TAP and its partners carried out regional surveys in Asia, Africa and Central America to assess priorities, capacities and needs in national agricultural innovation systems. This document provides a Regional synthesis report on capacity needs assessment for agricultural innovation in Africa. FARA was selected as Recipient Organization by FAO to facilitate TAP implementation in Africa. This is mainly due to its position as the umbrella organization bringing together and forming coalitions of major regional stakeholders in agricultural research and development.
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.
This paper draws lessons from selected country experiences of adaptation and innovation in pursuit of food security goals.
Grants for agricultural innovation are common but grant funds specifically targeted to smallholder farmers remain relatively rare. Nevertheless, they are receiving increasing recognition as a promising venue for agricultural innovation. They stimulate smallholders to experiment with improved practices, to become proactive and to engage with research and extension providers. The systematic review covered three modalities of disbursing these grants to smallholder farmers and their organisations: vouchers, competitive grants and farmer-led innovation support funds.
This paper comparatively analyzes the structure of agricultural policy development networks that connect organizations working on agricultural development, climate change and food security in fourteen smallholder farming communities across East Africa, West Africa and South Asia.
La conférence sur « Agriculture écologique : atténuer le changement climatique, assurer la sécurité alimentaire et l’autonomie pour les sources de revenus ruraux en Afrique » s’est tenue à Addis – Abéba (Ethiopie) du 26 au 28 novembre 2008.
This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network’s decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap for its replication in Africa. The Honey Bee Network brings together governmental and non‐governmental institutions, members of academia, scholars and a large number of volunteers.
In recent years, the international status of agriculture in the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—has been continuously improved. In 2018, the gross agricultural production of the BRICS countries accounted for more than 50% of the world’s total. Further strengthening the developing cooperation of the BRICS countries is of great significance for ensuring global food security.
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue evaluar el nivel de integración de la cadena agroalimentaria de la panela, producto tradicional de la región Amazónica Ecuatoriana. Se aplica el procedimiento en la cadena de panela en el cantón Puyo, ciudad de Pastaza. El enfoque en cadenas agroalimentarias impacta de forma positiva en la satisfacción de los clientes. Como aporte técnico, se propone una propuesta de un plan de negocio conjunto para la cadena en estudio, que se centra en la mejora de la calidad del producto y la integración entre los actores de la red local
Con el objetivo de crear un marco de colaboración que favorezca la gestión de la información que los miembros de la red generan y ponerla al servicio de la comunidad científica, además de permitir el intercambio de conocimientos y la cooperación como método de trabajo para que en el futuro surjan acciones conjuntas, se desarrolló y publicó desde el año 2008 el Sitio Web de la “Red Temática Manejo de la Simbiosis Micorrízica en Agrosistemas” que divulga y promueve el trabajo investigativo realizado por los miembros de esta red y sus principales resultados.