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Article de blog
Sécurité et souveraineté alimentaires : l’agro-écologie est-elle la solution pour l’Afrique ?
L’Afrique est désormais confrontée à deux urgences contradictoires : assurer sa souveraineté et sa sécurité alimentaire en demandant à son agriculture de produire plus et lutter contre le dérèglement climatique en produisant différemment. Pour résoudre cette contradiction, il existe une solution : l’agro-écologie, qui permet d’engager l’agriculture vers de nouveaux modes de...
2022
Article de blog
Adoption of crop, tree, shrub and livestock systems - What are the constraints?
Is the adoption of technologies in the farming community only linked to their socio-economic performance? Upstream identification of adoption constraints with potential beneficiaries is necessary to remove them and promote technology adoption.
What are the constraints to adopting systematic integration of crops, trees/shrubs and livestock?
Burkina Faso
2022 - AFAAS - African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
Article de revue spécialisée
Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley
A major programme of irrigated rice extension in the Middle Senegal River Valley has further limited the river’s natural flooding in the floodplain (Waalo), initially reduced by drought. We conducted a transdisciplinary (TD) and gendered study in the region to explore links between agricultural biodiversity and family diets using a...
Senegal
2022 - Agriculture and Human Values
Article de blog
Influence of the density of Piliostigma reticulatum (DC) Hochst on the soil macrofauna in the northern Sudanian zone of Burkina Faso
SustainSahel scientists at the UNB - Nazi BONI University found the populations of soil macrofauna communities increase with the density of Piliostigma reticulatum.
Burkina Faso
2022 - Nazi BONI University
Rapport
Gender and Generational Differences in Local Knowledge and Preference for Food Trees in Central Uganda and Eastern Kenya
Food trees contribute substantially to the food and nutrition security of millions of rural households in Africa. Farming communities prioritize tree and shrub species on farms based on a combination of factors, including their knowledge of potential uses the species' economic potential and a range of constraints and opportunities that...
Kenya - Uganda
2022 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Rapport
Report on the use of the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) in Lesotho in the context of the Restoration of Landscape and Livelihoods Project (ROLL)
Results and analysis
As agroecology has increasingly been brought into the international dialogue on the future of food and agriculture, there have been calls for building the evidence base of its performance across the multiple dimensions of sustainability and its capacity to achieve multiple SDGs. In response to this need, FAO coordinated the...
Lesotho
2022 - FAO, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Rural Self-Help Development Association (RSDA) for the implementation of the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) in Lesotho
Article de blog
Assessing the impact of trees and shrubs on soil biology
First results from BIOFUNCTOOL clearly highlight a strong potential for trees and shrubs to enhance carbon dynamics in soils.
Senegal
2022 - IRD
Article de blog
Maasai women embracing new farming methods
In areas ravaged by droughts intensified by climate change, women from traditional cattle farming communities in Kenya are expanding their knowledge and skills so that they can get climate smart and adapt to an increasingly arid environment.
Kenya
2022 - RURAL WOMEN NETWORK
Étude de cas
How Somalia used biopesticides to win against desert locusts
Helping to bring in a new era of locust control based on natural remedies
The first wave of desert locust swarms hit Somalia in 2019. Carpets of hopper bands and clouds of locust swarms resembling those of a storm started appearing throughout the country. As the locusts descended on any vegetation they could find, crops succumbed to their appetite; fields became barren with nothing...
Somalia
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
En Casamance, le pari de l’agroécologie pour endiguer l’exode de la jeunesse
À force de travail acharné, Ousmane Sambou a réussi un pari que beaucoup pensaient impossible : transformer 1,5 hectare de friche stérile en un verger verdoyant et productif. Les limettiers et les orangers sont encore juvéniles, mais ils assureront bientôt un revenu stable pour le jeune homme, son épouse et leur...
