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The final report of the Alliance for Agroecology held in Guinea Bissau "Declarations and recommendations for agroecology in West Africa"
The regional forum on agroecology was held from December 10 to 13, 2022 in Bissau in the Republic of Guinea Bissau under the theme: “What strategy for the promotion of agroecology in West Africa?
The forum was organized in a context of crises (food, climate, socio-economic, etc.) due in particular to the armed conflicts...
Guinea-Bissau
2023 - Alliance for Agroecology in West Africa
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Guinea Bissau
This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the Rotary...
Guinea-Bissau
2022 - The Rotary Club of Devonport North
Case study
Sustaining the traditional production and conservation of Creole rice seeds in Guinea Bissau
In order to preserve their tradition, the Manjaq communities have embarked on a process of preserving local rice varieties essential for the organization of certain traditional ceremonies. Faced with these challenges, they have rebuilt their seed capital by making an inventory of all traditional seeds and their importance in traditional...
Guinea-Bissau
2019 - Cooperativa agro-pecuária de jovens quadros (COAJOQ), Guinea-Bissau
Case study
Cereal banks improving food security and incomes in Guinea-Bissau
In Guinea-Bissau, the intensifi cation of cashew monoculture and the decline in yields of rice and other staple cereals is a common issue that puts the population in an unprecedented state of food insecurity. Organisations such as CAURAL REMOBE have tried to fi nd a solution to this problem. The...
Guinea-Bissau
2019 - ONG Guiarroz, Guinée-Bissau.
Case study
The institutional construction of family farming in the CPLP member states
Family Farming, represented by more than 500 million farms, produced about 80% of the World´s food in value terms, using reduced resources. It is fundamental to Food Security and Nutrition (FSN), fighting poverty, mitigating the impacts of climate change and preserving biodiversity and landscape. Family agriculture contributes directly to ten...
Angola - Brazil - Cabo Verde - Equatorial Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Mozambique - Portugal - Sao Tome and Principe - Timor-Leste
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
FAMILY FARMING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE CPLP
Family Farming and Sustainable Development at the CPLP
Angola - Brazil - Cabo Verde - Guinea-Bissau - Mozambique - Portugal - Sao Tome and Principe
2018 - CPLP
Report
Summary and findings of the first OFF/ROPPA Report
First report of the Regional Observatory of ROPPA (OFF/ROPPA) Family Farms
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...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Liberia - Mali - Niger - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2017 - Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA)
Report
Voices from African artisanal fisheries
From Senegal to Togo, from Guinea-Bissau to Mauritania, from Tunisia to Ghana, communities living from maritime fisheries show the same attachment to the sea and face the same challenges. Between September 2014 and November 2015, the West African Network of Journalists for Responsible Fisheries (REJOPRAO), in collaboration with the CAOPA,...
Ghana - Guinea-Bissau - Mauritania - Senegal - Togo - Tunisia
2016 - Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC)
Video
Not Only Farmers… Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture
Added value to improve Agriculture and Farmers’ living standards. A journey through the activities of the Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture Project (FSCA) in the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Gambia - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Mali - Senegal - Sierra Leone
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
A Sub-regional Strategy for Enhancing the Participation of the Civil Society in Forestry Planning and Policy Making Processing in West Africa
Forest planning and policy making process in West Africa – and elsewhere in Africa for that matter – has largely been dominated by the State, with very little room for a meaningful participation of civil society. This state of affairs led to a management of forests and forest resources which...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea-Bissau - Liberia - Mali - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Agricultural growth in West Africa (AGWA)
Market and Policy Drivers
West African Agriculture is at a turning point. The combination of strong demand growth, sustained economic growth, higher global agricultural prices, and an improved policy environment has generated the most conducive conditions for Agricultural growth in over 30 years. West African countries and their Development Partners now clearly recognize the...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Liberia - Mali - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
ECOWAP: A Fragmented Policy
Development partners and regional institutions should address leadership and coordination issues in order to build a common agricultural policy for West Africa
Ten years after the Economic Community of West African States launched its policy on food and agriculture, coordination remains a serious challenge. Several regional initiatives compete with each other at the political and the project levels, in a complex and fragmented institutional context.
This paper is one of a series published...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Liberia - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2015 - Oxfam International
Video
Not only farmers: Food security through commercialization of agriculture
Added value to improve Agriculture and Farmers’ living standards. A journey through the activities of the Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture Project (FSCA) in the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali Senegal and Sierra Leone
Gambia - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Mali - Senegal - Sierra Leone
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Website
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
Policy brief/paper
Rice, cows and envy
Agriculture and change among young rice producers in Guinea Bissau
In Guinea-Bissau, a country on the West African coast between Senegal, the Republic of Guinea and the Atlantic, rice is the staple food. During the past three decades, agriculture in Guinea- Bissau has undergone a radical transformation. In Guinea-Bissau, there is a common discourse that young people have abandoned the...
Guinea-Bissau
2014 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Case study
The food security through commercialization of agriculture programme in West Africa
As part of the activities being implemented through the Italian contribution to the FAO Trust Fund for Food Security and Food Safety, several projects in different countries and regions are following a common strategy. In West Africa this Programme, “Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture” (FSCA), or «Programme Italien pour...
Gabon - Gambia - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Mali - Senegal - Sierra Leone
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference/Meeting
Coping with the food and agriculture challenge
Smallholders' agenda. Preparations and outcomes of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
This document was prepared under the supervision of Nadia El-Hage Scialabba, as part of “Preparations and Follow-up to Rio+20”, a project of the FAO Natural Resources Management and Environment Department (NRD). It highlights the positions and common agenda of small-scale farmers´ organizations who participated in Rio+20 with the support of...
Angola - Brazil - Cabo Verde - Guinea-Bissau - Mozambique - Portugal
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Profils d'exploitations familiales d'éleveurs en Afrique de l'Ouest et en Afrique Centrale
Les 130 exploitations familiales étudiées dans 9 pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et d'Afrique Centrale n'ont pas les mêmes caractéristiques selon qu'elles soient implantées en zone sahélienne ou en zone de savane (superficies plus grandes et meilleure sécurisation foncière, taille légèrement plus importante des familles au Sahel qu'en Savane). Ce sont des exploitations agropastorales dans...
Burkina Faso - Cameroon - Chad - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Mali - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal
2013 - Association pour la Promotion de l'Elevage au Sahel et en Savane
Project
Transformation et commercialisation des produits agricoles en Guinée Bissau
Projet dans le cadre du Programme « Promotion de l’agriculture familiale en Afrique de l’Ouest » 2012 ,en Guinée Bissau, où les questions de conservation, transformation, et commercialisation des surplus agricoles ont été peu abordées. L'absence d'infrastructures de stockage et de transport limite les revenus des paysans et l’approvisionnement des villes....
Guinea-Bissau
2012 - Comité Français pour la Solidarité Internationale (CFSI)
Technical paper
Can the smallholder model deliver poverty reduction and food security for a rapidly growing population in Africa?
Despite the achievements of smallholders in Asia during the green revolution, there is scepticism that Africa’s smallholders — who dominate the farm area in most countries — can imitate this model and deliver agricultural growth. This paper assesses whether such pessimism is justified. Given the high transactions costs of hiring...
Burkina Faso - Central African Republic - Chad - Comoros - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Ghana - Guinea-Bissau - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius - Namibia - Sao Tome and Principe - Seychelles - Somalia - South Sudan - Uganda - Zimbabwe
2009 - Overseas Development Institute
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