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Conservation Agriculture With Trees (CAWT) project
Scaling-up the science and practice of conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
Supported by Sida, the World Agroforestry centre (ICRAF) and the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) launched the Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) pilot project in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The countries were selected as among those in Africa where there was strong evidence of CA up-scaling taking place. The...
Ghana - Kenya - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2012 - African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)
Documento/nota de orientación
Challenges and opportunities: Smallholders and school feeding
Procurement governance for home grown school feeding project
Because developing good programs requires good data, SNV has conducted research to further explore the linkages between smallholder farmers (SHF) and government-led school feeding programs. This report takes a closer look at these linkages in several parts of three countries in Sub-Saharan Africa where SNV is implementing pilots for the...
Ghana - Kenya - Mali
2012 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Prácticas
African leafy vegetables for urban supply and sustainable diets
Local leafy vegetables have long been an important part of people's diets in Africa - nutritious, affordable and adapted to local growing conditions and cultural traditions. They are cheap, readily affordable and rich in different micro-nutrients and are therefore crucial for the food and nutrition security of poor families in...
Kenya
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Effectiveness of extension services in enhancing outgrowers’ credit system
A case of smallholder sugarcane farmers in Kisumu County, Kenya
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of extension services in enhancing effectiveness of outgrowers’ credit system in Kisumu County, Kenya. The study specifically sought to determine whether public and private extension services play a significant role in enhancing effectiveness of out-growers’ credit system among smallholder sugarcane...
Kenya
2012
Documento/nota de orientación
Women and agriculture in Africa
The paper looks at the problems faced by rural African women. It focuses on their role in food production, impediments they face in land tenure, issues they confront in connection to climate change, the global economic system and violent conflicts.
Ethiopia - Kenya - United Republic of Tanzania
2012 - Prague institute for global policy (Glopolis)
Estudio de caso
Good practices in building innovative rural institutions to increase food security
Case studies
Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers toplay a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities. This thinking connects a series of case...
Benin - Bhutan - Colombia - Egypt - Fiji - Gambia - Israel - Kenya - Nepal - Niger - Philippines - Thailand
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de la Conferencia
Determinants of adoption and utilisation of Integrated Soil Fertility Management by small holders in Central Kenya
Per capita food production in Africa has been declining over the last two decades, contrary to global trends due to soil fertility decline. The study sought to determine factors that influence adoption and utilization of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) technologies by smallholder farmers in central Kenya. Two hundred and...
Kenya
2012 - Kenyatta University
Artículo de revista especializada
Adaptive strategies and local innovations of smallholder farmers in selected agri-food systems of central Kenya
Food production in Kenya is closely related to smallholder agricultural production. Paradoxically, many smallholders suffer extended periods of food crises. This underscores the importance of understanding the multiple pathways smallholders use to deal with food insecurity. Participatory action research, using both qualitative and quantitative methods was undertaken to identify adaptation...
Kenya
2012
Artículo de revista especializada
Drivers of use of information and communication technologies by farm households
The case of smallholder farmers in Kenya
Smallholder farmers’ access to markets has traditionally been constrained by lack of market information. The desire to strengthen farmer access to market has seen the emergence of a number of projects that employ ICT tools in the provision of market information. This study assesses the conditioners of the use of...
Kenya
2012
Artículo de revista especializada
Influence of prices on market participation decisions of indigenous poultry farmers in four districts of Eastern Province, Kenya
Over 70% of the domesticated birds in Kenya are indigenous chicken (IC) providing meat and table eggs. They are frequently raised through the free range, backyard production system. Small flock sizes are characteristic of this production system and often, sales are mainly at the farmgate. Although IC production possesses enormous...
Kenya
2012 - Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Documento técnico
Fishing with beach seines
This document provides a global overview of beach seine fisheries and identifies key issues relevant for the responsible use of beach seines and the sustainable livelihoods of beach seine fishers. It also gives guidelines for fisheries managers and other stakeholders on how best to address the issues of management processes...
Benin - Gambia - Ghana - India - Kenya - Mozambique - Peru - Sri Lanka - Togo
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Conservation Agriculture in Kenya
A case study of Bungoma district
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is increasingly promoted in Africa as an alternative for coping with the need to increase food production on the basis of more sustainable farming practices. CA is specifically seen as a way to address the problems of soil degradation resulting from agricultural practices that deplete the organic...
Kenya
2011 - African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)
Artículo de revista
Youth and farming
The laxity of young people taking up farming may be due to, but not limited, to lack of farming incentives, inadequate access to productive assets such as land and capital, inadequate infrastructure, limited well-functioning markets, high population pressure on land and inadequate access to appropriate technologies by farmers. In this...
Kenya - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2011 - Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)
Libro
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and Food Security
The concept of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) has emerged as a challenge to the all-too-prevalent tradition of taking the Earth’s natural resources for granted. PES highlights a global continuum, illustrating the relationship between our lifestyles, the demands associated with our production and consumption patterns, and the effects those demands...
Costa Rica - Ecuador - India - Indonesia - Kenya - Nepal - Uganda - Ukraine - United Republic of Tanzania
2011
Vídeo
The Business of Food - Kenya: Shantytown Garden
On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part television series, produced in cooperation...
Kenya
2011 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Estudio de caso
Roadmap for Investment in the Seed Potato Value Chain in Eastern Africa
The document presents a roadmap for developing commercially sustainable quality seed in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It focuses on directing investments in five key areas along the seed potato value chains. The objectives of this strategic roadmap are to improve productivity, raise incomes of smallholder farmers, enhance food...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2011 - The International Potato Center
Libro
Climate Change and Food-Systems Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
The present ability or otherwise of Africa to cope with climate change and improve its agricultural production depends on the environment and natural resources base of the continent, on the impacts of its past and on the nature of its present interactions with the outside world. Africa is a large...
Benin - Burundi - Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Madagascar - Malawi - Mali - Niger - Nigeria - Rwanda - Sudan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manual
Making CAADP work for women farmers
A review of progress in six countries
The Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) aims to revitalize African farming in order to reduce rural poverty and hunger. This is a massively important undertaking for a continent where a third of the population continue to struggle with chronic malnutrition. But is CAADP getting the right strategies, policies and...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Malawi - Nigeria - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2011 - ActionAid International
Revista especializada
Nature & Faune: Natural resource tenure systems and their implication for agriculture, food security and nature conservation in Africa
As population density increases and available natural resources diminish, tensions and competition increase among stakeholders for access to land for farming and animal husbandry as well as access to forest, fishery and wildlife resources. The scramble for resources involves communities, economic interest groups, governments and the private sector as they...
Benin - Botswana - Burkina Faso - Cameroon - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Kenya - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Zimbabwe
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Agricultural value chain finance
Tools and lessons
Agriculture remains an important means of alleviating poverty, but shortage of finance can constrain its development. At the same time, agriculture is evolving towards a global system requiring high-quality, comptetitive products, and is organized in value chains which often exclude smallholders. Value chain financing in agriculture offers an opportunity to...
Bangladesh - Brazil - Colombia - Costa Rica - India - Kenya - Malawi - Mexico - Myanmar - Nicaragua - Niger - Peru - Philippines - Republic of Korea - Serbia - United Republic of Tanzania
2010
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