Cet outil vous permettra de  consulter et télécharger des ressources techniques et pédagogiques de différentes natures dans le champ de la petite irrigation et du développement rural (posters, fiches techniques, rapports, études, cartes, émissions de radios, dossiers photographiques, vidéos, ...)  Cette bibliothèque est collaborative. Nous vous invitons  à l'enrichir en proposant...

Éliminer la faim d’ici à 2030 fait partie des objectifs de développement durable fixés par l’ONU. Un défi de taille en Afrique subsaharienne, où un tiers des ménages se trouve toujours en situation d’insécurité alimentaire. Pour répondre à la demande de la population africaine en pleine expansion, la nécessité d’une augmentation importante...

Uganda’s environment is under massive strain. With few resources available, many farmers are draining wetlands for agricultural use, and with deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, and water pollution impacts planting and harvesting. In recent years, climate shocks have exacerbated this deterioration. More than 70% of Uganda’s population works in the agriculture...

Legislating for an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) is complex, due to the holistic nature of EAF involving multiple factors that underpin the social, economic, environmental, and institutional aspects of fisheries sustainability. These factors include ecosystems integration, risks, inter-sectoral collaboration, research, participatory processes, monitoring, control, surveillance, and enforcement, among others....

Four young Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERA) – comprising two ERA teams and two individual ERAs – who were selected through the Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund from Limpopo and Eastern Cape, received a 3-day training in digital tools and technology, 3 to 5 October 2023 in Polokwane, South Africa.

The Access Agriculture Panorama features information on new videos, audio podcasts, blog posts, articles contributed by experts, partner highlights, voices from the field and upcoming events.

Some international organizations and civil society activists are blaming exporting countries of frozen chicken products for the underdevelopment of the domestic poultry sectors in developing nations. However, concrete evidence that supports or rejects these criticisms is missing. Against this background, this study was conducted to examine the performance of Ghana’s...

In many parts of southern Africa, soil quality is poor due to weathering and low nutrient content. Inorganic fertilizers are often necessary, but their effectiveness can be limited. Malawi’s fertilizer subsidy program isn’t achieving food security goals due to declining soil health. Solutions like crop diversification, organic matter addition, and fertilizers...

L’ambition de cette étude, réalisée dans le cadre du Programme pour l’Agroécologie (PAE) de la CEDEAO, est de développer et favoriser l’intégration des savoirs et des savoir-faire sur la formation (non diplômante) aux systèmes agroécologiques.  Sur 80 centres enquêtés, il ressort de l'étude que "le changement vers une formation à l’agroécologie...

The ongoing conflict in the Sudan, which erupted on 15 April, has worsened an already fragile food security situation. Prior to the crisis, one in four people faced acute food insecurity due partly to instability, economic decline and high food prices. An estimated 2.1 million people have since been displaced...

Au Burkina Faso, les activités minières impactent particulièrement les agropasteurs (emprise foncière, extraction d’eau, fermeture de corridors, réduction de la mobilité du bétail) et engendrent des tensions sur l’utilisation des ressources naturelles. Des instruments de concertation et des mécanismes de compensation existent. Mais la mobilité saisonnière des agropasteurs et la...

FAR Carto, carte collaborative qui recense les établissements de formation agricole et rurale, continue de s'enrichir. Une trentaine de centres de formation, essentiellement des initiatives de formation continue, ont été récemment ajoutées au Tchad, mais aussi à Madagascar, Mali, Tunisie, Bénin, RDC.

La 3è foire ouest africaine des semences paysannes s’est achevée samedi 11 mars 2023 à Zoungbonou au Bénin sur des résultats très satisfaisants. Dans un entretien accordé a agridigitale.net du Togo, le  chargé de programme de l’Alliance pour la Souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique (AFSA, en anglais) en Afrique francophone, Famara...

Malawi, a small country in Southeast Africa, is gaining recognition as an emerging player in the global coffee industry. Blessed with fertile soil, favorable climatic conditions and a rich agricultural heritage, Malawi has steadily established itself as a producer of high-quality coffee beans. Today the coffee industry plays a crucial...

In this briefing, Cultivating diversity for a just agroecological transition in Africa: the inextricable link between agricultural biodiversity, agroecology, climate change, and biodiversity, we highlight the pivotal role of agricultural biodiversity, in particular, crop diversity and its interrelatedness and dependence on farmer managed seed systems and the unfettered exercise of...

Dans une étude récente réalisée par des experts du Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développemente (Cirad) et de l’ l’Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles -Bureau d'analyses macroéconomiques (Isra Bame), se sont intéressés  au processus d’intégration de l’agroécologie dans les politiques nationales au Sénégal. L’étude vise  à...

The FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2022 report presents a summary of the main priorities, developments and results achieved by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Africa region in 2022. FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2022 is organized according to the four betters identified in...

Shared labels used by smallholder producers can promote biocultural diversity, build climate resilience and drive social justice. An IIED report explores trailblazing shared label initiatives by smallholder organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

This Guide for the evaluation of agroecology offers an approach and methodological tools to assess the effects of agroecological practices and systems on the agro-environmental and socio-economic performance of agriculture and on the other hand, the conditions for the development of agroecology.  It aims to help development actors to better design their...

Maize (Zea mays) stover produced in the drier lowland areas on the volcanic foot slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro serves as an important additional fodder for smallholder zero-grazed dairy cattle farming in the humid highland areas of the region. The obtained cattle manure is used to replenish nutrients and manage soil...