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Tag Archives: Africa
Launch of the 2013 Montpellier Panel report – Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture
On the 18th April, the Montpellier Panel launched a new report, outlining their solution to tackling hunger and resource scarcities in Africa, Sustainable Intensification. At a seminar hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, climate change, science and technology, smallholder, sustainable intensification, the Montpellier Panel
Tagged Africa, agriculture, APPG, CGIAR, climate change, ecology, European Union, FANRPAN, farming, food, GM, hunger, IIED, intensification, Montpellier Panel, science, sustainability, sustainable intensification, technology
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Can water harvesting technologies help to feed one billion hungry?
by Lisa Bunclark In ‘One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?’ Gordon Conway states that one of four routes to achieving a food secure world is through the use of appropriate innovative technologies. Water harvesting technologies (WHTs) offer the … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, farmer, science and technology, smallholder, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized, water, women in agriculture
Tagged Africa, burkina faso, crops, harvesting, technology, water
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Can agriculture achieve growth with poverty reduction in Africa?
In a new briefing paper Strategies and Priorities for African Agriculture: Economywide Perspectives from Country Studies published on the 9th January, Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, Samuel Benin, and Shenggen Fan of IFPRI recommend some key priorities and principles for achieving … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, governance, scaling up, smallholder, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, African Union, agricultural development, agriculture, CAADP, economics, governance, growth, IFPRI, poor, poverty
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Getting on with the job: connecting smallholders to markets in eastern Africa
Over 30 agricultural development practitioners from four eastern African countries participated in a ‘Smallholder Café’ in Nairobi on the 11th July. The event was the second of three regional workshops, organised by Future Agricultures Consortium, and co-hosted by the Food, … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, extension services, farmer, farmers as entrepreneurs, food security, private sector, Resilience, scaling up, smallholder, sustainable intensification, Uncategorized, women in agriculture
Tagged Africa, agribusiness, eastern Africa, Equity Bank, FAC, FANRPAN, Gates Foundation, Kenya, markets, Nairobi, ODI, One Acre Fund, scaling up, smallholders
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Asking the experts: connecting smallholders to markets in southern Africa
How can we connect asset-poor smallholders to markets in southern Africa? And what are the respective roles of civil society, governments, and big business to achieve this? These were some of the questions considered by agricultural development practitioners from six … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, extension services, farmer, farmers as entrepreneurs, food security, Gates Foundation, private sector, scaling up, smallholder, Sustainable agriculture, women in agriculture
Tagged Africa, agriculture, DFID, FANRPAN, Gates Foundation, NASFAM, private sector, profit, scaling up, smallholders, SNV, southern
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Valuing European Development Assistance
The UK public may be becoming less supportive of maintaining, let alone increasing, current levels of UK spending on aid even when people were told how much is currently spent, according to a new IPPR and ODI report ‘Understanding public … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, aid, Aidwatch, assistance, DATA, development, Europe, European Union, international, international development, IPPR, ODA, ODI, transparency, UK
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Smallholder First?
Arriving at Imperial College London in 2009, one of the first external events I attended was the IDS launch at the House of Commons of Farmer First Revisited, a book that emphasizes the importance of putting farmers at the centre … Continue reading
