The ongoing conflict in the Sudan, which erupted on 15 April, has worsened an already fragile food security situation. Prior to the crisis, one in four people faced acute food insecurity due partly to instability, economic decline and high food prices. An estimated 2.1 million people have since been displaced...

Au Burkina Faso, les activités minières impactent particulièrement les agropasteurs (emprise foncière, extraction d’eau, fermeture de corridors, réduction de la mobilité du bétail) et engendrent des tensions sur l’utilisation des ressources naturelles. Des instruments de concertation et des mécanismes de compensation existent. Mais la mobilité saisonnière des agropasteurs et la...

FAR Carto, carte collaborative qui recense les établissements de formation agricole et rurale, continue de s'enrichir. Une trentaine de centres de formation, essentiellement des initiatives de formation continue, ont été récemment ajoutées au Tchad, mais aussi à Madagascar, Mali, Tunisie, Bénin, RDC.

La 3è foire ouest africaine des semences paysannes s’est achevée samedi 11 mars 2023 à Zoungbonou au Bénin sur des résultats très satisfaisants. Dans un entretien accordé a agridigitale.net du Togo, le  chargé de programme de l’Alliance pour la Souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique (AFSA, en anglais) en Afrique francophone, Famara...

Malawi, a small country in Southeast Africa, is gaining recognition as an emerging player in the global coffee industry. Blessed with fertile soil, favorable climatic conditions and a rich agricultural heritage, Malawi has steadily established itself as a producer of high-quality coffee beans. Today the coffee industry plays a crucial...

In this briefing, Cultivating diversity for a just agroecological transition in Africa: the inextricable link between agricultural biodiversity, agroecology, climate change, and biodiversity, we highlight the pivotal role of agricultural biodiversity, in particular, crop diversity and its interrelatedness and dependence on farmer managed seed systems and the unfettered exercise of...

Senegal has had extensive experience with the development and implementation of the farmer field school (FFS) approach across almost two decades. Building on this experience and that of the first phase of the scoping exercise conducted in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region (and using the same methodology),...

Dans une étude récente réalisée par des experts du Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développemente (Cirad) et de l’ l’Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles -Bureau d'analyses macroéconomiques (Isra Bame), se sont intéressés  au processus d’intégration de l’agroécologie dans les politiques nationales au Sénégal. L’étude vise  à...

The FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2022 report presents a summary of the main priorities, developments and results achieved by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Africa region in 2022. FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2022 is organized according to the four betters identified in...

Shared labels used by smallholder producers can promote biocultural diversity, build climate resilience and drive social justice. An IIED report explores trailblazing shared label initiatives by smallholder organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

This Guide for the evaluation of agroecology offers an approach and methodological tools to assess the effects of agroecological practices and systems on the agro-environmental and socio-economic performance of agriculture and on the other hand, the conditions for the development of agroecology.  It aims to help development actors to better design their...

Maize (Zea mays) stover produced in the drier lowland areas on the volcanic foot slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro serves as an important additional fodder for smallholder zero-grazed dairy cattle farming in the humid highland areas of the region. The obtained cattle manure is used to replenish nutrients and manage soil...

This report summarizes the evidence-based and costed country roadmaps for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and...

This Guideline addresses important developmental activity and the contents give information on how to plan, design and implement community watershed development activities. It provides consolidated and normative information for field workers and wereda sector offices. The effort is particularly important at a time when the Ethiopian Government has put a strategy...

This working paper is the update of an earlier cross-country study on household income sources using an expanded harmonized dataset. The analysis presented covers a total of 93 surveys representing 41 countries – nearly double that of the previous study – to depict rural and urban households’ livelihood strategies across...

This article establishes how Indigenous and local knowledge could contribute to the building of resilient, sustainable and nutritious food systems in a way that is equitable.

Over the past two decades, social safety net programs have become a mainstream policy tool across  sub-Saharan Africa to address food insecurity and extreme poverty (Beegle et al., 2018). Since the turn of the millennium, the number of social safety net programs has doubled (Hickey et al., 2018) and today, each country...

The Ifaa resilience food security activity (RFSA) is implemented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the region of Oromia in Ethiopia. Oromia is Ethiopia’s largest, most populous region and one of its poorest, with complex and interlinked causes of poverty and food insecurity. The goal of the Ifaa RFSA is...

The din of brisk fishing activity greets anyone who ventures onto the landing beach at Jamestown the Greater Accra Region and in coastal regions all over Ghana. The fishermen haul nets with fish from the boats, while the women take up the sale of fish from January to December. But not so...

Une étude sur la formation à l’agroécologie non-diplômante. Réalisée par BRL ingénierie, commanditée par ARAA/CEDEAO. L’objectif général de cette étude était de diagnostiquer la formation à l’agroécologie non diplômante pour être en mesure d’accompagner son développement dans le cadre de la transition agricole des pays de la CEDEAO. L’ambition est de développer et/ou de consolider, mais aussi de favoriser l’intégration des savoirs et des savoir-faire sur la formation...