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DocumentTraining farmers and enhancing Food Security in Swaziland - TCP/SWA/3502 2018
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No results found.Agriculture has traditionally been the backbone of Swaziland’s economy but has experienced severe decline. Its contribution to GDP has decreased gradually over the last two decades due to a number of factors, including recurring drought, chronic underinvestment and the impact of HIV and AIDS. Despite this, agriculture-based products account for around 75 percent of the country’s total export revenues. With key extension officers lacking the skills to disseminate nutrition and gender-sensitive agricultural technologies and practices, the project sought to strengthen national capacities through the establishment of Farmer Field Schools, with farmer representatives trained as facilitators in order to support on-the-ground activities using this approach. -
ProjectSupport to the Incorporation of Climate Smart Agriculture in Swaziland Schools and Agriculture Training Centres Programmes - TCP/SWA/3603 2020
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No results found.In recent years, Eswatini has suffered from El Niño, adevastating AIDS pandemic, economic slowdown and soaring prices of food and agricultural inputs. Despitebeing ranked as a lower middle-income country, it has experienced a stalling of economic growth, leading togreater food insecurity and poverty. Women and youth sare generally the most vulnerable population group, and there are a growing number of households headed solely by women and children, with more men seeking employment away from home and as a direct result of HIV/AIDS. The agricultural sector has been affected by erratic rainfall and climate change. Changes in weatherpatterns have had an adverse effect on food production, resulting in insufficient production for domestic consumption. Additionally, reduced access to food markets and a lack of value addition to agricultural processes has compounded concerns relating to food and income security. -
Book (stand-alone)Agrobiodiversity - a training manual for farmer groups in East Africa 2018
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No results found.Farmers play a crucial role in the preservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity. In fact, the diversity of species that support our current agricultural production systems has been carefully managed and shaped by farming communities, over the course of the history of humankind. Farmers act as custodian of the Earth’s agrobiodiversity resources, and play a big part in preserving traditional plant and animal varieties, and the knowledge associated with these. FAO has long been working on promoting approaches to agriculture that enable both the sustainable use of biodiversity resources for food and agriculture, and their conservation, and on supporting farmers to make informed decisions on their farm management and production practices. This training manual fits in this broader commitment, to support a shift towards a paradigm of agricultural production that can sustain food and nutrition security while at the same time cause the least harm to natural ecosystems. The manual is intended as an introduction to agricultural biodiversity, and to its relevance to different aspects of agricultural production and management for smallholder farmers in Kenya. It includes eight different training modules, each covering a specific aspect related to agrobiodiversity. The modules are standalone and can be used independently one from the other, depending on the user’s or project’s aim. The materials were originally prepared within the FAO- Netherlands Partnership Programme (FNPP) and have been updated, revised and published under the second phase of the European Union-funded project “Capacity-building related to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries”.
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