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.
Graduate programs in agriculture and allied disciplines in Ethiopia are expected to make concrete contribution to market-oriented development of smallholder agriculture. This, among others, calls for realignment and engagement of the programs with smallholder farmers and, value chain, R&D and policy actors. No panacea exists, however, as to how to ensure effective linkages, and thereby responsiveness. Lessons from initiatives on the ground in the country and beyond is thus crucial to inform the development of appropriate policy and innovative strategy.
This research refers to the application of a innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance.
These notes summarise reflections on local innovation and participatory innovation development that took place within the PROLINNOVA International Support Team (IST), based on observations and discussions with network partners during advisory visits and international workshops.
Las limitaciones en el manejo de la diversidad agrobiológica en Cuba, debido al déficit financiero, posibilitó una estrategia de fitomejoramiento alternativo y complementario al fitomejoramiento convencional y centralizado. Esta importante forma denominada Fitomejoramiento Participativo (FP), como parte integrante de la innovación agropecuaria local, se inició en el 2000 y después de ocho años de ejecución, los propios campesinos que se sumaron a estas ideas han evaluado su impacto.
L’agriculture de conservation (AC) obéit à trois principes : travail du sol minimal, couverture du sol permanente et multiculture. Partant de ses avantages avérés pour l’écologie du sol, la séquestration de carbone et son adoption massive dans quelques régions du monde, elle est présentée par ses promoteurs comme un système durable convenant à tous contextes. Dès lors elle a été mondialement diffusée au nom du développement durable.
La production et le commerce du lait sont révélateurs des enjeux de la lutte contre la pauvreté. La volatilité des prix du lait sur les marchés internationaux constituerait l’une des principales entraves au développement de filières laitières dans les pays du Sud. Cette année, la production de lait des pays pauvres représentera pourtant 48% de la production laitière mondiale; mais les produits laitiers importés du Nord mettent en difficulté les producteurs locaux.
There is an emerging body of literature analysing how smallholder farmers in developing countries can benefit from modern supply chains. However, most of the available studies concentrate on export markets and fail to capture spillover effects that modern supply chains may have on local markets. Here, we analyse the case of sweet pepper in Thailand, which was initially introduced as a product innovation in modern supply chains, but which is now widely traded also in more traditional markets.
In the framework of a wide Foresight process, launched by the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR) and aiming to identify possible scenarios for European agriculture in a 20-year perspective, DG RTD/E of the European Commission established a high-level Consultancy Expert Group (CEG) that analysed and synthesised foresight information in order to provide research policy orientations, tacking stock of the report from the first Foresight Expert Group (FEG) published in February 2007.
This synthesis report presents the outputs of the workshop organised by CTA at its headquarters in Wageningen, The Netherlands, 15-17 July 2008. The outputs are presented in two main parts, each corresponding to one of the workshop objectives, and ends with a section on the way forward as suggested by the workshop participants. It also includes a first attempt to come to a consolidated generic framework on AIS performance indicators, based on the outputs of the different working groups.