Revolutionizing smallholder irrigation in Africa
Author : International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release :
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Proceedings of the Workshop on Irrigation in West Africa
Author : Namara, Regassa E.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9290907975
Book Description
Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization: A Framework for Africa
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251308713
Book Description
This framework presents ten interrelated principles/elements to guide Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Africa (SAMA). Further, it presents the technical issues to be considered under SAMA and the options to be analysed at the country and sub regional levels. The ten key elements required in a framework for SAMA are as follows: The analysis in the framework calls for a specific approach, involving learning from other parts of the world where significant transformation of the agricultural mechanization sector has already occurred within a three-to-four decade time frame, and developing policies and programmes to realize Africa’s aspirations of Zero Hunger by 2025. This approach entails the identification and prioritization of relevant and interrelated elements to help countries develop strategies and practical development plans that create synergies in line with their agricultural transformation plans. Given the unique characteristics of each country and the diverse needs of Africa due to the ecological heterogeneity and the wide range of farm sizes, the framework avoids being prescriptive.
The New Harvest
Author : Calestous Juma
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190237236
Book Description
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and can help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by advancing scientific and technological research, investing in infrastructure, fostering higher technical training, and creating regional markets.
Irrigation Technology Transfer in Support of Food Security
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251040720
Book Description
The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security
Author : Sergio Gomez y Paloma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 3030421481
Book Description
This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and social resilience could produce positive impacts on food security and nutrition at a number of levels. In addition to the role of small farmers as food suppliers, the book considers their role as consumers and their level of nutrition security. It investigates the link between agriculture and nutrition in order to better understand how agriculture affects human health and dietary patterns. Given the importance of smallholdings, strategies to increase their productivity are essential to improving food and nutrition security, as well as food diversity.
Accelerating irrigation expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author : Shah, Tushaar
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release :
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Book Description
Save and Grow
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251068712
Book Description
The book offers a rich toolkit of relevant, adoptable ecosystem-based practices that can help the world's 500 million smallholder farm families achieve higher productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency while enhancing natural capital.
Who Owns Africa?
Author : Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9462703434
Book Description
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team of scholars examines the concept of colonialism from a historical and socio-political perspective. They show how the language of investment, development aid, mutual interest, or philanthropy is used to cloak the virulent forms of exploitation on the continent, thereby perpetuating a state of neocolonialism that has left many African people poor and in the margins.
Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa
Author : John Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1317332261
Book Description
Knowledge of Africa’s complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security. This book systematically and comprehensively describes the characteristics, trends, drivers of change and strategic priorities for each of Africa’s fifteen farming systems and their main subsystems. It shows how a farming systems perspective can be used to identify pathways to household food security and poverty reduction, and how strategic interventions may need to differ from one farming system to another. In the analysis, emphasis is placed on understanding farming systems drivers of change, trends and strategic priorities for science and policy. Illustrated with full-colour maps and photographs throughout, the volume provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of Africa’s farming systems and pathways for the future to improve food and nutrition security. The book is an essential follow-up to the seminal work Farming Systems and Poverty by Dixon and colleagues for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Bank, published in 2001.
