We developed an interactive electronic weed identification tool, AFROweeds, and an online network, Weedsbook, for agricultural change agents to aid communication and offer assistance to rice farmers with specific weed problems. We collected quantitative and qualitative data to assess effectiveness and usefulness of these products with potential users. With the online version of AFROweeds, used on an electronic tablet, average weed identification time in the field was 7 min 6 s with 44% successful identifications.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2016Central African Republic, Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsMarch, 2016Tanzania, Ghana, Guinea, Somalia, Nigeria, Africa
This booklet presents an overview of the issue of soil management practices in Africa. It briefly presents the 12-Resolution “Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the African Green Revolution” adopted in 2006 and contextualizes the 2014 adoption by the 23rd Summit of the African Union of the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods that reaffirmed that agriculture should remain high on the development agenda of the continent.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsApril, 2016Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Ethiopia, Niger, Italy
This flyer offers an overview on the main outcomes of the five-days workshop "Drylands Monitoring Week 2015": a roadmap for collaborative action in the drylands, and the “Rome Promise”.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsMarch, 2016France, Nigeria, Belgium, Nepal, Burundi, Germany, Guatemala, United Kingdom, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Italy, Niger, Malawi, Switzerland, Kenya, South Africa, Finland, Uganda, Somalia, Myanmar, Senegal
Four years since the Voluntary Guidelines were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security as the global consensus on improving tenure, their principles and processes are inspiring people around the world to take action. With wide ownership by governments, civil society and the private sector, they represent an unbiased framework in which new conversations on tenure are taking place, new skills are being developed, and new policies are being influenced in participatory ways.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2016Burkina Faso, Switzerland, United States of America, Togo, Mali, France, Canada, Congo, Niger, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Italy, Austria, Senegal, Chad, Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire
TTI disseminates current information on all aspects of tsetse and trypansomosis research and control to institutions and invididuals involved in the problems of African trypanosomosis. This services forms an integral part of the Programme Against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT).
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsMarch, 2016Uganda, Nigeria, Guatemala, Cambodia, Finland
SOLA & Open Tenure are open-source software to help protect tenure rights and support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2016Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Australia, Canada, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Niger, Eritrea, Africa
This publication was commissioned under the auspices of the project “FAO technical support to the COMESA-EAC-SADC program on climate change adaptation and mitigation in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSRO/RAF/307/COM)”.
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