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Nouvelles approches d’intervention pour la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique subsaharienne

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Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale
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Cette nouvelle série d’histoires illustre de nombreuses et très intéressantes innovations appliquées en Afrique de l'Ouest, qui aident les producteurs à transformer et vendre leurs produits de manière plus efficace et utile. Vous trouverez des descriptions d’innovations agricoles dans plusieurs filières comme le fonio, niébé ou mil vitales pour la sécurité alimentaire de la région, des services de conseil agricole et divers modes de financement oeuvrant pour une résilience accrue des populations agricoles.

Citation

CTA. 2019. Nouvelles approches d’intervention pour la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique subsaharienne. CTA Experience Capitalization Series 9. Wageningen (Pays-Bas): CTA

Innovation et promotion des chaînes de valeurs de produits agricoles locaux en Afrique

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Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale
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L’innovation est au coeur de ce volume, du point de vue des techniques de production, des plates-formes d’innovation et de l’accès au financement. L’innovation agricole, qui peut se définir comme l’ensemble des processus liés au développement de produits, de services ou de procédés agricoles, nouveaux ou améliorés, du maillon de la production à celle de la consommation, est un facteur déterminant de la modernisation et de la performance du secteur. Il s’agit d’un des domaines stratégiques dans lesquels il est crucial de davantage investir en Afrique. Certains articles traitent des actions réalisées par des plates-formes ’innovation, à l’image de celles mises en place au Bénin dans la filière riz, ou au Burkina Faso dans la filière niébé. L’importance de ces plates-formes n’est plus à démontrer. Il est important de mieux faire connaître leurs actions, de faciliter leur durabilité, de les connecter davantage aux systèmes nationaux d’innovation agricole (lorsqu’elles sont mises en place par des acteurs non gouvernementaux), de renforcer la prise en compte des savoirs locaux, l’implication du secteur privé, des chercheurs ainsi que celle des jeunes.

Citation

CTA. 2019. Innovation et promotion des chaînes de valeurs de produits agricoles locaux en Afrique. CTA Experience Capitalization Series 10. Wageningen (Pays-Bas): CTA.

Faciliter la capitalisation des expériences : Un guide

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Eggens, Laura

Chavez-Tafur, Jorge

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Voici notre nouveau guide pour facilitateurs d’un processus de capitalisation. Il s’appuie sur les nombreuses ressources intéressantes qui sont déjà disponibles, mais aussi et plus spécifiquement sur l’expérience accumulée par le projet, ainsi que sur les leçons et les idées tirées par tous ceux qui y ont contribué, que ce soit comme facilitateurs ou comme participants. C’est leur (votre !) travail qui a permis de démontrer quelles pratiques fonctionnent et peuvent être présentées sous la forme de recommandations que d’autres personnes pourront ensuite suivre. Ce guide se concentre spécifiquement sur les méthodes pour aider à organiser et à soutenir un processus de capitalisation des expériences : comment préparer ce processus ; comment y associer différents acteurs ; à quoi faire attention pendant les sessions de formation en personne ou en ligne ; comment encourager l’adoption des idées principales tirées du processus ; comment encourager l’institutionnalisation de la méthodologie de capitalisation des expériences. Il propose des recommandations pratiques pour les facilitateurs, ainsi que des informations sur les méthodes qui ont fonctionné (et celles qui ont échoué) et des suggestions d’exercices. Vous trouverez dans ce guide des outils que nous avons employés au cours de ce processus et que vous êtes libre d’adapter et d’utiliser dans le cadre de votre propre travail de facilitation.

The Impact of APPSA Within and Beyond Borders

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Hector Malaidza, DARS
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1.00
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Department of Agricultural Research Services of Malawi
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The Agricultural Productivity Program for Southern Africa (APPSA) has been implemented in
Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Malawi being a regional center of leadership (RCoL) for maize
based farming systems. The initiative has made a great contribution to the National Agricultural
System and agricultural Development in Malawi. A few, out of many success stories from APPSA
are contained in this publication. This Magazine contains some of the great work that APPSA has
contributed to Agricultural sector in Malawi. So far, APPSA has released 27 improved agricultural
technologies that are already making a tremendous impact in the three countries. APPSA has
also facilitated the promotion of 85 already released technologies. It has trained 43 people on long
term trainings on PhD (10), Masters (23) and Bachelor’s (10) Degree level. It has also sent many
agricultural staff to short term trainings. APPSA has also raised magnificent infrastructure in a
number of research including Chitedze (Lilongwe), Bvumbwe (Thyolo) and Kasinthula (Chikwawa).
These structures included office blocks, laboratories, irrigation facilities, storage facilities
just to mention a few. In general, APPSA project has been holistic in nature and its fruition is still
dripping out.

