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Le Cameroun, malgré ses vastes ressources naturelles et humaines, est confronté à des défis importants qui entravent son développement économique, en particulier dans le domaine de l'agriculture. Alors qu'elle est souvent considérée comme autosuffisante, la sécurité alimentaire du pays s'est détériorée depuis 1980, la région de l'Extrême-Nord connaissant les pires [...]

La pomme de terre est une culture vivrière clé au Cameroun, cultivée principalement dans les régions du Nord-Ouest, de l'Ouest et de l'Adamaoua. Malgré une production de plus de 300 000 t par an, les rendements restent faibles en raison de défis techniques et socio-économiques. Pour améliorer la chaîne de [...]

FAO has embraced South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) as a key delivery modality to catalyze agricultural development, food security, rural development, poverty reduction and nutrition over the past two decades. The FAO-Republic of Korea (ROK) project, aims to strengthen rice research and training institutions in Tanzania, Cote d’Ivoire, and the [...]

Producers in the Karamoja region of Uganda, one of the poorest region in the country, face challenges related to persistent insecurity, vulnerability to climate change, illiteracy, poor physical infrastructure and access to services, as well as scarce extension services with an extremely low ratio of 1 extension officer for 1:1 [...]

NGO Development in Gardening (DIG) adapted the Farmer Field School (FFS) model to support the Batwa, an indigenous forest-dwelling community forcibly evicted from their ancestral land in the early 1990s for gorilla conservation purposes. Traditionally hunter-gatherers, the Batwa were displaced without compensation, resettled on marginal lands, barred from entering their [...]

The creation of commercialization opportunities for smallholder farmers has taken primacy on the development agenda of many developing countries. Invariably, most of the smallholders are less productive than commercial farmers and continue to lag in commercialization. Apart from the various multifaceted challenges which smallholder farmers face, limited access to extension [...]

Conventional approaches to agricultural extension based on top–down technology transfer and information dissemination models are inadequate to help smallholder farmers tackle increasingly complex agroclimatic adversities. Innovative service delivery alternatives, such as field schools, exist but are mostly implemented in isolationistic silos with little effort to integrate them for cost reduction [...]

Since the FAW outbreak began in 2016, the the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has taken multiple actions to strengthen countries’ capacity to respond to FAW through Technical Cooperation Programme projects and other funded initiatives.

This documentary features field experiences from Welthungerhilfe beneficiaries in Arua, Uganda, under the RIAS Project following integration of nutrition component into the Farmer Field Schools (FFSs).