This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of seven country impact evaluation studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making, productive activities and labour allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. The seven countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Results from...

The beehives of Ethiopia, Africa’s top honey producer, make about a quarter of the continent’s honey, but travellers who come to sample the liquid gold often find there isn’t enough to go around. In a country where 85% of all jobs are in agriculture, industry experts say the beekeeping – or...

Les relations entre le dromadaire et l’oasis relèvent d’une certaine ambiguïté car le dromadaire, animal du nomade par excellence, marque les territoires désertiques de sa mobilité alors que l’oasis est, par essence, un point d’attache. Si, au cours de l’histoire, le dromadaire ne pénétrait en ville que pour les étapes...

Living in and from the forests of Central Africa is intended first and foremost as a full-scale extension tool concerning NWFPs in Central Africa. It is a work on the groups who have always lived in these forests, forests that contribute to every aspect of their daily lives, both material...

Twenty-four young producers from Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Kenya and Zambia have followed a special capacity-building program initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. This six-week program should enable participants to be more productive and dynamic in the agricultural entrepreneurship business. It is from the observation...

Trip for exchange experience of Ghanians fish operators in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

FAO support to improving governance of tenure

In Zimbabwe, over 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity and exacerbating some of Zimbabwe’s key agricultural challenges: low soil fertility, reliance on rain-fed systems, poorly functioning markets, and farmers’ limited access to credit, knowledge and best practices. To address...

New drought across swathes of southern Ethiopia may jeopardize the East African nation's restoration of food security after the worst agricultural seasons in decades unless urgent efforts are made to shore up vulnerable households in rural areas, FAO warned today. While an impressive government-led humanitarian effort has sharply reduced the number...

While there has been an unprecedented achievement in poverty reduction in the last three decades, eradicating extreme poverty and halving poverty by 2030 are still two of our greatest challenges. Today, about 767 million people continue to live in extreme poverty. Roughly, two thirds of the extreme poor live in...

This brochure introduces the work of SFE (Sub-regional office for Eastern Africa) related to Natural Resource Management, including key partners and the link with the SDGs. It covers NRM activities in the subregion, which are also in line with intergovernmental priorities intervention areas: 1 - Sustainable access to, and utilization...

La situation géographique de la zone sahélienne expose les États membres du Comité Inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS) en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre à des chocs et catastrophes récurrents naturels et provoqués. Ces épisodes récurrents de catastrophes qui souvent sapent la confiance dans...

Following the remarkable growth of Mozambique’s poultry sector in recent years, the soya boom in the north of Mozambique is restructuring patterns of production and changing local diets in the northern districts of Gurúè and Alto Mòlocué in Zambézia province. This documentary film, by PLAAS in partnership with ADECRU (Acção...

It's a busy day for Themba Mundidini, a banana farmer at Mutema irrigation scheme in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Themba is assured of a bumper harvest, the first after five attempts. The source of the successful season is the water sprinklers spewing the precious liquid on the lush banana...

Betty Ndugga used to be a clothing trader in Uganda's capital of Kampala, after her husband died, she returned to her village and joined a local farmer field school, supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, where she was trained in coffee production. After that, she decided to establish...

The sixteen articles in this edition cover diverse aspects of pastoralism and rangeland management in Africa. They bring a fresh sense of pastoralism and rangeland management. These include a review of issues, challenges and practices; youth perspectives on pastoralism highlighting opportunities and threats faced by young pastoralists; land tenure system...

In sub-Saharan Africa good progress was made in reducing hunger until 2010, after which time the decline in the prevalence of undernourishment came to a halt and then rose to 22.7 percent in 2016, while the number of undernourished rose to 224.3 million. In many countries, the worsening situation in...

The right of women to hold and use land in Zimbabwe continues to be inequitable in all land tenure regimes, despite the major strides taken in promoting more equitable land redistribution and progressive constitutional reforms. The rights to land available to women in communal and resettlement areas (A1 and older...

Climate change has major impacts on the food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa south of the Sahara. Vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and to being chronically poor, women farmers are unequally and more negatively affected by climate change and seasonal changes than male farmers. This study...

The newsletter was produced by the Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN) which was established in 2012 brings together non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on land and agrarian issues. Membership of the Network comprises organisations involved in research and policy analysis; NGOs working with farmers; farmers’ representative organisations; women’s and youth...