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How A Nigerian Farmer Is Promoting Zero-Waste Agriculture In Africa
This is an inspiring story from Nigeria. In 1984 a Nigerian, Father Godfrey Nzamujo created a sustainable Zero-Waste farm, 'Songhai ' in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin, designed to mimic natural ecosystem. He said he got the idea after the devastating drought and famine in Ethiopia and decided to create a...
Benin
2021
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Fruits, Nuts and Seeds of Rwanda - Kinyarwanda
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...
Rwanda
2021 - Food Plant Solutions
Article de blog
A lack of basic agricultural data is holding African countries back
957 billion. That has just been confirmed by the UN as the average amount that low- and lower-middle-income countries invest annually in agriculture. So, if agriculture accounts for more than 25% of GDP in some developing countries, employs 63% of the world’s poor people and has the potential to improve...
2021 - quartz Africa
Rapport
La reconquête de la souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique
Fin 2019, avant le déclenchement de la pandémie de la Covid-19, la FAO estimait que 20 % d’Africains, soit 250 millions de personnes, étaient sous-alimentés. Cette prévalence était deux fois et demie supérieure a la moyenne mondiale. Se combinaient alors plusieurs facteurs : sécheresse, inondations, épidémies acridiennes, instabilité des marchés...
2021 - Fondation Jean-Jaurès.
Étude de cas
Ghana: Targeted trainings allow small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) to comply with national legality requirements
Ghana signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union in 2009, as part of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan to address illegal logging.
In this context, the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme partnered with Kumasi Wood Cluster (KWC) through two consecutive projects to assist Small...
Ghana
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Fruits, Nuts and Seeds of Rwanda - Kinyarwanda
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...
Rwanda
2021 - Food Plant Solutions
Étude de cas
Benin: Government agency blazes a trail for traceability
Tracing wood back to the forest it came from is essential to eliminating illegal logging. The National Timber Office of Benin (ONAB), with assistance from the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme, established an innovative traceability system for its teak plantations that helps prevent illegal logging, transport...
Benin
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
AGROECOLOGY Film Documentary
Action Aid's work in Rwanda to promote opportunities for women empowerment and rights project best practices in Agroecology.
Rwanda
2021 - Action Aid
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Fruits, Nuts and Seeds of Rwanda - Kinyarwanda
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...
Rwanda
2021 - Food Plant Solutions
Article de revue spécialisée
Does it pay to switch from free grazing to stall feeding? Impact of stall feeding practice on household welfare in Tigrai Ethiopia
In this paper, efforts were made to the impact of full and seasonal stall feeding technology on households’ economic, ecological, and social welfare outcome indicators in rural Northern Ethiopia using data obtained from the survey of 518 rural farmers. In order to address our primary objective, an endogenous switching regression...
Ethiopia
2021
Article
Changement climatique : l’Afrique doit repenser ses cultures
Alors que s’ouvre la Conférence de l’ONU sur les changements climatiques (COP26) à Glasgow, le Fonds international de développement agricole (Fida) plaide pour augmenter significativement les investissements destinés à financer l’adaptation au changement climatique dans les pays en développement. L’organisation tire la sonnette d’alarme, notamment sur la situation des petits exploitants agricoles. Bien qu’ils produisent...
2021
Rapport
Healthy Soil for Healthy Communities
An Introduction to Soil Health Practices for Africa
This publication is not a technical book. Instead, it aims to help people move towards this mindset shift. The first chapter on soil is the bedrock of the whole book. It presents the kind of understanding of soil needed if we are to have any chance of successfully regenerating soils....
2021 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)
Vidéos
Meet Sylvia Kuria, an organic farmer from Kenya 🇰🇪 #IGrowYourFood
“If we don't support retailers, wholesalers, logistics in the organic value chain: we compromise organic produce being available to more people on the African continent.” Sylvia Kuria gives her call to action for policymakers on #IGrowYourFood 🇰🇪
Kenya
2021 - IFOAM Organics
Rapport
Vulnérabilité et résilience des socio-écosystèmes littoraux d’Afrique de l’Ouest : état des connaissances actuelles et interrogation sur le devenir du littoral sénégalo-bissau-guinéen
Zone très riche en biodiversité, l’Afrique de l’ouest est aussi une des régions les plus touchées par les changements globaux.
La Revue Belge de Géographie, a publié un travail de recherche réalisée dans le cadre du consortium Patrimoines et Territoires de l’Eau (PATEO). Ce travail analyse la vulnérabilité et la résilience...
2021
Étude de cas
Ghana: Championing rights and fair compensation for forest communities
Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade, in partnership with the European Union (EU), strongly emphasizes involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet many farmers and communities don’t understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests. The...
Ghana
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
In Southern and Eastern Africa, peasant agroecology is the answer to climate crises
Listen to testimonies from peasant farmers in the Southern and Eastern African regions, who rely on peasant agroecological methods to revive their soil and fight back against the climate crises. They also speak about the centrality of peasants and small-scale food producers in proposing pragmatic ways to rebuild the lost...
2021 - LVC SEAf
Article du bulletin d’information
Profile: Linda Behnken :A leader, a fisher, a mother and a strong advocate of sustainable fisheries, she occupies a unique and significant place in the world of fisheries
Linda came to Alaska in 1982 after her first year of college with a love of wilderness and vague ideas of earning money for college by working on commercial fishing boats. She landed her first job when a deckhand failed to show up after a night of drinking, and the...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Pratiques
Rapid composting methods: use of forced aeration
The potential of composting to turn on-farm waste materials into a farm resource makes it an attractive proposition. Composting offers several benefits such as enhanced soil fertility and soil health, thereby increased agricultural productivity, improved soil biodiversity, reduced ecological risks and creating a better environment. While traditional composting procedures take...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Rapport
Constraints and opportunities for Youth in agroecology in Kenya
Youth in Agroecology and Business Learning Track Africa (YALTA) is an initiative with the goal to support young agripreneurs to apply agroecological principles and to co-create networks in order to contribute to increased sustainability of food systems and youth employment in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. This report provides an in-depth...
2020
Pratiques
Rapid composting methods: use of cellulolytic cultures
The potential of composting to turn on-farm waste materials into a farm resource makes it an attractive proposition. Composting offers several benefits such as enhanced soil fertility and soil health, thereby increased agricultural productivity, improved soil biodiversity, reduced ecological risks and creating a better environment. While traditional composting procedures take...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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