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Inception Report: Study on Improving Existing Policies to Support Cross Border Trade in Agricultural Inputs and Commodities and National Trainings on Agricultural Innovation System Policy Practice Index in the SADC Region

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CCARDESA
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The Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI

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CCARDESA
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Study on Improving Existing Policies to Support Cross Border Trade in Agricultural Inputs and Commodities and National Trainings on Agricultural Innovation System Policy Practice Index in the SADC Region Inception Report

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Study on Improving Existing Policies to Support Cross Border Trade in Agricultural Inputs and Commodities and National Trainings on Agricultural Innovation System Policy Practice
Index in the SADC Region : Inception Report
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Dr Baitsi Podisi
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+267 3914991
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA, (2021) Study on Improving Existing Policies to Support Cross Border Trade in Agricultural Inputs and Commodities and National Trainings on Agricultural Innovation System Policy Practice Index in the SADC Region Inception Report,Pg. 15

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Regional Knowledge, Information & Data Capture Guidelines Regional Training Workshop Report:

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CCARDESA
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Mr Martin Muchero and Dr Andreas Brandner 

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1.00
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CCARDESA
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Regional Knowledge, Information & Data Capture Guidelines Regional Training Workshop Report:

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Regional Knowledge, Information & Data Capture Guidelines Regional Training Workshop Report
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Dr Baitsi Podisi
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+267 3914991
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CCARDESA
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CCRARDESA, (2021) Regional Knowledge, Information & Data Capture Guidelines Regional Training Workshop Report,Pg. 22

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SADC Futures: Developing Foresight Capacity for Climate Resilient Agricultural Development Final technical report

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CCARDESA
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SADC Futures 

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1.00
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CCARDESA
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SADC Futures: Developing Foresight Capacity for Climate Resilient Agricultural Development Final technical report

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CCAFS 

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SADC Futures: Developing Foresight Capacity for Climate Resilient Agricultural Development Final technical report
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Dr Baitsi Podisi
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+267 3914991
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA,(2020) SADC Futures: Developing Foresight Capacity for Climate Resilient Agricultural Development Final technical report,Pg. 13

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Situational Analysis Report: Assessment of Digitalization in the Agricultural Systems of the Soithern Africa Development Community

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CCARDESA is a key player in Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) activities and wants to take the AR4D agenda forward by ensuring that Agricultural Transformation embraces digitalization because it has the potential to provide productivity and sustainability gains for the whole agricultural sector. Significant changes in agricultural systems are anticipated because of the convergence of new digital technologies which have the potential to change farming along whole value chains. The demand for region-specific digital technologies for agricultural innovations, coupled with a conducive enabling environment, calls for a systematic assessment of levels of availability of relevant digital systems and the extent to which such technologies are accessible in each of the SADC countries.

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Sound and Cohesively Implemented Rural Development Strategies: A Missing Link in Africa’s Fight Against Poverty?

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Martin Muchero
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Charles L. Machethe

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Success in fighting poverty in Africa will largely depend on the extent to which rural poverty is reduced as it is largely a rural phenomenon. By examining the rural development strategies of the East African Community, Economic Community of West African States and the Association of South East Asian Nations, the purpose of this study was to determine their relationship to rural poverty reduction. The Rural Development Strategy Soundness Model and Rural Web Model tools were used to examine the soundness and cohesiveness of implementation, respectively. The results showed that rural poverty declined where a rural development strategy had both been sound and cohesively implemented. We concluded that a positive correlation exists between a sound and cohesively implemented rural development strategy and rural poverty reduction. We deduced from this that the former is a missing link in Africa’s fight against rural poverty

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Rural development strategy; rural poverty; strategy soundness and cohesiveness; strategy implementation
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Mr Martin Muchero
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Tichaona Muchero & Charles L. Machethe (2021): Sound and cohesively implemented rural development strategies: A missing link in Africa’s fight against Poverty? Development Southern Africa

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Sound and Cohesively Implemented Rural Development Strategies: A Missing Link in Africa’s Fight Against Poverty?

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Author or Institution as Author
Martin Muchero
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Charles L. Machethe

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Success in fighting poverty in Africa will largely depend on the extent to which rural poverty is reduced as it is largely a rural phenomenon. By examining the rural development strategies of the East African Community, Economic Community of West African States and the Association of South East Asian Nations, the purpose of this study was to determine their relationship to rural poverty reduction. The Rural Development Strategy Soundness Model and Rural Web Model tools were used to examine the soundness and cohesiveness of implementation, respectively. The results showed that rural poverty declined where a rural development strategy had both been sound and cohesively implemented. We concluded that a positive correlation exists between a sound and cohesively implemented rural development strategy and rural poverty reduction. We deduced from this that the former is a missing link in Africa’s fight against rural poverty

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Rural development strategy; rural poverty; strategy soundness and cohesiveness; strategy implementation
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Mr Martin Muchero
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Tichaona Muchero & Charles L. Machethe (2021): Sound and cohesively implemented rural development strategies: A missing link in Africa’s fight against Poverty? Development Southern Africa

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The Better Life Book

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COMACO
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GIZ

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COMACO
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The Better Life Book will bring hope by giving answers to our food and income needs. The book will help us as a community and as families to: Ÿ increase crop harvests without expensive inputs (like fertilizers and other chemicals), Ÿ protect and benefit from the natural resources such as wildlife, Ÿ build a foundation for community leaders to solve problems, Ÿ secure a better future for our families, and Ÿ leave fertile, productive land for our children's future.

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The Better Life Book
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Dale Lewis
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COMACO
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Community Markets for Conservation (2015), COMACO Better life Book 2018, Zambia

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Passos e cuidados na produção de batata rena

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Instituto de Desenvolvimento Agrário: Projecto de Desenvolvimento da Agricultura Familiar (MOSAP II)
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Este folheto foi produzido no âmbito da implementação do projecto MOSAP II em Angola nas províncias do Huambo, Bié e Malanje para consciencializar os Extensionistas, Agricultores e Camponeses beneficiários do projecto e não só.

CLIMATE SMART GRAIN SORGHUM VARIETIES: IMPORTANT AGRONOMIC TRAITS TO LOOK OUT FOR

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Department of Agricultural Research Lesotho
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National University of Lesotho

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Climate change is an on-going phenomenon. The climatic patterns have shifted in Lesotho from earlier well-known short summer season charac-terised by erratic rains and some drought spells during the growing sea-son, to unusual floods, low temperatures and limited sunlight. The onset of the planting season is now delayed by either no rainfall or flooding con-ditions that interfere with both sowing of the grain crops and also proper growth and development of those that are already planted. Moreover the heavy rains that unpredictably dominate the summer season associated with cloudy conditions with low temperatures have brought a new chal-lenge of sunlight availability and heat units for optimum photosynthetic ability of the crops.

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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