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Estudio de caso
Conservation Agriculture and sustainable crop intensification
A Zimbabwe case study
Agricultural productivity in Zimbabwe, like in many other countries in SSA has been declining over the years despite the numerous advancements made in agricultural technology development. Yield levels usually averaging below 1t ha-1 have resulted in persistent cereal deficits despite the large area put under production each year. Declining soil...
Zimbabwe
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Reversing agro-based land degradation through Conservation Agriculture
Emerging experiences from Zambia’s smallholder farming sector
This study reports on the land degradation minimizing effects of Conservation Agriculture (CA) as promoted among smallholder Zambian farmers. It found no evidence of CA associated improvements in soil fertility after five years of CA practice, most probably because crop residues were removed from the fields. The study reports high...
Zambia
2012 - Canadian Center of Science and Education
Informe
Agriculture and livestock survey old resettlement schemes 2012
This Report presents the results of the 2011-2012 Agriculture and Livestock Survey (ALS) in Old Resettlement Schemes conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency.
Zimbabwe
2012 - Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency
Estudio de caso
Investing in women farmers for improved livelihoods and dairy value chain development in Kapchorwa District
Women in Kapchorwa district play a crucial role in sustaining their families through dairy and agricultural production. They provide most of the farm labour, which they combine with caring for their families, conducting farm and non-farm income-generating activities and contributing to community development initiatives. Increasingly, women are also involved in...
Uganda
2012 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Artículo
Afforestation of savannah with cocoa agroforestry systems: a small-farmer innovation in central Cameroon
Cocoa cultivation is generally considered to foster deforestation. Contrary to this view, in the forest–savannah interface area in Cameroon, farmers have planted cocoa agroforestry systems on Imperata cylindrica grasslands, a soil-climate zone generally considered unsuitable for cocoa cultivation. We undertook a survey to understand the agricultural and ecological bases of this innovation....
Cameroon
2012 - Springer
Artículo de revista especializada
Effectiveness of extension services in enhancing outgrowers’ credit system
A case of smallholder sugarcane farmers in Kisumu County, Kenya
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of extension services in enhancing effectiveness of outgrowers’ credit system in Kisumu County, Kenya. The study specifically sought to determine whether public and private extension services play a significant role in enhancing effectiveness of out-growers’ credit system among smallholder sugarcane...
Kenya
2012
Manual
Caja de herramientas para la seguridad alimentaria
La presente caja de herramientas está diseñada para ayudar a los profesionales de la seguridad alimentaria a desarrollar una estratégica de comunicación, y a comunicarse más eficazmente con los grupos que son el blanco de sus esfuerzos. Secciones específicas de la caja de herramientas enfocan a los formuladores de políticas...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Assessing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for smallholder agricultural systems in Uganda
The debate on whether climate change will impact on peoples’ livelihoods and, hence, the need to act is essentially over and has instead shifted to the development of strategies needed by different regions and countries to adapt to climate change effects. However, there is still scanty information necessary to ably...
Uganda
2012 - Makerere University
Artículo de revista especializada
Impact of climate change on small-holder farming
A case of eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Although there are well-established concerns about climate change effects in northern Ethiopia, there is little quantitative information concerning how serious these effects are to small holder farming. Moreover, studies on farm level adaptations that farmers make to minimise the potential impacts of climate change are lacking. Both quantitative and qualitative...
Ethiopia
2012 - Mekelle University
Artículo de revista especializada
Agroecology Scaling Up for Food Sovereignty and Resiliency
The Green Revolution not only failed to ensure safe and abundant food production for all people, but it was launched under the assumptions that abundant water and cheap energy to fuel modern agriculture would always be available and that climate would be stable and not change. In some of the...
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Documento/nota de orientación
Promoting ICT based agricultural knowledge management to increase production and productivity of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
The Agricultural sector has the greatest potential for improving rural livelihood and eradicating the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). By the end of the GTP period, the government seeks to double yields of smallholder farmers largely by scaling-up best practices, producing high value crops, expanding irrigation development and promoting natural...
