Cet article interroge les opportunités et les défis de la demande et de la consommation locales en Afrique de l‘Ouest. Permettre à l’agriculture familiale de bénéficier pleinement de la croissance de la demande régionale nécessitera de travailler davantage sur la structuration des filières, l’aval de la production et le commerce.
Este articulo aborda el tema de la colaboración y de cómo esta puede ayudar el desarrollo y la innovación agrícola en África.
This article gives insights about collaboration and how this process can help agricultural innovation in Africa.
Innovation platforms are by nature democratic spaces for joint problem identification, analysis, prioritization, and the collective design and implementation of activities to overcome problems. They are part of agricultural systems, and only a very small number of the stakeholders will be represented in the innovation platforms. This article sustainability and sucess criterea ofinnovation platforms
Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) is a collection of institutions enabling agricultural and food system transformation in a country. Any attempt to engage in emergency interventions by institutions and bounce back with higher levels of resilience requires strong organizational and human capacity as a prerequisite. What role do these institutions play in emergencies such as COVID-19 and how can they bounce back after such a crisis is over? What can be done to help these institutions build resilience capacity for such recovery?
The issue 3 of the 2020 Capacity Development Newsletter of the International Livestock Research Institute, brings the news regarding short training courses, research and travel grants, fellowships and scholarships as well as all capacity development oportunities lead by the Institute.
The issue 1 of the 2020 Capacity Development Newsletter of the International Livestock Research Institute, brings the news regarding short training courses, research and travel grants, fellowships and scholarships as well as all capacity development oportunities lead by the Institute.
ICT-driven digital tools to support smallholder farmers are arguably inevitable for agricultural development, and they are gradually evolving with promising outlook. Yet, the development and delivery of these tools to target users are often fraught with non-trivial, and sometimes unanticipated, contextual realities that can make or mar their adoption and sustainability. This article unfolds the experiential learnings from a digital innovation project focusing on surveillance and control of a major banana disease in East Africa which is being piloted in Rwanda.
La agricultura tiene una importancia estratégica en la agenda para el desarrollo. Es una de las principales fuentes de empleo, un motor del desarrollo económico y un sector cuyo crecimiento incide ampliamente en la reducción de la pobreza y en la erradicación del hambre.
Este artículo no publicado describe un estudio realizado para determinar la existencia o no de una cadena de valor del miel en el país (Costa Rica), se realizó talleres investigativos con apicultores en dos de las principales provincias productoras, además de entrevistas semiestructuradas y encuestas a actores clave dentro de los eslabones de la cadena.