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ProjectScaling Up Climate-Smart Crop and Mechanization Systems to Promote Sustainable Crop Production in Sri Lanka and Zambia 2021
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No results found.Unsustainable agriculture practices contribute to land degradation, which impacts the fertility and productivity of soil and leaves land vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change. These issues threaten food security and reduce livelihoods, particularly for smallholder farmers. To combat these problems, FAO implements the Save and Grow approach. This approach promotes and intensifies sustainable crop production through the use of high quality seeds and planting materials and the implementation of integrated pest management and conservation agriculture practices. Key to conservation agriculture are the planting and management of climate smart crops and the implementation of mechanization systems for land preparation, direct seeding, weeding and harvesting. The project will be implemented in Sri Lanka and Zambia. It was designed to create synergies with an ongoing project that is already supporting the implementation of the approach in the targeted countries. Several constraints to the adoption of sustainable crop production practices have been identified throughout the implementation of the ongoing project. These include a lack of knowledge of sustainable agronomy and its benefits among beneficiaries and inadequate market linkages, which limit the availability of sustainable agronomic inputs and mechanization services, as well as the sale of crop yields. The goal of this project is to help rural smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka and Zambia to overcome these challenges and to encourage them to adopt the Save and Grow approach. -
Book (stand-alone)The status of water use efficiency and productivity with a focus on paddy rice in Zambia 2022
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No results found.In view of the projected world water demand, increased water use efficiency in irrigation is crucial to sustainably increase agricultural productivity. Paddy field systems are especially water demanding, though products such as rice is not only a staple food, but also constitutes a major social and economic activity providing public goods and is a key source of employment and income for the rural population in Zambia. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been active to increase the understanding of the status of water use efficiency and water productivity in Zambia through implementing the project “Efficient Agricultural Water Use and Management Enhancement in Paddy Fields”, funded by the Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). The project objective is to identify limits and potentials of paddy rice production at national level. The project findings presented in this report is a basis for assisting the country with the evaluation of the status of water use efficiency and water productivity of paddy fields, providing technical and policy support to enhance water resources management in Zambia. This report will help increasing the knowledge and building capacities of technical experts in relevant institutions, ministries and universities in Zambia. Its analysis of best practices will assist in determining the needs and existing gaps and what options are available to fill these gaps. Furthermore, the policy action matrix developed and the investment portfolio compiled will support the development of future financial plans in the country. -
BookletManaging climate risk using climate-smart agriculture (CSA): Policy Brief 2016
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No results found.A crucial part of the process of developing a CSA strategy is to understand barriers to adoption of CSA practices. Some barriers may be due to trade-offs that CSA practices engender in terms of resource use (e.g. crop residue management competing with livestock forage or labour intensiveness of some practices). However, it can also be that farmers would like to adopt certain practices, but do not due to institutional barriers, financial bottlenecks, or a lack of access to input or output markets . Understanding what drives adoption or dis-adoption of CSA practices is an empirical question that needs to be answered to make informed choices on guiding policies and investments. With an appreciation of potentially relevant CSA practices, the barriers to their adoption, their implications for farmers’ management of risk, and the benefits and costs of these different CSA practices, it is possible to combine this information to develop a CSA strategy that takes into consideration technical, in stitutional, and economic aspects. This will allow for a prioritization of CSA activities and create an enabling and coherent policy environment for agricultural development that takes climate change into account.
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