La R&D agricole considère aujourd’hui les innovations de terrain comme des sources d’idées et de références pour améliorer durablement les modes de production. La « traque de systèmes innovants » et l’évaluation de ces systèmes pour définir les plus performants du point de vue économique et agrienvironnemental nécessitent cependant un travail de mise au point méthodologique, auquel cet article vise à contribuer.
The French Ministry of Agriculture has called for agro-ecological transitions that reconcile farming and the environment. In this review, we examine the transformations of farmers and AKIS (Agriculture Knowledge Innovation System) actors’ work during agro-ecological transitions, and argue that the content, organization, and aim of farmers’ work are influenced by agricultural training, agricultural development, and discussions between peers, research, and regulations. Our main findings concern those transformations.
This report deals with innovation opportunities in the Rice Value Chain.
The following is a summary that introduces the report.
This report deals with selected innovations in Nigeria.
The following is a summary that introduces the report.
This report deals with the adoption of technological innovations in the case of rice farming in Togo.
The following is a summary that introduces the report.
Des organisations efficaces sont indispensables pour assurer un développement durable et, en particulier, dans le domaine de la sécurité alimentaire et de l’agriculture. Ce cours explique comment effectuer une analyse et un développement efficaces des organisations étatiques et non étatiques dans les États Membres, à travers des exemples de changement organisationnel, y compris dans les ministères, les organisations de producteurs et les instituts de recherche.
Durée: 2 heures
Unas organizaciones efectivas son fundamentales para conseguir un desarrollo sostenible y en particular, en el ámbito de la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura. Este curso explica cómo llevar a cabo un análisis y desarrollo efectivos de las organizaciones estatales y no estatales en los países miembros, y proporciona ejemplos de cambios organizacionales, incluidos en ministerios, organizaciones de productores e institutos de investigación.
Duración del curso: 2 horas
The Policy Compendium for Rural Advisory Services (RAS) is a tool that contributes to filling the gap between the rural advisory services (RAS) policy environment and RAS efforts in the field. It helps direct decisions and facilitate successful policy processes and outcomes in extension and advisory services by making knowledge accessible, fostering synergies and promoting policy processes to improve RAS and rural development. It has two purposes.
This report provides an overview of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) since its inception in 2012, when it was officially launched by FAO at the first G20 Meeting of Agriculture Chief Scientists (MACS) in September 2012 in Mexico, until December 2017. The G20 Agriculture Deputies agreed on this stock taking exercise that started under the 2018 Argentinian G20 Presidency.
Purposes of the exercise are the following:
This document is intended to serve as a resource for assessing capacity needs in a project or programme. A capacity needs assessment (CNA) is a process for identifying a project’s perceptions (through staff, partners and stakeholders) on various capacity areas that impact the work they do. The process helps identify challenges and opportunities for enhancing key skills thereby enhancing the project’s ability to achieve its objectives. The overall goal of a CNA is to determine the gap between required and existing capacities.