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ECONOMIC GROWTH GENDER ANALYSIS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURE

Agronomic challenges and opportunities for smallholder terrace agriculture in developing countries

Improving land productivity is essential to meet increasing food and forage demands in hillside and mountain communities.
Published date
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 05:00
Perspectives

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Birth registration is the basis for advancing gender equality and children’s rights

A birth certificate is key to accessing social services, exercising rights, and avoiding child marriage.
Research in Action

Food and Agriculture Food security Gender

Women are fattening their sheep — and their income — with tree fodder

Improving sheep husbandry techniques could have a significant economic impact in West Africa.
Published date
Monday, February 12, 2018 - 13:30
Journal articles

MALI SOIL MANAGEMENT SOIL FERTILITY EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS SOYBEANS GRAIN LEGUMES SMALLHOLDERS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

N2Africa Podcaster, no. 18, January and February 2013

The N2Africa-ADVANCE partnership enhances soyabean-rhizobium inoculants technology dissemination, and discusses the project implementation for putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa.
Published date
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 05:00
Perspectives

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Feeding nine billion by 2050? Canada can help

Small-scale famers feed 70 per cent of the world’s population and are central to reducing hunger.
Project

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Integrating agroforestry and sheep feed in Mali

Sheep herding plays a significant role in the livelihoods of rural households in Mali and other semi-arid countries of West Africa.
Project

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Integrated Nutrient and Water Management for Sustainable Food Production in the Sahel (CIFSRF)

In the Sahel, agricultural production is strictly limited by drought and low soil fertility. In 2005 and 2010, these two factors led to food scarcity in Niger.
Research in Action

Food and Agriculture Gender

Research on food security makes a difference for African women

There is ample evidence that addressing gender inequalities and empowering women are vital to meeting the challenges of improving food and nutrition security, and enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty.
Published date
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 16:00