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The adoption of digital tools to improve service delivery is significant. This shift has been driven by development initiatives that integrate digital agriculture as a core strategy to improve agricultural...

The publication (252 pages) is structured in 12 modules providing a foundation for extension reform affecting the entire set-up and mode of operation of agricultural extension. All modules intend...

Development agencies and international donors’ efforts are increasingly focusing on better integrating poor and remote farmers into agricultural markets to address the chronic issues of rural poverty...

Aquaculture contributes significantly to global food security, poverty alleviation, and international fish trade. Aquaculture products have become some of the most globalized food commodities...

Farmers’ organizations (FOs), such as associations, cooperatives, self-help and women’s groups, are common in developing countries and provide services that are widely viewed as contributing to income...

In Cambodia, IFAD’s work focuses on the following thematic areas: Agricultural value chain development, facilitation, and brokering service. Extension policy implementation using diverse models...

The expansion of agro-dealers into remote areas can be seen as conducive to more smallholders adopting new technologies and inputs, to include improved seed and fertilizer. However, lower...

The roots and tubers industry in sub-Saharan Africa has been growing steadily in recent years. Nevertheless, a series of challenges, including lack of access to finance and climate change...

Poverty in Southwest Bangladesh is higher than in the rest of the country. At the onset of the project, 26.7% of people in the Barisal division were considered extremely poor and 14.7% of the population was undernourished...

Today, the Commission decided to identify Cameroon as a non-cooperating country in the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, giving it a so-called ‘red card'. From now...