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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
Magazine article
Innovation paysanne : la « fiente de poulet » dans les cacaoyères de Côte d'Ivoire, une révolution agroécologique et sociale : une innovation villageoise « frugale ».
En Côte d’Ivoire, au moment où l’industrie prend le train de l’engrais chimique, l’agriculture familiale amorce une diversification de ses stratégies de fertilisation, vers des intrants de plus en plus biologiques. Une innovation naît notamment dans les années 2000, prenant une ampleur considérable dans les années 2010 : la fertilisation...
Côte d'Ivoire
2015 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Blog article
Les exploitations agricoles familiales intégrées, solution à la sécurité alimentaire
Des chercheurs ivoiriens du secteur agricole relèvent que des exploitations familiales intégrées peuvent permettre d’atteindre la sécurité alimentaire et le développement durable en Côte d’Ivoire. Une expérience pilote menée de 2011 à 2012 dans la localité de Korhogo par l'organisation non gouvernementale Chigata, en collaboration avec le Comité Français pour...
Côte d'Ivoire
2014 - Chigata
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...
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2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Video
Invisible Agriculture. Women in family farming (short version)
Two women farmers in Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa), Agnes Dago and Sekongo Sarke Coulibaly, show their daily activities and expose the challenges and obstacles they face in their life as women and farmers.
Côte d'Ivoire
2014 - World Rural Forum (WRF)
Journal
Spore: Family farming, the beginning of a renaissance
More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture around the world ensuring food security and providing employment to hundreds of millions of people. Family farms are also essential in safeguarding agro-biodiversity, and sustaining communities and cultures. However, family farming faces numerous challenges including insecure land rights, and limited access to...
Côte d'Ivoire - Kenya - Samoa - Uganda
2014
Book
Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential
Policies and market incentives for smallholder-inclusive food value chains
This book aims to contribute to filling an existing gap in the literature on food value chains in West Africa. It identifies good practices in value chain development and provides policy guidance to agricultural and rural development stakeholders. It is intended to be a sourcebook for decision makers, especially at...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Liberia - Mali - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone
2013
Magazine article
Agriculture contractuelle et boom de l’hévéaculture villageoise en Côte d’Ivoire
Certaines sociétés multinationales qui investissent dans des achats massifs de terre semblent constituer des menaces pour l’avenir des agricultures familiales. L’agriculture contractuelle, en revanche, peut s’avérer une alternative pour réduire les conflits sociaux, transférer et construire des innovations techniques et institutionnelles. Cette hypothèse est testée dans le Centre-Ouest de la Côte...
Côte d'Ivoire
2013 - Cahiers Agricultures
Project
Promotion de l'Agriculture Familiale Périurbaine Intégrée à Korhogo
Le projet encourage par des circuits courts intégrés un modèle d’interaction durable, entre l’agriculture familiale et l’activité urbaine dans le pays Sénoufo. L’objectif est de permettre une amélioration des conditions de vie des populations locales et une sécurisation de leur souveraineté alimentaire. Cela passe par l’amélioration des revenus des petits...
Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire - Mali
2011 - Fondation de France
Journal
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)
Journal
Nature & Faune: The relevance of mangrove forests to African fisheries, wildlife and water resources
The present edition offers a collection of 14 diverse articles highlighting different aspects of mangroves - from the lush natural stands, wildlings, nursery practices, enrichment planting, to the various uses of the mangrove ecosystems as paddy rice fields, along with fisheries and wildlife sanctuaries and salt exploitation areas. The Special...
Cameroon - Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana - Kenya - Madagascar - Nigeria - Senegal
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal
Nature & Faune: Success stories in management of wildlife and nature in Africa
This Issue of the magazine aims at reflecting on and rekindling interest in successful field projects, capacity-building initiatives and networking of natural resources practitioners. It is a strategy to sustain ideas that could enhance conservation of wildlife and natural ecosystems and improve Africa's rural livelihoods. This edition of Nature &...
Côte d'Ivoire - Ethiopia - Ghana - Liberia - Sudan
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Promises and challenges of the informal food sector in developing countries
This publication provides an overview of recent literature on the potential of the informal food sector (IFS) to facilitate an affordable supply of food to urban areas and generate income for low-income households. The goal is to identify global patterns, topics for further research, and policy suggestions. It also draws...
Bangladesh - Chile - Côte d'Ivoire - Cuba - Ecuador - Fiji - Guatemala - India - Malawi - Mozambique - Nicaragua - Nigeria - Philippines - Sierra Leone - Thailand - Trinidad and Tobago
2007
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