During the five years of use of the 1st edition, extension staff, farmers and development practitioners requested the need to update the information in the guide for the following reasons: i. to update...

The 1st guide originated in 2014 when practitioners in livestock production and extension observed that there were a variety of training materials used by extension workers from the ministries and NGOs...

Small-scale irrigation is expanding rapidly in parts of the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, offering smallholder farmers an opportunity to improve their livelihoods, diets, and resilience to climate change...

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development. This literature has given rise to debates over the design of institutions and policies to facilitate...

The transformative partnership platform (TPP) on agroecological transitions addresses key evidence and implementation gaps in priority domains – areas where action is needed to unlock potential...

Two-thirds of the extreme poor live in rural areas and the livelihoods of two to three billion rural people, often the most food insecure and vulnerable, still depend primarily...

Project objectives The general objective is to create the conditions for small producers in the Sahel to set up innovative technical systems of agro ecological intensification (AEI), allowing them a more...

The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have joined forces in a pioneering programme...

Political and scientific spheres agree on the urgent need to foster the diversification of agricultural landscape to increase food security while meeting other broader societal goals as defined...

In 2020, the global coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed new challenges to the initiatives and institutions supporting the farming communities and ecosystems that underpin Africa’s food systems. This year’s...