Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern and Southern Africa - main technical report
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to face persistent rural poverty, deepening food insecurity, and declining natural resource base and associated ecosystems services. These trends continue to undermine the ability of the rural poor to adapt to varying and changing climatic conditions and these trends may be of concern today and perhaps into the far future unless governments and other partners in the region adopt more aggressive food security enhancement innovations based on existing opportunities. Such opportunities would include the presence of large pool of diversity agricultural crops, agricultural innovations including technologies and management practices, and diversity of ecosystems and associated services. It is estimated that over 315 million or in other words, one in every three persons in SSA live on less than one dollar a day.
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern and Southern Africa - main technical report
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to face persistent rural poverty, deepening food insecurity, and declining natural resource base and associated ecosystems services. These trends continue to undermine the ability of the rural poor to adapt to varying and changing climatic conditions and these trends may be of concern today and perhaps into the far future unless governments and other partners in the region adopt more aggressive food security enhancement innovations based on existing opportunities. Such opportunities would include the presence of large pool of diversity agricultural crops, agricultural innovations including technologies and management practices, and diversity of ecosystems and associated services. It is estimated that over 315 million or in other words, one in every three persons in SSA live on less than one dollar a day.
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Promoting agriculture sector growth and development : a comparative analysis of Uganda's political party manifestos (2011-2016)
This paper is an analytical comparison of promises made by Uganda’s different political parties in their manifestos (2011 – 2016) with regard to the measures proposed to address the agriculture sector: financing; agricultural inputs; credit for farmers; agro-processing and marketing; agricultural education; agricultural extension and advisory services; agricultural research and technology development; and water for agricultural production. Political party manifestos do not address a number of key challenges that are undermining development efforts in the sector. The backward focus apparent within so many manifestos also points to a dearth of policy innovation within Uganda’s political parties themselves.
Author(s): Naluwairo, Ronald
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Promoting agriculture sector growth and development : a comparative analysis of Uganda's political party manifestos (2011-2016)
This paper is an analytical comparison of promises made by Uganda’s different political parties in their manifestos (2011 – 2016) with regard to the measures proposed to address the agriculture sector: financing; agricultural inputs; credit for farmers; agro-processing and marketing; agricultural education; agricultural extension and advisory services; agricultural research and technology development; and water for agricultural production. Political party manifestos do not address a number of key challenges that are undermining development efforts in the sector. The backward focus apparent within so many manifestos also points to a dearth of policy innovation within Uganda’s political parties themselves.
Author(s): Naluwairo, Ronald
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Baobab : a magazine on drylands development and sustainable agriculture, issue 61, March 2011
This issue focuses on encouragement of youth into farming activities, where new technologies, products, markets and business possibilities emerge regularly in the agricultural sector. Agricultural productivity needs to increase and it is especially critical for young people to keep up with innovative trends through incentives and policy reform. In particular, agriculture must be upgraded to move from subsistence to commercial farming. “Today, youth need our support. Tomorrow, we will need their contribution, their creativity, their commitment and their leadership.” In Africa, 70 percent of the population is under the age of 25, and in 50 years, the world’s population could stand at over 9 billion.
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Baobab : a magazine on drylands development and sustainable agriculture, issue 61, March 2011
This issue focuses on encouragement of youth into farming activities, where new technologies, products, markets and business possibilities emerge regularly in the agricultural sector. Agricultural productivity needs to increase and it is especially critical for young people to keep up with innovative trends through incentives and policy reform. In particular, agriculture must be upgraded to move from subsistence to commercial farming. “Today, youth need our support. Tomorrow, we will need their contribution, their creativity, their commitment and their leadership.” In Africa, 70 percent of the population is under the age of 25, and in 50 years, the world’s population could stand at over 9 billion.
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Integrating scientific and farmers' perception towards evaluation of rain-fed agricultural technologies for sorghum and cowpea productivity in Central Kenya
Integration of a minimal addition of organic and inorganic inputs on valued traditional crops with adequate rainfall under normal farming practices in semi arid lands is an option that may improve food security in the Central highlands of Kenya. Agricultural production is affected by the high variability of rainfall onset, distribution, and frequent droughts which usually occur during the growing season, often resulting in depressed yields and persistent crop failures. This study assessed a farmers’ participatory evaluation on selected water harvesting and integrated soil fertility management technologies for sorghum and cowpea productivity. Their evaluations were consistent and accurate.
Author(s): Njeru, P.N.M., Mugwe, J., Maina, I., Mucheru-Muna, M., Mugendi, D., Lekasi, J.K.
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Integrating scientific and farmers' perception towards evaluation of rain-fed agricultural technologies for sorghum and cowpea productivity in Central Kenya
Integration of a minimal addition of organic and inorganic inputs on valued traditional crops with adequate rainfall under normal farming practices in semi arid lands is an option that may improve food security in the Central highlands of Kenya. Agricultural production is affected by the high variability of rainfall onset, distribution, and frequent droughts which usually occur during the growing season, often resulting in depressed yields and persistent crop failures. This study assessed a farmers’ participatory evaluation on selected water harvesting and integrated soil fertility management technologies for sorghum and cowpea productivity. Their evaluations were consistent and accurate.
Author(s): Njeru, P.N.M., Mugwe, J., Maina, I., Mucheru-Muna, M., Mugendi, D., Lekasi, J.K.
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern & Southern Africa - Annexes to main technical report
This synthesis report recognizes varied outputs from the AFS research projects presented during the side event and proposes a generic framework as well as specific directions for enhancing AFS research through pro-poor targeting and going to scale with technologies and approaches that work for poor smallholder farmers.
