FAO support to improving governance of tenure

In Zimbabwe, over 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity and exacerbating some of Zimbabwe’s key agricultural challenges: low soil fertility, reliance on rain-fed systems, poorly functioning markets, and farmers’ limited access to credit, knowledge and best practices. To address...

New drought across swathes of southern Ethiopia may jeopardize the East African nation's restoration of food security after the worst agricultural seasons in decades unless urgent efforts are made to shore up vulnerable households in rural areas, FAO warned today. While an impressive government-led humanitarian effort has sharply reduced the number...

While there has been an unprecedented achievement in poverty reduction in the last three decades, eradicating extreme poverty and halving poverty by 2030 are still two of our greatest challenges. Today, about 767 million people continue to live in extreme poverty. Roughly, two thirds of the extreme poor live in...

This brochure introduces the work of SFE (Sub-regional office for Eastern Africa) related to Natural Resource Management, including key partners and the link with the SDGs. It covers NRM activities in the subregion, which are also in line with intergovernmental priorities intervention areas: 1 - Sustainable access to, and utilization...

La situation géographique de la zone sahélienne expose les États membres du Comité Inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS) en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre à des chocs et catastrophes récurrents naturels et provoqués. Ces épisodes récurrents de catastrophes qui souvent sapent la confiance dans...

Following the remarkable growth of Mozambique’s poultry sector in recent years, the soya boom in the north of Mozambique is restructuring patterns of production and changing local diets in the northern districts of Gurúè and Alto Mòlocué in Zambézia province. This documentary film, by PLAAS in partnership with ADECRU (Acção...

It's a busy day for Themba Mundidini, a banana farmer at Mutema irrigation scheme in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Themba is assured of a bumper harvest, the first after five attempts. The source of the successful season is the water sprinklers spewing the precious liquid on the lush banana...

Betty Ndugga used to be a clothing trader in Uganda's capital of Kampala, after her husband died, she returned to her village and joined a local farmer field school, supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, where she was trained in coffee production. After that, she decided to establish...

The sixteen articles in this edition cover diverse aspects of pastoralism and rangeland management in Africa. They bring a fresh sense of pastoralism and rangeland management. These include a review of issues, challenges and practices; youth perspectives on pastoralism highlighting opportunities and threats faced by young pastoralists; land tenure system...

In sub-Saharan Africa good progress was made in reducing hunger until 2010, after which time the decline in the prevalence of undernourishment came to a halt and then rose to 22.7 percent in 2016, while the number of undernourished rose to 224.3 million. In many countries, the worsening situation in...

The right of women to hold and use land in Zimbabwe continues to be inequitable in all land tenure regimes, despite the major strides taken in promoting more equitable land redistribution and progressive constitutional reforms. The rights to land available to women in communal and resettlement areas (A1 and older...

Climate change has major impacts on the food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa south of the Sahara. Vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and to being chronically poor, women farmers are unequally and more negatively affected by climate change and seasonal changes than male farmers. This study...

The newsletter was produced by the Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN) which was established in 2012 brings together non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on land and agrarian issues. Membership of the Network comprises organisations involved in research and policy analysis; NGOs working with farmers; farmers’ representative organisations; women’s and youth...

La présente étude se focalise sur l’examen du statut des filières bétail/ viande et lait en Guinée dans le cadre du Projet d’appui aux initiatives politiques pour le développement de ces filières en Afrique de l’Ouest (TCP/SFW/3402). Les deux filières ont fait l’objet d’un examen et d’un inventaire des politiques...

The adoption of integrated ecosystems approaches for the management of land resources in the Kagera Basin has generated local, national and global benefits including: restoration of degraded lands, carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation and mitigation, protection of international waters, agro-biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and improved agricultural production, leading...

To support the empowerment of South Sudanese refugees, FAO has focused on supporting income-generating and agricultural activities; 7 000 farming tools (hoes, rakes, sprayers, watering cans and wheelbarrows) and 80 kg of vegetable seeds (amaranth, cabbage, eggplant, okra and tomato) were distributed. 

Agroecology is deeply rooted in the ecological rationale of traditional small-scale agriculture, representing long established examples of successful agricultural systems characterized by a tremendous diversity of domesticated crop and animal species maintained and enhanced by ingenuous soil, water and biodiversity management regimes, nourished by complex traditional knowledge systems. Such complex...

Historically, pastoralists have been marginalized, and policies have been geared towards encouraging, and in some instances forcing, their settlement and sedentarization. Misunderstanding of their livelihoods has also led to abandonment of their customary institutions and practices. However, scientific evidence shows that mobile pastoralism is the most sustainable way of using...

Pays sahélien à vocation pastorale, le Niger fonde en grande partie son économie sur la valorisation des produits de l’élevage. En 2012, l’effectif du cheptel du pays est constitué de 10 125 767 bovins, 10 369 520 ovins, 13 760 687 caprins et 1 676 319 camelins. L’apport du secteur...