This report describes the activities carried out by the Africa RISING-NAFAKA parnership. The Africa RISING-NAFAKA partnership project focuses on the delivery and scaling of promising interventions that enhance agricultural productivity in Tanzania. The key interventions are the promotion of climate-smart agricultural innovations, dissemination of best-bet crop management packages, rehabilitation and protection of natural resources, and reduction of food waste and spoilage.
Increasingly, (inter)national development organisations are investing in programmes for youth in agribusiness throughout Africa.
Ante las situaciones de cambio y transición experimentadas en Venezuela a distintos niveles y con diferentes alcances, la agroindustria se perfila como un elemento determinante para la transformación y la consolidación del sistema agroalimentario rural.
El objetivo del trabajo consistió en diagnosticar el subsector de la soya, diseñando y evaluando las estrategias que potencien su desarrollo en una de las regiones en México que concentran la mayor parte de la superficie y producción nacional del producto. En el año 2011 la región de El Mante albergaba cerca de la tercera parte de toda la superficie nacional y más del 20% de la producción de soya del país.
La presente investigación intenta abordar la dinámica de la cadena triguera argentina. El objetivo del trabajo consistió en recuperar analíticamente algunas experiencias desarrolladas en la última década en relación con la confi guración de nuevas formas de gobernanza en la cadena argentina de trigo. Para ello se caracterizaron las principales estructuras de gobernanza presentes en la citada cadena, explorando bajo qué condiciones surgen aquellas que responden al nuevo contexto competitivo del mercado triguero y cuáles son sus implicaciones en relación con su mejora.
En este estudio se diseñó una investigación documental y de campo, de tipo analítica basada en un muestreo aleatorio, con el objeto de analizar la cadena de valor de dichas unidades empresariales de los municipios Libertador y Campo Elías del estado Mérida.
Rapid appraisal of agricultural innovation systems (RAAIS) is a participatory, diagnostic tool for integrated analysis of complex agricultural problems. RAAIS facilitates interaction between different groups of stakeholders in collecting and analysing data. The poster briefs what RAAIS is, when to use it, what is available and where it has been used.
The Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program, supported by United States Agency for International Development, aims to create opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainably intensified farming systems that improve food, nutrition, and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or enhance the natural resource base.
The following contents were included in this newsletter (April–June 2014): the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) held a two-day workshop on Engagement of Youth Entrepreneurship for Agricultural Transformation in Africa, from 28-30 May at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria; cassava processing factory was established at the IITA Kalambo station in DR. Congo; project coordinator visits sites to evaluate project activities in Tanzania; stories on cassava, rice, wheat and maize were detailed.
This blended learning program for facilitators of innovation platforms was developed working with SMEs from ILRI, IITA, ICRAF and Wageningen University and drawing on materials from FARA and CIAT to sequence content and learning experiences so that learners can rapidly acquire and retain the skills and knowledge they need to fill this demanding role.