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Keeping milk clean and fresh
Modern dairy plants buy fresh milk from local farmers and herders to make into many different products. The company pays a fair price, but requires strict hygiene: they only buy milk that is clean and fresh.
Nigeria
2016 - Access Agriculture
Технический документ
Impacts of CAADP on Africa’s agricultural-led development
This paper uses panel data on 46 African countries from 2001 to 2014 to estimate the impacts of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated framework of development priorities in Africa, on agricultural expenditure and productivity, income, and nutrition. A difference-in-difference treatment-effects model (based on when a...
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Agroecology in Senegal: Kaydara school farm
The ten-year efforts of the Kaydara Agroecology School Farm, in Senegal, led to concrete benefits for the community and for the environment. Gora Ndiaye, founder of the "African Gardens" association, summarizes the some important features of the project.
Senegal
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Технический документ
Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa
Framework for Analysis and Action
Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015a). When embedded within a broader...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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A special breed of Sudanese cattle produces more milk and big benefits for Eritrean pastoralists
Cattle of the Sudanese Hamerenya breed have some special qualities, including docility and a high milk yield. Through an IFAD-supported programme, farmers in the Adi Quala subdistrict in Eritrea were able to take out small loans to invest in the purchase of Hamerenya cattle. The programme also helps the farmers...
Eritrea
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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Investissements fonciers, redevabilité et cadre légal
Leçons du Sénégal
Produit dans le cadre du projet Mécanismes de reddition des comptes dans la gouvernance foncière, ce rapport examine la redevabilité dans les transactions foncières au Sénégal. Il passe au crible le cadre juridique national qui régit les investissements fonciers et explore les occasions de reddition de comptes et la manière dont...
Senegal
2016 - Institut international pour l’environnement et le développement (IIED)
Статья
Climate change will see East Africa get wetter say scientists
East Africa could be the lucky exception to the disastrous effects of climate change as scientists predict increased precipitation as temperatures rise. Scientists working with the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) — Kizito Kwena, William Ndegwa, Imad Ali-Babiker and Hezron Mogaka— say the flipside...
2016 - Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
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Seeing is believing: the impact of soil management- Western Kenya
For over a decade, CIAT has tested agronomic and soil management practices in Western Kenya. From minimum tillage to integrated soil fertility management, two trials, established in 2003, are the most comprehensive picture of tropical soil health in Kenya.
What these trials allow us to do is show-case changes in soil...
Kenya
2016 - African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)
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The Paris Agreement and African agriculture
African countries need to focus on enhancing their adaptive capacities and reduce their vulnerability to climate change. Translating that momentum quickly into the agriculture sectors, neglected in the Paris Agreement, should be central to a holistic and comprehensive transformation of African economies.
2016
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Set for success
Climate proofing the Malabo Declaration (2016)
Despite continuous positive economic growth at an average of 5% per year, Africa needs accelerated economic development if it is to cope with the increasing demands for food, water and energy challenged by a rapidly growing population, rapid urbanisation and climate change. The pressure on African countries to boost productivity...
2016 - Agriculture for Impact
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AfDB modernises agriculture in São Tomé and Príncipe
An analysis of the various constraints highlights issues of isolation, value chain weaknesses and low stakeholder capacity. In addition, low infrastructure development, with structurally high costs affect the competitiveness of all sectors of the economy. This situation prompted the Bank to finance the Infrastructure Rehabilitation for Food Security Support Project...
Sao Tome and Principe
2016 - African Development Bank Group
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Stone lines
Stone lines induce a natural process of terracing as they trap sediments. They are also built to rehabilitate eroded lands. Farmers in Kenya show how they construct stone lines.
Kenya
2016 - Access Agriculture
Статья
ASARECA, IFPRI in joint bid to map, track uptake of technologies
ASARECA and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) are undertaking a joint initiative to explore innovative, spatial and cost-effective data collection methods to monitor the adoption and diffusion of agricultural technologies. Simply put, the project: “Monitoring the Geospatial Diffusion of Agricultural Technologies”, is expected to generate data, knowledge and...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Rwanda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
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Kenya Commits towards wider adoption of Conservation Agriculture
Responding to Climate Change and Food insecurity through Climate-Smart Farming
Stakeholders have committed to a robust plan of institutionalizing conservation agriculture in Kenya. This will be achieved through interventions on commercialization, promotion of large scale adoption at national level and making agriculture attractive to the youth, especially as a form of employment. The two day First National Conservation Agriculture Conference...
Kenya
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Технический документ
How to amplify agroecology
The article shares some of the most compelling insights from a four days Learning Exchange gathering in Uganda, facilitated by the AgroEcology Fund and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
The meeting brought together grassroot organizers, advocates and donors to discuss, learn and come up with new successful strategies for...
Uganda
2016 - Agroecology Learning Exchange
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Taking milk to the collection centre
Milk spoils because of germs that are too small to see. The germs grow in the milk and spoil it. Germs multiply faster in warm milk than in cold milk. So move the milk to the collection centre within 30 minutes of milking, or the milk will start to spoil....
Nigeria
2016 - Access Agriculture
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Meeting Ghanaian farmers' demand for a full range of mechanization services
Rising labor costs associated with increased rural-to-urban migration have compelled Ghanaian farmers to increase the use of tractors and other agricultural machines to conduct farming operations in the country (Diao et al. 2014). The adoption of these mechanical technologies is consistent with the tendency among Ghanaian farmers to save labor,...
Ghana
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries
This is the seventeenth volume of Gender, Poverty, and Environmental Indicators on African Countries published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. The publication also provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 54 African countries. Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African...
2016 - African Development Bank Group
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Managing cattle ticks
Ticks are small creatures like insects that attach to the body of animals to suck their blood. Ticks cause diseases like skin lesions. The animals will become skinny and no longer produce milk.
Nigeria
2016 - Access Agriculture
Тематическое исследование
Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa
Ghana country case study report
This study took place in Ghana (Accra and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipal District) 20- 30 April 2015. The study was led by Luke Harman of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) along with local partners Dr Kofi Marfo and Mrs Joyce Haleegoah. The Ghana country study set out to focus particularly on the...
Ghana
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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