Rapports et notes de synthèse
En bref: Les légumineuses pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle: comment tirer le meilleur parti de leur potentiel?
Note du Forum FSN sur les discussions en ligne Les légumineuses sont appréciées en raison de leurs bienfaits sur la santé, l’environnement et l’économie. Comment tirer le meilleur parti de leur potentiel? et Les légumineuses: Innovations du champ à la marmite, tenues respectivement du 25 mai au 19...
Reconstruire le potentiel alimentaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
La FAO et le FIDA viennent de sortir une publication dédiée au potentiel alimentaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest afin de soutenir le processus décisionnel dans la région au moment où de nombreux pays de la région sont en train de mettre en œuvre leur stratégie nationale agricole dérivée du processus du CAADP. En effet, à la suite de la crise alimentaire de 2007-2008, les pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest ont pris les mesures nécessaires pour créer un environnement favorable à l’investissement agricole.
Reconstruire le potentiel alimentaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, s’appuie sur de nombreuses études de cas pour recommander des aires prioritaires pour l’action. Selon cette publication, renforcer la productivité, promouvoir la compétitivité et s’assurer que les petits agriculteurs aient un meilleur accès au marché sont des facteurs clés pour que l’Afrique de l’Ouest réalise son plein potentiel agricole.
Pour plus d’informations, accédez à l’étude : Reconstruire le potentiel alimentaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: politiques et incitations du marché pour la promotion des filières alimentaires intégrant les petits producteurs
Smallholders dataportrait
The smallholder farmers' dataportrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world.
It generates an image on how small family farmers in developing and emerging countries live their lives. It is about putting in numbers, the constraints they face, and the choices they make so that policies can be informed by evidence to meet the challenge of agricultural development. Currently, the data portrait provides information for 14 countries.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2014
More than 500 million family farms manage the majority of the world's agricultural land and produce most of the world's food. We need family farms to ensure global food security, to care for and protect the natural environment and to end poverty, undernourishment and malnutrition. Goals can be thoroughly achieved if public policies support family farms to become more productive and sustainable; in other words policies must support family farms to innovate within a system that recognizes their diversity and the complexity of the challenges faced.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in ways that promote sustainable intensification of production and improvements in rural livelihoods.
Lire la suite:
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4040e.pdf
Consultations
L’avenir de l’agriculture familiale: Assurer des ressources aux femmes et aux jeunes qui travaillent dans l'agriculture
Avec de cette discussion, nous espérons promouvoir le dialogue sur les questions relatives à l'agriculture familiale. Qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire pour rendre l'agriculture plus positive et rentable pour les jeunes et quelles stratégies peuvent promouvoir l'égalité pour les femmes qui travaillent dans le système alimentaire?
National Seminar on Rural Youth in Family Farming: Need and Challenges
National Seminar on “Rural Youth in Family Farming” at Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour on December 18-19, 2014.
The seminar is an attempt to bring together the stakeholders like researchers, academic institutions, industries, government agencies, farmers, NGOs etc. together on a single platform. In order to address the need and challenges posed in the successful implementation of family farming in a holistic manner putting an added emphasis on current trends and aspirations of the youth in relation to family farming, the seminar aims to provide a forum to raise the awareness of the needs and potential of the youth in family farming along with the constraints that they face, and ensure that they have access to technical support along with the creation of synergies for sustainability. The strengthening the legitimacy of farmers organization, youth clubs and their capacity to effectively represent and defend the interests of family farming and sharing lessons learned and successful pro-family farming policies, and capitalizing relevant knowledge on family farming from various corners of the country are key features of the seminar.
Call for articles: Nutrition values and family farming
The ILEIA quarterly Farming Matters has issued a call for papers on: Nutritional values and family farming.
The last issue of Farming Matters for 2014 will focus on how family farming and agroecology support the nutrition of family members and the wider community.
The deadline is September 1st, 2014
Call for Articles - Agri Enterprise involving Smallholders
GFAR is seeking many new ways to spread the value of agricultural research and innovation of all kinds and how they are helping to address development challenges. GFAR has established a collaboration with New Agriculturist a widely read and well recognized online journal, to help share your stories about how agricultural knowledge and innovation are helping to address major development challenges and make a real difference in the lives of the poor.
Through publication in New Agriculturist we can help you to raise wider awareness of your work and share your knowledge with thousands of readers. We are particularly interested in stories that show how you are delivering against processes transforming and strengthening agricultural research for development systems as highlighted in the GCARD Roadmap and how your work is helping achieve developmental change in increasing environmental resilience, in benefiting people’s lives and livelihoods or enhancing food and nutrition security, whether by improving foresight and prioritization, improving partnership, enhancing capacities, increasing investments, or by better linking research and innovation into development processes.
GFAR is contributing 3 articles in each edition. These articles will be displayed on the front page of New Agriculturist. The previous editions with the GFAR sections are available here.
The topic for the next edition is "Agri Enterprise involving Smallholders" and GFAR is seeking stories and projects from around the world on the theme, whether at local, national, regional or international scale.
We welcome your contributed articles, which must be received by the 30 June 2013. The guidelines for writing up the articles in terms of content are:
Show how people put the GCARD RoadMap principles into practice:
1. Background – what was the drive behind the new development
2. Description of how the new development works and how it is changing real lives
3. Hurdles and challenges that were overcome
4. Comments and experiences of ‘developers’ and users
5. Limitations/constraints/future challenges
6. Responses from relevant/significant bodies (e.g. partner organizations)
7. What next in terms of development? What lessons have been learnt/can be transferred elsewhere?
Article length is 750- 850 words. Please note, longer article will not be considered.
Please send us articles rather than research type papers as the former are more likely to be selected. To get more idea of the style expected please visit the previous edition.
All articles received will be submitted to New Agriculturist for their consideration and selection.
We invite you to identify and share stories on the topic and help us reach beyond GFAR`s community.
Please send the articles to the following E-mail address: [email protected]
Consultations
Consultation du HLPE sur le projet V0 du Rapport: Investir dans la petite agriculture pour parvenir à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle
Le Groupe d'experts de haut niveau sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (HLPE) sollicite des vues et contributions sur une version zéro (V0) du rapport sur les investissements des petits exploitants dans le secteur agricole. Cet étude porte sur les options de politique pour surmonter ces contraintes, à la lumière des travaux effectués dans ce domaine par le FIDA, ainsi que par la FAO dans le cadre du COAG, et par d’autres partenaires clés. L’étude contient une évaluation comparative des stratégies qui permettraient de relier les petits exploitants aux chaînes de valeur alimentaire sur les marchés nationaux et régionaux, ainsi que des enseignements à tirer des différentes expériences dans ce domaine, ainsi qu’une évaluation de l’impact, sur les petits exploitants, des partenariats entre le secteur public et le secteur privé, les coopératives agricoles et le secteur privé et entre privés.
Call for articles on Smallholder Enterprise Development
GFAR (The Global Forum on Agricultural Research) has established a collaboration with New Agriculturist a widely read and well recognized online journal, to help share your stories about how agricultural knowledge and innovation are helping to address major development challenges and make a real difference in the lives of the poor.
The topic for the next edition is Smallholder Enterprise Development and GFAR is seeking stories and projects from around the world on the theme, whether at local, national, regional or international scale. Contributed articles must be received by the 5th August 2012.