Traders tend to be regarded as exploitative towards producers even without knowledge of their businesses. This study examines marketing costs, net-profits and return to invested capital of small ruminant traders from Marsabit County. Based on 84 transactions made between 2014 and 2016, we found low average profits and a high...

The return of more abundant rainfall in the Sahel region since the early 2000s raises questions about the consequences of this change for breeders in the Ferlo region of Senegal. A detailed analysis of precipitation data shows that with the return of a more humid rainfall regime, the climatic risk...

Le document présente les Actes d'un séminaire organisé à Bamako en novembre 2018, par AVSF et VSF-International, avec le soutien de l'Agence Française de Développement, pour dynamiser et renforcer les collaborations entre l’ensemble des partenaires impliqués (organisations paysannes, société civile, services publics et techniques déconcentrés, professionnels de la santé animale...

A case study has been conducted for assessing how Agricultural Entrepreneurship (being part of a farming cooperative, taking part to training programs and improving one’s commercial/agricultural techniques) results in social, political and economic empowerment among women farmers in Cameroon. In-depth interviews have been conducted in order to compare the empowerment process in farming cooperatives with the...

High rainfalls in mountainous agricultural regions trigger a need for intervention to help farmers confront food insecurity and restore and protect their soil.

The Organic Agriculture Centre of Kenya (OACK) saw that by providing the right skills, information and support, they could help small-scale farmers move away from subsistence farming and into thriving livelihoods that improve their local communities and the landscapes they live in. 

KAFSCUL (Karamoja Agro-Farm Systems Consults), a private organization in Uganda, has been working with small-scale farmers in Jie County to improve soil fertility and make farmland more resilient to adverse weather conditions. 

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are one of the leading initiatives for addressing the critical, complex and often inter-related issues of our world. SDG 14 — Life below water — focuses on our oceans, estuaries, rivers and watersheds, and the human systems that intersect with them. Unfortunately, it has struggled...

Dans le Sud de Madagascar, AVSF a contribué à travers 2 projets à la promotion de l'agroécologie, au développement de l'agriculture familiale et l'amélioration de l'accès aux services de proximité et de l'accès à l'eau.

Tanzania is one of the countries that has embarked on a national programme under the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). Tanzania is currently developing the capacity to enter into a carbon monitoring REDD + regime. In this context spatially representative soil carbon...

Integrating gender dimensions into early warning systems is critical to support equitable crisis prevention and response. This paper investigates the extent to which food and nutrition security early warning systems (FNS EWS) in the Sahel and West Africa are gender-responsive and highlights existing gaps at national and regional levels. Progress...

Africa’s growing youth workforce presents enormous potential for agricultural transformation, but to capitalise on this promising resource the sector must become a more attractive employment option for the continent’s young people. As waves of young people leave their rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa in search of better work, can the agricultural...

This paper has the double aim to study whether unconditional cash transfers have an impact on farm production and to look into the causal mechanisms through which government transfers produce productive impacts. We use mediation analysis to identify the total effect of transfers on farm production and to isolate the...

Lack of access to quality seed is one of the most pressing issues hindering productivity increase in Africa. ISSD Africa (established in 2012) is an international community of practice, guiding seed sector innovation and development on the African continent to alleviate the problem of limited access to quality seed. Addressing...

ISSD Africa, a successful Community of Practice (CoP) on seed sector development hosted by Wageningen University & Research is looking for new investment partners before April 15. Partners are asked to invest in the CoP and/or nine well-defined action topics, ranging from seed, agrobiodiversity & climate change to gender &...

Le rapport confirme l’effet attracteur du Nigéria porté par sa démographie et son urbanisation croissante. Il propose le développement de politiques publiques innovantes fondées sur le renforcement du capital social féminin et des options politiques pour une meilleure intégration des diverses initiatives entreprises par les États, les organisations internationales et...

Au Sénégal, de nombreuses initiatives ont permis l’amélioration des droits fonciers des femmes. Toutefois, ces interventions présentent des effets pervers. S’appuyant sur l’analyse de trois études de cas, cette note présente quelques uns de ces effets et souligne la nécessité d’aborder la question de l’accès au foncier des femmes en...

Les forêts de la RDC jouent un rôle crucial dans l’atténuation du changement climatique et dans l’alimentation et la culture des populations. Des études dans trois pays africains ont constaté une « dissonance » entre la conservation des forêts et la production alimentaire, et une « déconnexion » entre les...

Since its official launch in May 2016, Agribusiness web TV has been promoting various initiatives by young farmers and entrepreneurs who have become involved in the agricultural sector. This publication presents twenty-four of these youth initiatives that are engaged in production, processing (cereals, chocolate), green jobs and nutrition (organic market...

On 6 February 2019, a political agreement for peace and reconciliation was formally signed in Bangui between the Government and 14 armed groups. The food security situation remains dire in the Central African Republic. According to the results of the Evaluation Nationale de la Sécurité Alimentaire (ENSA) 2018, 2.1 million people...