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News: News: FarmLINK Kenya ones top Farmer Information Platform. Country Content
the information gap by providing ease of access and utilization of farming information in a timely and interactive manner. This information is geared to empowers farmers to make important farming decisions, increase productivity, reduce post harvest losses and achieve food security. How do farmers ...more
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Story: Story: Webinar: Addressing Food Safety in Animal Source Foods for Improved Nutrition
Join the upcoming joint Agrilinks and Microlinks webinar on January 25, 2017 from 9:30 am- 11:00 am (EDT) 'where experts will share effective approaches to improving food safety and quality related to livestock production. Attendees will learn about improving food safety and ...more
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Resource: Resource: What is Seed Security?
558 reads An animated clip which focuses on Seed Security: its basic features, tools to assess it, and guides to target responses can be accessed from here. Agricultural Inputs Seeds Other Africa <a href="/users/sanyu-k" title="View user profile." class="username" ...more
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Resource: Resource: Climate, Environment and Security in Sudan
383 reads About climate change impact on Sudan resources. Best Practices Climate Change Environment and Landuse LHcasestudy14-Sudan.pdf Africa <a href="/users/ibrahim-ahmed" title="View user profile." class="username" xml: ...more
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Organisation: Sierra Leone Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (SLeFAAS)
Lesson learning, information sharing and professional interaction in Agricultural Extension and Advsiory services. Sierra Leone Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (SLeFAAS) was established in September 2010. It is hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security ...more
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Resource: Resource: FAO e-Learning Courses
Production and Health Child Labour Climate Change Communication Crop Improvement Food and Nutrition Security Analysis Food and Nutrition Security Foundations Food Safety Gender Information Management and Knowledge Sharing Markets and Investments Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment Nutrition ...more
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Resource: Resource: Nutrition Integration Fact Sheet- Maize
limited nutritional value. Nonetheless, maize—including maize flour and maize meal—is critical to smallholder farming livelihoods and the food security of both rural and urban households. It is a significant contributor to the economic and social development of many sub-Saharan African countries. Download ...more
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Story: Story: Consumers… Please stop being picky!
– e.anudari(at)yahoo.com AFAAS Support's blog 813 reads Crop Production Food Security Africa <a href="/users/afaas-support-0" title="View user profile." class="username" xml:lang="" about="/users/afaas-support-0" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" ...more
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Story: Story: No peace without freedom from want
27 August 2016, Rome/Nairobi- Food security and agriculture have an essential role to play in preventing conflicts and crises on the African continent, blunting their impacts and acting as engines for post-crisis recovery. This was the central message of FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva ...more
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News: News: FAO to increase capacity of African women in agriculture
984 reads The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to invest in securing women’s rights to land and other productive resources, developing their capacity to boost food production and creating more wealth for family farmers, while preventing and minimizing food ...more