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Rapport
ICARDA annual report 2011
Higher yields, better nutrition
Legumes are the main source of protein for more than one billion people in South Asia. ICARDA and its partners have developed new legume varieties with high yields, enhanced nutritional value, as well as other traits such as drought tolerance and disease resistance.
Lebanon
2011 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Manuel
Beekeeping in Africa
Traditional and modern beehives and beekeeping equipment
Honeybees that nest in the open produce far less honey than those confined in enclosures. There are good reasons for this. Colonies in the open are exposed to predators and therefore have to employ numerous workers as guards to fight intruders. They have to consume large quantities of honey, which...
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Bulletin d'information
Dimitra Newsletter: Access to information
This newsletter also contains a special Dossier on Radio & ICTs in Rural Areas that puts together a variety of experiences in this field, from an electronic forum on Gender, ICTs and Rural Livelihoods, over participatory community radio to empower rural women and men, to the use of different methodologies...
Burkina Faso - Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Senegal - Uganda
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Women marginalised farmers
Mobilising for change
Using lessons from the case studies this paper draws out five practical steps in reaching and supporting women marginal farmers: 1) take the lead from women marginal farmers themselves in helping build their networks and groups, 2) promote alliances and external links, 3) organising needs based training workshops and regular...
India - Indonesia - Liberia - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2010 - Concern Worldwide
Rapport
Etude sur la main d'œuvre agricole au Togo et au Bénin
Au Togo comme au Bénin, l’agriculture repose sur de petites exploitations familiales dont l’unité socio-économique de base est le ménage. Le nombre moyen d'actifs agricoles par ménage est de 2 à 4 personnes. Les travaux agricoles sont essentiellement manuels, l’utilisation de la traction animale et de matériel adéquats étant négligeable....
Benin - Togo
2010 - Centre de Recherche et d’Ingénierie Sociales du Togo (CRISTO)
Étude de cas
Enquête sur la valorisation des bas-fonds au Bénin
Etude de cas sur les logiques paysannes et les dynamiques locales dans la commune de Djidja
Les bas-fonds sont aujourd’hui au centre de nombreux projets de développement visant une sécurisation alimentaire à travers des projets de petite irrigation. La première partie de ce travail traite des stratégies mises en oeuvre par le gouvernement béninois qui a fait de l’aménagement des bas-fonds une de ses priorités. Cependant,...
Benin
2010 - Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Revue spécialisée
Nature & Faune: Natural resource tenure systems and their implication for agriculture, food security and nature conservation in Africa
As population density increases and available natural resources diminish, tensions and competition increase among stakeholders for access to land for farming and animal husbandry as well as access to forest, fishery and wildlife resources. The scramble for resources involves communities, economic interest groups, governments and the private sector as they...
Benin - Botswana - Burkina Faso - Cameroon - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Kenya - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Zimbabwe
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
A bright future for small fruit farmers in southern Ethiopia
With financial assistance from the Irish embassy and the embassy of the kingdom of The Netherlands, SNV supports since 2007 fruit marketing cooperatives in Southern Ethiopia. SNV strengthens the cooperatives through facilitating business to business arrangements, business planning and improved operational management, and access to critical services. Results of the...
Ethiopia
2010 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Note/document d'orientation
Africa’s food security
Learning from success
Successful examples of agriculture best practice offer a means to enhance current food security frameworks. Promoting and disseminating success stories from the field is vital for ensuring the efficient allocation of limited resources and avoiding the pitfalls of previous interventions. Critically best practice examples provide the opportunity to scale up...
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Ouvrage
Agricultural value chain finance
Tools and lessons
Agriculture remains an important means of alleviating poverty, but shortage of finance can constrain its development. At the same time, agriculture is evolving towards a global system requiring high-quality, comptetitive products, and is organized in value chains which often exclude smallholders. Value chain financing in agriculture offers an opportunity to...
Bangladesh - Brazil - Colombia - Costa Rica - India - Kenya - Malawi - Mexico - Myanmar - Nicaragua - Niger - Peru - Philippines - Republic of Korea - Serbia - United Republic of Tanzania
2010
Article de revue spécialisée
Risk factors for smallholder dairy cattle mortality in Tanzania
A retrospective cross-sectional study of mortality was conducted on smallholder dairy farms in 2 separate regions (Iringa and Tanga) of Tanzania during the period of January to April 1999. A total of 1789 cattle from 400 randomly sampled smallholder dairy farms (200 each from Iringa and Tanga regions) were included...
