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Story: Story: Youth involvement in Agriculture for sustainability
Development (IAR4D) principles of innovations platforms. The SAIP is an approach where students are imparted with basic practical agricultural skills, facilitated to interact with identified relevant actors and passionately share their experiences with other schools and the communities around the school and ...more
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News: News: Narrowing the gap between knowing and doing agriculture
useful decisions. As a result, many agricultural and rural development interventions have achieved modest success. On the other hand, the African formal education system assumes if good research is available and well communicated, farmers, traders, consumers and policy makers will act on it. The fact ...more
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Story: Story: Improving Access to Agricultural Inputs for Family Farmers in Mozambique
compared to other sectors of the economy. The gap between demand and supply of financing for family farmers in Mozambique is very large and affects the majority of farmers in the country. With about 3.8 million family farmers producing approximately 95% of national agricultural production and cultivating ...more
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Story: Story: MUIIS service bundle officially launched in Kampala AFAAS Content
international, and other third party service providers, the service is geared towards harnessing satellite data to support extension and advisory service to farmers in Uganda. At the time of the launch, over 30,000 farmers had been profiled (digitally registered) and the registration can only increase when the ...more
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Story: Story: How informal agricultural traders capture and preserve customer loyalty
the customer knows everything, the majority of customers who frequent the informal agriculture market are lured by its functions as a learning space. Traders ensure these markets have sufficient convenience and personalisation than can be found in other modern markets. Younger middle class consumers ...more
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Story: Story: NIFAAS Intensifies Efforts to Increase Membership
training of members, serve as knowledge platform and enhance communication patterns among members as well as improve the utilisation of knowledge and technologies along with agricultural value chain actors, among others”. Professor Apantaku, who is also the Public Relations Officer of NIFAAS, highlighted ...more
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Story: Story: From training to practice: Impact of INGENAES Project on Uganda Agricultural Extension Service delivery
training materials for the trained farmer leaders for use in training of other farmers in building gender sensitive and nutrition sensitive agriculture were developed; 85 (33 women and 52 men) private and public-sector extension workers were trained by Dr Kathleen Colverson from University of Florida; ...more
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News: News: THE ANNUAL SCHOOL FARM CAMP
bio-slurry from the bio-gas plant as organic manure, mulches the banana garden, harvests maize to make silage for the animals and collects grass slashed from the compound to make hay which provides an enhanced nutrition programme for the animals on the farm among other activities. All these are practices ...more
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Story: Story: Limitations of using documents and reports to share knowledge in Africa
several consultants are not making a difference due to multiple reasons (known and unknown). On the other hand, more than 90% of knowledge in African communities has not been codified into documents. This knowledge can never be adequately shared through codified information but through contextual ...more
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Story: Story: Ghanaian farmers upskill with help from DCS smart technology
farming communities in Ghana and other areas of Africa. Farmer Abdul Rahman Yakubu commented, “Watching the video in my local language I feel that everything is possible. The video was shot in Mali and I can sit here and watch it, and it speaks to me in Dagbani. Everyone in the room was able to ...more