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Revue spécialisée
Nature & Faune: The Forest-Agriculture interface: a zone for enhanced productivity?
This issue of Nature & Faune aims at highlighting the complexity of the interface between forest and agriculture in Africa. The editorial presents agroforestry, as a useful linkage between forestry and agriculture for increased productivity in agriculture and forestry. It recognizes the limitations of agroforestry at the current stage of...
Benin - Cameroon - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Engagement féminin et agriculture vivrière familiale
Colloque « Genre et agriculture familiale paysanne. Regards Nord-Sud. Débats entre mondes académique, du développement et de la formation »: au Sénégal, 60% des personnes travaillant dans l’agriculture vivrière familiale sont des femmes. Dans ce domaine elles assurent près de 70% des opérations culturales (semis, sarclages, binages, récoltes ) et...
Senegal
2012 - Canal-U
Vidéos
Success Story: Smallholder Farmer Entrepreneurship in Swaziland with Happy Shongwe
Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from Swaziland, talks about her successful business of growing and selling legume seeds.
Eswatini
2012 - FarmingFirst
Document de travail
Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture
Implications for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Strategies
This study is motivated by the need to understand the nature and magnitude of land constraints in African agriculture, the impacts of status-quo policies on food security and poverty, and the implications for development strategy. To our knowledge, there has been little recognition of the potential challenges associated with increasingly...
2012 - Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
Étude de cas
Indigenous knowledge systems and livestock production under small- holder farmer management in the face of climate change
A case of Guruve district
Indigenous knowledge systems of livestock care and health care is the only asset in the hands of the small holder farmers to mitigate the impact of climate change on livestock production. This study explores the role of indigenous knowledge systems of livestock care and veterinary care in the face of...
Zimbabwe
2012 - University of Zimbabwe
Article de revue spécialisée
Food security, Conservation Agriculture and pulses
Evidence from smallholder farmers in Zambia
Food insecurity is common place among 44% (six million) of Zambian population. Conservation agriculture (CA) is an option being promoted to address this problem. There is little evidence showing whether CA adopters are better than non-CA adopters in terms of food security. Using a four years panel data, focus group...
Zambia
2012
Étude de cas
Assessing the impacts of conservation agriculture on farmer livelihoods in three selected communities in central Mozambique
This study assesses the alleged livelihoods benefits of conservation agriculture for smallholder farmers. These benefits include improving productivity, household income, food security and subsequently alleviating poverty. First, the benefits of conservation agriculture in southern Africa as reported in the literature were reviewed. Then empirical data was collected in the communities...
Mozambique
2012 - Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU)
Rapport
Growing greener cities in Africa
First status report on Urban and Peri-urban horticulture in Africa
African policymakers need to act now to steer urbanization from its current, unsustainable path toward healthy, greener cities that ensure food and nutrition security, decent work and income, and a clean environment for all their citizens. This report highlights a key component of sustainable urban development: urban and peri-urban horticulture...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Ouvrage
Food Plants and Good Gardening for Healthy Diets in Swaziland
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...
Eswatini
2012 - Food Plant Solutions
Étude de cas
Fisheries in Transition
50 Interviews with the Fishing Sector
This report provides 50 interviews from fisheries that are moving towards sustainability. It takes the approach of speaking to those who are directly involved in fishing, earn their livelihoods on a daily basis from fishing and often work at the sharp end in dangerous conditions. These are the people, together...
Australia - Bahamas - Canada - Chile - Colombia - Denmark - Ecuador - Fiji - France - Gambia - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Isle of Man - Japan - Madagascar - Mexico - Mozambique - Namibia - Nauru - New Zealand - Norway - Peru - Philippines - Russian Federation - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - South Africa - Spain - Suriname - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Viet Nam
2012 - Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit
Article de revue spécialisée
Adaptive strategies and local innovations of smallholder farmers in selected agri-food systems of central Kenya
Food production in Kenya is closely related to smallholder agricultural production. Paradoxically, many smallholders suffer extended periods of food crises. This underscores the importance of understanding the multiple pathways smallholders use to deal with food insecurity. Participatory action research, using both qualitative and quantitative methods was undertaken to identify adaptation...
