Through an innovative continuous professional development training programme, “Growing your business through preventive livestock healthcare”, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has aimed to address private sector veterinary paraprofessionals’ skills gaps and support them to develop successful businesses providing preventive livestock health services to small-scale farmers and pastoralists. These training courses were piloted in Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda in 2023 using a blended learning approach.
Mult-actors Agricultural Innovation Platform (MAIP) is established in rural communities where farmers and key value chain actors become empowered through participatory action research, knowledge co-creation and application, market linkages and so on. MAIPs, as a model for inclusive and collaborative innovation, are increasingly deployed in farmer communities to solve the last-mile bottleneck, namely, the empowerment of smallholder farmers and value chain actors to access innovation and services to drive field-level change.
El Programa Integra surgió como respuesta a la necesidad de promover y fortalecer el proceso de transición y mejora continua de los productores de caña de azúcar en Colombia hacia una gestión y producción sostenible.
The project develops and demonstrates a climate-smart farming system, which will be created by development of new agricultural technologies and a redesigned network of the existing African agri-food value chain to increase resilience, sustainability, and circularity. The deployment of the integrated chia-mushroom -pig biogas value chain contributes to the diversification and resilience of African food systems against the impacts of climate change.
Climate resilience and agrobiodiversity management - concepts and tools for FFS Presented by Hilton Mbozi, Oxfam Novib for the Global FFS Platform Webinar series on Climate Change and Farmer Field School-Session 2: Equipping farmers for climate action: key concepts and tools for FFS
A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of Zn application methods on growth and yield parameters, Zn concentrations and Zn bioavailability in rice grains of two genotypes (NIA-Mehran and Shandar). The study revealed that zinc application had a positive impact on zinc bioavailability for humans by reducing phytic acid concentrations and affecting zinc bioavailability biomarkers in both polished and brown rice. Specifically, zinc application increased the number of productive tillers by 14%, grains per panicle by 88%, thousand grains weight by 10%, and grain yield by 30%.
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 conditions.
The FAO Agroecology Digest presents a collection of news, research publications, stories from the field, multimedia materials (and much more) from around the world.
The FAO Agroecology Digest presents a collection of news, research publications, stories from the field, multimedia materials (and much more) from around the world.
The FAO Agroecology Digest presents a collection of news, research publications, stories from the field, multimedia materials (and much more) from around the world.