Magazine article
Interview: The land is our life
In this interview, and four short videos, we asked four rural women leaders and activists from Asia and Africa about the role of women in agroecology. What we found were stories of race, caste, patriarchal systems, land grabbing, statelessness and, as an overriding theme, the lack of land ownership for women. These women are part of a larger coalition working to build rural women’s leadership. They believe that women organising amongst themselves to gain leadership skills and confidence is the first step to improving their livelihoods and fighting for their rights to land- so fundamental to agroecology.
Women in Asia are, in most cases, the farmers. But more than that, they are concerned about the nutrition of their families. There are actually more women interested in the models of agriculture that support diversity and nutrition. There are many cases of women who are fighting for land, particularly...
India - Philippines - Senegal - Sri Lanka
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Book
Diversité des agricultures familiales. Exister, se transformer, devenir.
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’expliquer la nature et la force des liens entre la famille et l’exploitation agricole. L’ouvrage est construit autour d’une vingtaine d’études de cas menées dans divers pays de l’Asie, de l’Afrique, de l’Amérique latine et de l’Europe. Les auteurs précisent « ce qui fait famille »,...
Argentina - Benin - Brazil - Burkina Faso - Cameroon - Chad - China - Ecuador - Egypt - India - Indonesia - Madagascar - Mali - Mozambique - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Poland - Senegal
2015
Book part
Transformation of African Agri-food Systems in the new era of rapid urbanization and the emergence of a middle class
This paper first looks “downstream” at two processes—urbanization and dietary changes—that create the demand (“pull”) for the changes in the whole food system. It then provides some illustrations of the transformation, mainly at the “midstream,” post-farmgate segments of the supply chains that are transforming—wholesale, processing, and logistics. It concludes with...
Ethiopia - Nigeria - Senegal - South Africa - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Video
Not only farmers: Food security through commercialization of agriculture
Added value to improve Agriculture and Farmers’ living standards. A journey through the activities of the Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture Project (FSCA) in the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali Senegal and Sierra Leone
Gambia - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Mali - Senegal - Sierra Leone
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers
Recent evidence and insights
This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit...
Ethiopia - India - Kenya - Mongolia - Rwanda - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR)
Blog article
Senegal’s lessons towards State-owned food procurement schemes
How PAA Senegal is contributing to build an agenda for public sponsoring of local food procurement for school feeding programmes.
11 September 2015, Dakar/Accra - In Senegal, an operational model linking local food production to school feeding programmes is showing the power of public food procurement schemes associated to technical support to smallholders’ agricultural production. Building upon technical principles and knowledge of the Brazilian public food acquisition program, the PAA...
Senegal
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
A sub-regional strategy for enhancing the participation of the civil society in forestry planning and policy making process in West Africa
This document was prepared collaboratively within the FAORAF West Africa Team with a focus on the forestry sector. It is the product of a series of sub-regional consultations with forest-related civil society organizations in a selected number of countries in West Africa (Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal).
Benin - Ghana - Nigeria - Senegal
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Sénégal : L'Etat prévoit 100 milliards de FCfa pour le projet " Les domaines agricoles communautaires "
Annonce, en marge d'un séminaire-débat intitulé " Fenêtre sur l'agriculture ", organisé par l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (Fao) et l'Ong Initiative prospective agricole et rurale (Ipar), de l'investissement de 100 milliards de FCfa par l'Etat Sénégalais dans " Les domaines agricoles communautaires ".
Senegal
2014 - Mediaterre
Journal article
Sénégal : le Projet d'appui aux filières agricoles commence à porter ses fruits
Bilan à la fin de l'année 2013 du Projet sénégalais d'appui aux filières agricoles (PAFA), qui affiche de bons résultats. Avec 90% de taux d'exécution et 87% taux de décaissement pour le compte de l'exercice 2013, le projet, prévu jusqu'en 2017, maintient la dynamique qui lui a permis d'améliorer le sort de 17 834...
Senegal
2014 - Mediaterre
Case study
Les exploitations familiales vues par elles-mêmes
Le mouvement paysan sénégalais a entrepris dès les années 1990 de s’intéresser à la situation et aux dynamiques des exploitations familiales. Ce travail a permis de construire une connaissance de l’intérieur de la réalité de ces exploitations. Au total, 2 000 exploitations familiales sont aujourd’hui suivies au Sénégal selon la...
Senegal
2014 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural (IR)
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)
Website
Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM)
The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) is an initiative focused on making risk management an integral part of policy planning and implementation in the agricultural sector in developing countries.
The overall objective of PARM is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, reduce food insecurity, and improve livelihoods of rural and...
Cabo Verde - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Liberia - Niger - Senegal - Uganda - Zambia
2014 - Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM)
Newsletter
Dimitra newsletter: gender, rural women and development
This edition opens with a report of the last session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which has helped to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment feature prominently in the post-2015 Development Agenda. This will take over from the Millennium Development Goals, whose 2015 deadline is now close. Today, the post-2015 Development Agenda...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Niger - Senegal
2014
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: Poverty reduction in rural areas
This issue highlights experiences of development approaches that are helping in the fight against poverty in rural areas. Reducing rural poverty is one of FAO’s strategic objectives for the coming years, to which the Dimitra project is making a special contribution. Innovative methodologies have been developed which seek to place...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Kenya - Niger - Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Farmers' rights in practice
Synthesis of the case studies on sustainable use of agrobiodiversity: focus on European experiences
This report presents the synthesis of case studies analysed by the action-research activity. The aim is to give a description of the practices carried out by farmers, individually or collectively, which can be considered as sustainable ways to use plant genetic resources with the purpose that these practices be spread...
France - Hungary - Italy - Romania - Senegal - Spain - Tunisia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Blog article
Produire mieux, produire plus, nourrir les écoliers : le pari gagné du Sénégal
Soutenu par le gouvernement du Sénégal, ce programme appelé « Achat par les Africains pour les Africains », lancé en 2012, renforce la sécurité alimentaire et le développement économique et social des communautés rurales. Dans 200 cantines des écoles de la région de Kédougou au Sénégal, les enfants mangent désormais...
Senegal
2014 - Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PMA)
Video
Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire (PISA) au Sénégal
PISA (Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire), un chantier de la FAO.
Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Appui aux transformatrices de produits halieutiques au Sénégal
Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire (PISA), appui aux transformatrices de produits halieutiques au Sénégal.
Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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