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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
Rapport
Impacts of livestock development investment: Documented positive impacts of livestock-related interventions in Africa, Asia and Latin America
The Global Livestock Advocacy for Development (GLAD) project aims to raise awareness among decision-makers of the importance of livestock in lower and middle income countries for the millions of resource-poor who depend on livestock keeping for part of their livelihoods, and for the millions more who need animal-source foods to...
2020 - International Livestock Research Institute ILRI
Pratiques
Récupération des eaux de pluie pour accroître la production fourragère
La récupération des eaux de pluie est le captage et la concentration de l’eau de ruissellement à la surface du sol avant qu’elle ne s’écoule dans un ruisseau ou une rivière. L’eau de pluie ainsi collectée sert pour des travaux agricoles, des besoins ménagers ou autres. Cette technologie décrit des...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Grain stores construction
In Zimbabwe and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, farmers use grain stores constructed from grass, stalks of cereal crops and wooden poles. Some of these constituent parts are increasingly scarce. Mud plastered stores, supported on concrete-filled plastic pipes, offer the benefits of improved resistance to termites, insect grain pests and...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Diatomaceous earth to protect farm-stored grain: sorghum, maize and cow-peas
Farmers all over the world incur serious losses to stored produce because of insect damage and are frequently forced to sell prematurely. Many use traditional storage protectant practices or, when they can afford it, purchase synthetic chemical pesticides. The effectiveness of traditional practices is variable. Using synthetic pesticides also has...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
La mise en place d'une pépinière d'arbres
La mise en place de pépinières d’arbres, des terrains où l’on plante de jeunes arbres qu’on cultive jusqu’à ce qu’ils puissent être transplantés, pourraient satisfaire la demande croissante de populations en Afrique orientale qui se trouvent confronter à l’épuisement de ressources arbustes. Ces populations dépendent de forêts et d’arbres pour...
Ethiopia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Rapport
Money Flows: what is holding back investment in agroecological research for Africa?
In collaboration with Biovision and the Institute of Development Studies, IPES-Food analyses the all-important financial flows in food system research that go to sub-Saharan Africa. Our new data shows that only a fraction of agricultural research funding in Africa is being used to transform food and farming systems.
2020 - IPES-Food
Pratiques
Improvement of livestock production: community based goat production
Crossbred milking goats have proved to be a popular source of cash income, household daily milk requirements, and manure for smallholder farmers in medium to high potential zones of Kenya. The three-quarter Toggenburg crossbred appears to be the most suitable in terms of both milk production and growth rates. This...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vidéos
Agroécologie en Afrique de l'Ouest
Voici un document très complet sur les avancées de l'agroécologie en Afrique de l'Ouest, et les expérimentations réalisées avec nos partenaires sur place.
Depuis bientôt 30 ans, Terre & Humanisme transmet et soutient l’agroécologie vers tous les publics, pour accompagner la transition vers un modèle agricole écologique, humain et solidaire....
2020 - Terre & Humanisme
Pratiques
Rainwater harvesting systems for ntula/eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum L.)
This technology describes utilizing rooftop water harvesting facilities to increase the availability of water for domestic use and irrigation of backyard ntula/ eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum L.) gardens. This measure allows small-scale farmers to harvest rainwater from roofs and store it in tanks, ensuring ntula production also during the dry season,...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vidéos
Community Managed Natural Farming - Vijay Kumar
Vijay Kumar presents the revolutionary CMNF initiative which has already converted 600,000 farmers to agroecology.
2020 - AFSA
Pratiques
Use of sorghum stover as dry season fodder for ruminants
Cereal stovers are widely used for feeding ruminant livestock, and in semi-arid areas sorghum stover may be an important part of livestock diets during the dry season, helping to maintain condition and increase survival. Bird-resistant varieties of sorghum have been bred for use in semi-arid zones to increase yields of...
Ethiopia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Improved grazing land
Improved grazing land management is vital to increasing food security and alleviating poverty. It also provides environmental benefits. To address these problems, the national Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) programme in Ethiopia initiated a grazing land management project in 2000. Implementation of the technology includes the initial delineating of the...
Ethiopia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Tsetse control: insecticide treatment of cattle
Insecticide treatment of cattle is an important method of tsetse control. However, insecticides applied to cattle have been shown to contaminate dung. This has a significant impact on insects using the dung as a resource, e.g. dung beetles. This reduces the recycling of dung and has a negative impact on...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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