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Gender assessment study for improved fruit tree and Macadamia nuts value chains in Mzimba and Kasungu districts of Malawi
The growing national and export markets for improved fruit (including mango) and macadamia nuts in Malawi could offer promising opportunities for smallholder farmers if they are better integrated (with appropriate resources and training) within their respective value chains. While the macadamia value chain is highly structured, export oriented and dominated...
Malawi
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Documento de trabajo
Consistency, variability, and predictability of on-farm nutrient responses in four grain legumes across East and West Africa
Grain legumes are key components of sustainable production systems in sub-Saharan Africa, but wide-spread nutrient deficiencies severely restrict yields. Whereas legumes can meet a large part of their nitrogen (N) requirement through symbiosis with N2-fixing bacteria, elements such as phosphorus (P), potassium (K) and secondary and micronutrients may still be...
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Artículo
The effect of land tenure across food security outcomes among smallholder farmers using a flexible conditional difference-in-difference approach
The paucity of literature on the influence of land tenure across a range of food insecurity outcomes may impede a complete analysis in developing countries. This paper examines the association between land tenure and food security among 1434 sampled smallholders from the Nigeria Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture...
2023
Vídeo
Investing in climate resilient communities for a food secure future in Somalia
Through the Swedish-funded Supporting Resilient Smallholder Farming systems in Somalia project, FAO is working to enhance food and nutrition security and smallholder income, therefore improving the resilience of communities to threats and crises in Hirshabelle and Southwest states. Within the rainfed and riverine areas, the project is supporting 24 farming...
Somalia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Restoring The Water Cycle: Understanding The Basics And Taking Action
John Wilson's recent article for the AFSA blog in honor of World Water Day 2023 offers valuable insights into the importance of restoring water cycles. Wilson emphasizes the need to restore ecosystems, especially farming systems, so that rainwater can infiltrate the ground and replenish the water table, rather than causing...
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Artículo de blog
Building a governance framework for forest data in Eastern and Southern Africa
As the countries of Eastern and Southern Africa level up their forest monitoring practices in line with global and regional environmental commitments such as the Paris Agreement on climate change and AFR100 on restoration, questions have arisen about what to do with the rich and comprehensive data sets being generated.
The East and Southern Africa Forest...
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Hoja informativa
Fiche technique demi-lune
La demi-lune est une technique de récupération des terres encroûtées et qui a pour but de réhabiliter les sols dégradés, de conserver les eaux et de fertiliser les sols en culture pluviale.
Burkina Faso
2023 - Conseil National de l’Agriculture Biologique au Burkina Faso (CNABio)
Hoja informativa
Fiche Technique bassin de collecte d’eau de ruissellement
Le bassin de collecte d’eau de ruissellement est un ouvrage qui a pour but de stocker les eaux de ruissellement à des fins utiles pour le producteur pendant les poches de sécheresse.
Burkina Faso
2023 - Conseil National de l’Agriculture Biologique au Burkina Faso (CNABio)
Hoja informativa
Fiche technique jardinage hors sol
Le jardinage hors sol est fait sur des sacs vides de céréales, remplis de terre mélangée à du compost avec au milieu du gravillon ou quartz et qui assure le développement d’une plante en dehors de la pleine terre.
Burkina Faso
2023 - Conseil National de l’Agriculture Biologique au Burkina Faso (CNABio)
Hoja informativa
Important Protein Crops of Cameroon
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Cameroon
2023 - Food Plant Solutions
Hoja informativa
Leafy Greens and Vegetables of Cameroon
Cakin blooming, pumpkin, purslane, moringa, bitter cucumberUse, key nutrients, common name, scientific name
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human...
Cameroon
2023 - Food Plant Solutions
Hoja informativa
Important Energy Crops of Cameroon
Finger millet, maize, taro, Chinese taro, Sweet potato, country potato
Scientific name, common name, use, key nutrients
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants...
Cameroon
2023 - Food Plant Solutions
Documento/nota de orientación
Agrobiodiversity — the way to save earth’s skin
Humans depend on a thin planetary ‘skin’ made up of life in all its diversity: biodiversity. Agriculture now covers the largest portion (46%) of the global land surface area; its ecological health and resilience in the face of changing climate is therefore critical to human survival. The biodiversity found within...
Ecuador - Ghana - Madagascar - Nepal - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Boletín informativo
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest (April 2023)
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.
2023 - Family Farming Knowledge Platform FFKP
Sitio web
Empowering Young People Youth Against Hunger
YAHI is a youth-led organization committed to eradicating hunger and achieving food security for all, by promoting sustainable and equitable food systems through education, advocacy, and community engagement.
2023 - YAHI - Youth Against Hunger Initiative
Artículo de blog
Two illustrated guides to promote forest rehabilitation by and for farmers in Central Africa
The PROFEAAC project (Promouvoir et Formaliser l’Exploitation Artisanale du bois d’œuvre en Afrique Centrale – Promoting and Formalizing Artisanal Timber Exploitation in Central Africa) has just published two guides in comic strip form to explain how to set up a nursery and plant trees, based on its experience in the...
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Informe
Enhancing the inclusiveness of Agrocommodity Procurement Zones in Ethiopia
Baseline territorial poverty profile and analysis
As part of the Hand-in-Hand Initiative, whose goal is to help reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the Government of Ethiopia to ensure that agricultural investments – namely those linked to a new series of integrated...
Ethiopia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Boletín informativo
Bulletin de Veille n. 454
A la Une – Retour sur la journée d’études IRAM : Enjeux et défis de la cohésion sociale et du développement économique en République centrafricaine
Le 8 février 2023, l’Iram a organisé en partenariat avec l’ONG Echelle – Appui au développement et l’Université de Bangui une journée d’études consacrée aux enjeux...
2023 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural
Artículo de blog
Framework elevates monitoring for nature-based solutions + restoration in Makueni, Kenya
In early May of 2023, the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) conducted an in-field training on its Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) monitoring in Makueni County, Kenya.
The four-days training formed part of a broader project to promote NbS for...
Kenya
2023 - World Agroforestry
Estudio de caso
Catfish: a big business for a big nation
Bolstering Nigeria’s booming catfish sector to help feed Africa’s most populous country
“Fish farming is my mother’s business,” says Nurudeen Quadri, a 38-year-old fish farmer from Ijebu-Ode in southwest Nigeria as he enters Eriwe farm village. “I have been coming here since I was very small. When I graduated from university, I started my own farm.”
Located at two hours’ drive east of...
Niger
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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