Ethiopia
2012 - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Informe
The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Mozambique
Evidence for fertilizer policy development
Inorganic fertilizer is one of a handful of agricultural technologies that have immense potential for raising the productivity of poor smallholders, enabling them to increase income, accumulate assets, and set themselves economically on a pathway out of poverty. The very low prevalence of fertilizer use by Mozambican farmers—below five percent—is...
Mozambique
2012 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Vídeo
Conservation Agriculture in Zambia
This Conservation Farming video is for anybody interested in the promotion of Conservation Farming and Climate Smart Agriculture. Produced by The Climate Change Unit of the World Bank Institute and TerrAfrica.
Zambia
2012
Directrices
The Barefoot Guide 3
Mobilizing Religious Health Assets for Transformation
Health, freedom and social justice cannot be separated. Anyone who loves a neighborhood, a nation or a small planet enough to work for its future, inevitably measures success by its health and well-being. How long do the neighbors live, and with what degree of freedom from the burden of illness?...
2012 - The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)
Documento de la Conferencia
L'agroécologie pour l'agriculture familiale dans les pays du Sud : impasse ou voie d'avenir ? Le cas des zones savane cotonniere de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
Dans les zones de savane subhumides d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, le modèle de production agricole inspiré par la révolution verte reste celui proposé aux agriculteurs et aux éleveurs. Il mobilise des intrants chimiques, des équipements et des races et variétés sélectionnées. Cette option a été confirmée après les...
2012
Documento de trabajo
Multifunctionality of smallholder farming
A way towards sustaining food security and carbon neutral
The aim of the study is to assess the food security, adapting/mitigation opportunities to climate change and policy situation and draw policy recommendations. The study was conducted in some selected districts of Tigray Region, Ethiopia based on some exemplary interventions such as communities, ISD, BPA and PROLINNOVA-Ethiopia. Agriculture in tropical...
Ethiopia
2012 - Institute for Sustainable Development
Proyecto
La Gestion du Risque Agricole pour l’Afrique - le Projet FARMAF
L’objectif global du projet "Les systèmes accessibles pour gérer les risques dans l’agriculture familiale en Afrique", maintenant appelé "la gestion du risque agricole pour l’Afrique",ou FARMAF, est d’améliorer la sécurité alimentaire des ménages et les moyens de subsistance des ruraux pauvres. Cet objectif doit être atteint en améliorant l’accès et...
Burkina Faso - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2012 - Commission Européenne (CE)
Estudio de caso
Dynamique des cheptels de ruminants dans les communes de Tessékré (Sénégal), Hombori (Mali), Dantiandou (Niger) et Djougou (Bénin) :ANR ECLIS; Contribution de l'élevage à la réduction de la vulnérabilité des ruraux et à leur adaptabilité aux changements climatiques et sociétaux en Afrique de l'Ouest au sud du Sahara.
Ce présent travail s’inscrit dans le projet ANR ECLIS dont la question de recherche centrale est de comprendre : « de quelle façon l’élevage contribue à la réduction de la vulnérabilité des ruraux et à leur adaptabilité aux changements climatiques et sociétaux en Afrique sub-saharienne » ? ( ANR, ECLIS...
Benin - Mali - Niger - Senegal
2012
Documento de la Conferencia
Determinants of smallholder farmers’ participation in the potato market in Kabale and Mbale
This study was done in Kabale and Mbale districts of Uganda for the two potato growing seasons of 2011/2012. It sought to determine factors that hinder smallholder farmers’ level of participation in the potato market in addition to those that influence their decisions to participate in the potato market. It...
Uganda
2012 - Makerere University
Vídeo
Agroecology in Ethiopia: Converting Desert into Hyper-Productive Land
Once the scene of devastating droughts in 1984, a few visionaries in Ethiopia have used Agroecological Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles to begin bringing areas of arid land back to productivity and ecological balance.
Ethiopia
2012 - Food Abundance International
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