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The franchising business model developed by Rikolto in collaboration with the National Union of Parboiling Women (UNERIZ) in Burkina Faso was initiated in 2017. It empowers women parboilers by providing a holistic support system, ranging from technical training to access to credit and market opportunities.

Agricultural performance in Africa is hindered by factors like inaccessible inputs, limited credit, unfavorable weather, pests, diseases, and poor management. The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) implemented a project funded by CGIAR to develop digital advisories for Rwanda and Ghana. They created models to forecast fall armyworm [...]

The agricultural and food security situation in Nigeria faces challenges such as limited resources, security issues, rural-urban migration, oil dependency, and infrastructure inadequacies. These problems are worsened by high inflation, reaching 25.8% in August 2023, largely due to fuel subsidy removal, currency devaluation, and security concerns in food-producing regions. The SCL [...]

Within the sustainable rural livelihood’s framework, Agrisolve has designed the WESOLVE program that targets women and young women smallholder farmers’ agriculture and financial inclusion ensuring easier access to resources for increased yield and livelihood improvements. Through WESOLVE, women are given access to arable land under in-grower schemes, input credit, good [...]

In the arid Kharga Oasis of Egypt’s New Valley Governorate, date palm cultivation is a vital livelihood, but rising pest pressure and water scarcity threaten its sustainability. When Khaled, a local date palm grower with hearing and speech impairments, learned about FAO Egypt’s Farmer Field Schools (FFS) being implemented nearby, [...]

L'objectif de cette étude est de rendre compte de la richesse des connaissances locales mobilisées par les agriculteurs pour faire face au changement climatique. En particulier, elle visait à saisir et à analyser systématiquement les perceptions, les connaissances et les stratégies d'adaptation des agriculteurs en ce qui concerne le changement [...]

L’approche Champs-Écoles Producteurs (CEP) est introduite au Ghana en 1996, au Niger en 1999 et au Sénégal en 2000 via le projet « Gestion intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs (GIPD) » soutenu par la FAO. Cependant, l’institutionnalisation de l’approche CEP demeure un défi à telle enseigne que dans [...]

Senegal has had extensive experience with the development and implementation of the farmer field school (FFS) approach across almost two decades. Building on this experience and that of the first phase of the scoping exercise conducted in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region (and using the same methodology), [...]

RECUEIL DE SUJETS SPECIAUX POUR LES CEAP ANIMES PAR LES FACILITATEURS LOCAUX ET TECHNICIENS

The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach, based on group experimentation of innovative practices and/or farming systems, is in line with participatory farm advisory efforts. This approach has an ambitious goal: strengthening farmers’ skills so that they can adapt their practices, or even invent new ones, and move towards more agroecological [...]