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Plant Quarantine and Phytosanitary Service (PQPS-ZARI)

Disease Surveillance on some farms in Mkushi District of the Central Province of Zambia

The presentation focused on developing  a smart sprayer for smallholder farmers in conservation agriculture. Its Future application in crop production will reduce herbicide and pesticide and overall support of smallholder farmers who are passionate about CA in other countries to address climate change.

The Seychelles National Agricultural Investment Plan (SNAIP) is a framework that seeks toharmonize, consolidate and accelerate the implementation of the country’s agriculture and food security and nutrition related policies and strategies in the period 2015 to 2020. SNAIP sets thecountry’s agriculture and food security and nutrition development for the next five years within thecontext of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF).

L’arbre à pain appartient à la famille des Moracées et il est originaire des régions du Pacifique. La chair du fruit à pain est très riche en hydrate de carbone. Elle est aussi bien pourvue en fibre, minéraux tels que potassium, magnésium, calcium et en vitamines B et C. Le fruit à pain est appelé à jouer un rôle important pour la sécurité alimentaire.
Cliquer sur le lien pour lire plus sur cette  fiche technique qui explique comment cultiver de l’arbre à pain.

Mr Subhash Palekar gave a public talk on talk on Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) on 28.07.16 at the Farmer Training School of the Food and Research and Extension Institute in Mauritius. “Zero Budget spiritual Farming means for all the crops, the production cost will be zero. In the Zero Budget Natural Farming nothing has to be purchased from the outside. All things required for the growth of the plant are available around the root zone of the plants.” …. Read more on his website.

This publication is a report of the outcomes of the workshop convened by His Excellency, Lt. General Dr. Seretse Khama Ian Khama, President of Botswana and Chairperson of SADC in May 2016 on Food Security and Poverty Eradication to exchange ideas on how to address several food and nutrition security challenges in Southern Africa.

The Cape coastline faces into a turbulent ocean. Climate change will make this naturally stormy sea all the more formidable. Cape Town has inherited a complex space to manage: land reclaimed from the sea for forts and harbour walls; towering residential flats lined with cemented promenades; economically critical ports and railway lines; ecologically sensitive beaches, dunes and river mouths; and a legacy of dispossession of black South Africans, and privileged access for wealthy whites.

Increasingly stormy seas and higher sea levels are beginning to show up the existing fault lines in the engineered, social and institutional strata of this complex coastline. People working within the City of Cape Town (CoCT) today are making decisions about how to manage these vulnerable spaces – decisions that future generations will have to live and work with.

Short-term, piece-meal, opportunistic responses to the threat of stormier seas will only increase how vulnerable the built city, its inhabitants, economic activities, and the natural environment are. The City, lead by its Environmental Resource Management Department, is developing a rigorous coastal policy and management framework that will enable politicians, managers and residents to respond consistently and appropriately as they are confronted with an uncertain, dynamic, climate-altered future.

This booklet presents research done by the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities, the Stockholm Environment Institute and partner institutions, working closely with the City of Cape Town, to explore ways to manage changing coastal risks

The Green Choice Alliance (GCA) developed a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework to measure the conservation and socio-economic gains of projects that are being implemented using sustainable land use best practice methods and located within the biodiversity hotspots of South Africa as shown on the map.

The Climate Information Portal (CIP) is a web interface operated by the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG), at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The portal, which currently provides climate information for Africa and Asia, integrates climate information into a user-friendly map and graph-based interface. The information comes from a climate database that stores a large suite of observed climate data as well as projections of future climate.

The South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas (SARVA) is a platform for global change information transfer from research to policy and decision makers. The SARVA program provides a centralised repository for global change research (www.rvatlas.org.za) as well as a collection of integration and awareness tools aimed at improving evidence-based decision-making concerning global change. The current focus of the Atlas is on the country, regions and localities of South Africa. However investigations are being carried out to assess expansion opportunities into other parts of the region.