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Conference on ecological agriculture: mitigating climate change, providing food security and self-reliance for rural livelihoods in africa

The Conference on Ecological Agriculture: Mitigating Climate Change, Providing Food Security and Self-Reliance for Rural Livelihoods in Africa was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 26-28 November 2008. It was organised by the African Union (AU), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development...
Benin - Burundi - Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Madagascar - Malawi - Mali - Nigeria - Rwanda - Sudan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2008 - African Union

Policy brief/paper
Mieux connaitre la réalité de l’exploitation familiale ouest-africaine

La notion d’exploitation agricole familiale trouve son origine dans l’organisation de la production agricole en Europe. Elle a pris corps et s’est consolidée dans le discours théorique des agronomes et des économistes agricoles à partir du début du XX ème siècle. Elle repose sur une dominance historique longue en Occident...
Chad - Mali - Niger - Senegal
2004 - Coopération Suisse au développement

Journal article
Sources of growth in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

The role of vertical integration of smallholders with processors and marketers of high value-added items
The point of departure of this paper is that African nations cannot afford to ignore smallholder agriculture, however difficult its prospects may seem. Region wide, at the beginning of the 1990's, 85 percent of Africa's population was rural, and more than a quarter of the labour force was actively engaged...
Cabo Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Comoros - Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius - Sao Tome and Principe - Seychelles - Somalia - South Sudan
1999
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