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Agroecological stories from practices and experiences in Eastern Senegal
Agroecologie enables the improvement of agricultural production through the enhancement of local natural resources and traditional know-how. It contributes to maintaining biodiversity and restoring land in drylands, which are particularly threatened by global warming and food insecurity, while contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Within the framework of the AVACLIM project, the Senegalese...
Senegal
2022 - AVACLIM
Article de blog
Alley cropping system - improving soil fertility and yields
The study objective is to contribute to food security through the implementation of agroforestry technologies resilient to the effects of climate change in Mali.
Mali
2022
Vidéos
Agroecological stories from practices and experiences of farmers in Ethiopia
Agroecology enables the improvement of agricultural production through the enhancement of local natural resources and traditional know-how. It contributes to maintaining biodiversity and restoring land in drylands, which are particularly threatened by global warming and food insecurity, while contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Within the framework of the AVACLIM project,...
Ethiopia
2022 - AVACLIM , CARI
Article de blog
Farmer's story ''Community Food Projects: Emerging from a backyard garden''
It was ten days into the first 21 days of lockdown of the COVID-19 crisis. We, like all other families in our neighbourhood, had stocked food in the house, using the little cash we had on food, in fear that we would not be able to go out and buy,...
Zimbabwe
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.
Vidéos
Comment encourager les paysans du fouta djallon à passer à l’agroécologie?
La Fédération des paysans du Fouta Djallon ne pouvait orienter ses membres vers l’agroécologie sans en vérifier l’efficacité selon les terroirs.La Fédération a recensé auprès de ses membres les meilleures pratiques agricoles respectueuses des ressources naturelles, dans le but de les diffuser largement, avec l’appui scientifique de la recherche guinéenne.
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Guinea
2022 - CCFD-Terre Solidaire
Vidéos
Agroecological stories from practices and experiences in Burkina Faso
Agroecology enables the improvement of agricultural production through the enhancement of local natural resources and traditional know-how. It contributes to maintaining biodiversity and restoring land in drylands, which are particularly threatened by global warming and food insecurity, while contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Within the framework of the AVACLIM project,...
Burkina Faso
2022 - AVACLIM , CARI
Article de blog
Legal empowerment with a gender lens: how women tea farmers in Malawi are claiming their rights
Tea is a major cash crop in Malawi and the industry is one of the country’s biggest employers. For small-scale farmers, it is an important source of cash income. But deep gender inequalities prevail at smallholder level, and women tea farmers are being left behind.
As part of the Empowering Rural Producers...
Malawi
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Article de blog
Weed or a useful plant? Co-innovation in Ouarkhokh, Senegal
18 months after the people from Ouarkhokh commune were contacted and the socio-ecological situation of this agro-sylvo-pastoral site in the central North of Senegal was analysed, a first two-day encounter in September 2022 between farmers and project staff from Senegal and FiBL took place. Over 15 researchers and advisers of SustainSahel...
Senegal
2022
Fiche d'information
Ecological approach to organic farming in the Tropics
interest in ecological organic agriculture is increasing across Africa due to the need for more sustainable options to agricultural production, food and nutrition security, and concerns about the negative effects of synthetic agrochemicals on human and environmental health. Organic farming requires not only renouncing synthetic agrochemicals, but a shift in...
2022 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland
Pratiques
Hanging vegetable gardens
Hanging vegetable gardens is an easy to implement practice allowing to grow healthy vegetables with no land and little inputs. Hence, it is very suitable for low-income families, slum dwellers, the landless, women who often have poor access to land and need to stay close to their homes, as well...
Kenya
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vidéos
Africa Agroecology Regional Dialogue
This video presents a recording of the dialogue on The Politics of Knowledge, and the evidence for agroecology in Africa held on 19 May 2022.
The event was co-organized by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, IPES-Food, Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP), Groundswell International, Agroecology Fund, and Global Alliance for the Future of Food, and the technical assistance of...
2022 - The Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Fiche d'information
Ecological approach to pest and disease management in the Tropics
Pests and diseases can severely reduce crop yields. However, the use of synthetic agrochemicals to control them threatens human and environmental health, by polluting our soils and water systems, causing diseases, and killing beneficial organisms. Management of pests and diseases in organic farming requires not only renouncing synthetic agrochemicals, but...
2022 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland
Pratiques
Using IoT (Internet of Things) in measuring water quality parameters in fish farming
Internet of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects that are embedded with sensors, software and other technologies with the purpose of exchanging data via the internet. Devices can be programmed to check the temperature, pH, oxygen and other water parameters. IoT technologies have revolutionized fish farming processes and...
Rwanda
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Bulletin d'information
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 18 - January 2022
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
Belgium
2022 - Access Agriculture
Article de blog
Creating shared value for maize smallholders in Kenya
In June, Solidaridad launched a four-year food and nutrition security and climate-resilience project funded by the Louis Dreyfus Foundation to drive sustainable maize production in Bungoma County, Kenya.
Kenya
2022 - Solidaridad
Comptes rendus de conférence
Diverse actors from 30 countries gathered to make agroecological entrepreneurship work
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has collaborated with partners to organize the first trailblazing three-day continental convening on AFRICAN AGROECOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TERRITORIAL MARKETS in Munyonyo, Uganda, from May 24th to 26th, 2022. The gathering brought together actors from over 30 countries, with over 130 persons in attendance in person and...
2022 - AFSA
Pratiques
Ecological approach to soil fertility and health in the Tropics
This factsheet introduces soil fertility and health, explains how the holistic organic farming approach improves soil fertility, provides some practices which contribute to improving soil health and help meet the nutrient requirement of crops, animals and humans. The information is based on long-term experiments and on-farm research conducted in the...
2022 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland
Pratiques
Profitability on ecological organic farms in the Tropics
Profitability is a key factor affecting farmers’ choices. Ecological organic farming provides many benefits for health, the environment and societal welfare, but is generally percieved to be not as profitable as conventional due to lower yields and high labour costs. However, current research has demonstrated that farm profitability on actively-managed...
2022 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland
Ouvrage
Taking Agroecology to Scale - Learning from Natural Farming in India
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) virtually launched a new booklet, "Taking Agroecology to Scale - Learning from Natural Farming in India," based on a strong working relationship formed with RySS, which resulted in 15 online webinars on scaling natural farming. The booklet summarizes and reflects on the...
2022 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Rapport
Stratégie de développement pour l’Afrique de l’Est Secteur des cultures
La Stratégie de développement du secteur des cultures pour l'Afrique de l'Est 2021-2026 établit une série d'objectifs et d'interventions convenus par les représentants des ministères de l'Agriculture des pays relevant de la juridiction du Bureau sous-régional de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) pour l'Afrique orientale ainsi...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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