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Enabling land management, resilient pastoral livelihoods and poverty reduction in Africa
Historically, pastoralists have been marginalized, and policies have been geared towards encouraging, and in some instances forcing, their settlement and sedentarization. Misunderstanding of their livelihoods has also led to abandonment of their customary institutions and practices. However, scientific evidence shows that mobile pastoralism is the most sustainable way of using...
Algeria - Chad - Eritrea - Kenya - Mali - Somalia - Sudan - United Republic of Tanzania
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Bulletin d'information
Regional Office for Africa Newsletter for a hunger-free Africa
FAO Regional Office for Africa's Newsletter highlights some relevant news stories, articles, and feature stories across the region, subregions and at countries of Africa. The RAF Newsletter is a good platform resource for knowledge and information sharing. This edition which covers the period of January to June 2017 takes into...
Central African Republic - Eritrea - Ghana - Nigeria - South Sudan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Sustainable agro-pastoralism in Eritrea
Eritrea is a hot desert strip along the red sea coast with its mountains rising into the central highlands. The western plains extend to the border with Sudan, a vast arid area that receives little rainfall. The IFAD and GEF supported Catchment and Landscape Management Project (CLMP) is working in...
Eritrea
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Bulletin d'information
Regional Office for Africa Quarterly Newsletter for a Hunger-Free Africa: May - August 2016
This Edition of RAF Newsletter captures the key projects and success stories of FAO across the subregion of Africa. It also present to readers news highlights and titbits of FAO activities in focus.
Central African Republic - Djibouti - Eritrea - Ghana - Sierra Leone - Somalia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Eritrea women entrepreneurs bring additional income to their families
Women have always had an important role in Eritrean society. During the struggle for independence they helped transform Eritrean society, and today rural women contribute substantially to the agriculture sector and provide income for their households. Like women around the world and especially those in developing countries, the women in...
Eritrea
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
An ancient form of water management helps farmers in Eritrea cope with water scarcity
Water is precious in Eritrea, where farmers have to cope with droughts and crop failures. With support from the government and an IFAD-funded project, farmers and herders are expanding spate irrigation, an ancient form of water management. By harnessing floodwaters and collecting run-off, farmers can provide enough water for the...
Eritrea
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
A special breed of Sudanese cattle produces more milk and big benefits for Eritrean pastoralists
Cattle of the Sudanese Hamerenya breed have some special qualities, including docility and a high milk yield. Through an IFAD-supported programme, farmers in the Adi Quala subdistrict in Eritrea were able to take out small loans to invest in the purchase of Hamerenya cattle. The programme also helps the farmers...
Eritrea
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
Rebuilding Eritrea’s livestock sector and helping farmers meet the challenges of the future
In drought-prone Eritrea, livestock is a farmer’s most valuable asset. Animal husbandry is not only one of the main sources of livelihood for farmers, but it is also a form of insurance that enables poor rural people to cope with drought and other disasters. IFAD-funded projects invest in rebuilding livestock...
Eritrea
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
Liquid gold helps Eritrean farmers defy the looming threat of drought
Bee-keeping is an alternative source of income for rural families, especially in times of drought, when food security is at risk. Luul, an Eritrean farmer, has learned how to keep bees and avoid their sting, and now he is content with his livelihood of producing honey, or liquid gold. IFAD...
Eritrea
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de revue spécialisée
Problems and Prospects of Dairy farming in Central Region of Eritrea, East Africa
Dairy farming is one of the leading agricultural activities in almost all parts of the world including Eritrea. Dairying in Eritrea is highly subsistence and major contributions come from small scale producers who owns have almost 90 per cent of dairy animal. There is high a demand for milk and...
Eritrea
2016
Document de conférence
Sustainable aquaculture development and its role in the food security and economic growth in Eritrea: Trends and prospects
Eritrea is a small developing nation in the Horn of Africa with total area 124,320 Km2 and has a population of about 6 million. Eritrea is situated in a strategically important part of the Red Sea.Eritrea has an extensive 2,234km coastline, 1,151km of it coming from its mainland and 1,083km...
Eritrea
2016
Note/document d'orientation
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)
Rapport
The 2015-2016 El Niño event
Expected impact on food security and main response scenarios in East and Southern Africa
El Niño is a periodic climate phenomenon defined by anomalously warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean which affect local weather worldwide and generally leads to increased drought risk at global level. In 2015, since July a strong El Niño is being observed with increasing...
Angola - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Malawi - Namibia - Somalia - South Africa - South Sudan - Zimbabwe
2015 - European Commission
Site web
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria - American Samoa - Andorra - Angola - Anguilla - Antarctica - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Armenia - Aruba - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan - Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Benin - Bermuda - Bhutan - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Botswana - Bouvet Island - Brazil - British Virgin Islands - Brunei Darussalam - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cabo Verde - Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada - Cayman Islands - Central African Republic - Chad - Channel Islands - Chile - China - China, Hong Kong SAR - China, Macao SAR - Christmas Island - Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Colombia - Comoros - Congo - Cook Islands - Costa Rica - Croatia - Cuba - Curaçao - Cyprus - Czechia - Côte d'Ivoire - Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Denmark - Djibouti - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Egypt - El Salvador - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Estonia - Ethiopia - Faroe Islands - Fiji - Finland - France - French Guiana - French Polynesia - French Southern Territories - Gabon - Gambia - Georgia - Germany - Ghana - Gibraltar - Greece - Greenland - Grenada - Guadeloupe - Guam - Guatemala - Guernsey - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana - Haiti - Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Holy See
2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Partie d’un ouvrage
East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Eritrea
Eritrea has adopted various international environmental laws and policy guidelines. The major policies and programs related to climate change are the Environmental Management Plan for Eritrea, the National Action Program to Combat Desertification and Mitigate Effects of Drought, the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Eritrea, Eritrea’s Initial National...
Eritrea
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Ouvrage
East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Eritrea - Kenya - Madagascar - Rwanda - Sudan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Revue spécialisée
Caravan - Research integration in practice
The CRP on Dryland Systems is all about integration: between different research disciplines, between biophysical and socio-economic factors, between crop farming and pastoralism, between research and development. The program aims to develop new technologies, new livelihood opportunities, stronger local institutions, enabling policies to support technology adoption, and ultimately higher incomes...
Eritrea - Ethiopia - Libya
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Bulletin d'information
Caravan 27: Research integration in practice
This issue of Caravan describes the new program, and some of the research innovations it will build on. The issue begins with two ‘opinion pieces’ by scientists from partner organizations in the CRP. They share lessons learnt from past successes (and failures), and ideas that could be applied to dryland systems...
Algeria - Bahrain - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Iraq - Jordan - Kazakhstan - Kuwait - Libya - Morocco - Oman - Qatar - Saudi Arabia - Syrian Arab Republic - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Manuel
Plant breeding with farmers. A technical manual
This manual on Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is based primarily on the direct experience derived from several years of implementing PPB programmes in a number of countries and on a number of crops, and secondly, from a number of training courses (China, Ethiopia, Jordan, Australia, South Africa) and when necessary,...
Algeria - Egypt - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Morocco - Tunisia
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Rapport
ICARDA annual report 2010
Food Security: the Big Challenges
Global food production has increased by 20% in the past decade – but food insecurity and poverty remain widespread , while the natural resource base continues to decline. International research centers, which have helped drive previous improvements, must continue to deliver new technologies to support sustainable growth in agriculture; and...
Afghanistan - Eritrea - Libya - Syrian Arab Republic
2010 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
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