Author(s): Mogaka, Hezron
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern & Southern Africa - Annexes to main technical report
This synthesis report recognizes varied outputs from the AFS research projects presented during the side event and proposes a generic framework as well as specific directions for enhancing AFS research through pro-poor targeting and going to scale with technologies and approaches that work for poor smallholder farmers.
Author(s): Mogaka, Hezron
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern and Southern Africa
The presentation by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) focuses on pro-poor food security innovations. Recent mapping of crop value chains by KARI has yielded results where a diverse set of minor crops (millets, sorghum, green grams, cow peas and pigeon peas) are highly ranked. With climate change, major food crops like maize often fail and returns are low. Farmers need alternatives such as locally important, underutilized or neglected crops. Consultative stakeholders’ workshops were held in all three study sites of this project, taking note of farmers’ crop selections for diversification of their agricultural produce.
Author(s): Maina, Immaculate N., Miruka, Maureen, Gitari, Josiah, Mahasi, Mabel, Murithi, Festus
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern and Southern Africa
The presentation by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) focuses on pro-poor food security innovations. Recent mapping of crop value chains by KARI has yielded results where a diverse set of minor crops (millets, sorghum, green grams, cow peas and pigeon peas) are highly ranked. With climate change, major food crops like maize often fail and returns are low. Farmers need alternatives such as locally important, underutilized or neglected crops. Consultative stakeholders’ workshops were held in all three study sites of this project, taking note of farmers’ crop selections for diversification of their agricultural produce.
Author(s): Maina, Immaculate N., Miruka, Maureen, Gitari, Josiah, Mahasi, Mabel, Murithi, Festus
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern and Southern Africa
The presentation by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) focuses on pro-poor food security innovations. Recent mapping of crop value chains by KARI has yielded results where a diverse set of minor crops (millets, sorghum, green grams, cow peas and pigeon peas) are highly ranked. With climate change, major food crops like maize often fail and returns are low. Farmers need alternatives such as locally important, underutilized or neglected crops. Consultative stakeholders’ workshops were held in all three study sites of this project, taking note of farmers’ crop selections for diversification of their agricultural produce.
Author(s): Maina, Immaculate N., Miruka, Maureen, Gitari, Josiah, Mahasi, Mabel, Murithi, Festus
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern & Southern Africa - Annexes to main technical report
This synthesis report recognizes varied outputs from the AFS research projects presented during the side event and proposes a generic framework as well as specific directions for enhancing AFS research through pro-poor targeting and going to scale with technologies and approaches that work for poor smallholder farmers.
Author(s): Mogaka, Hezron
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Adaptive Strategies and Local Innovations of Smallholder Farmers in Selected Agri-food Systems of Central Kenya
In Kenya, smallholders are the main food producers but are also found to be the most food insecure. Participatory action research was undertaken to identify adaptation strategies and innovations used to address food insecurity vulnerabilities. In-depth structuring and characterization of these strategies to better understand how they can interface with research and development (R&D) efforts is necessary. Results show that smallholders use and perpetuate diverse adaptive strategies and innovations. These are tabled in a chart showing “Household strategies and innovations for food security and wellbeing.”
Author(s): Maina, I, Miruka, M, Rono, B, Njeru, P N M, Amboga, S
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Integrating scientific and farmers' perception towards evaluation of rain-fed agricultural technologies for sorghum and cowpea productivity in Central Kenya
Integration of a minimal addition of organic and inorganic inputs on valued traditional crops with adequate rainfall under normal farming practices in semi arid lands is an option that may improve food security in the Central highlands of Kenya. Agricultural production is affected by the high variability of rainfall onset, distribution, and frequent droughts which usually occur during the growing season, often resulting in depressed yields and persistent crop failures. This study assessed a farmers’ participatory evaluation on selected water harvesting and integrated soil fertility management technologies for sorghum and cowpea productivity. Their evaluations were consistent and accurate.
Author(s): Njeru, P.N.M., Mugwe, J., Maina, I., Mucheru-Muna, M., Mugendi, D., Lekasi, J.K.
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Promoting agriculture sector growth and development : a comparative analysis of Uganda's political party manifestos (2011-2016)
This paper is an analytical comparison of promises made by Uganda’s different political parties in their manifestos (2011 – 2016) with regard to the measures proposed to address the agriculture sector: financing; agricultural inputs; credit for farmers; agro-processing and marketing; agricultural education; agricultural extension and advisory services; agricultural research and technology development; and water for agricultural production. Political party manifestos do not address a number of key challenges that are undermining development efforts in the sector. The backward focus apparent within so many manifestos also points to a dearth of policy innovation within Uganda’s political parties themselves.
Author(s): Naluwairo, Ronald
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Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern and Southern Africa - main technical report
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to face persistent rural poverty, deepening food insecurity, and declining natural resource base and associated ecosystems services. These trends continue to undermine the ability of the rural poor to adapt to varying and changing climatic conditions and these trends may be of concern today and perhaps into the far future unless governments and other partners in the region adopt more aggressive
food security enhancement innovations based on existing opportunities. Such opportunities would include the presence of large pool of diversity agricultural crops, agricultural innovations including technologies and management practices, and diversity of ecosystems and associated services. It is estimated that over 315 million or in other words, one in every three persons in SSA live on less than one dollar a day.
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Baobab : a magazine on drylands development and sustainable agriculture, issue 61, March 2011
This issue focuses on encouragement of youth into farming activities, where new technologies, products, markets and business possibilities emerge regularly in the agricultural sector. Agricultural productivity needs to increase and it is especially critical for young people to keep up with innovative trends through incentives and policy reform. In particular, agriculture must be upgraded to move from subsistence to commercial farming. “Today, youth need our support. Tomorrow, we will need their contribution, their creativity, their commitment and their leadership.” In Africa, 70 percent of the population is under the age of 25, and in 50 years, the world’s population could stand at over 9 billion.
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