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News: News: UFAAS institutes new Board Country Content
discussed Networks and shares information with a broad range of actors within and outside the country through the website (www.ufaas-agandacf.org) and media among others Consistently lobbies and advocates for an effective and efficient AEAS system in Uganda by engaging relevant actors, policy makers and ...more
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News: News: Floating Fish Cage Farming a Solution to Uganda’s Declining Fishery Stocks
813 reads This is a policy brief extracted from a study on cage culture and aquaculture park technologies in Uganda conducted by EPRC and National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI). The brief demonstrates that favorable and bullish international fish prices have supported steady ...more
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Resource: Resource: Outputs from the Crop Post-Harvest Programme that was funded by DFID from 1995 to 2005
Outputs of these projects included technologies, protocols, strategies and policy recommendations. These were aimed at different types of decision-makers: (inter)national research programmes, governments, traders, non-governmental organizations, agribusinesses, farmers and consumers. Information about ...more
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Resource: Resource: Newly published book on “Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Climate Change in Africa”
315 reads Climate change and its impacts on smallholder farmers have become increasingly topical issue in policy debates and development agenda, especially in Africa where farming in mainly rainfed. Over several generations, farmers have developed some indigenous knowledge in response to climatic ...more
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News: News: SAVE THE DATE- WEBINARS ON POST-HARVEST MANAGEMENT
experiences all over sub-Saharan Africa. The webinars will feature specialized panelists on the topic including: Raphael Dischl from Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation Limbikani Mutumba /Joao Mutondo from Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) The key messages and insights of ...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: Women farmers– the Cornerstone of African Agriculture
The Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), celebrated the International Women’s Day – 8 March 2016 by paying special tribute to all the women in the agriculture sector who remain committed, focussed and enduring to feed their families, communities, nations and ...more
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News: News: FAO's Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment (RISE) AFAAS Content
tackled through the promotion of inclusive, gender-transformative socio-economic development and sustainable livelihoods in rural areas by (i) Supporting territorial national and place-based policies for improved food security and nutrition, (ii) Facilitating the development of pluralistic market-oriented ...more
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News: News: FORMATION OF COUNTRY FORA POST-HARVEST MANAGEMENT THEMATIC WORKING GROUPS
policy and practice and to contribute to institutionalization of the themes at country and regional levels. First, as you may have already known, AFAAS is piloting Post-Harvest Management in Benin and Mozambique through the country fora of the two countries as phase 1 of the project. It is envisaged that ...more
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News: News: Wrap-Up of the UNFAO Webinar on the "Enabling Environment for Rural Advisory Services for Climate Smart Agriculture" Country Content
support to farmers, RAS need to be themselves supported by conducive environment formed by appropriate policies, governance, legislation, infrastructure, resources (both human and financial), and strongly linked with local communities. The recorded part of this webinar is available through Youtube ...more