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Organizational challenges and the institutional environment
A comparative analysis of dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco
The present study focuses on dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco, to explore how and to what extent the institutional environment has been enabling the development and performance of the cooperatives. The focus on dairy generates insights that are relevant for many countries, because it is a sector in which...
Kenya - Morocco
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
Haller, Aquaponics and Urban Farming
The family backyard aquaponic system.
Seeking solutions and income development systems for urban farmers with limited access to water and land.
2017 - The Haller Foundation
Report
The state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi
Insights from household and community surveys
This is part of a series of descriptive reports and later in-depth analysis of the survey data. These series are aimed to provide an assessment of the state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi in order to inform policy and reform processes and programming by the government...
Malawi
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Report
The household- and individual-level economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Synthesis report
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...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Ethiopia’s huge honey production potential in search of modern techniques
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...
Ethiopia
2017 - EurActiv
Journal article
Le dromadaire et l’oasis : du caravansérail à l’élevage périurbain
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...
2017
Book
Living in and from the forests of Central Africa
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...
Cameroon - Central African Republic - Chad - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Gabon - Rwanda - Sao Tome and Principe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
FAO and Songhai Center in partnership for a rich and prosperous Africa
24 African young producers on six weeks' training in Benin
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...
Benin - Côte d'Ivoire - Kenya - Mali - Zambia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Trip for exchange experience of Ghanians fish operators in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Trip for exchange experience of Ghanians fish operators in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Video
Pastoralism in Angola
FAO support to improving governance of tenure
Angola
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Income security for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
Revamping rural livelihoods in the face of climate change
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...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
New drought risks in Ethiopia put recovery at risk
FAO targets pastoralists in southern regions facing failed rains on heels of a calamitous El Niño
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...
Ethiopia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Ending poverty and hunger by investment in agriculture and rural areas
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...
Bangladesh - Chad - Ghana - Guatemala - Malawi - Mali - South Africa - Tajikistan - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fact sheet
FAO's pivotal role in natural resource management in Eastern Africa
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...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Étude de cadrage sur le commerce des produits agro-sylvo-pastoraux et halieutiques
Des questions connexes et des interrelations dans une perspective de chaine de valeur
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...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Soyfoods and the soya boom in Mozambique: A look at agro-food system change
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...
Mozambique
2017 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Video
From farm to Market: Commercialization of smallholder Irrigation
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...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Betty Ndugga, a female entrepreneur in Uganda
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...
Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal
Nature & Faune journal: Sustainable pastoralism and rangelands in Africa
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...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report (2017)
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...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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