Kenya
2012
Fiche d'information
La Colaboración España-FAO
Un nuevo enfoque de la cooperación
La colaboración entre España y la FAO se ha consolidado en el tiempo y ha experimentado un notable crecimiento, gracias a los criterios en los que se ha basado: la eficacia de las actuaciones, la mejora en la rendición de cuentas, la búsqueda de sinergias, un sistema de monitorización y...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Determinants of access and farmers’ use of Information and Communication Technologies (1CTs) in Edo State, Nigeria
This study assessed determinants of farmers’ access and use of new ICTS in the study area. Data obtained from 270 respondents through multi-stage sampling technique were subjected to descriptive and logit regression analysis. The results show that GSM is the only new ICT farmers have access to (mean= 2.66) and...
Nigeria
2012 - University of Benin
Rapport
WAW proposed methodological framework to monitor agricultural structural transformations and their contributions to sustainable development
Informed decisions on ‘agricultural transformation’, the rapidly changing diversity of agricultural holdings, could play a decisive role in society’s response to several global challenges, including food security and environmental sustainability. Improved stakeholder access to information on the social, economic and environmental impacts of transformations and likely future trends is a...
Mali
2012 - World Agricultures Watch (WAW)
Article de revue spécialisée
Factors affecting smallholder farmers’ responsiveness to climate variability induced hazards in Zimbabwe
Increasingly, unpredictable weather poses challenges to livelihoods as it requires greater investment of time, energy, and resources in order to maintain crops and animals through dry spells. Vulnerability to climate variability induced hazards can be reduced successfully with an understanding of the most vulnerable to the impacts and how the...
Zimbabwe
2012 - University of Zimbabwe
Revue spécialisée
Caravan - Research that works for people and communities
This issue of Caravan looks to the field to present approaches and examples that have been developed through our research with partners in many dryland countries, and can be deployed to benefit smallholder farmers in many more locations. These technologies bring resistance to drought, temperature extremes, or diseases that damage and...
Afghanistan - Ethiopia - Lebanon - Uzbekistan
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Revue spécialisée
Caravan - Research integration in practice
The CRP on Dryland Systems is all about integration: between different research disciplines, between biophysical and socio-economic factors, between crop farming and pastoralism, between research and development. The program aims to develop new technologies, new livelihood opportunities, stronger local institutions, enabling policies to support technology adoption, and ultimately higher incomes...
Eritrea - Ethiopia - Libya
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Article de revue
Agriculture vivrière : les Africains confrontés à des choix controversés de modèles agricoles
L'auteur mène une réflexion sur l'effet des crises alimentaires récurrentes en Afrique et sur la réaction des États africains au Sud du Sahara, à la recherche de modèles de développement agricole capables d'en réduire durablement la fréquence. Il estime que le regain d’intérêt pour l’activité agricole pose, certes, des questions techniques mais...
2012 - Cahiers Agricultures
Manuel
Farming as a family business
Training manual
Since October 2010, DAI has been implementing the Zimbabwe Agricultural Competitiveness Program (ZimACP), with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The project is a 4.5-year initiative designed to support and facilitate the farming and agribusiness sector, through their representative bodies, to dialogue and arrive at consensus...
Zimbabwe
2012 - United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Article de revue spécialisée
Drivers of use of information and communication technologies by farm households
The case of smallholder farmers in Kenya
Smallholder farmers’ access to markets has traditionally been constrained by lack of market information. The desire to strengthen farmer access to market has seen the emergence of a number of projects that employ ICT tools in the provision of market information. This study assesses the conditioners of the use of...
Kenya
2012
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