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Agricultural value chain guide for the Pacific islands

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Netherlands

A farmer-inclusive value chain development approach is a powerful formula for developing sustainable market linkages in the Pacific. We need to apply new thinking to modernising and sustaining agri-food systems as the impacts of climate change, unpredictability in global trade, migration and conflicts threaten progress towards the goals of zero hunger and end to poverty and malnutrition.

Who has the better story? On the narrative foundations of agricultural development dichotomies

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Global

While there is consensus on the need to promote agricultural development in Africa to achieve food security and use agriculture as an engine of growth, there is a lively policy debate on appropriate policies to achieve this goal. In the past two decades, there has been a revival of policies that favor government support to agriculture in Africa, especially in the form of input subsidies.

Maize-Nutrient-Manager: A mobile phone application for field-specific, balanced nutrient management advisory

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Netherlands

To increase productivity and profitability, while limiting nutrient losses and related GHG-emissions, African smallholders need more tailored fertilizer advice. Yet, such advice critically hinges upon – largely lacking – field-level management data, as management is key to efficient fertilizer use.

Survey and genetic diversity of wild Brassica oleracea L. germplasm on the Atlantic coast of France

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
France

Field survey of Brassica oleracea growing in the wild in northwestern French coastal areas and AFLP analysis of their genetic diversity and population structure. This study offered the highest level of detail ever presented about the distribution of wild B. oleracea populations along the French Atlantic coast. Populations analysed showed a low level of genetic differentiation.

Maize production under combined conservation agriculture and integrated soil fertility management in the sub-humid and semi-arid regions of Kenya

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Kenya

Crop production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is constrained by rainfall variability and declining soil fertility. This has over time led to a decrease in crop yield, among them also maize. This decrease is also experienced in the sub-humid and semi-arid locations of Kenya.

Fonio and Bambara Groundnut value chains in Mali: issues, needs, and opportunities for their sustainable promotion

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Mali

As the effects of climate change are severely straining West African agricultural systems, the adoption of more incisive interventions in support of sustainable development agendas for the region is highly critical and cannot be further delayed by governments.

CTA Project Completion Report: Brussels Briefings

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Global

Organised by CTA, the European Commission (EC), the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and Concord, the Brussels Development Policy Briefings have been a flagship initiative providing an inclusive policy dialogue forum for 13 years, focusing on the most critical issues facing agriculture and rural development in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific countries.

Can Innovation Platforms (IPs) improve rural women participation in maize value chain? evidence from the eastern DR Congo

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Congo

This study explored the potential of the Innovation Platform approach, in improving the participation of rural female farmers in Maize value chain. It intends to identify the peculiarities, in terms of challenges and opportunities related to its application to the rural women realities.

From Tree Planting to Tree Growing: Rethinking Ecosystem Restoration Through Tree

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Global

Every year, millions of dollars are spent on tree-based landscape restoration activities. Over the last five decades, there are few success stories of such interventions and even those do not match the anticipated objectives for which the resources were spent. News articles that announce planting campaigns of millions of seedlings are common.

Since 2017, the countries of the Central American Integration System experienced +250 transformations in their political, institutional and financial frameworks toward scaling Climate Smart Agriculture.

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 2019
Global

Following the launch of the CSA strategy for the Central American Integration System (2017), supported by CCAFS, actors from all levels (local, national, regional/international) implemented 259 transformations aligned with the strategy’s objectives toward scaling Climate Smart Agriculture.