La presentación es dirigida a productores y grupos de personas, que realizan actividades agrícolas, pecuarias, acuícolas y pesqueras en zonas rurales y periurbanas. El documento da recomendaciones para facilitar el acceso de los productores familiares al acompañamiento técnico y trata de modelos de extensión con mayor impacto en el desarrollo de la Agricultura Familiar.
Starting with background information, the report presents a summary of the plenary presentations of the workshop, which includes a brief on the post-conflict and protracted crisis environment in the 15 participating countries (Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan). Some countries like Afghanistan qualified all in one as conflict, post-conflict and protracted crisis country.
Jardins partagés, potagers sur les toits, fermes pédagogiques… L’agriculture urbaine est plurielle. C’est aussi vrai pour les fonctions qu’elle joue. Découvrez-en plus dans l’article d’Anne-Laure sur le concept d’agriculture urbaine et ses différentes fonctions mais aussi ses chiffres clés en infographie (p.4-5) Les crises semblent être propices au développement de cette forme d’agriculture. Joana revient sur des initiatives portées en temps de crise au Royaume-Uni, à Cuba ou encore à Lisbonne.
Esta presentación muestra un ejemplo de fusión de productores, consumidores, agrónomos, nutricionistas y economistas que, juntos, han creado nuevos esquemas de mercadeo solidario y agro negocios alternativos para el desarrollo local.
PESA focaliza sus acciones en “Apoyar a las Unidades de Producción Familiar en localidades rurales de alta y muy alta marginación, para incrementar los niveles de producción y productividad de sus actividades agropecuarias, acuícolas y pesqueras…”.
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by: advancing scientific and technological research; investing in infrastructure; fostering higher technical training; and creating regional markets.
C’est un pays-continent, planté au milieu de l’Afrique centrale, dont les possibilités agricoles et rurales sont énormes. Les dirigeants de la République démocratique du Congo doivent cependant dépasser une vision extractive de l’économie et renforcer les véritables forces productrices, essentiellement agricoles, tout en sauvegardant le fabuleux patrimoine naturel du pays. En élaborant un Code agricole, le gouvernement congolais affiche l’ambition de se doter de moyens pour relancer l’agriculture, la pêche et l’élevage.
Esta presentación trata de una estrategia para promover el desarrollo económico y social en una comunidad indígena colombiana.
PAEPARD supports/facilitates three aflatoxin-related research consortia: (a) Stemming aflatoxin pre- and post-harvest waste in the groundnut value chain in Malawi and Zambia; (b) Developing strategies to reduce fungal toxins contamination for improved food sufficiency, nutrition and incomes along the maize value chain in the arid and semi-arid lands of Eastern Kenya; and (c) Developing feed management protocols for dairy farmers in high rainfall areas in Kenya.
These recommendations are a compilation of 2 regional studies at sub-Saharan Africa level which focused on research and technology transfer in the field of rainwater harvesting irrigatio nmanagement on one hand (section 3), and effective policy recommendations on the use of rainwater for off-season small-scale irrigation on the other (section 4). The regional studies upon which this transnational study is based come from the analysis of national studies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.