Publications
Since the 1980s, investments in public sector extension have declined, while new challenges and opportunities faced by producers have dramatically increased the need for diversified services, around topics such as sustainable production, climate change adaptation, links to markets and entrepreneurship, community mobilization, nutrition-sensitive agriculture and much more.
The link between agriculture and human nutrition
This publication describes the analytical process carried out under the European Union-funded SALSA project which enabled the development of a European map of the distribution of small farms at the NUTS-3 level and assessed the capabilities and usefulness of Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites for small farms monitoring, specifically in providing information about crop types, crop area extent and crop production.
This brochure wants to present the five-year TAP-AIS project (2019-2024) funded by the European Union, under the DeSIRA Initiative. The project has the main objective to strengthen capacities to innovate in national agricultural innovation systems (AIS) in the context of climate-relevant, productive, and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific.
The TAP-AIS project (GCP/GLO/017/EC) on strengthening the agricultural innovation system in Lao PDR, implemented by National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funded by European Union, carried out a broad assessment of the national Agriculture Innovation System (AIS) to develop a comprehensive understanding of the current status of the national AIS in Lao PDR and identify the main entry points for strengthening capacity of key organizations and stakeholders of the national AIS.