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Note/document d'orientation
Forty years of natural hazards turning into food insecurity disasters in eastern Africa
Actions to enhance climate-related disaster risk reduction in food security and agriculture
For over 40 years, natural hazards (mainly droughts, floods and landslides) have affected millions of people in the eastern Africa sub-region. The impact of these hazards have been high, continue to rise in frequency and are mostly felt in the agriculture and food sectors. In some other countries of the...
Burundi - Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - South Sudan - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poor
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Like many problems in the global South, the global food system issues can be traced back to a colonial history. Back in 1989 two sociologists, Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, developed a useful concept in their work on agrarian studies: Global food regimes. They described two key periods where the...
Uganda
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Vidéos
Betty Ndugga, a female entrepreneur in Uganda
Betty Ndugga used to be a clothing trader in Uganda's capital of Kampala, after her husband died, she returned to her village and joined a local farmer field school, supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, where she was trained in coffee production. After that, she decided to establish...
Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Ouvrage
Agroecology: The Bold Future of Farming in Africa
Agroecology is deeply rooted in the ecological rationale of traditional small-scale agriculture, representing long established examples of successful agricultural systems characterized by a tremendous diversity of domesticated crop and animal species maintained and enhanced by ingenuous soil, water and biodiversity management regimes, nourished by complex traditional knowledge systems. Such complex...
Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2017 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Rapport
Food Insecurity a Pressing Issue Amidst Urban Growth in Africa
“Food and nutrition insecurity certainly has a socio-spatial dimension that is highly influenced by the degree of urbanity along the urban-rural continuum and is related to urban, periurban and rural agriculture” reports Dr. Takemore Chagomaka in a new study entitled “Food and Nutrition Insecurity Mapping (FNIRM) in Urban and Periurban...
Uganda
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Document technique
Social and economic performance of tilapia farming in Africa
World tilapia aquaculture production grew 12 percent annually, from less than a half million tonnes in the early 1990s to over 5 million tonnes in the mid-2010s. Africa accounted for 20 percent of the growth. Yet most of the contribution came from Egypt, whereas in the mid-2010s countries in sub-Saharan...
Egypt - Ghana - Kenya - Nigeria - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Betty Ndugga, a female entrepreneur in Uganda
Betty Ndugga used to be a clothing trader in Uganda's capital of Kampala, after her husband died, she returned to her village and joined a local farmer field school, supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, where she was trained in coffee production. After that, she decided to establish...
Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Note/document d'orientation
Briefing Note on FAO Actions on Fall Armyworm in Africa
Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), FAW, is an insect native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Its larval stage (photo) feeds on more than 80 plant species, including maize, rice, sorghum, millet, sugarcane, vegetable crops and cotton. FAW can cause significant yield losses if not well managed. It can...
Benin - Burundi - Cabo Verde - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Niger - Nigeria - Rwanda - Sao Tome and Principe - Togo - Uganda - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manuel
Secure Livelihoods For South Sudanese Refugees And Host Communities In West Nile Region, Uganda (Migration Project)
The civil conflicts in South Sudan has since 2013 resulted into increased influx of refugees into West Nile, Uganda. As at February 2017, the FAO estimated the total refugee population in West Nile region at 628,000 people (86% women and children, 3% the elderly, and 5 people per household). While...
Uganda
2017 - AFARD and PALM Corps with funding from Austrian Development Cooperation, Bruder und Schwester in Not Innsbruck (BSI) and Caritas Kärnten through HORIZONT3000.
Divers
East Africa: Warning of dire food shortages
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With only one-quarter of expected rainfall received in the Horn of Africa in the October-December period, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) called for an immediate response to prevent widespread drought conditions from becoming a catastrophe.
“The magnitude of the situation calls for scaled up action and coordination at national and...
Uganda
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Document technique
Horn of Africa cross-border Drought Action Plan 2017
Required response to safeguard livestock-based livelihoods in cross-border areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda
Droughts in the Horn of Africa have been increasing in severity and frequency, and aggravated by desertification, land degradation and climate change. With multiple consecutive years of poor rains, dry spells and drought, including the El Niño-induced drought in 2015/16, there has been little to no recovery among affected households...
Kenya - Somalia - South Sudan - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Role and Place of Women in Fisheries Value Chain: Case of Dagaa Fishery in the Lake Victoria
he video explores the role and place of women along fisheries value chain: The significance and values their involvement in fisheries brings to the communities and fisheries development. Why are they involved in fisheries? how are they organized for space in decision-making and policy processes? The focus of this study...
Kenya - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2017 - The International Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICSF)
Vidéos
Betty Ndugga, a female entrepreneur in Uganda
Betty Ndugga used to be a clothing trader in Uganda's capital of Kampala. After her husband died, she returned to her village and joined a local farmer field school, supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, where she was trained in coffee production. After that, she decided to establish...
Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Projet
Mainstreaming food loss reduction initiatives for smallholders in food deficit areas
The RBA Project is jointly implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Funded by the Government of Switzerland, the Project seeks to improve food security and income-generating opportunities through the reduction of...
Burkina Faso - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Projet
Food loss analysis for identification of critical loss points and solutions of maize, sunflowers, and beans value chains in Uganda
The RBA Project is jointly implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Funded by the Government of Switzerland, the Project seeks to improve food security and income-generating opportunities through the reduction of...
Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Note/document d'orientation
Africa’s farmland in changing hands
A review of literature and case studies from sub-Saharan Africa
Access to land is at the heart of rural livelihoods. In sub-Saharan Africa, the pace and scale at which land is changing hands are increasing fast. Understanding these changes in land access is crucial if the systems of land governance, the practices of companies and organisations, and the initiatives seeking...
Ghana - Mozambique - Senegal - Uganda
2017 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Pratiques
Improved cattle breeds zero grazing with drought tolerant fodder in Uganda
This technology describes the introduction of improved cattle breeds in Uganda. The improved breeds are more productive and resistant to diseases and are managed applying the zero grazing production system, a type of production system where the animals are kept in an enclosure to control input use and to reduce...
Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050
Technical Meeting and Regional Launch, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 21–23 February 2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ethiopian Ministry for Livestock and Fishery to hold the first Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 (ASL2050) Technical Consultation on the 21st and 23rd of February 2017 and the ASL2050...
Burkina Faso - Egypt - Ethiopia - Kenya - Nigeria - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Document technique
Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into the watershed management approach in Eastern Africa
Discussion paper and good practices booklet
This publication was initiated by the FAO Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa to identify, analyse and document existing watershed management practices in the Eastern Africa sub-region that contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation. There is opportunity to use this information to inform agriculture and watershed management-related policies, programmes and...
Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Note/document d'orientation
Labor adaptation to climate variability in Eastern Africa
As countries design climate change adaptation policies, it is important to understand how workers alter behavior in response to changes in temperature. Nonetheless, the impact of temperature on labor markets is poorly documented, especially in Africa. We address this gap by analyzing panel surveys of labor choices by sector, contractual...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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