This report unpacks and explores farmer-managed seed systems and their contribution to food and seed sovereignty, including the benefits they provide to farming communities as a part of their sociocultural, economic, spiritual and ecological livelihoods. The report highlights, exposes and explores how these systems work. It builds on reports of...

Terre et Paix is an EU funded project which has been implemented since February 2015 by the Italian NGO COSPE in partnership with the three national farmers’ platforms of Senegal, Mali and Niger, (CNCR, CNOP and PFPN), under the auspices of ROPPA (Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de...

Terre et Paix is an EU funded project which has been implemented since February 2015 by the Italian NGO COSPE in partnership with the three national farmers’ platforms of Senegal, Mali and Niger, (CNCR, CNOP and PFPN), under the auspices of ROPPA (Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de...

The Sahel region faces severe drought and desertification. Often, women have to walk 10 kilometres for water. FAO’s “1 million cisterns for the Sahel” project helps women and farmers harvest and store rainwater. The cisterns provide clean water for drinking and growing food to millions of people in arid areas....

Like many farmers in Senegal, Guilé Mané used to struggle through the dry season. Rainfall in Senegal can be very low and irregular, even in the rainy season. Guilé and the other women had to walk long distances to reach sources of clean water and use part of their income...

In Africa, digital innovation has the power to transform the agriculture and employment sectors by improving food production, providing agribusiness opportunities and creating exciting new employment opportunities for young people. In Rwanda and Senegal, the FAO has partnered with local farmers and innovators to develop and pilot four new mobile...

The National Committees for Family Farming in Indonesia and Colombia have promoted processes of political dialogue between key players in Family Farming, leading to the approval of new regulations for the development of Family Farming in their respective countries. In Indonesia, the Law on the Protection and Empowerment of Farmers in...

Les 17 et 18 mai 2018, le CNCR à travers le Groupe de Dialogue Social et Politique (GSDP et le Comité National de l’Agriculture Familiale (CNAF) a organisé à Dakar, avec l’appui du Forum Rural Mondial un atelier méthodologique pour l’élaboration des directives volontaires sur la gouvernance des systèmes de...

Érosion, désertification, salinisation, à Fimela, delta du Saloum, 30 % seulement des terres agricoles restent cultivables. C’est la cause du bradage des terres et de l’exode rural vers les villes ou vers l’étranger. Pour  remédier, l’ambition de Jardins d’Afrique est de former des jeunes à la pratique d’une autre agriculture,...

Agriculture in Senegal is predominantly rain-fed and so erratic weather patterns present an everincreasing risk to smallholder farmers across the country. Late onset of rain can lead to a reduced growing season; unexpected torrential rain and flash-flooding can lead to farmers losing scarce resources of seed, other farm inputs and...

This paper presents the targeting system adopted in Senegal to implement food purchases using procurement preferential treatment for small-scale family farming food outputs. The study provides a detailed description of the selection of farmers producing rice in the Kédougou region and discusses how it influenced the performance of food purchases...

The multiple and complex interconnections between rural and urban spaces, people and enterprises and how these affect poverty and food insecurity are all too often overlooked. Small towns are an important but often neglected element of rural landscapes and food systems. They perform several essential functions, from market nodes for...

Agro-pastoral communities are working together in Central Senegal to tackle climate change challenges. Applying successful FAO approaches, in particular the Dimitra Clubs and the Farmer Field Schools, durable solutions are sought, demonstrated, evaluated and replicated. This video is a brief look into the initial achievements of the FAO-LDCF project Mainstreaming...

Changes to public policy agendas in the National Committees for Family Farming in the Philippines, Honduras, Burkina Faso and Senegal will receive technical and financial support. The creation of a new Committee in Chad will be supported as well.

We are women and men, farmers, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) activists, agronomists, agro-ecologists, agro-ecology trainers, Food Sovereignty activists, Civil Society actors from 7 different countries in West Africa. We come from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Senegal and Togo. Over and above the current extraordinary social and economic...

Cet ouvrage qui est le premier d’une trilogie de la série changement climatique en Afrique de l’IFPRI et intitulé L’Agriculture ouest-africaine et le changement climatique: une analyse Exhaustive, examine la façon dont le changement climatique nuira à la sécurité alimentaire dans 11 des pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, à savoir le...

Cette fiche de présentation du projet informe sur les zones d'intervention, les objectifs, les activités prévues et les résultats et impacts.

The first report of the REGIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ROPPA (OFF/ROPPA) FAMILY FARMS deals with four questions that delivers successively (i) a farmer reading of the behavior of the West African family farms during the last two farming seasons; (ii) a status of the proximity support and extension from which these...

L’objectif principal de la Route est d’améliorer la compréhension, parmi les projets du FIDA et les principales parties prenantes, des problématiques liées à la garantie des droits à la terre et à l’eau dans des systèmes d’irrigation pour une meilleure productivité agricole, et ainsi améliorer les moyens d’existence des personnes...

Aujourd’hui, le changement climatique est une menace qui vient exacerber la vulnérabilité des ménages déjà mis à l’épreuve par une conjoncture économique difficile. Les bouleversements environnementaux n’arrêtent donc pas d’être des facteurs décisifs dans l’émigration des Sénégalais car continuant de représenter des déclencheurs et/ou des accélérateurs des migrations. Cependant, par leurs...