2022 - The Conversation
Comptes rendus de conférence
Les systèmes participatifs de garantie en Afrique de l'Ouest
Face à l’inadéquation des certifications internationales pour les filières ouest-africaines locales, les systèmes de garantie participatifs (SPG) et leurs structurations nationales sont-ils une solution pour répondre à la demande croissante en produits sans résidus de pesticides sur les marchés locaux ? Voici les éléments de réponses du réseau Roppa-Pafao-Jafowa.
Benin - Burkina Faso - Madagascar - Mali
2022 - Roppa
Article de blog
Rural African women embrace agroecology: FAO
Despite their crucial role in agrifood systems, women are faced with enormous challenges, including exclusion from decision-making, denial of essential productive resources such as land, water, credit, information, and technologies, and disregard for their deep knowledge of local contexts. A key ally in empowering these women to continue working the...
2022 - https://farmersreviewafrica.com/
Article
Innovations numériques au service de la transition agro-écologique au Bénin
Face au défi alimentaire et aux instabilités climatiques, l’agriculture du Bénin doit accroître ses performances économiques, sociales et environnementales, en particulier par le développement de l’agroécologie. Le numérique est souvent cité comme un levier majeur de la transition agroécologique, mais les innovations numériques en agriculture au Bénin restent peu visibles....
Benin
2022 - CIRAD
Vidéos
African Agroecological Entrepreneurship & Territorial Markets Convening
From May 24th to 26th, 2022, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has teamed with partners to host the first trailblazing three-day continental convening on AFRICAN AGROECOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TERRITORIAL MARKETS in Munyonyo, Uganda. Over 130 people in person and 80 virtual participants attended the event, which brought...
2022 - AFSA
Article de blog
CYCLE DE L'EAU : UNE SIXIÈME LIMITE PLANÉTAIRE VIENT D’ÊTRE FRANCHIE, C’EST LA DEUXIÈME CETTE ANNÉE
Une sixième limite planétaire vient d'être franchie selon plusieurs scientifiques. Elle concerne le cycle de l'eau et plus particulièrement l'eau verte, celle qui est absorbée par les végétaux. En Amazonie, mais partout ailleurs, l'humidité des sols change et les forêts se transforment en savanes en raison du changement climatique et...
2022 - Novethic
Rapport
Status of digital agriculture in 47 sub-Saharan African countries
Sub-Saharan Africa is uniquely positioned significantly increase its current agricultural productivity to lift the region’s more than 400 million people out of extreme poverty and improve the livelihood of approximately 250 million smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the region. To achieve that, substantive digital transformation of the agriculture sector is...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Une agriculture familiale de plus en plus dépendante du salariat ? Les travailleurs saisonniers dans l’agriculture familiale sénégalaise (régions des Niayes et du Delta)
Le Sénégal connaît une demande croissante en travail saisonnier dans le secteur agricole. Dans le cadre de l’agriculture familiale, ce phénomène résulte d’une différenciation socioéconomique au sein de l’agriculture familiale induite par des décennies de soutien de l’État à des modèles productifs agricoles particuliers. Cet article analyse le travail saisonnier...
Senegal
2022
Article de blog
Agriculture : L’ISRA va lancer une variété de blé adapté au Sénégal
Les conséquences de la guerre entre la Russie et l’Ukraine doivent servir de leçon. Elles doivent même inciter dès maintenant les pays qui en souffrent de se réinventer pour se mettre à l’abri dans le futur. Ainsi, au Sénégal, l’institut sénégalais de recherche agricole (ISRA) a annoncé le 24 mars...
Senegal
2022
Étude de cas
Holistic land and livestock management in Manicaland
Poor management of the land over the years resulted in a series of problems. Cattle were not herded and grazing management was poor; livestock were overgrazing parts of the veld leading to bare lands and loss of biodiversity. The lands were badly degraded and exposed to persistent soil erosion, leaving...
2022 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Note/document d'orientation
RuLIS country brief: Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Integrated Household Survey 2018
RuLIS is a tool to support policies for reducing rural poverty, bringing together harmonized indicators and comparable data across countries and over time on rural incomes, livelihoods and rural development. It includes a set of harmonized household- and individual-level data and indicators on different aspects of livelihoods, including crops and...
Sierra Leone
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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