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Book (stand-alone)Stakeholder mapping and capacity needs assessment, Ethiopia
WaPOR technical report: capacity development series
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No results found.Given the scarcity of land and water resources, global strategies to increase food production should focus efforts on increasing production per unit resources, i.e. the combined increase of production per unit land surface (yield expressed in kg/ha1) and the increase of production per unit water used (water productivity expressed in kg/m³). Closing land and water productivity gaps is a complex task which requires: (i) monitoring of current levels of productivity in various crop production systems; (ii) assessment of observed productivity relative to potential; (iii) identification and analysis of the underlying causes of the productivity gaps; and (iv) evaluation of options and identification of viable solutions to close the productivity gaps in the local context. To support these processes, this project is applying analysis of high resolution satellite images in conjunction with specific algorithms to determine spatial and temporal variability of agricultural water and land productivity. Through the project activities, a validated remote sensing based methodological framework is being created to assess and monitor land and, more specifically, water productivity. The provision of near real time information through an open access data portal (WaPOR https://wapor.apps.fao.org) will enable a range of service-providers to assist farmers attain more reliable yields and to improve their livelihoods; irrigation operators will have access to new information to assess the performance of systems and to identify where to focus investments to modernize the irrigation schemes; and government agencies will be able to use the information to monitor and promote the efficient use of natural resources. In Ethiopia, the capacity development activities will build on ongoing and past work undertaken by IWMI. Stakeholder analysis, needs assessment, and capacity building will take place with relevant national partners, and actual piloting of solutions and capacity building will take place in the Koga reservoir in combined rain-fed and irrigated systems. The objective is to identify and implement locally appropriate solutions to build capacity to improve water productivity at the scheme level, which can be tested in Ethiopia and out-scaled to the other project locations. -
ProjectEnhancing the Development of the Agro-Industry Sector in Ethiopia - GCP/ETH/101/EC 2020
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No results found.Despite the high rates of economic growth recorded over the past 15 years,the Ethiopian economy remains fundamentally agricultural. Structuraltransformation, understood as the transfer of financial and human resourcesfrom the agricultural sector to the industrial sector, modern services andagricultural modernization, is still incipient. To further stimulate thedevelopment of the agro-industry sector, in 2015, the Government of Ethiopiainitiated a policy on the establishment of integrated Agro-CommodityProcurement Zones (ACPZs) and Integrated Agro-Industrial Park (IAIP)Development. Seventeen ACPZs were identified across the country, based ontheir potential for agribusiness development, of which four were selected,located in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray and Southern Nations, Nationalities andPeoples Region (SNNPR). These were related to the four pilot parks to bedeveloped in the first phase (2020-2025). Against this background, theGovernment of Ethiopia requested that FAO provide technical support toprepare Comprehensive Development Frameworks and Investment Plans forthe four pilot ACPZs. -
Book (series)Report of the Regional Workshop on Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Guinea and first Steering Committee Meeting. Accra, Ghana, 23–26 October 2007 2010
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A regional workshop on ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) for countries in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) area was held in Accra, Ghana, from 23 to 26 October 2007 together with the first Steering Committee meeting of the EAF-Nansen project “Strengthening the Knowledge Base for and Implementing an Ecosystem Approach to Marine Fisheries in Developing Countries (EAF Nansen GCP/INT/003/NOR)”. The objectives of the workshop were to introduce participants to EAF and th e EAF-Nansen project and to identify the activities to be carried out in the Gulf of Guinea under the project with focus on the year 2008. The workshop was attended by a total of 30 participants from 12 GCLME countries, the Fishery Committee of the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Namibia and FAO. In the introduction to EAF and the EAF-Nansen project, the need for applying an ecosystem approach to fisheries management, as reflect ed in the 2001 Reykjavik Conference on Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem and in the Plan of implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), was highlighted. An overview of the key concepts and processes of the ecological risk assessment methodology was given and the experience gained and results obtained from the implementation of an EAF pilot project in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem area were presented. Based on a questionnaire that had been provided prior to the workshop, an overview of the main fisheries in the region (including their social and economic importance), existing institutional arrangements in support to fisheries management and perceived key challenges that managers of these fisheries face in relation to ecosystem sustainability were discussed. For practical exercises the participants worked in three subgroups (northern, central and southern countries) with each group selecting a specific fishery (shrim p trawl fishery by the northern and southern groups, the beach seine fishery by the central group), defining its global and specific objectives and working through issue identification for the selected fishery. Participants found the workshop extremely useful, commented extensively on the novel approach to management that the EAF provides and suggested that the work of the subregional groups should concentrate first on the fisheries dealt with during the workshop. They asked that the E AF-Nansen project document be sent officially to the respective countries for information and as a means of asking for national support, including co-financing.
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