The conference will be held in Dubai on December 6-8, 2016. It will bring together leading scientists, practitioners and decision-makers from the public and private sectors to showcase the latest developments in quinoa research, production and trade.
What are integrated landscape approaches and how do we put them in practice on the ground?
These questions – important when considering sustainable land-use management amid competing demands – will be discussed at the upcoming CIFOR and partner-hosted PEFC stakeholder dialogue in Bali and the Global Landscapes Forum in Marrakesh.
TAP is pleased to communicate that with the financial support of GFAR, TAP Common Framework on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems synthesis documents have been translated into French and Spanish, and published online by CABI on behalf of TAP Partners.
The agricultural sector is among the foremost priority for the post-Paris climate action in developing countries.
The challenge is to increase the efficiency of agricultural production while ensuring the preservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
The Food and Agriculture Organization has now released the much-anticipated Compendium of Indicators for Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture, designed to assist officers responsible for designing nutrition-sensitive food and agriculture investments in selecting appropriate indicators to monitor if these investments are having an impact on nutrition and through which pathways.
The explosive growth in the availability of mobile phones around the continent is increasingly leading many businesses to explore how these devices should be used efficiently to expand their revenue base.
And for most of these businesses, having an innovative mobile messaging web platform is a crucial business tool for them.
Enter Farmerline's Mergdata; an award winning web and mobile platform that improves real-time information access, dissemination, data collection and analytics for these businesses.
This September, Farmerline was selected, by The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), as one of the top 20 innovations benefiting smallholder farmers.The CTA Top 20 Innovations that were selected from among the 251 submissions that had been received from 49 countries showcase the ingenuity of numerous stakeholders who are innovating and by their collective efforts are making a difference in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and their families of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States.
In spite of abundant modern technologies and ICTs available for use in increasing information access and agricultural productivity, most Ghanaian smallholder farmers who constitute the majority in the agricultural sector do not have access to these new innovations. The result has been a failure to produce enough food for the nation and improving the lives of farmers.
Demand for the farmers' crops keep increasing. Yet supply remains low. Prices of crops in urban areas have gone up. Yet farmers in the rural part have very little income to show for it.
This plight of the smallholder farmer, which is evident from the fact that even though what they grow is the backbone of the country’s economy, they earn an income which is mostly less than the salary of people with white-collar jobs.
Smallholder farmers make up 60% of Ghana’s working population. They provide a large portion of the food consumed in the country, yet many struggle to make a good living. A major problem they face is accessing information about farming and about trends along other parts of the value chain, such as market prices.