This brief provides background to scaling up the “Farm Shop” project. Farm Shop’s team of business and agricultural specialists, along with researchers from Kenya and Canada, will test ways to increase the scale of Farm Shop’s operation.
Substituting synthetic antioxidant food additives with naturally occurring plant antioxidants could promote the production of safer food systems.
The “More Nutritious Potatoes Project” development and implementation of a high quality potato seed production system propelled production of three new cultivars, contributing to food security and nutrition in Colombia.
In a global first, major progress has been made toward developing a new vaccine against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) that is safe, highly effective, easily stored and transported, with no cooling required.
This trial tested and fine-tuned fertilizer micro-dosing and application (using different rates and time intervals), on the yield and quality of Indigenous vegetables.
Polyphenols are the most prevalent antioxidant phytochemicals with many health benefits ascribed to their use.
More than 50,000 farmers in Nigeria and Benin are helping another 200,000 farmers learn how to use less fertilizer to produce higher yields and better quality vegetables.
The strongest information campaigns and campaign materials result from a communication for development approach, supporting active engagement with the target audience from the outset.
The project focuses on development and deployment of new technologies that create improvement in farming practices, post-harvest handling and value addition for indigenous green leafy vegetables such as Solanum macrocarpon (African eggplant), Telf
The tip sheet is for participating enterprises and retailers to create awareness about gender issues related to the MASAVA project, which is implemented by Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA).