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Article de revue spécialisée
Household-food market relations and its implications for food security of farm families in Imo state Nigeria
The existence of markets is critical to the survival of the farm-household-family system and as such the nature of this relationship and how it affects the dietary supply of the household needs to be understood. The objective of this study is to examine the market relation of farm families by...
Nigeria
2014 - University of Ibadan
Article de blog
Bénin : Création d’un réseau béninois pour la promotion de l’Agroécologie
Article sur la création d'un cadre d’échanges pour la mise en application des pratiques et systèmes agroécologiques : le ReBPA, Réseau Béninois pour la Promotion de l’Agroécologie, à la suite d'un cycle d’apprentissage, organisé en septembre 2013 par Agrisud, pour la mise en œuvre et la diffusion de systèmes et pratiques agroécologiques à...
Benin
2014 - Agrisud International
Pratiques
Construction of raised drying racks for fish – the experience from Burundi
Fisheries play an important part in the economic and social life of people in Burundi. One third of the animal protein consumption in the country stems from fisheries, and the sector employs over 100,000 people. Yet, about 10 to 15% of the harvest is lost in the process. Fish drying,...
Burundi
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Site web
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit, scientific facility that conducts research on the most pressing challenges of forest and landscapes management around the world. With our global, multidisciplinary approach, we aim to improve human well-being, protect the environment, and increase equity. To do so, we help...
2014 - Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
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L'agriculture familiale constitue l'épine dorsale de l'Afrique
Lors de la 28ème session de la Conférence Régionale de la FAO pour l’Afrique tenue à Tunis du 24 au 28 mars 2014, les hauts dirigeants des gouvernements africains ont manifesté le rôle primordial que les petits exploitants agricoles jouent dans la lutte pour éradiquer la faim et la malnutrition...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Agriculture and livestock survey small scale commercial farms 2012
This Report presents the results of the 2011-2012 Agriculture and Livestock Survey (ALS) in Small Scale Commercial farms (SSCF) conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency.
Zimbabwe
2014 - Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency
Article de revue spécialisée
Farmers’ involvement in capital markets investment as an alternative source of funding for agriculture in Ondo State, Nigeria
Farming in Nigeria largely takes place in peasant and small scale physical labour-fed farms where productivity diminishes with age. Given depleting productivity accounted for by loss of agility due to advancement in age and general insufficiency of capital, avenues capable of sufficiently salvaging this dearth must, therefore, be explored. The...
2014
Rapport
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)
Document de travail
Medium and large-scale farmers and agricultural mechanization in Ghana
Survey results
Successful commercialization of farming enterprises and farmer entrepreneurship are thought to embody the key features of structural transformation and provide a pathway out of poverty and subsistence agriculture for the rural farm households. The past decade has seen several African countries increase their agricultural growth, largely driven by increases in...
Ghana
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Rapport
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)
Bulletin d'information
Numéro spécial de Spore - Août 2014 - Le début d'une renaissance
L'agriculture familiale présente des solutions aux défis mondiaux. Plus de 500 millions de fermes familiales dominent l'agriculture : elles permettent d'assurer la sécurité alimentaire, de lutter contre la pauvreté et la famine, de fournir des emplois et d'améliorer la gestion des ressources durables. Même si elles ont des défis à...
2014 - CTA
Rapport
Towards stronger family farms
Voices in the International Year of Family Farming
This publication draws from reports and notes from a series of events in the International Year of Family Farming: Regional Dialogues on Family Farming were organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization in collaboration with the World Rural Forum, the International Cooperative Alliance and the World Farmers Organization to increase the understanding of the family farming context in each region,and...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Note/document d'orientation
Becoming a young farmer in Ethiopia
Processes and challenges
The Ethiopian government’s Agricultural Development Led Industrialization strategy emphasises the instrumental role that rural youth could play in transforming the agricultural sector. However, there exists a significant body of literature documenting the unfavourable attitudes many young people hold towards a future in agriculture. Despite their negative attitudes, the fact remains...
Ethiopia
2014 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Article de revue spécialisée
Smallholder pig production systems along a periurban-rural gradient in the Western provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), pigs are raised almost exclusively by smallholders either in periurban areas of major cities such as Kinshasa or in rural villages. Unfortunately, little information is available regarding pig production in the Western part of the DRC, wherefore a survey was carried out...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014 - University of Kinshasa
Revue spécialisée
Farming Matters: The many faces of resilience
Poverty and vulnerability combine in a vicious circle for many family farmers. To break that and turn it into a virtuous cycle, resilience must be built into farming and the systems in which farmers operate. There is an urgent need for a change in mindset regarding family farming, agriculture and...
Germany - United States of America
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Document de travail
Changes in food and nutrition security in Malawi
Analysis of recent survey evidence
A large proportion of Malawian households are caught in a trap where poverty and food insecurity reinforce one another and where periods of food deficits and severe food crises are frequent occurrences. In recognition of this, the Malawian government has since 2005/06 implemented a large-scale Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP),...
Malawi
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Vidéos
Benkadi Bugu, l’agriculture paysanne contre la désertification au Mali
Présentation de la ferme école BENKADI BUGU près de Ségou au Mali. Un environnement social et commercial sur 10 ha. Chaque année, 20 jeunes ruraux, garçons et filles, participent et acquièrent un enseignement en agroécologie en alternance qu’ils appliquent en même temps sur leur propre parcelle. De plus, les apprenants...
Mali
2014
Fiche d'information
FAO’s contribution to reducing and preventing child labour in agriculture 2012-2014
Child labour is work that interferes with compulsory schooling or damages children’s health and personal development. Thanks to continuous efforts at the international and local level, recent global data,1 show that the number of children engaged in child labour worldwide has significantly declined from 215 to 168 million children (40 percent decline...
Cambodia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Malawi - Mali - Niger - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Impact of minimum tillage and crop rotation as climate change adaptation strategies on farmer welfare in smallholder farming systems of Zambia
The purpose of this study was to estimate the impact of minimum tillage and crop rotation on maize yields and incomes for farmers adopting the strategies. The study used cross sectional data collected in 2012/13 from 1231 households across six districts of Zambia and applied propensity score matching techniques and...
Zambia
2014
Vidéos
Improving food and nutrition security of vulnerable households in Zimbabwe
During the 2012/2013 agricultural season, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented a market-based agriculture input assistance programme in Zimbabwe. FAO together with key partners aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity in Zimbabwe, by helping to increase the productivity and income of small-scale farmers as...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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