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Ghana : Une action local
Le Ghana importe aujourd’hui plus d’un milliard de dollars de produits alimentaires, qui sont particulièrement sujets à des hausses de prix. Pour y remédier, on peut notamment investir dans des entrepreneurs locaux comme Janet Gyimah-Kessie. Elle possède une grande usine de transformation du manioc qui non seulement augmente la production...
Ghana
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Bulletin d'information
Dimitra Newsletter: Dimitra Clubs against Ebola
This edition opens with a critical issue: the Ebola crisis and how Dimitra clubs are helping contain the threat of the epidemic in Senegal. The Dimitra approach not only allows to inform and raise awareness in rural communities, but above all ensures a space for communication, where everyone can express...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Gambia - Ghana - Kenya - Niger - Senegal - Somalia
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Document de travail
Big tractors, but small farms: Tractor hiring services as a farmer-owner’s response to an under-developed agricultural machinery market
The debate about agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) has largely ignored the role of the capital service market in spreading the use of mechanical technologies. Yet, custom machinery hiring ser-vices have been essential for the widespread use and ownership of tractors and other agricultural machines in...
Ghana
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Revue spécialisée
Sustainable Soil Management: Key to food security and nutrition in Africa
This edition of Nature & Faune journal will be a special Issue to mark the International Year of Soils. It is planned to be issued during the Conference of the African Soil Society taking place in Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso from 2nd to 10th December 2015. The special edition of...
Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Gambia - Ghana - Mozambique - Niger - Nigeria - South Africa - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Document de travail
Agricultural value chain development in practice
Private sector-led smallholder development
Value chain development is adopted widely as a private sector–led approach to agricultural development that can benefit smallholders. The objective of this research is to understand how development organizations are conceptualizing and developing agricultural value chains in Ghana to include smallholders. The study is based on case studies of five...
Ghana
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Note/document d'orientation
The Impact of Social Cash Transfer Programmes on Community Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa
This One-Pager describes key findings of a four-year research project, From Protection to Production (PtoP), which analysed the impact of social cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. The qualitative studies specifically explored impacts on household economic decision-making, the local economy and social networks. They also examined how the design and...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zimbabwe
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Revue spécialisée
Nature & Faune Journal: Sustainable Soil Management (Key to Food Security and Nutrition in Africa)
This special issue of Nature & Faune journal, with its exciting variety of papers dealing with issues related to sustainable soil management in Africa is an important contribution towards promoting sustainability on the continent.
Benin - Cabo Verde - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Gambia - Ghana - Mozambique - Nigeria - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Note/document d'orientation
A sub-regional strategy for enhancing the participation of the civil society in forestry planning and policy making process in West Africa
This document was prepared collaboratively within the FAORAF West Africa Team with a focus on the forestry sector. It is the product of a series of sub-regional consultations with forest-related civil society organizations in a selected number of countries in West Africa (Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal).
Benin - Ghana - Nigeria - Senegal
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
A Review of Women's Access to Fish in Small-Scale Fisheries
Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small-scale fisheries, although their best-known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products. This perception of the highly gender-segregated division of labour (men fishing / women processing) has shaped the generalized approach in...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Nigeria - Solomon Islands - South Africa - Thailand - Tunisia - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Smallholder cocoa farmers access to on/off-farm support services and its contribution to output in the Eastern Region of Ghana
It has been established that smallholder farmers have minimal access to various support services that would have otherwise enabled them to increase their output levels. The focus of this paper is to identify and quantify the impact of various support services on the production levels of cocoa in the Eastern...
Ghana
2014 - Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development
Document de travail
Medium and large-scale farmers and agricultural mechanization in Ghana
Survey results
Successful commercialization of farming enterprises and farmer entrepreneurship are thought to embody the key features of structural transformation and provide a pathway out of poverty and subsistence agriculture for the rural farm households. The past decade has seen several African countries increase their agricultural growth, largely driven by increases in...
Ghana
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Ouvrage
Pollinator safety in agriculture
This publication provides guidance on the natural history of wild bees and their potential exposure to pesticides, as part of the GEF supported Project “Conservation and Management of Pollinators for Sustainable Agriculture, through an Ecosystem Approach” implemented in seven countries – Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa....
Brazil - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Pakistan - South Africa
2014 - FAO
Site web
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
Article de revue spécialisée
Perceptions of drought among rural farmers in the Savelugu district in the northern Savannah of Ghana
Drought is one of the most constraining climate extremes to livelihoods particularly in dryland environments. Effective adaptation to drought is partly dependent on farmers’ perceptions and how these are harmonised with scientific knowledge systems into local adaptation policies and strategies. This paper examined the perceptions of drought among farmers in...
Ghana
2014 - University of Ghana
Bulletin d'information
Dimitra Newsletter: South-South Cooperation and family farming
This edition opens with a report of the last session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which has helped to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment feature prominently in the post- 2015 Development Agenda. This will take over from the Millennium Development Goals, whose 2015 deadline...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Niger
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Food fairs revive local food and nutrition
Food fairs are an important tool and space to promote food sovereignty as they take place in local public spaces and within people’s own socio-cultural settings. One excellent example was a food fair in Ghana, organised by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD). Women farmers exhibited traditional...
Ghana
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Bulletin d'information
Dimitra newsletter: gender, rural women and development
This edition opens with a report of the last session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which has helped to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment feature prominently in the post-2015 Development Agenda. This will take over from the Millennium Development Goals, whose 2015 deadline is now close. Today, the post-2015 Development Agenda...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Niger - Senegal
2014
Bulletin d'information
Dimitra Newsletter: Poverty reduction in rural areas
This issue highlights experiences of development approaches that are helping in the fight against poverty in rural areas. Reducing rural poverty is one of FAO’s strategic objectives for the coming years, to which the Dimitra project is making a special contribution. Innovative methodologies have been developed which seek to place...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Kenya - Niger - Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Revue spécialisée
The family business: Is there a future for small farms?
The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families. Because family farms are so prevalent, making them more productive could help combat poverty and hunger in many...
Ethiopia - Ghana - India - Kenya - Mexico
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Document de travail
Economics of Tractor Ownership under Rainfed Agriculture with Applications in Ghana
This paper assesses whether tractor investment is a rational and profitable decision for farmers using firm investment theory and tractor owner survey data collected in 2013. Under erratic rainfalls, timeliness of farming operations is critical for farmers. Based on the hypothesis that owning a tractor and hiring tractor services are...
Ghana
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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