BOGOR, Indonesia — Despite sustained interest in agriculture- and forest-based livelihoods among young people in tropical regions, their voice has yet to be heard in land management structures, scientists and youth representatives say.
“The development agenda of African countries is to put youth at the center, including in agriculture,” said Denis Sonwa, a senior scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
African citizens join the continent’s top musicians, hundreds of CSOs, and ONE.org to ask leaders to invest more and better in agriculture
As the 23rd African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit gets underway in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, ONE.org’s Do Agric petition - which calls on African leaders to recommit to spending at least 10% of national budgets on effective agriculture investments - has gathered more than 2 million signatures of support from African citizens across the continent.
In November 2013, Gerald Otim of Ensibuuko and Peris Bosire of FarmDrive were two of the 20 participants competing in the first ever regional agri-hackathon. Fast forward nine months to July 2014, and these two are back at CTA's 2014 international conference, Fin4Ag, but this time they are as part of Plug & Play Day and as speakers in the main event.
Since ICT4Ag, Ensibuuko, FarmDrive and a number of other participants, have been incubated in partner ICT innovation hubs in Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda, fine tuning their innovations and finding markets.
The Working with Smallholders handbook is a guide for firms who wish to expand their supply chains by working with smallholder farmers. It offers an overview of key agricultural practices for sustainable supply chain management, aiming to increase productivity to benefit private firms as well as smallholder farmers. Some of the topics covered in this publication include standards and certification, access to inputs, producer organizations, and gender.
You can check the "Working with Smallholders Handbook"at our e-library, or you can also download the full-length handbook, its short version, and further resources from Farms2Firms website.
With great excitement, I, together with my six colleagues, flied to attend the AgriFuture Days 2014 Conference from June 16th-18th in Villach, Austria, which had been organized by the Club of Ossiach. After ten hours travel, we finally reached our destination, a beautiful and mountainous village.
The theme of this year’s AgriFuture Days was “ICTs enabling Family Farming." During the conference, it was discussed the future of agriculture in the context of how ICTs can contribute to improve family farming and make it more sustainable, resilient and profitable. Speakers from private sector, public community, commercial circle, and research groups actively participated and presented their thoughts and suggestions.
Have you tried the Agritech toolbox yet? This ground-breaking virtual toolbox lets YOU explore which agricultural technologies will have the greatest impact on productivity and food security in your region by 2050.
The toolbox was developed this year by IFPRI, together with the report "Food Security in a World of Growing Natural Resource Scarcity.” The report reviews 11 agricultural traditional and modern technologies and how useful these can be in contributing to feeding the world and managing scares natural resources wisely.
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is happy to invite you to a new discussion on Nutrition education as a strategy to strengthen family farming households and improve people's diets.
Nutrition education has an enormous potential to improve diets of farming families and general public who consume their produce.
IFAD has just published its Rural Youth Evaluation synthesis report. This evaluation synthesis was undertaken at a time when the effects of the 2008 financial crisis were having serious repercussions for a generation of young people, who constituted a large proportion of the populations of many developing countries, in the form of long-term unemployment, under-employment and uncertain employment.
The evaluation, which was mandated to find ways in which IFAD could improve its work with rural young people, first reviewed recent literature on youth development with a view to building an argument in favour of rural investments that benefit young people. It then assessed IFAD’s past loans and grants and the work of other organizations to identify comparative advantages, lessons learned and partnership potential.
A West African Workshop on Approaches to Research by and with Smallholder Farmers and a West Africa Farmer Innovation Fair (FIPAO in French: Foire de l’Innovation Paysanne en l’Afrique de l’Ouest) will be organised in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, framed in the International Year of Family Farming (2014) and the International Farmer Innovation Day (29 November each year). The fair follows along the lines of the successful experience of the Eastern Africa Farmer Innovation Fair held in Nairobi in May 2013 (see http://aisa2013.wikispaces.com/farmer+fair).
The learning-and-sharing workshop will involve primarily staff from field-based organisations facilitating farmer-led research in francophone West Africa. It will distil key policy messages about research and development and share these with farmers and policymakers at the fair. The fair will highlight the importance of farmer-led innovation in agricultural development, celebrate farmer creativity and bring formal researchers, policymakers and the public in contact with West African farmer innovators. It will provide an opportunity for the workshop participants to engage with innovators.
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