Livestock have strong empowerment potential, particularly for women. They offer millions of women in the Global South the opportunity to provide protein-rich foods for home consumption and sale. Livestock provide women with income and opportunities to expand their livelihood portfolios and can strengthen women’s decision-making power. Fully realizing livestock’s empowerment potential for women is necessary for sustainable livestock development. It requires, though, that gender-equitable dynamics and norms are supported in rural communities.
Des réformes institutionnelles ont autorisé la liberté d’association dans les pays du Maghreb. L’émergence et/ou l’essor d’un réseau ramifié d’organisations offertes par ces nouvelles politiques de développement rural ont multiplié les possibilités d’action autonome des acteurs sociaux dans la vie locale.
Agricultural innovation is a process that takes a multitude of different forms, and, within this process, agricultural research and expertise are mobilised at different points in time for different purposes. This paper uses two key analytical principles to establish how research is actually put into use. The first, which concerns the configurations of organisations and their relationships associated with innovation, reveals the additional set of resources and expertise that research needs to be married to, and sheds light on the types of arrangements that allow this marriage to take place.
The impressive performance of improved varieties of high-yielding, heat-tolerant wheat developed in Sudan has convinced Nigerian decision makers that a viable solution to their country’s growing dependence on wheat imports is domestic production – a policy shift that will protect Nigerians from the vagaries of global commodity markets and strengthen national food security. The brief describes this solution.
Afghanistan-ICARDA programs have field tested a range of rural development approaches and practices. Many of these are ripe for scaling-up at national level and can contribute to the EU-Afghanistan National Priority Programs (NPP) 2017-2021.
The literature reviewed in this document is global in its focus to attend to broad trends in the field and practice of agricultural extension. We do not aim for an extensive literature review but to identify implications for not including gender, ways to do so, and means to move forward. The aim of this report to highlight the importance of gender integration into agricultural extension programs in various parts of the world in order to raise much needed awareness on the subject
The final report outlines key outputs and outcomes of the implemented activities between 7 April 2015 and 6 April 2019 including review of the seed sector in Afghanistan; development of legal, managerial and technical documents for Public-Private-Producers Partnership (PPPP) model in seed sector, revitalization of seed testing laboratories, capacity building of stakeholders and awareness raising among stakeholders. The project was initiated in 2015 with a brainstorming workshop to create awareness about the PPPP concept among stakeholders and document their suggestions.
Une évaluation approfondie du système de vulgarisation agricole tunisien montre que des paquets technologiques améliorés destinés au système de production agricole mixte élevage-orge en Tunisie semi-aride permettent d’économiser jusqu’à 40 % des coûts d’alimentation du bétail, mais ne sont pas largement adoptés. Les faibles taux d’adoption sont typiques pour de nombreuses technologies approuvées dans les pays en voie de développement.
Les espaces ruraux périurbains des grandes villes d'Algérie vivent des transformations liées à trois facteurs combinés, parfois contradictoires : l'ouverture libérale, la redistribution de la rente pétrolière et l'évolution des espaces et des marchés urbains. Les exemples de la Mitidja centrale (entre Blida et Alger) et de l'Oranais en révèlent la diversité et les contrastes.
La sécurité alimentaire en Algérie semble plus que menacée par un niveau de croissance démographique incontrôlé, par la dégradation des conditions physiques du secteur de l’agriculture, par la baisse des ressources hydriques et par le retard de développement technique de l’activité. À partir d’une revue bibliographique sur la situation actuelle du secteur agricole, le texte définit ses niveaux de développement et les défis de l’avenir auxquels ce secteur sera confronté.