United Republic of Tanzania
2010
Comptes rendus de conférence
Sustainable crop production using hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) to enrich soil fertility and conserve soil moisture for maize cropping in smallholder farming systems in Zimbabwe
Crop production in smallholder farming systems of Zimbabwe is limited by low inherent soil fertility, particularly N and P and available soil moisture. One of the major agricultural challenges in developing countries is the development of technologies that are able to sustain soil fertility and conserve soil and moisture. The...
Zimbabwe
2010 - University of Zimbabwe
Note/document d'orientation
Producer organisations
Reclaiming opportunities for development
Producer organisations are widely heralded as leading contributors to poverty reduction and the achievement of food security. Following the withdrawal of state support as part of measures for liberalization, producer organizations in Africa have been in a process of transition, attempting to define appropriate strategies in a competitive open market...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Africa’s smallholder farmers
Approaches that work for viable livelihoods
Most Africans depend on small-scale farming systems as the primary source of their livelihoods. Yet they are marginalized and often do not produce enough to enable their families to have sufficient food to eat throughout the year. Smallholder farmers are also particularly vulnerable to climatic and economic shocks. Despite these...
2010 - African Smallholder Farmers Group (ASFG)
Note/document d'orientation
Future Farmers ? Exploring Youth Aspirations for African Agriculture
Demographic trends point to more young people in the African population than ever before – approximately 70 percent of Africa’s 1 billion people is under the age of 30. Across the continent many young people are reportedly choosing not to pursue livelihoods in agriculture, especially as farmers. If this is...
2010 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Article
Le conseil agricole, une démarche porteuse à l'épreuve des réalités : premières leçons d'une expérience de changement d'échelle au Nord Cameroun
La Société de développement du coton du Cameroun (SODECOTON) utilise le conseil comme une innovation pour réformer sa démarche d’appui aux producteurs. L’objectif de cette recherche était d’étudier la transformation des dispositifs d’appuis aux producteurs à partir de l’analyse de l’application du conseil. Le dispositif comprend la SODECOTON, les producteurs et les...
Cameroon
2010
Étude de cas
Good
for
who? Supermarkets
and
small
farmers
in
South Africa
A critical
review
of
current
approaches
to
market
access
for
small
farmers
in
developing
countries
Small‐scale
agriculture
is
one
of
the
few
tools
available
to
support
improved
rural
livelihoods
on
a
significant
scale
in
South
Africa.
Access
to
output
markets
is
a
key
obstacle
for
small
farmers
in
generating
higher
incomes.
Thus,
the
rise
of
modern
markets
(supermarkets
in
particular)
is
generally
viewed
as
positive
for
the
rural
poor,
although
most
commentators
accede
that
there
are
challenges
to
be
overcome
in
obtaining
access
to
...
South Africa
2010 - Stellenbosch University
Article de revue spécialisée
Evaluation of women farmers’ perception of the impact of Women-In-Agriculture programme on yield, income and decision-making power in South-eastern Nigeria
One of the reasons that necessitated the establishment of Women-in-Agriculture (WIA) Programme in 1989 was the perception that women farmers were not having adequate access to extension services compared to their male counterparts. Feminists argued that the inadequate access to extension services resulted in women farmers having poor farm yields,...
Nigeria
2010 - University of Abuja
Note/document d'orientation
Agricultural mechanization and the smallholder farmers in Nigeria
The majority of Nigeria’s smallholder farmers are often too poor to employ modern tools, such as tractors and ploughs, even with substantial government support. In this respect, an agricultural mechanization policy would need effective targeting with regard to particular farming activities and types of farmers for which different forms of...
Nigeria
2010 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Document de conférence
Market-chain innovation enhances smallholders’ access to markets: Insights from the sweet potato sub-sector in Uganda
Smallholder farmers in developing countries such as Uganda are faced with the difficulty of accessing sustainable markets. Such farmers include those growing sweet potato, and are becoming increasingly marginalized as urban markets demand better quality, quantity and sustainable supply of agricultural commodities. Research and Development (R&D) actors on the other...
Uganda
2010 - Mukono Ronal Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MUZARDI)
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