La crise sanitaire de la Covid-19 nous a rappelé à quel point le métier d’agricultrice et d’agriculteur, partout dans le monde, est essentiel à la vie humaine. L’enjeu de la formation des prochaines générations en Afrique paraît ainsi fondamental. Mais former à quelle agriculture et à quel système de production...

Burkina Faso and other countries in the Sahel are currently facing a multitude of crises. Over 12 million small scale farmers and their families in the dryland areas of the region are chronically vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. This is the result of the degradation of fragile ecosystems, population growth, and a low...

De plus en plus de producteurs adoptent des pratiques agroécologiques comme ici au Sénégal. Cette nouvelle approche de l’agriculture commence à porter ses fruits. Elle repose sur un cortège de solutions techniques adaptées à chaque territoire et à chaque culture. Le Cirad avec ses partenaires est convaincu que l’agroécologie peut...

You will see, how local partners from different hospitals received our CZU mobiLAB with the presence of his excellency Ambassador of the Czech Republic Radek Rubeš. Also, our partners from ADRA and ADRA Zambia were present!   Enjoy this video report!

Rural businesses, which are so vital for transforming our food systems, will get a much needed boost from an ambitious new financing programme launched today by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (www.IFAD.org), as part of its broader efforts to address rising hunger and poverty levels in the...

L’Extrême-Nord et l’Est sont certes deux régions du Cameroun différentes sur le plan écologique et distantes sur le plan géographique. Mais elles connaissent des difficultés similaires qui se traduisent par un niveau de développement très faible. Elles font partie des zones les plus pauvres du Cameroun. Cet état de pauvreté...

Let us kindly invite you to the On-Line Thematic Session: Activities of central and eastern EU countries in research and Innovation partnership with Africa as a part of Stakeholder engagement week that is organized within LEAP4FNSSA project  This Session will be held on 2nd June 2021 from 15:00 – 17:00 CET via Microsoft TEAMs (join...

Growing sustainable tropical crops in an outermost region  of the European Union: that’s what Julien Villard has been doing since 2016. He left his job as a civil engineer on the European mainland and became a farmer in French Guiana. He set up Villandia Farm, 3 hectares of land where...

The team from the CZU, namely Vladimír Verner, Radim Kotrba, Zbyněk Polesný, Jan Staš from FTZ and Miloslav Petrtýl from FAPPZ, is currently conducting fieldwork in the Western Province of Zambia. The activities are realized in the frame of implementation of two development projects, namely "Integrated Farming II" led by...

Experts from the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences launched 3 units of the CZU mobiLAB - a mobile laboratory for the detection of infectious diseases. Mobile laboratories CZU mobiLAB were developed last year as part of the project "Prevention of Covid-19 Proliferation in Exposed Locations and Increasing the Resilience of Local Communities in Zambia...

Growing sustainable tropical crops in an outermost region  of the European Union: that’s what Julien Villard has been doing since 2016. He left his job as a civil engineer on the European mainland and became a farmer in French Guiana. He set up Villandia Farm, 3 hectares of land where...

The impact of COVID 19 on food security in Africa has been among the most discussed subjects of the year 2020. Most of the reports were alarming. The headlines put Africa on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Indeed, the pandemic hit Africa when the continent was already under...

Explore the diverse work done by the FiBL Group (FiBL Switzerland, FiBL Germany, FiBL Austria, FiBL France, the Hungarian ÖMKi and the Brussels based FiBL Europe) performs on both national and international level. Engage with FiBL experts, giving insights into their activities and latest developments on organic and sustainable production,...

Growing sustainable tropical crops in an outermost region  of the European Union: that’s what Julien Villard has been doing since 2016. He left his job as a civil engineer on the European mainland and became a farmer in French Guiana. He set up Villandia Farm, 3 hectares of land where...

Cotton is one of the most common fabrics in the world, from its origins in ancient India to the modern garments many of us wear today. This durable, versatile and naturally organic fabric is made from the white, fluffy fibres around the seeds of cotton plants.  However, the backstory of cotton...

La producción de frijol (Phaseolus vulgaris) es influenciada por muchos factores bióticos y abióticos que interaccionan durante su ciclo de crecimiento. Las enfermedades son uno de los mayores factores bióticos que afectan la producción de frijol. Muchos de los organismos que causan estas enfermedades son portados por las semillas derivadas...

La producción de frijol (Phaseolus vulgaris) es influenciada por muchos factores bióticos y abióticos que interaccionan durante su ciclo de crecimiento. Las enfermedades son uno de los mayores factores bióticos que afectan la producción de frijol. Muchos de los organismos que causan estas enfermedades son portados por las semillas derivadas...

La producción de frijol (Phaseolus vulgaris) es influenciada por muchos factores bióticos y abióticos que interaccionan durante su ciclo de crecimiento. Las enfermedades son uno de los mayores factores bióticos que afectan la producción de frijol. Muchos de los organismos que causan estas enfermedades son portados por las semillas derivadas...

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa announced the inaugural AFSA Africa Agroecology Awards, launching a call on 9 August 2021 for submissions from AFSA member networks and affiliates. In the following years, AFSA hopes to broaden the award and make it more accessible to the African public and establish...

This report presents the results of IFAD’s stock-take on agroecology. It assesses to what degree IFAD is supporting agroecology throughout its in-country portfolio across the five IFAD regions to the benefit of small-scale producers and sustainable food systems. It also identifies gaps and opportunities for scaling up and scaling out...