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ProjectStrengthening Capacity of Smallholder Farmers to Adopt Sustainable Water, Soil and Agronomic Management Practices - GCP/GLO/925/IFA 2025
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Water is among the key inputs for crop production, which influences the quantity and quality of production, including the nutrient content and economic value of the crop. With increasing water scarcity, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, water stress is fast becoming a limiting factor in production and adversely impacting on global food security. Projections, from both the United Nations agencies and others, indicate that water scarcity will be the most important limitation to increased food production over the next few decades, particularly given the current global context of climate change, population growth, and impacts of socioeconomic development such as changes in consumption habits, which will continue to put pressure on water resources. In order to mitigate water problems, developing countries will need to focus on more efficient use of all water sources and on water allocation, to maximize the economic and social returns to limited water resources, and, at the same time, increase the water productivity of all sectors. Against this background, the overall objective of the project was to improve dietary quality and diversity by strengthening the capacity of smallholder farmers to adopt sustainable water, soil and agronomic management practices in five pilot countries: Benin, Egypt, Mozambique, Rwanda and the Niger. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheete-Agriculture Promising Practice: aWhere’s agronomic and weather based tips for smallholder farmers
Location specific and timely advice to improve productivity and climate resilience among smallholder farmers
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No results found.aWhere delivers agricultural intelligence to farmers, farm managers, crop consultants and researchers all over the world. The company aims at making agronomic and weather data available to farmers through intermediaries such as research centers, governments, information companies, mobile network operators and non profit organizations which can integrate the data into their own information systems. Thanks to the data and the information that was collected, analyzed and shared, farmers can more easily adapt their practices to variable and extreme weather conditions and they are more aware of the new technologies they can adopt ot perform better under the changing climatic conditions. This promising practices focuses on the current projects in Ghana and Kenya with Esoko and iShamba. -
Document52 Profiles on Agroecology: Agroecological practices of the small scale farmers of Ramiene In Nampula province, Mozambique 2017
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No results found.Mozambique has a population of about 25 million people. Most live in rural areas and rely on farming for all or part of their household income. Located on Africa’s south-eastern seaboard, the country encompasses biodiversity sites of great significance. Mozambique was in the past a colony of Portugal. The Portuguese settlers were allocated large pieces of land, while most of the working population engaged in manual labour. Agricultural production was focused on increasing the supply of raw mater ials to Portugal. In the two years following independence in 1975 and prior to the outbreak of civil war in 1977, the new Mozambican state concentrated on the agricultural sector making provision for inputs, controlling prices and setting up marketing channels. Today agriculture is said to account for 25% of Mozambique’s gross domestic product (GDP) and the sector employs 80% of the workforce. Women constitute 60% of those working in agriculture (ACB, 2015).
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