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找到种玉米以外的法子
在世界很多地方,干旱频繁发生和作物歉收威胁食品和营养安全,并造成这些地区对粮食 援助的依赖。但是最近,肯尼亚许多农户正在自行探索可持续性的方法,确保足够的营养食物 和额外的收入,以便他们能供孩子上学。因为玉米产量猛涨而逐步边缘化的传统耐干旱营养 作物,比如木薯、高粱、小米等,再次得到广泛种植,促使可靠收成的实现,而改善了饮食 和收入。
Kenya
2014 - Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
Informe
Understanding smallholder farmer attitudes to commercialization
The case of maize in Kenya
Using the case of maize production in Kenya, this study reframes the challenge of smallholder commercialization in the context of staplefood crop production and individual farm-level decision-making by a heterogeneous population of smallholder farmers. Whilemany smallholder growers of staple crops find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty, they differ greatly in their...
Kenya
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Fulfilling the promise of African agriculture
IFAD in Africa
Agriculture plays a significant role in Africa, accounting for about 30 per cent of GDP south of the Sahara, as well as a significant proportion of export value. Not surprisingly, in most African countries, 60 per cent or more of employees work in agriculture. Yet this barely scrapes the surface...
Kenya - Madagascar - Morocco - Nigeria
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Libro
Pollinator safety in agriculture
This publication provides guidance on the natural history of wild bees and their potential exposure to pesticides, as part of the GEF supported Project “Conservation and Management of Pollinators for Sustainable Agriculture, through an Ecosystem Approach” implemented in seven countries – Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa....
Brazil - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Pakistan - South Africa
2014 - FAO
Revista especializada
Les dossiers d'Agropolis International: Family Farming
The topics covered in this Dossier concern 21 research units based in Languedoc-Roussillon Region, involving over 1 000 researchers whose activities are fully or partially focused on addressing—in collaboration with many partners—major family farming challenges in France and worldwide.The scientists have developed four multidisciplinary approaches to deal with family farming...
Brazil - Cameroon - Egypt - Kenya - Madagascar - Morocco - Niger - Peru - Thailand
2014
Documento de trabajo
Can market-based approaches to technology development and dissemination benefit women smallholder farmers?
A qualitative assessment of gender dynamics in the ownership, purchase, and use of irrigation pumps in Kenya and Tanzania
Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions to reduce the effects of weather variability and guard against inconsistent and low crop output. Organizations are increasingly using market-based approaches to disseminate technologies to smallholder farmers, and, although women are among their targeted group, little...
Kenya - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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State of the African farmer
The future of food security in Africa lies in the hands of African farmers, yet not enough is known about them; data is scarce and their stories are only half told. This report puts smallholder farmers at the center of the dialog about farming and food security in Africa. Too...
Kenya - Malawi - Zimbabwe
2014 - Heifer International
Revista especializada
Spore: Family farming, the beginning of a renaissance
More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture around the world ensuring food security and providing employment to hundreds of millions of people. Family farms are also essential in safeguarding agro-biodiversity, and sustaining communities and cultures. However, family farming faces numerous challenges including insecure land rights, and limited access to...
Côte d'Ivoire - Kenya - Samoa - Uganda
2014
Estudio de caso
Finding a way out of the maize
Recurring drought and crop failure in many parts of the world have led to food and nutrition insecurity, and a dependence on food aid. But recently, some farmers in Kenya have been developing their own sustainable way to secure enough nutritious food along with extra income so that they can...
Kenya
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Boletín informativo
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)
Libro
Deep roots
The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) has uncovered well-grounded resolve to place family farmers as protagonists in addressing a number of challenges we face, from eradicating hunger and poverty to conserving natural resources. Nothing comes closer to the sustainable food production paradigm than family farming. The diverse set of...
Albania - Australia - Brazil - Canada - Chile - China - Costa Rica - Croatia - Finland - France - Hungary - India - Japan - Kenya - Madagascar - Malaysia - Nepal - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - New Zealand - Norway - Philippines - Senegal - Serbia - Slovenia - South Africa - Thailand - Uruguay
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Revista especializada
The family business: Is there a future for small farms?
The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families. Because family farms are so prevalent, making them more productive could help combat poverty and hunger in many...
Ethiopia - Ghana - India - Kenya - Mexico
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Vídeo
The inclusive business models approach: The case of cotton in Kenya
This video describes the implementation of the inclusive business model approach to support trading relations between small-scale cotton producers and ginners in Kenya.
Kenya
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
Fulfilling the promise of African agriculture
IFAD in Africa
Agriculture plays a significant role in Africa, accounting for about 30 per cent of GDP south of the Sahara, as well as a significant proportion of export value. Not surprisingly, in most African countries, 60 per cent or more of employees work in agriculture. Yet this barely scrapes the surface...
Kenya - Madagascar - Morocco - Nigeria
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Informe
Adapting to climate change through land and water management in Eastern Africa
Results of pilot projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
The Eastern African region (which includes Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania) is highly vulnerable to climate change and several of its major sectors (notably agriculture) that significantly contribute to the sub-region’s economies are at risk. About 80% of the population in East Africa depend on agriculture, which contributes to 40% of...
Ethiopia - Kenya - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Inclusive procurement & transparency
Connecting smallholder farmers to school feeding
Inclusive procurement is a deliberate way for governments to purchase goods or services from specific unfavoured or vulnerable supplier categories in order to advance social and economic development. However, public procurements must also meet transparency requirements in place to maintain integrity and to safeguard the expenditure of public funds. This...
Ghana - Kenya - Mali
2014 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Libro
Family farming in Africa
Overview of good agricultural practices in Sub-Saharan Africa
WFP’s current gender policy, which explicitly reaffirms WFP’s commitment to creating an enabling environment for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment to support partner countries in addressing food and nutrition challenges sustainably.Literature review and empirical research conducted by ALINe on behalf of WFP between January and August 2011, which examined...
Kenya - Mozambique - United Republic of Tanzania
2013
Artículo de revista especializada
Socio-ecological niches for targeting technology options to improve agricultural production in smallholder systems of western Kenya
Small-holdings in sub-Saharan Africa are prone to low crop yields. Problems contributing to low yield are mainly related to poor soil fertility and weed infestations compounded by inappropriate application of recommended technologies. Researcher-managed trials were done to determine fit for technologies to prevailing socio-economic conditions. The research was done as...
Kenya
2013
Libro
Aspects Determining the Risk of Pesticides to Wild Bees: Risk Profiles for Focal Crops on Three Continents
Globally, agricultural production systems are under pressure to meet multiple challenges: to sustain or increase production from the same area of land and reduce negative impacts on the environment amid uncertainties resulting from climate change. As farming systems adapt to meet these challenges, one of agriculture’s greatest assets in meeting...
Brazil - Kenya - Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2013 - FAO
Vídeo
Community fodder production in Mandera – Kenya
This video highlights how a pastoralist community in Mandera, Kenya applied knowledge gained in a pastoral field school to improve their livelihood through fodder production.
Kenya
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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