Africa is one of the regions in the world most affected by food price volatilities and production variability. Spiking and volatile food prices have created uncertainty and risks for producers, traders and processors, resulting in increased food insecurity for consumers. At the root of the food price and production variability...

AgWA est un partenariat autonome regroupant des partenaires de développement et des organisations internationales, régionales et nationales en Afrique et ailleurs, qui ont un intérêt commun et des capacités importantes pour soutenir les investissements liés à la gestion de l’eau agricole (GEA) en Afrique. La fonction principale d’AgWA est son...

La promotion des « partenariats public-privé » comme stratégie de financement du secteur agricole en Afrique s’amplifie. Elle répond à la volonté d’une transformation de l’agriculture jugée « traditionnelle » en une agriculture à forte mobilisation de capitaux, capable d’accélérer la croissance agricole et de répondre à la demande alimentaire....

Meet Eunice, a successful smallholder farmer who lives outside of Mombasa, Kenya.In Kenya, around 80 per cent of people have access to some form of farmable land. Although the soil is rich and fertile for farming, many plots of land stand empty or with failed crops. In the Mombasa region, Haller...

Farmers in Morogoro, Tanzania teach how to make compost in an organic and sustainable way. Camera & editing: Simon Egger

Against a background of resurgent land grabs, penetration of capital in the rural landscape and the expulsion of small producers from their pieces of land in most African countries, the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) working in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN) announces...

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Dans certaines régions du sud-est du Sénégal, à la saison des pluies, les habitants se retrouvaient isolés du reste du pays du fait des inondations. Mais avec le Projet d’appui au développement agricole et à l’entrepreneuriat rural, appuyé par le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA), ce n’est plus le...

The ten-year efforts of the Kaydara Agroecology School Farm, in Senegal, led to concrete benefits for the community and for the environment. Gora Ndiaye, founder of the "African Gardens" association, summarizes the some important features of the project.

This publication responds to calls in regional and global forestry forums to strengthen capacity for effectively developing and implementing payment schemes for environmental services in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, the African Forestry and Wildlife Commission, at its 18th session, called for enhancement of the institutional capacities of member countries and...

A 3-year research-for-development initiative in the Barotse floodplain, Zambia, supported by the CGIAR research programs Aquatic Agricultural Systems and Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, brought scientists and community members together to improve food and nutrition security all year round. Activities included assessing seasonal food availability, dietary intake patterns of the...

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Over 100 international agriculture and food experts, including from 27 African countries gathered in Nairobi to discuss ways to boost agricultural mechanization for the benefit of smallholder farmers in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. Farm mechanization has huge potential for increasing agricultural production and transforming rural families’ livelihoods by reducing...

This policy brief discusses ways to scale up agroecological approaches and suggests actionable advice tailored for various stakeholders, including policy-makers, private sector, financial partners, research and development community and civil society. The brief focuses on how to design scaling up initiatives and provides success as well as failure stories.

This video showcases FAO’s resilience works in Ethiopia’s Afar region in the last few years. 

In Africa street food vending and consumption have proliferated in the last three and a half decades, especially in urban areas. People who face barriers to the formal wage labor market find in street food vending a viable income option, as it requires little start-up capital and no formal education....

On the occasion of the 7th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security commemorated in Accra, this year, under the theme “Investing in Food Systems for Improving Child Nutrition: Key to Africa’s Renaissance”, FAO called for multi-stakeholder public private partnerships at national, regional and regional levels to address the problem...

The international community is beginning to recognize the integral role of urban agriculture in improving the economy, environment, and health of cities. The Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF) Foundation expects that by 2020, 85 percent of the poor in Latin America, and about 40 to 45...

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165 participants from 18 countries met in Marrakesh from 18-19 December 2015 to discuss the critical condition of soils, especially in Africa.  The event was organized by theFondation OCP and INRA Morocco (National Institute for of Agricultural Research) in partnership with FAO. The final communiqué highlights the crucial role soils play for...