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Vídeo
Gestion de la maladie de Newcastle
Dans cette vidéo, nous allons apprendre à reconnaître la maladie de Newcastle, et les signes, les causes, les moyens de prévention, de contrôle et de gestion de cette maladie dévastatrice.
Malawi
2020 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de revista especializada
Malawi: Unsung Heroes
Not only is fish an important part of nutrition in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), but it is also a major–and unrecognized–element of trade. Fish and fish products are a primary source of protein and essential nutrients in the human diet. Various fish and other aquatic species are available from...
Malawi
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Informe
Policy recommendations based on lessons learned from eleven African countries
Measures that empower young agri-entrepreneurs should be a key component of a sustainable development-centred investment promotion strategy. The very realization of future generations’ food security, the sustainable transformation of food systems and the combat against unemployment and distress migration all depend upon the successful implementation of strategies that make the...
Côte d'Ivoire - Guinea - Malawi - Mali - Mauritania - Mozambique - Namibia - Senegal - South Africa - Tunisia - Uganda
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
THE MAGIC LANTERN
While listening to a recent broadcast on Belgium’s Radio 1 about the magic lantern and the “lanternists” who entertained paying audiences, I realised that some developments we think off as highly innovative may also be seen as a modification of something that existed hundreds of years ago.
The magic lantern projected...
Malawi
2020 - AgroInsight
Prácticas
Evergreen agriculture: the use of fertilizer trees in maize production
As supplementary technology in evergreen agriculture, agroforestry technology will focus on the concept of simultaneous intercropping of proven fertilizer trees in replenishing soil fertility and increasing crop yields. Simultaneous intercropping is an agroforestry technique whereby nitrogen fixing woody trees are simultaneously grown with annual crops on the same piece of...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Evergreen agriculture: conservation agriculture in maize production
Evergreen Agriculture is a combination of conservation agriculture and agroforestry practices within the same spatial and temporal dimensions. In other circles, evergreen agriculture is referred to as agroforestry based conservation agriculture or Conservation Agriculture With Trees (CAWT). Evergreen agriculture is being tested by The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in conjunction...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Informe
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
Engaging young women and men in an agricultural sector characterized by an ageing labour force is crucial to ensure sustainable food security, reduce youth unemployment and combat unplanned migration. By harnessing their innovative potential, utilizing new technologies and techniques and taking advantage of new opportunities in emerging value chains, young...
Côte d'Ivoire - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
The Malawi Maize AgriFood System
The notion that maize is central to food security in Malawi is a widely held view. To date, however, ‘maize-led development’ has produced disappointing outcomes. The study provides an overview of the historical, political, environmental context of the maize agrifood system in Malawi, and uses the TEEBAgriFood framework to analyze...
Malawi
2019 - TEEBAgriFood
Artículo de blog
Actualizing climate resilience among Malawian farmers
Malawi is vulnerable to the devastating impacts of climate change, owing to its significant exposure to climate variability and environmental degradation as a result of human activities over the years.
In a bid to enhance resilience among rural subsistence farmers, who make up 70 percent of total population of about 17...
Malawi
2019 - Greentumble
Acto
FAO Malawi to Conduct 3 FFS Master Trainers’ Courses
FAO Malawi is set to kick-off three Farmer Field School (FFS) master trainer’s courses that will run from 8 October 2018 to 28 February 2019. These courses aim to impart knowledge and skills to 90 government and non-governmental organization (NGO) extension workers, training them as master trainers on FFS methodology....
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
Crop diversification increases productivity and stabilizes income of smallholders
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 8
In sub-Saharan Africa, crop diversification features prominently in many countries’ climate change adaptation strategies. This study focuses on the determinants of adoption and on the impact of seven cropping systems in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. The work finds that the selection of a high volatile or low productive cropping system...
Malawi - Mozambique - Zambia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Malawian farmers fight climate change head on
Due to the challenging couple years for Malawian farmers, government and other stakeholders have started teaching local farmers on the climate change resilience farming methods that are making a difference in securing small farmers' livelihoods.
Malawi
2018 - Greentumble
Vídeo
Farmers Diversify Food Production in Malawi with New Crops
This brief 3-minute video reportage highlights the International Treaty’s first field visit with a high-level donor representative, the Norwegian Deputy Minister of Agriculture & Food, into rural Northern Malawi to visit a Benefit-sharing Fund project. It explains the problem and how the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund is supporting farmers...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo
Knowledge politics in participatory climate change adaptation research on agroecology in Malawi
Climate change is projected to have severe implications for smallholder agriculture in Africa, with increased temperatures, increased drought and flooding occurrence, and increased rainfall variability. Given these projections, there is a need to identify effective strategies to help rural communities adapt to climatic risks. Yet, relatively little research has examined...
Malawi
2018 - Cambridge University Press
Documento de trabajo
Agriculture support services in Malawi
Direct effects, complementarities, and time dynamics
Using a randomized controlled trial, we examine the impacts of cash and input transfers, and a cross-randomized program of intensive agricultural extension over two years. We find large effects on the total value of agricultural production from the transfers (both cash and inputs) in both years. Gains to production are...
Malawi
2018 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento de trabajo
The impact of a farmer business school program on incomes of smallholder farmers
Insights from central Malawi
Various models and approaches are being implemented to provide technical assistance and support to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes and welfare in Malawi. This study evaluates the impact of farmer business schools (FBS) on crop incomes of smallholder farmers in Dedza district in central Malawi. The FBS approach, which has been...
Malawi
2018 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Hoja informativa
Country factsheet on small family farms: Malawi
The Smallholder Farmers’ Data portrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world.
This Factsheet generates an overview on how small family farmers in Malawi live their lives by using the Data Portrait, putting an emphasis on the constraints they face, the...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Productive diversification of African agriculture and its effects on resilience and nutrition
The agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the backbone of national economies, sustaining rural and urban livelihoods alike, and providing food and income for the majority of households. Recent agriculture growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements in nutrition outcomes and poverty rates. Despite some...
Malawi - Zambia
2018 - World Bank
Miscelánea
Smallholders data-portrait
The updated dataset on Small Family Farms across the world
The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait of the ESA Small Family Farms Team is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers, bringing out the characteristics of family farms across the world. It is designed in such a way that differences between countries and regions can be...
Albania - Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Cambodia - Ethiopia - Ghana - Guatemala - Indonesia - Kenya - Malawi - Nepal - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Panama - Tajikistan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
Case study on the groundnut value chain in the Republic of Malawi
Food loss analysis: causes and solutions
In order to improve global, regional and local knowledge about the underlying reasons for food loss, as well as to assess where critical loss points occur, FAO undertook a series of case studies involving numerous food supply chains in developing countries. Utilizing a defined food loss and waste analysis framework,...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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