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Terre et Paix. Promoting access to productive land by young people as conflict prevention

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...
Mali - Niger - Senegal
2018 - COSPE Onlus

Case study
Terre et Paix. Promoting access to productive land by young people as conflict prevention

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...
Mali - Niger - Senegal
2018 - COSPE Onlus

Journal article
Gendered aspirations and occupations among rural youth, in agriculture and beyond: A cross-regional perspective

Based on 25 case studies from the global comparative study ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation’, this paper explores rural young women’s and men’s occupational aspirations and trajectories in India, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines. We draw upon qualitative data from 50 sex-segregated focus...
India - Malawi - Mali - Mexico - Morocco - Nigeria - Philippines
2018

Video
Agroecology and climate change

As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, achieving a world without hunger and malnutrition calls for urgent action to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient. The impacts of climate change are further increasing uncertainties and vulnerabilities facing farmers and communities. Integrated, cross sectoral approaches like agroecology are...
Argentina - France - Hungary - Mali
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
FAO and Songhai Center in partnership for a rich and prosperous Africa

24 African young producers on six weeks' training in Benin
Twenty-four young producers from Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Kenya and Zambia have followed a special capacity-building program initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. This six-week program should enable participants to be more productive and dynamic in the agricultural entrepreneurship business. It is from the observation...
Benin - Côte d'Ivoire - Kenya - Mali - Zambia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Ending poverty and hunger by investment in agriculture and rural areas

While there has been an unprecedented achievement in poverty reduction in the last three decades, eradicating extreme poverty and halving poverty by 2030 are still two of our greatest challenges. Today, about 767 million people continue to live in extreme poverty. Roughly, two thirds of the extreme poor live in...
Bangladesh - Chad - Ghana - Guatemala - Malawi - Mali - South Africa - Tajikistan - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Fact sheet
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)

Project
Adapting irrigation to climate change (AICCA)

Climate change represents a challenge for rural people in West and Central Africa, causing water shortages and droughts in some areas and floods in others. It impacts both the demand and availability of water for agriculture, affecting the proportion of people suffering from insecure access to water. Smallholder farmers are...
Chad - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Liberia - Mali - Mauritania - Niger - Sierra Leone
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Big roles, little powers

The reality of women in agriculture in ECOWAS region
The agricultural sector is one of the main contributors to economic growth and sustainable development in ECOWAS member countries. Women are driving forces for agricultural development, food security and nutrition in the region. They represent an important percentage of the agricultural labour force. They are the frontline nutrition care givers...
Ghana - Mali - Niger - Nigeria - Togo
2017 - Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Report
Review of the livestock/meat and dairy value chains and the policies influencing them in West Africa

ECOWAS is an economic, social and political organization pursuing the vision of an integrated West Africa. The population of this vast economic block is about three hundred million. The demand for meat and milk was estimated at 3.84 million tonnes of meat (12.3 kg per capita) and 19.83 million tonnes...
Burkina Faso - Mali - Niger
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Article
The first West African meeting of local and solidarity-based agro-ecological partnerships between producers and consumers held in Kpalimé (Togo)

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...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana - Mali - Senegal - Togo
2017 - URGENCI

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)

Case study
Dual purpose sorghum and cowpea intercropping in Mali

In Mali, agriculture is the main source of employment. Over 80% of the population is engaged in agriculture that is mostly carried out by small farmers with income of less than US$1 per day. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is an important cereal grain used as food and animal fodder...
Mali
2017 - Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER)

Policy brief/paper
Caisses de résilience in Mali

Promoting women’s empowerment and improving nutrition for vulnerable households through an integrated approach
In Mali, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing the “Caisses de Résilience” approach with a strong focus on nutrition to support 3 000 vulnerable households in 64 villages in the Mopti region (district of Bandiagara). The three-year programme, launched in February 2015, aims to...
Mali
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Lutter contre les tracasseries routières pour garantir la sécurité alimentaire au Mali

Synthèse des résultats et des recommandations
La Politique nationale de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle du Mali (PolNSAN), en cours d’élaboration sous la tutelle du Commissariat à la sécurité alimentaire (CSA), se penchera sur les quatre dimensions de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle dont les facteurs limitant l’accessibilité aux produits alimentaires et notamment le rôle des marchés...
Mali
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Working paper
Double dividend: Power and Agriculture nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture; in fact, agriculture and agribusiness comprise nearly half of Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP). These enterprises require electricity...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Mali - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2017 - World Bank

Video
La gestion intercommunale pour faciliter la gestion des ressources au Mali

Ce film montre un mode de collaboration entre deux communes, ayant permis de réaliser des investissement qu'une seule ne pouvait pas assumer. La route construite grâce à l'intercommunalité permet de contribuer au désenclavement de la zone, en favorisant les échanges de marchandises, y compris agricoles, et en permettant une facilité...
Mali
2017 - CARI

Practices
Dual purpose sorghum and cowpea intercropping in Mali

In Mali, agriculture is the main source of employment. Over 80% of the population is engaged in agriculture that is mostly carried out by small farmers with income of less than US$1 per day. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is an important cereal grain used as food and animal fodder...
Mali
2017 - Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER) and McKnight Foundation

Working paper
The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Western Africa

Four socio-economic scenarios
This working paper examines the development of regional socioeconomic scenarios for West Africa’s development, agriculture, food security and climate impacts. We present four globally consistent regional scenarios framed and outlined by regional experts who crafted narratives and determined key drivers of change. Stakeholders identified the type of actors driving change...
Burkina Faso - Ghana - Mali - Niger - Senegal
2016 - CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change

Magazine article
Locally rooted: Ideas and initiatives from the field

Two (or more) heads are better than one, goes the old saying, and the same is true in agroecology. As we see here, when people from diverse backgrounds come together, their different perspectives and experiences are fertile ground for creativity and innovation to blossom.
  Farmers in Koutiala, a district in Southern Mali grow cereals to feed their families and keep cows for milk and as a form of savings. There, all the arable land is currently under cultivation. During the four months of the rainy season, farmers prioritise the cultivation of cereals over fodder...
Belgium - France - Indonesia - Mali
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
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