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Article de revue
Investissements agricoles à grande échelle et partage des ressources en eau pour la riziculture irriguée au Mali
Face à l’arrivée d’investisseurs dans le périmètre irrigué de l’Office du Niger (Mali), la recherche-action menée par l’UMR G-EAU avec comme objectifs : d'analyser et comparer les pratiques foncières des exploitants familiaux et des investisseurs ; d'accompagner les acteurs dans l’identification des enjeux à long terme et l’anticipation des conséquences des nouvelles attributions foncières...
Mali
2014 - Agropolis International
Étude de cas
Food fairs revive local food and nutrition
Food fairs are an important tool and space to promote food sovereignty as they take place in local public spaces and within people’s own socio-cultural settings. One excellent example was a food fair in Ghana, organised by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD). Women farmers exhibited traditional...
Ghana
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Document technique
Socio-economic factors limiting smallholder groundnut production in Tabora Region
Groundnut is among the most important crops for smallholder farmers in Tanzania, providing both food and income for households. Groundnut is a nutritious source of fats, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals for human consumption and parts of the crop can be used for livestock feed. This study identified factors which...
United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA)
Article de revue spécialisée
Smallholder Farmers’ responses to rainfall variability and soil fertility problems by the use of indigenous knowledge in Chipepo, Southern Zambia
The study conducted in Southern Zambia investigated smallholder farmers’ use of indigenous knowledge to respond to rainfall variations and soil fertility problems. Farmer and key informant interviews and observations were employed to collect data. A total of 60 smallholder farmers and 6 key informants were interviewed. Chipepo lies in the...
Zambia
2014 - Canadian Center of Science and Education
Bulletin d'information
Dimitra newsletter: gender, rural women and development
This edition opens with a report of the last session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which has helped to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment feature prominently in the post-2015 Development Agenda. This will take over from the Millennium Development Goals, whose 2015 deadline is now close. Today, the post-2015 Development Agenda...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Niger - Senegal
2014
Audio
West African farmers achieve massive cuts in pesticide use
Field schools in Mali that have been training farmers on alternative methods of pest control have succeeded in reducing the use of toxic pesticides by participating cotton farmers in the country. These reductions are a staggering 92 percent, according to a new FAO study published today by the London-based Royal...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Bulletin d'information
Dimitra Newsletter: Poverty reduction in rural areas
This issue highlights experiences of development approaches that are helping in the fight against poverty in rural areas. Reducing rural poverty is one of FAO’s strategic objectives for the coming years, to which the Dimitra project is making a special contribution. Innovative methodologies have been developed which seek to place...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Kenya - Niger - Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Document de conférence
The role of farmers’ organizations in linking smallholder farmers to maize markets in Eastern Uganda
The warehouse receipt system for maize (Zea mays L.) was introduced in Uganda to enhance farmer access to markets and credit in order to increase the efficiency of the maize value chain and to improve smallholder incomes. Though, since the inception of the warehouse receipt system in Uganda, there has...
Uganda
2014 - Makerere University
Ouvrage
Farmers' rights in practice
Synthesis of the case studies on sustainable use of agrobiodiversity: focus on European experiences
This report presents the synthesis of case studies analysed by the action-research activity. The aim is to give a description of the practices carried out by farmers, individually or collectively, which can be considered as sustainable ways to use plant genetic resources with the purpose that these practices be spread...
France - Hungary - Italy - Romania - Senegal - Spain - Tunisia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Food Plants of Lesotho
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...
Lesotho
2014
Article de blog
Produire mieux, produire plus, nourrir les écoliers : le pari gagné du Sénégal
Soutenu par le gouvernement du Sénégal, ce programme appelé « Achat par les Africains pour les Africains », lancé en 2012, renforce la sécurité alimentaire et le développement économique et social des communautés rurales. Dans 200 cantines des écoles de la région de Kédougou au Sénégal, les enfants mangent désormais...
Senegal
2014 - Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PMA)
Article de revue spécialisée
Conservation Agriculture and household wellbeing
A non-causal comparison among smallholder farmers in Mozambique
This research examines the relationship between household wellbeing and the use of conservation agriculture (CA) by smallholder farmers in Mozambique. Wellbeing indicators are regressed on household demographic attributes, farm management practices, and a variable indicating farmer adoption of CA. Findings suggest that households using CA have higher wellbeing index scores...
Mozambique
2014
Vidéos
Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire (PISA) au Sénégal
PISA (Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire), un chantier de la FAO.
Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Appui aux transformatrices de produits halieutiques au Sénégal
Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire (PISA), appui aux transformatrices de produits halieutiques au Sénégal.
Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue
Quel développement agricole pour la RDC ?
Etat des lieux du secteur agricole de la République Démocratique du Congo, qui a toujours été considéré comme une perspective de développement intéressante susceptible de contribuer au décollage économique du pays. Les agriculteurs et les agricultrices restent le groupe cible le plus important dans la lutte contre la pauvreté en...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014
Projet
Agriculture familiale et accès à l’information au Sénégal
L’objet de ce projet est d’étudier l’impact d’actions ciblées d’appui aux exploitations familiales. Ce projet est issu d’une demande de l’IFPRI adressée au Gret afin de mettre en application au Sénégal des leçons tirées du projet Fomento au Brésil. Le GRET a s'associe à la FONGS pour la mise en...
Senegal
2014 - FIG (Fongs Ifpri Gret)
Étude de cas
Shashe Agro-ecology School for Farmer-to-farmer Training, Zimbabwe
In 2000, twelve smallholder farming families, which had gathered extensive experience on agroecological methods by working closely with a grassroots organization called the Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conservationists (AZTREC), organized themselves into a group. They initiated a project to set up a school for farmer-to-farmer training in Zimbabwe which...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Document technique
Apprentissage et réflexion stratégique des producteurs agricoles : construction de la proactivité dans le conseil à l'exploitation familiale au Bénin
Les approches de conseil agricole favorisant le renforcement des compétences des producteurs sont au centre des préoccupations des acteurs du développement agricole, particulièrement au Sud. Le conseil à l'exploitation familiale (CEF) est une approche de conseil de gestion, basée sur des méthodes d'apprentissage et d'aide à la décision, favorisant l'évolution...
Benin
2014 - Institut national d'études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier Sup Agro)
Note/document d'orientation
Smallholder conservation agriculture
Rationale for IFAD involvement and relevance to the East and Southern Africa region
Africa’s rising population growth and the continuous degradation of agricultural lands have raised questions about the suitability of the current agricultural system. There is a growing need to investigate different crop production systems that prevent soil degradation while increasing productivity. Conservation agriculture (CA) offers a promising solution. Conservation agriculture is...
Botswana - Namibia - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
Une collaboration Réunion-Comores pour soutenir l’agriculture familiale
Renforcer la sécurité alimentaire par l’amélioration de l’offre variétale et des pratiques agricoles : tel est l’objectif d'un récent projet de collaboration "Réunion-Comores". Une délégation réunionnaise, composée de membres du Conseil Général de La Réunion, de l’ARMEFLHOR, du CIRAD et de France Volontaires, s'est ainsi rendue en Grande Comore du...
Comoros - France
2014 - Biodiversité et Agriculture -Océan Indien
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