Keywords
Agricultural Technologies, Agricultural Innovation, Youth in Agriculture, Nutrition, Orange Maize, Irrigation, Infrastructure
Contact name (for further information)
Hector Malaidza, Department of Agricultural Research Services
Contact email (for further information)
Contact phone (for further information)
+265999330061
Contact institution (for further information)
agric-research@sdnp.org.mw
CCARDESA Category

Climate-Smart Agriculture Case Studies 2018: Successful approaches from different regions

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Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
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1.00
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This publication was launched yesterday at the COP24 in Poland at the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture side event. Hard copies of this CSA publication can be found at the Rome-Based Agencies booth.

 

The aim of this publication is to provide the best FAO-led examples of how the CSA is not a “one-size-fits-all” approach that can be universally applied but, rather, involves different elements embedded in local contexts. The case studies show how the management of farms, crops, livestock and aquaculture can balance short- and long-term food security needs with priorities for the farmer/ producer, as well as build adaption to climate change and contribute to mitigating GHG.

 

The case studies were selected and adapted from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook Second Edition 2017, and other FAO projects.

Keywords
Climate Smart Agriculture, CSA, FAO
Contact institution (for further information)
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations
Citation

FAO. 2018. Climate-Smart Agriculture Case Studies 2018. Successful approaches from different regions. Rome. 44 pp.

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ACCRA Policy Baseline Report - Analysis of the Climate Change-related Elements in SADC Member States’ Agricultural and Food Security Policies

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Chikakula Miti and Wiebke Förch
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Nathaniel Mtunji, Simon Mwale, Sarah Beerhalter

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This  report  analyses  the  status  of  incorporation  of  climate  change  adaptation  and  climate-smart agriculture (CSA) measures in the SADC Member States’ agriculture and food security frameworks and policies. It  details the current situation in the SADC member states  with respect to  the existence of policies, strategies and programmes that were primarily designed to build resilience to climate change among famers.

Other Partners

ACCRA

Keywords
Climate Change
Climate-smart Agriculture
Policy
SADC
Agriculture
Food Security
Contact name (for further information)
W. Förch
Contact phone (for further information)
+267 3914997
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CCARDESA
Citation

Miti, C. and Förch, W. and Mtunji, N. and Mwale, S. and Beerhalter, S. (2017). Analysis of the Climate Change-related Elements in SADC Member States’ Agricultural and Food Security Policies. ACCRA Policy Baseline Report.

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APPSA Groundnut Seed Production Saves Farmers against Falling Prices of "White Gold" in Petauke

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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA
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Falling prices of cotton, normally referred to as ‘‘white gold’’ is not good news for small- scale farmers in Eastern province, as the crop has been a source of livelihoods to them for many years. A significant decrease in the number of small-scale farmers currently growing cotton in the province has resulted in an increase in poverty levels. This has exposed small-scale farmers whose livelihood is derived from farming to much more challenging survival mechanisms.

Keywords
APPSA,
White Gold,
Petauke,
Farmers
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+267 391 4997
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA, APPSA. Groundnut Seed Production Saves Farmers against Falling Prices of "White Gold" in Petauke. p.3.

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APPSA Black Smith Returns to Farming

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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA
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Fleming Chookole, 49, of Mwiinga village in Chinkankata district in Zambia has returned to farming after abandoning it for blacksmithing for several years. Today, he is a lead farmer and inspirational Conservation Farming Unit (CFU) farmer among villagers- thanks to the Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA) which introduced the crop and soil improvement programme to Fleming and his community.

Keywords
APPSA,
CFU,
Farming,
Fleming
Contact email (for further information)
Contact phone (for further information)
+267 391 4997
Contact institution (for further information)
CCARDESA
Citation

CCARDESA, APPSA. APPSA Black Smith Returns to Farming. p.2.

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Funding Partners

4.61M

Beneficiaries Reached

97000

Farmers Trained

3720

Number of Value Chain Actors Accessing CSA

41300

Lead Farmers Supported