Ethiopia has more livestock than any other country in Africa. The sales of meat, milk and other animal products from
Chickpea is an important crop in Ethiopia, but yields and grain quality remain poor. To help unlock the full potential, CDAIS has supported the value chain around the northern city of Gondar since 2016, in partnership with the N2Africa project. As a result of new platforms, experience sharing and developing a combination of new organisational skills and behavioural change, research and extension support services stopped telling and started listening, and joined forces in innovating together with farmers.
To ensure food security, farmers must have access to quality seed, in adequate quantities. The government of Ethiopia acknowledges this, and has responded by investing in improving the seed sector. However, as this example shows, not all challenges can be overcome by technical training and new technologies alone. A large seed cooperative union was faced with a problem that seriously affected their very existence. And the solution was not technical.
To ensure food security, farmers must have access to quality seed, in adequate quantities. The government of Ethiopia acknowledges this, and has responded by investing in improving the seed sector. However, as this example shows, not all challenges can be overcome by technical training and new technologies alone. A large seed cooperative union was faced with a problem that affected its very existence. And the solution was not technical.
Michael Kügler, from the Brussels Office of the EU-Platform of Chambers of Agriculture, presented the EU-Innovation Partnership (EIP),designed to support knowledge transfer, coop-eration, and collective investment, at the 3rd GFRAS Annual Meeting, "The Role of Rural Advisory Services in Agricultural Innovation Systems", 26-28 September 2012, Philippines. He referred to the need to pursue innovation in a cross-sectorial approach, interlinking existing initiatives, facilitating communication, providing value added through networking, and achieving syner-gies.
This document sets out how EU Research and Innovation (R&I) policy contributes to the major global challenge of ensuring food and nutrition security (FNS). It is a first step in the further development of a more coherent approach to European R&I which aims at mobilising resources and stakeholders to set out aligned R&I agendas in response to recent international political drivers such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the COP 21 climate commitments.
El PMC Maíz amarillo duro tuvo como objetivo principal que el país llegue a la autosuficiencia de manera competitiva, es decir que ya no dependa de las importaciones y que la demanda sea cubierta por la producción nacional con precios adecuados en relación a la oferta internacional, logrando al mismo tiempo mejorar la calidad de vida del agricultor y la rentabilidad para todos los actores de la cadena.
El presente trabajo trata de contrastar de forma empírica cómo los agronegocios y empresas agropecuarias españolas, más concretamente las radicadas en la Región de Murcia, pueden mejorar su gestión sobre la base de su eficiencia y su relación con la innovación. En el primero apartado se realiza una prospección teórica del marco industrial que caracteriza los agronegocios y empresas agropecuarias de la Región de Murcia.
This paper evaluates the underlying believes related to both models in Paraguayan rural extensionists and the profile of those who prefer each one. We conclude that these models, despite being theoretically opposed, overlap in real situations. Besides, we found that a lower presence of believes related to the transfer of technology model is more likely to be found in older and more experienced technicians and in women
El objetivo del estudio fue analizar el camino del impacto impulsado por el Proyecto Cacao Centroamérica y otras iniciativas relacionadas con el desarrollo de la producción y comercialización de cacao en la región de Waslala, Nicaragua. Se utilizó la metodología Impress ex post (Impact of Research in the South), la cual considera elementos de evaluación cualitativa y cuantitativa, y permite reconstituir el camino del impacto de manera participativa, enfocándose en los procesos de innovación.