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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEnabling agricultural innovation systems to promote appropriate technologies and practices for farmers, rural youth and women during COVID-19 2020
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No results found.The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will vary for different groups of rural population, with the highest impact expected to be on farmers and other vulnerable groups, especially women and youth. Targeted support is feasible only by activating a network of actors or organizations within agricultural innovation systems (AIS) and promoting customized technologies and practices suitable for location specific contexts. AIS actors include experts engaged in agricultural education, research (public and private), business enterprises (agricultural value chain actors, agricultural marketing committees, regulated markets, input suppliers, procurement arrangements), formal and informal bridging institutions (public extension and advisory services, farmers organizations, private extension agents, commodity groups etc.,) and enabling the environment (government policies and programmes to respond to COVID-19 pandemic). AIS actors can readily access technologies and practices from existing knowledge portals, guidelines and manuals available at national and/or global levels and quickly adapt to local contexts to improve the effectiveness of their response. This brief illustrates the extensive repository of good practices and technologies provided by FAO as part of its online knowledge portals. These practices and technologies can be easily adopted to respond to the needs of the smallholders, rural youth and women affected by lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, improve their food security and create income-generating opportunities. They have been applied and tested on the ground and packaged for the benefit of various AIS actors. -
Book (stand-alone)Appropriate water-lifting technologies in West Africa
Findings and proposal for a research and uptake programme - Final Report
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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)The farming systems approach to development and appropriate technology generation 1995
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No results found.This manual on the farming systems approach to technology development is based on the experiences of the authors over the last two decades. Much of the documentation of these experiences has occurred over the last five years with the production of three sets of documents on the methodology for undertaking the farming systems research approach. These were a!; follows: The production of a farming systems research manual for Botswana [Worman, Norman et al, 19901 which was first published under th e auspices of the Department of Agricultural Research in the Ministry of Agriculture in Botswana. A slightly revised edition was later printed in 1992 by courtesy of the Food and Agricultural Organisation/Swedish International Development Agency (FAO/SIDA) sponsored Farming Systems Programme headquartered in Gaborone. Botswana. A series of lectures given at Mahalapye Rural Training Centre, Botswana, in May 1992 at a Fanning Systems Research In-Service Training Course for Research and Extensio n Staff in the Ministry of Agriculture A series of lectures given as part of a Sustainable Farming Systems Course at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SUAS). Uppsala, Sweden in November 1992, which resulted in a publication [Norman et al, 19941 produced by the FAO/SIDA project with its headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana.
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