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Training Farmers and Enhancing Food Security in Eswatini

Agriculture has traditionally been the backbone of Swaziland’s economy but has experienced severe decline. Its contribution to GDP has decreased gradually over the last two decades due to a number of factors, including recurring drought, chronic underinvestment and the impact of HIV and AIDS. Despite this, agriculture-based products account for...
Eswatini
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Documento técnico
Transboundary threats to food and nutrition security in Southern Africa. Issue 1. April- June 2017

The Bulletin highlights outbreaks of transboundary pests and diseases that have the potential to impact food and nutrition security in Southern Africa. It also captures recently concluded and upcoming events that are being organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and stakeholders to improve the capacities...
Angola - Botswana - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Informe
WFP Regional El Niño Situation Report

El Niño conditions have caused the lowest recorded rainfall between October and December across many regions of Southern Africa in at least 35 years. Short-term forecasts from January to March indicate the high probability of continuing below-normal rainfall in the south, signaling that this could become one of the worst...
Angola - Botswana - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2016 - World Food Programme (WFP)

Declaración
SADC consultative meeting on preparedness and response to the impact of El Niño on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition security in Southern Africa

The SADC Consultative Meeting on Preparedness and Response to the Impact of the 2015/16 El Niño on Agriculture and Food and Nutrition Security in Southern Africa was held from 25th to 26th February 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
Angola - Botswana - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Eswatini - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2016 - Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Vídeo
Supporting Family Farming in Swaziland FAO

FAO is supporting family farmers, who have an often-undervalued role to play in ensuring global food security. The Swaziland Agricultural Development Project, led by the government with assistance from the European Union and FAO, is helping over 20,000 smallholder farmers produce more, higher-quality food and connect with new markets.
Eswatini
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Documento/nota de orientación
Gender and rural development brief

East and Southern Africa
The countries of East and Southern Africa have made major commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, and they are starting to pay off. A number of countries have achieved substantial progress towards gender parity in primary school enrolment. Nearly all countries have adopted quota systems requiring women’s participation...
Angola - Botswana - Burundi - Comoros - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Rwanda - Seychelles - South Africa - South Sudan - Eswatini - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Documento/nota de orientación
Evidence to support climate change adaptation in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland

In southern Africa, the predicted 2°C rise in temperature will destabilize farming systems. Coping mechanisms, livelihood strategies and the cost of adaptation options for smallholder farmers are not sufficiently understood in the region because the majority of research is focused on ecological assessment and identifying the vulnerability of households. In...
Eswatini - Lesotho - Malawi
2015 - Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)

Vídeo
Grown in Swaziland: nation's agricultural development

In Swaziland, the marketing initiative of the Swaziland Agricultural Development Programme, led by the government with assistance from the European Union and FAO, is helping farmers gain access to finance and markets.  
Eswatini
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Vídeo
Bees bring hope in Swaziland

The Vikizijula community in Swaziland talks about bees as the 'insect of hope'. This refers to the way beekeeping and producing honey has transformed their lives. Parents are now able to send their children to proper schools, and some have also been able to construct larger houses. Bees have been...
Eswatini
2014 - Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture ( ILEIA)

Artículo de revista especializada
The impact of credit on technical efficiency among vegetable farmers in Swaziland

Access to credit is regarded as an important intervention for improving the incomes of the rural population, mainly by mobilizing resources to more productive uses. Production of vegetables by smallholder farmers in Swaziland is inconsistent and lower than the national demand, hence the gap is filled by imports from South...
Eswatini
2014

Libro
Lessons in supporting family farming

Stories from Swaziland
Many rural development initiatives attempt to improve the lives of family farmers. Some succeed, some fail – but all of them can offer valuable lessons for the future. In a two-phased documentation workshop, farmers, field workers and other experts working in IFAD-funded projects in Swaziland described, analysed and wrote down...
Eswatini
2014 - Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture ( ILEIA)

Artículo de blog
Bees bring hope

In the east of Swaziland, a community has been able to raise themselves out of poverty thanks to the 'insect of hope'. Keeping bees has transformed their lives, giving them decent livelihoods and also teaching them quite a few lessons about unity and cooperation.  
Eswatini
2013 - Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture ( ILEIA)

Vídeo
Garden Africa's training film: Black Gold: The Secrets of Compost

Black Gold: the Secrets of Compost was filmed on location in Swaziland, and is the first in the Living Classroom series. The Living Classroom is the result of GardenAfrica’s training programmes that have been successfully developed and implemented over the past ten years with sustainable agriculture & permaculture specialists. It was built...
Eswatini
2013 - Garden Africa

Libro
Southern african agriculture and climate change

A comprehensive analysis
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security...
Botswana - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - South Africa - Eswatini - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Parte de un libro
Southern african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Swaziland

The majority of the rural people in Swaziland depend on cash income for survival strategies. Rural agriculture is insufficient to meet all food needs, but agricultural production provides a vital supplement to other food sources as well as employment opportunities during peak agricultural seasons (such as for weeding and harvesting).  ...
Eswatini
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Estudio de caso
The relationship between production performance and governance in smallholder irrigation schemes in Swaziland

Smallholder sugarcane growing is central to rural development and poverty alleviation in Swaziland. The main objective of smallholder sugar cane growing is to reduce poverty through increased household income. This study investigated the relationship between water use agricultural and financial performance, and governance (accountability and transparency) in smallholder irrigation schemes...
Eswatini
2013 - University of Zimbabwe

Documento/nota de orientación
The Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA)

Social and Economic impact of child under-nutrition in Egypt, Ethiopia, Swaziland and Uganda
The Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) Study is a project led by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the New Partnership of Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Planning and Coordinating Agency and supported by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). COHA is a...
Egypt - Ethiopia - Eswatini - Uganda
2013 - World Food Programme (WFP)

Vídeo
BLACK GOLD: The Secrets of Compost

'Black Gold' is the first in GardenAfrica's series of 11 films which will form 'The Living Classroom'. Shot on location in Swaziland, we learn how to 'waste nothing and reinvest our surplus' to make a truly wonderful compost to feed our plants ... which in turn feed our families.
Eswatini
2013 - GardenAfrica

Vídeo
Success Story: Smallholder Farmer Entrepreneurship in Swaziland with Happy Shongwe

Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from Swaziland, talks about her successful business of growing and selling legume seeds.
Eswatini
2012 - FarmingFirst

Libro
Food Plants and Good Gardening for Healthy Diets in Swaziland

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Eswatini
2012 - Food Plant Solutions
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