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Scaling community seedbanks and farmer seed enterprises in East and Southern Africa: Workshop Highlights, 2-4 October 2019, Entebbe, Uganda

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декабря, 2019
Uganda

The Scaling Community Seed Banks and Farmer Seed Enterprises in East and Southern Africa workshop was held in Entebbe, Uganda on 2-4 October 2019, to share experiences about community seed bank management and to develop national pilot scaling proposals.

Income and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trade-offs on smallholder farms at two sites in northern Nigeria

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декабря, 2019
Nigeria

This study analyses the trade-offs between welfare (measured by income) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using a farm-level optimisation model that incorporates the predominant cereal (sorghum), legumes (groundnut, soybeans), livestock (cattle, goats and sheep) and trees (locust bean, camel’s foot) representative of production systems at two contrasting sites in northern Nigeria.

Climate change, agriculture, food and nutrition security policies and frameworks in Kenya

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декабря, 2019
Kenya

This paper reviews the current state of policies and frameworks on climate change, agriculture, food, and nutrition security in Kenya. Integrating climate change in policies and frameworks on agriculture, food and nutrition security is important for providing and strengthening the enabling environment for building farmers resilience and adaptive capacity.

Tropical forage technologies can deliver multiple benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis

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декабря, 2019
Global

Scarcity of quantity and quality feed has been a key constraint to productivity of smallholder crop-livestock systems. Tropical
forages include a variety of annual and perennial grasses, herbaceous and dual-purpose legumes, and multipurpose trees and
shrubs. They have been promoted in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for increasing livestock productivity and household income

Responsible agricultural mechanization innovation for the sustainable development of Nepal’s hillside farming system

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декабря, 2019
Global

Agricultural mechanization in developing countries has taken at least two contested innovation pathways—the “incumbent trajectory” that promotes industrial agriculture, and an “alternative pathway” that supports small-scale mechanization for sustainable development of hillside farming systems.

Compendium of Climate-smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices

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декабря, 2019
Nepal

Nepal is a vulnerable country to the impacts of climate change. The adverse effects of climate change have decreased agricultural production and productivity. Therefore, technologies and strategies to develop resilience agriculture and increased agriculture productivity are urgently needed to create climate-smart technologies and help the existing technologies to adapt to climate change.

Adapting Green Innovation Centres to climate change: analysis of value chain adaptation potential. Rice, potato, and mango value chains in Koulikoro, Sikasso, Kayes, Ségou, and Mopti zones, Mali

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декабря, 2019
Mali

The present report aims to provide a climate and vulnerability analysis of the Green Innovation Centres (GIC) target commodity value chains. Herein we identify climate change- related vulnerabilities, hazards, and opportunities for adaptation to the same.

Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa

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декабря, 2019
Togo

This study assesses the impact of climate change (CC) adaptation on farm-level revenue among 500 soybean farmers randomly selected in three districts in Togo using endogenous switching regression method. The survey results indicate that only 40.37% of the women have adapted to CC against 59.62% of the men.

Between a rock and a hard place: early experience of migration challenges under the Covid-19 pandemic

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декабря, 2019
Global

This working paper was produced under the European Union Horizon 2020 funded AGRUMIG project and traces the impact of Covid-19 on migration trends in seven project countries – China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand.