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This guide captures principles and methods of ongoing coaching processes for innovation niche partnerships under the Capacity Development for Agricultural lnnovation Systems (CDAIS) project, financed by the European Union. The content of this guide is a result of discussions, interactions and application by project team members from Agrinatura, FAO and partners from the eight pilot countries (Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos and Rwanda).
La contribution des femmes à l’agriculture et au développement rural est primordiale pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle de leurs familles et de la société entière. Cependant, malgré l’importance de leur rôle dans l’agriculture, les agricultrices doivent faire face à de nombreux obstacles liés au genre qui limitent leur productivité agricole.
In an effort to support beekeepers in the sustainable production of good quality beehive products, TECA together with its partners, have developed a set of information sheets on good beekeeping practices for the main bee diseases. They are designed following the TECA standards, to help beekeepers, and those providing advisory services to the beekeepers, correctly identify honey bee diseases, apply the correct treatment and to prevent them. The information sheets available in this catalogue can also be consulted online through the TECA Knowledge Base: http://teca.fao.org/technologies/browse
This document contains a brief report of the FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 11–13 September 2017. During the meeting FAO engaged a broad range of stakeholders from government officials and intergovernmental organizations to non-state actors, including civil society, private sector, research/academic institutions and cooperative/producer organizations in the dialogue on issues related to agricultural biotechnologies.
Upscaling Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) entails changing the behavior, strategies and agricultural practices of millions of agricultural producers. Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) can play a very important role in upscaling CSA, but they need to be better organised to do so. This paper explores how EAS should be organized to support the upscaling of CSA by drawing lessons for EAS from four successful cases namely: natural resource management, crop management, varietal improvement and weather insurance. It used the Innovation Management Framework which identifies three elements that are critical for innovation: functions, actions and tools.
Occasional papers on innovation in...