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Тематическое исследование
The Good Cocoyam Seed Initiative
Indigenous cocoyams in Burundi have the potential to increase food and nutrition security and contribute to improved livelihoods, but farmers’ capacity to meet the growing demand for them has been constrained by a lack of good quality seed and technical knowhow. The Good Seed Initiative targeted both seed and cocoyam...
Burundi
2019 - ESAFF Burundi
Видеоматериал
Paysans et finance agricole au Niger
Ce film illustre une expérience pilote (2016-2018) de renforcement des compétences de 12 organisations paysannes du Niger en finance agricole afin d’améliorer leur accès au financement de leurs activités économiques.
Niger
2019 - SOS Faim luxembourg
Политический обзор/документ
Scaling Agroecology in the Sahel
Groundswell International and Cultivate! publish this new briefing on how to upscale and outscale agroecology in the Sahel in West Africa.
The briefing starts from an integrated approach, combining agroecology with women’s self-empowerment, nutrition, equity and governance. It outlines concrete steps in three general strategies for how civil society organisations can successfully support processes to scale up...
Burkina Faso - Mali - Senegal
2019 - Groundswell West Africa and Cultivate
Видеоматериал
Marché à bétail autogérés
Le Réseau Billital Maroobé (RBM) a engagé un travail de capitalisation des acquis des éleveurs en matière d’organisation des marchés à bétail en Afrique de l’Ouest. Cette vidéo met en avant des enseignements tirés des formes d’organisation des marchés à bétail dans les différents pays. Si de nombreux efforts sont...
2019 - Réseau Billital Maroobé (RBM)
Доклад
Contract farming and public–private partnerships in aquaculture. Lessons learned from East African countries
This report presents the lessons learned from a project in four East African countries – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – focusing on youth and their agribusinesses. In Burundi and Rwanda, poultry and eggs were sold to retailers but were also provided to schools to alleviate malnutrition. In Kenya and...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Статья
Elusive profits: understanding economic performance of local traders in the pastoral small ruminant value chain in Northern Kenya
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...
Kenya
2019
Рабочий документ
A qui profite le retour des pluies ? Le cas des éleveurs du Ferlo
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...
Senegal
2019 - HaL Archives Ouvertes
Работа конференции
Pour une prise en compte accrue de l’approche One Health au Mali
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...
Mali
2019 - AVSF
Тематическое исследование
Social and Economic Empowerment in Agricultural Entrepreneurship
A Case Study of Rural Farmers in Cameroon
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...
Cameroon
2019 - University of Mannheim
Тематическое исследование
Strengthening harvests
Soil and water conservation practices strengthen harvests in Tanzania highlands.
High rainfalls in mountainous agricultural regions trigger a need for intervention to help farmers confront food insecurity and restore and protect their soil.
United Republic of Tanzania
2019 - Alliance for food sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Тематическое исследование
Changing the fortunes of farmers and families in Murang'a County, Kenya
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.
Kenya
2019 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Тематическое исследование
Sustainable land management: Restoring community farmland in Uganda
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.
Uganda
2019 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Справочник
MEL Handbook for SDG 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
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...
2019 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Видеоматериал
Madagascar : l'agroécologie pour assurer la souveraineté alimentaire des familles paysannes
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.
Madagascar
2019 - Agronomes & Vétérinaires Sans Frontières
Статья
Mapping topsoil organic carbon concentrations and stocks for Tanzania
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...
United Republic of Tanzania
2019 - Elsevier
Статья
Integrating gender analysis into food & nutrition security early warning systems in West Africa
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...
2019 - OECD Publishing
Журнал
Opportunities in Agriculture: Stemming youth migration
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...
2019 - CTA
Статья
Causal pathways of the productive impacts of cash transfers: Experimental evidence from Lesotho
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...
Lesotho
2019 - Elsevier
Веб-сайт
ISSD Africa Community of Practice
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...
2019 - ISSD Africa
Мероприятие
Wageningen University & Research Campaign for ISSD Africa
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 &...
2019 - ISSD Africa
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