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Agroecology and Markets – Stories from the field
How wide are the agroecology ripples?
We cannot talk about food sovereignty without mentioning the role of mass markets on which the majority of people depend on their income and food. These markets have demonstrated their relevance during the COVID-19 era by strengthening rural-urban linkages. Mass markets have been the main avenue through which rural people...
Cameroon - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Mozambique - Nigeria - Senegal - Sudan - Uganda - Zambia
2020 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA)
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Predictive yield models for tropical river and lake fisheries
Inland fisheries based on lakes and rivers are difficult to assess and data on catch and effort, often from subsistence fisheries, is lacking. Predictive models based on simple and multiple linear regressions enable estimates of fish yield that can be used in planning for management and development in the absence...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Shortened bush-fallow rotations and sustainable rural livelihood
In Ghana, increased population pressure and the need to cultivate greater land area have resulted in reduced fallow periods. As a consequence, the restoration of soil fertility is insufficient to allow recovery of secondary forest and rejuvenation of exhausted soils. Fallows are of ecological, economic and social importance to rural...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Production of glucose syrup from high-quality cassava flour
High-quality cassava flour (HQCF) is an attractive alternative to cassava starch that can form the starting point for a cassava based industry. HQCF production is less capital intensive and requires lower levels of inputs for success, compared to cassava starch. HQCF can be used as an alternative to starch and...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Sustainable livelihoods: new market opportunities for cassava
In Ghana, processing of cassava was limited to traditional food products such as gari, kokonte, agbelima and tapioca, and minimal amounts of low-grade starch and starch biscuits. Cassava farmers can improve their livelihoods by expanding the range of market opportunities available for cassava-based products and promoting the use of cassava...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Production of high-quality cassava flour
High-Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) is an attractive alternative to cassava starch that can form the starting point for a cassava-based industry. HQCF production is less capital intensive and requires lower levels of inputs for success, compared to cassava starch. HQCF can be used as an alternative to starch and other...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory varietal selection: improved varieties of upland rice
Rice is economically very important in Ghana and West Africa. The lack of improved rice varieties, particularly upland varieties, is recognized as a constraint. The main purpose of the work reported here was to test and evaluate new drought-and weed-tolerant rice varieties. Farmers use participatory techniques and formal replicated yield...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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How to measure soil pH value
Most soils in Ghana are too acidic, limiting the nutrient uptake of plants. The following video presents one easy way to measure a soil’s pH value using pH indicator strips. Knowing your soil's pH value helps to take action to improve your soil quality.
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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How to build a fruit fly trap
Fruit flies are a common pest damaging fruits and vegetables. The video in this practice explains how to build a safe, simple and cost effective fruit fly trap with a plastic bottle, a pheromone and an insecticide. This practice describes step by step how to build a trap to control...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Video on how to prune a mango tree
Pruning is the selective removal of unproductive shoots and branches. There are several reasons why to prune a mango tree. The practice allows for light and air to be admitted into the canopy of a tree, it enhances flowering to achieve high quality fruits and it improves effective control of...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Video on how to defeat the mealy bug
Since its introduction, the papaya mealy bug (Paracoccus marginatus) causes serious damages to papaya plantations in Ghana. Conventional control with pesticides was unsuccessful because the mealy bug has become resistant to them. A promising solution that proved to be successful is the biological control of mealy bugs using small parasitic...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Ghana: Small Fish, Big Solution
Access to affordable small fish is key to achieving zero hunger and improved nutrition in Ghana’s poor urban households, a new study shows. Small fish are indeed the backbone of Ghana’s animal protein supply in the poor urban neighbourhoods of Accra (such as Nima, Chorkor, Ga Mashie and James Town) and...
Ghana
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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How to make good, hot compost
Compost has many advantages. It is a well‑balanced fertilizer, it improves long term soil fertility and it helps to suppress soil borne diseases. The following video shows a good way of how to make compost in Ghana.
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Increasing yield of mango with selective harvest
Due to inaccurate methods of harvesting, farmers tend to destroy the quality of mangoes and obtain reduced yields of the fruit, which results in a loss of income for farmers. Through selective harvesting techniques, mangoes are harvested in three stages from the trees based on their maturity level. Also, proper...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Development of biopesticide legislation in Africa
Abuse and misuse of insecticides is common in Africa. Although the use of pesticides in Africa represents less than 5 percent of the global total, misuse is disproportionately high. The use of insecticides is determined largely by export crops, such as cotton and cocoa. Trends are therefore dependent on world...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Cassava processing: cassava wet flour
Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz) is the third most important source of calories in the tropics, after rice and maize. Millions of people depend on cassava in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is grown by poor farmers, many of them women, often on marginal land. For those people and their...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Fodder management: hay and silage making
Hay-making is the most important method of preserving forage in many countries, including tropical ones. Silage-making is highly developed in temperate countries, especially in Europe, and goes with intensification. In tropical countries, plant growth coincides with the rainy season, which sometimes makes hay-making difficult. The objective of this technology is...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory breeding of superior, mosaic disease-resistant cassava
The project has validated a participatory breeding approach for developing superior, mosaic disease-resistant cassava, demonstrating that it can provide a means by which farmers, plant breeders and plant pathologists could work together in an effective and inclusive manner. It also provided an environment whereby farmers made a significant and consistent...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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How to estimate the quality of raw cashew nuts (RCN)
The quality of cashew produced from country to country and region to region determines the reputation as well as the competitiveness of the product on the international market. The price that farmers may expect is directly linked to the quality of their produce. It is important; therefore, to teach farmers...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Guide to harvesting and post-harvest handling of cashew nuts
Production of high-quality cashew nuts is dependent on the application of excellent and thorough harvest and post-harvest techniques and practices. This technology is used as part of the African Cashew Initiative’s extension material. It helps farmers to understand how to approach the period just before harvesting begins and what do...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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