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More than 22,000 farmers on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, off the Tanzanian coast, have gone back to school. Although they have farmed for generations, they have decided to learn how to farm. Their productivity has increased so much, that the local Government has made these Farmer Field Schools [...]

This review article reports on the productivity and other impacts being observed for many different crops in half a dozen countries for increasing food crop yields with lower cost and input requirements as well as more resilience to adverse effects of climate change. It also reports on mechanization innovations that [...]

Programme sous-régional de "Gestion Intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs" (GIPD). "With COQUA (COmmercialization and QUAlity) module of IPM, I manage well the marketing of my onion production in the local market. In addition to that I feel that I have a perfect mastering of my production and my agricultural [...]

18-19 September 2014, Rome, Italy

Eastern and Central Africa continue to face acute and chronic food and nutrition insecurity1 . Combined with a high incidence of HIV, food security continues to affect the nutrition and health status of poor households. There is growing recognition of the vital importance of expanding agricultural development capacity to include nutrition [...]

El objetivo general del proyecto es contribuir al mejoramiento de la seguridad alimentaria de las familias productoras de maíz pertenecientes al programa Escuelas de Campo que desarrolla la Universidad Nacional de Agricultura.

The FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are groups of women, men and young people – mixed or not – who decide to organize themselves so as to work together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make [...]

The Adivasi Fisheries Project, aimed at diversifying livelihood options for resource-poor Adivasi (ethnic) communities in the North and Northwest of Bangladesh, was implemented during 2007–9. Aquaculture and related technologies were introduced to a total of 3594 resource-poor Adivasi households. Baseline and end-line surveys were applied to assess the changes in [...]

As world population numbers tick ever higher, ensuring that food production keeps pace is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Large-scale agriculture will provide part of the solution, but smallholder farmers (farmers in developing countries who often have limited land and capital, are poorly linked to markets and are [...]

El cultivo de cacao constituye un rubro de gran importancia social y económica en Centroamérica, siendo una fuente de ingresos para más de 15000 familias. Aún así, en ocasiones la producción de cacao se ve limitada por problemas de manejo que pueden relacionarse con la existencia de pocas oportunidades de capacitación. [...]