The Haller Foundation, a Kenya based sustainable agriculture best practice organisation is famous for its resource efficient, holistic approach to sanitation, agriculture and livelihoods development in rural communities. They have now broadened their scope to include urban poor and have been adapting state of the art sustainability to the urban...

In September 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This will shape their development programmes in a transformational way for the next 15 years. At the last FAO Regional Conference for Africa, held in Abidjan in April 2016, many delegates asked the organization to assist countries in their...

Driven by urbanisation and income growth, the West African food economy has radically changed over the past 60 years. The food economy, including all activities involved in producing food, from production to processing, transport and distribution totaled USD 178 billion in 2010, equal to 36% of the regional GDP. Forty...

2015 was a landmark year for the future of the planet and therefore for the future of every woman, man, girl and boy, in all four corners of the world. Two important events - the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 and COP21 on development and climate change, led to...

About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014/5 that have been exacerbated by the El Niño weather system in 2015/6. This number is likely to rise. This short report gives...

This article presents findings on the local economy impacts of seven African country SCT programmes evaluated as part of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) “From Protection to Production” (PtoP) project. The countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The PtoP project has facilitated expansion of...

Les populations de Guélakh-Peulh sont exposées aux variabilités climatiques comme la plupart des milieux ruraux du Sahel et du Sénégal en particulier. Ce travail analyse l’évolution des paramètres climatologiques et identifie les stratégies d’adaptation de l’élevage des bovins aux variabilités climatiques dans le village de Guélakh-Peulh. L’étude du climat est...

As an international organization for public-private cooperation, the World Economic Forum works to address major global challenges through multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnership. The Grow Africa partnership serves as an outstanding example of this approach. Cofounded by the Forum in partnership with the African Union (AU) and New Economic Partnership for...

One of the key questions in food policy debates in the last decades has been the role of cash cropping for achieving food security in low income countries. We revisit this question in the context of smallholder coffee production in Ethiopia. Using unique data collected by the authors on about...

Women cocoa farmers are central to the sustainability of the cocoa supply chain and cocoa growing communities. Although too often unrecognized, women’s labor makes significant contributions to the amount of cocoa produced, which is under increasing demand. Empowering women cocoa farmers not only has a positive impact on the lives...

In this short film, local people and field scientists from the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia explore the potential for local nutrition groups to empower communities to take actions toward improving the nutrition of their families through diversifying diets in an effort to address high levels of malnutrition and declining stocks of...

Au Sahel, les aléas climatiques combinés aux actions de l’homme (déforestation, feux de brousse, etc.) ont contribué à la dégradation des terres avec comme conséquence la baisse des rendements agricoles.

RESOLIS et ses partenaires proposent à la MEDCOP et à la COP22 une Déclaration dite de Valencia, un ensemble d’articles réunis dans un numéro spécial de son journal et une proposition de coopération entre partenaires de différents pays du pourtour méditerranéen proposant de repérer, d’analyser, de valoriser et de suivre...

To feed a growing population, agricultural productivity needs to increase dramatically. Agricultural extension information, with its public, non-rival nature, is generally undersupplied, and public provision remains challenging. In this research, we explore the effectiveness of alternative modes of agricultural extension information delivery. We test whether simple agricultural extension video messages...

In this film, local people from the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia explain why a diversified diet is important and outline how participating in nutrition groups has helped them improve their diets. Bioversity International’s research with communities explored the seasonality of food availability and how to make nutritious meals from using fresh,...

  This paper investigates how household agricultural involvement affects food consumption and dietary diversity in rural Malawi. Ceteris paribus, a 10 per cent increase in on-farm income share increases food consumption per capita by 2.9 per cent, calorie intake per capita per day by 1.7 per cent, and leads to small...

In Kenya, small-scale farmers stabilise river banks and reduce rainwater runoff from nearby plots by planting trees and grasses.e

The study had the major objective of identifying and documenting climate-smart agriculture initiatives, technologies, practices and stakeholders in the Eastern Africa Sub-region with a special focus on Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, so as to produce a report that would enable stakeholders to understand the opportunities and constraints associated with adopting...

This flyer explain the new National Land Cover database supported by FAO in Lesotho and funded from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) and the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC). The land cover database covering the entire territory of Lesotho is developed through multi-spectral image fusion (or pan sharpening) technique...

Nearly 1 million people are still displaced inside CAR or seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. The number of hungry people has doubled in 1 year, as conflict and insecurity have led to limited access to and availability of food. People need food to survive, and seeds and tools for planting...