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Smallholder irrigation technology
Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa
This report is a review of irrigation technologies for smallholders in the context of improving rural livelihoods, especially in regard to the prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. The role of traditional technologies is evaluated and modern water distribution technologies, such as sprinkler and trickle irrigation, are reviewed. Low-cost irrigation systems, including...
2001 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Тематическое исследование
Socio-economic impact of smallholder irrigation development in Zimbabwe
Case studies of ten irrigation schemes
Smallholder irrigation development has shown throughout the developing world that it can be used as a key drought mitigation measure and as a vehicle for the long-term agricultural and macro-economic development of a country. Successful smallholder irrigation schemes can result in increased productivity, improved incomes and nutrition, employment creation, food...
Zimbabwe
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Информационный бюллетень
Dimitra Newsletter: Centre de Recherches, d’Etudes, de Documentation et d’Information sur la Femme
In this issue, we conclude with the last two presentations of our local partners with a description of CREDIF, covering North Africa, and of POSDEV, covering a number of countries in West Africa. Ruth Ochieng, from Isis-WICCE in Uganda, presents the work undertaken by her organisation, which strives to empower...
Ghana - Malawi - Tunisia - Zimbabwe
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Информационный бюллетень
Dimitra Newsletter: Proposals for the Future
In the present issue, a large proportion of the columns will be been devoted to the Reflection and Self-Evaluation Workshop held in Brussels on 16-18 October with the partners of the Dimitra Project. We hand over to the partners, who have drawn up two documents on the proceedings of the...
Algeria - Ghana - Kenya - Senegal - Uganda
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Тематическое исследование
An investigation into the options and prospects of family farming in South Africa
Implications for agricultural policy
In South Africa the racial and agricultural policies aimed at national food self-sufficiency created an agricultural structure dominated by large, mechanised farms that are owned and operated by a small number of individuals or companies. New agricultural policy should therefore focus more on peasant farming in the subsistence sector in...
South Africa
2000 - Stellenbosch University
Политический обзор/документ
IFAD’s Gender Strengthening Programme in Eastern and Southern Africa
This publication is intended to inform IFAD-supported project management units (PMUs), other donors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Eastern and Southern Africa about IFAD’s Gender Strengthening Programme in the region. The programme is currently in the process of identifying challenges faced by projects, emphasizing empirical findings from field diagnostic...
Angola - Botswana - Burundi - Comoros - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Rwanda - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2000 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Тематическое исследование
Targeting of rural financial services to women
Marital and enterprise-related factors will affect women’s control over the enterprise for which they borrow.
These days, many credit and savings activities, including those under IFAD-supported projects, target rural women. A 2000 FAO/IFAD study in Uganda highlights the role of microfinance in women’s empowerment. Two questions asked were: (1) Is it appropriate and efficient to provide credit lines exclusively for women? (2) Are women in...
Uganda
2000 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Информационный бюллетень
Dimitra Newsletter: High Level Consultation on Rural Women and Information
FAO is organising a High Level Consultation in Rome from 4 to 6 October with a view to improving information for decision-makers, the media and the public at large on the essential role of rural women in agricultural development and their contribution to food security. Emphasis will be laid on...
Gambia - Kenya - Zimbabwe
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Газетная статья
Cultural practices and production constraints in smallholder banana-based cropping systems of Uganda's Lake Victoria Basin
Identification of environmentally-sound options for agricultural resource management is necessary to obtain food security for smallhold farming communities in Uganda. Qualitative and quantitative appraisals were conducted in Bukoto county, Masaka district to assess the socioeconomic and biophysical status of the banana and coffee farming system. Three main hypotheses were tested:...
Uganda
1999 - Makerere University,
Газетная статья
The significance and management of maize cob rots in smallholder farms in Central Malawi
The main objective of this study was to describe the importance of cob rots in farmers' maize fields and reduced food quality through spoilage. During the 1997/98 season disease incidence and severity levels were evaluated in the Local, MH18, NSCM41, and NSCM51 varieties on farmers' maize from two villages in...
Malawi
1999 - University of Malawi
Газетная статья
Opportunities for improving integrated nutrient management by smallholder farmers in the Central Highlands of Kenya
Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) is an important strategy for soil improvement in smallholder systems of East Africa but successful implementation depends upon identification of opportunities for intervention, which are in turn dependent upon a practical knowledge of farm enterprises and decision making. Surveys addressing soil fertility management were conducted among...
Kenya
1999 - University of Nairobi
Информационный бюллетень
Dimitra Newsletter: EndaPronat, FAN and IRED
In this issue, you can read more about EndaPronat, FAN and IRED, about their working methods and the countries they will be covering within the framework of the collection of information for the Dimitra project. Furthermore, you will find several articles in this issue covering a wide range of subjects...
Kenya - Niger - Senegal
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Газетная статья
A small push goes a long way
Farmers’ participation in rainwater harvesting technology development
Farmer participation in decision making at various phases of project implementation contributes very highly to project success. The Soil-Water Management Research Programme (SWMRP) has gained valuable experience in the involvement of farmer in all phases during the implementation of the programme. The programme used the following instruments to ensure farmer...
United Republic of Tanzania
1999
Газетная статья
Sources of growth in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
The role of vertical integration of smallholders with processors and marketers of high value-added items
The point of departure of this paper is that African nations cannot afford to ignore smallholder agriculture, however difficult its prospects may seem. Region wide, at the beginning of the 1990's, 85 percent of Africa's population was rural, and more than a quarter of the labour force was actively engaged...
Cabo Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Comoros - Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius - Sao Tome and Principe - Seychelles - Somalia - South Sudan
1999
Работа конференции
The scope and effect of family poultry research and development
Smallholder poultry production (i.e. family poultry) is an appropriate system that makes the best use of locally available resources. Family flocks are important providers of eggs and meat as well as being valued in religious and cultural life. There are three production systems for family poultry - free range, backyard...
India - Mozambique - Pakistan
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Информационный бюллетень
Dimitra Newsletter: Brief historical summary of the Dimitra Project
The Dimitra Project on Rural Women and Development started in 1994 at the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels, Belgium, with the support of the European Commission. The Dimitra Guidebook, printed in 1996, contains information on 255 European NGOs, research institutes and information centers working with and for rural women in...
1998 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Политический обзор/документ
Encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture in southern Africa in the context of agricultural services reform
This paper summarizes the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation. In this context, moves toward...
Botswana - Malawi - Namibia - South Africa - Zambia - Zimbabwe
1998 - Overseas Development Institute
Технический документ
A strategic reassessment of fish farming potential in Africa
The present study is an update of an earlier assessment of warm-water fish farming potential in Africa, by Kapetsky (1994). The objective of this study was to assess locations and areal expanses that have potential for warm-water and temperate-water fish farming in continental Africa. The study was based on previous...
Kenya - Malawi - Uganda - Zimbabwe
1998 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Тематическое исследование
Women's farm implements in Uganda
Women farmers in Uganda need both better hand tools and access to animal traction.
Uganda was one of countries included in a 1997 IFAD/FAO/Government of Japan study on agricultural implements used by women. The study areas in Uganda were the District of Mubende in central Uganda and the District of Soroti in the northeastern part of the country. These areas have quite different farming...
Uganda
1998 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Политический обзор/документ
Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi
Implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity, and crop income
In Malawi, maize is the major crop and food staple. Given limited off-farm employment opportunities, much-needed increases in household income for improving food security must come from gains in agricultural productivity through better technology and more profitable crops. In the past, agricultural policy promoted hybrid maize and, more recently, tobacco...
Malawi
1997 - International Food Policy Research Institute
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