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Document de travail
Understanding the agricultural input landscape in sub-Saharan Africa
Recent plot, household, and community-level evidence
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely from expanded use of inputs that embody improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet following...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Niger - Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - World Bank Group
Document de travail
Credit constraints, agricultural productivity, and rural nonfarm participation
Evidence from Rwanda
Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the extent and nature of credit rationing in the semi-formal...
Rwanda
2014
Article de blog
Sharing experiences on family farming
The IYFF-2014’ National Committee in Gambia promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing in the West African region
Gambia
2014
Rapport
Agricultural policy choice
Interests, ideas and the scope for reform
African countries face serious difficulties in getting the agricultural policies they need to help turn economic growth into economic transformation. Nonetheless, radical pessimism may not be justified for two reasons. By comparing Southeast Asian and African experience in other policy fields, this paper suggests that changing policy ideas may play...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Rapport
ATELIER D’EXPLOITATION DES INITIATIVES ECONOMIQUES DES ORGANISATIONS PAYSANNES EN VUE DE VALORISER LES PRODUITS DE RECOLTE DE L’AGRICULTURE FAMILIALE
Les producteurs céréaliers sont confrontés à la mévente répétée des récoltes qui sont excédentaires depuis plus de cinq (5) années successives et pour ce faire, la CPC-Togo pour une première édition organise, avec l’appui du projet PADAT au Togo, une rencontre d’opportunité commerciale observée par ses membres lors de leur...
Togo
2014 - Centrale des Producteurs de Céréales du Togo (CPC)
Projet
Agir au Rwanda - Le plan d’action des familles paysannes
Ce projet cible plus de 3000 ménages paysans possédant moins de 0,25 hectares de terres. Tous ont reçu des plants fruitiers et agro-forestiers, et un peu moins de la moitié a été sélectionnée pour recevoir du petit bétail (poules, lapins, cochons) et des semences agricoles. Ces derniers ont été accompagnés...
Rwanda
2014 - Frères des Hommes
Note/document d'orientation
Rural futures. How much should markets rule?
The paper distinguishes different approaches to markets in, and affecting, rural sub-Saharan Africa, and present some associated policies, notably ‘market-friendly’ and ‘market-challenging’. We then propose a political economy approach as a more satisfactory way of grasping the complex social dynamics of ‘real markets’ and their forms of unequal power. This...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Rapport
Insights and experiences of women smallholder farmers in Ghana and Rwanda
Women’s rights to sustainable livelihoods project
The Women’s Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods project (2012 - 2015) is an innovative four-year intervention designed by ActionAid International and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It aims to pilot practical solutions to promote sustainable livelihoods and reduce the unpaid care work of women smallholder farmers. The project...
Ghana - Rwanda
2014 - ActionAid International
Note/document d'orientation
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)
Projet
Projet d’appui à l’autonomisation économique des ménages d’agro-éleveurs de la région des Plateaux, au Togo
Les paysans togolais doivent de plus en plus composer avec les aléas causés par les changements climatiques tels que l’appauvrissement et la fuite des sols, la prolifération de maladies et la raréfaction des ressources en eau. Dans son nouveau projet, Elevages et Solidarité des Familles pour le Togo (ESFT) cherche...
Togo
2014 - Elevages et Solidarité des Familles pour le Togo (ESFT)
Vidéos
FAO climate change in Tanzania
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is in Tanzania, where climate change is taking a toll on local populations. FAO-backed initiatives are making it easier for farmers and families to produce crop varieties that grow in dry conditions. Plus, new soil methods are increasing production and energy-saving stoves...
United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Note/document d'orientation
The rehabilitation of agricultural input subsidies?
In recent years large-scale agricultural input subsidies have had a contested ‘rehabilitation’ in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews the changing paradigms, politics and theories associated with input subsidies’ decline and rise, and the implementation and impacts of recent large-scale programmes. Empirical evidence is patchy, and their impacts contested and dependent...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Projet
Purchase for Progress - P4P Rwanda
In Rwanda, P4P focuses on supporting the government’s efforts to boost agricultural production, on increasing the income of smallholder farmers and developing the agricultural market. In order to reduce post-harvest losses, P4P and partners support farmers’ cooperatives with training in post-harvest handling, equipment and storage facilities. Cooperatives also receive training...
Rwanda
2014 - World Food Programme (WFP) Purchase for Progress (P4P)
Article de revue spécialisée
Implications of climate variability and change for smallholder crop production in different areas of Zimbabwe
Sustainable food production in the rain-fed smallholder sector of Zimbabwe is imperative in current and future climates given the increasing proportion and role of the sector in food security. Backgrounds of the smallholder sector include low resource bases, declining soil productivity, climate variability and increasing human population. Impacts of climatic...
Zimbabwe
2014
Note/document d'orientation
Rice, cows and envy
Agriculture and change among young rice producers in Guinea Bissau
In Guinea-Bissau, a country on the West African coast between Senegal, the Republic of Guinea and the Atlantic, rice is the staple food. During the past three decades, agriculture in Guinea- Bissau has undergone a radical transformation. In Guinea-Bissau, there is a common discourse that young people have abandoned the...
Guinea-Bissau
2014 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Revue spécialisée
Caravan - Gender focus: prioritizing the needs of women farmers
This issue of Caravan – a collaborative effort with the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems – focuses on gender related research being undertaken by ICARDA and national and CGIAR research partners across the world's dry areas, reflecting on experience and insights from Morocco to South Asia and beyond. Articles...
Afghanistan - Egypt - Jordan
2014 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Document de travail
Young people, agriculture, and employment in rural Africa
This paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people’s unemployment in Africa through agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that privileges difference and diversity among work opportunities, rural areas and young people. We argue that...
2014 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Rapport
Adapting to climate change through land and water management in Eastern Africa
Results of pilot projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
The Eastern African region (which includes Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania) is highly vulnerable to climate change and several of its major sectors (notably agriculture) that significantly contribute to the sub-region’s economies are at risk. About 80% of the population in East Africa depend on agriculture, which contributes to 40% of...
Ethiopia - Kenya - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Note/document d'orientation
Improving policymaking for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa
This paper investigates the role of knowledge management in African agricultural and rural development policies, and how information and communications technologies (ICTs) can contribute to enhance it. African Policymakers are aware of the importance of knowledge management; however, its actual use is constrained by inter-related factors encompassing the national context...
2014 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Article de blog
"Let’s Be a Farmer", une initiative du soutien des jeunes à l'agriculture au Bénin
"Let's be a Farmer" est une initiative volontaire et collaborative de l’ONG Youth Partnership and Agricultural Development, une organisation chargée d’actions de développement en milieu rural et périurbain au Bénin. L’initiative a consisté à mobiliser une centaine de jeunes béninois et résidents, venant de différentes communes du Bénin, pour trois...
Benin
2014 - La voix des jeunes
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