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Agri-Tech and Digital Services
ICTs and Improvement of Agriculture in the North West Region of Cameroon
CameroonWuchu cornelius Wutofeh

This report evaluates the link that exists between ICTs and the promotion of agricultural activities. It presents forms of ICTs within the region, agricultural practices, and how they interact to enhance development. Qualitative and quantitative rese...

Research and Development
GIEWS – Global Information and Early Warning System Country Brief – Zambia
ZambiaGIEWS

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT: Adequate rains favour 2020 crop conditions in most parts of country Cereal production in 2019 declined for second consecutive year to below‑average level, driven by rainfall deficits Imports in 2019/20 (April/May) exp...

Research and Development
Role of farmers organizations to agricultural development in Mezam Division, Cameroon
CameroonMathias Fru Fonteh, Kenette Fru Mbangari, Guillaum...

This study was carried out from January 2018 to March 2019 in Mezam Division of the North West Region of Cameroon on the role of farmers’ organizations to agricultural development, particularly the case of the Program for the Improvement of Competive...

Mechanization
Mechanization in Nigeria: What needs to be done to stimulate demand and support market growth?
NigeriaHiroyuki Takeshima, Adam Kennedy

Mechanization increases the power applied to agricultural operations and is one tool among many for improving farm productivity and increasing incomes for Nigeria’s farmers and processors. It alone cannot drive the transformation of agriculture (Ping...

Research and Development
Central African Republic Situation Report July 2019
Central African Republic (CAR)FAO

Key Points: The latest IPC analysis (June 2019) indicates that the number of people projected to be severely food insecure in June–August 2019 has decreased compared with the previous analysis (October 2018) ‒ from 1.9 to 1.81 million ‒ as well as wi...

Marketing and Trade
Supply and Market Outlook – Congo DR
Congo (DRC)Famine Early Warning Systems Network - USAID

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food supply and price trends in countries at risk of food insecurity. The Supply and Market Outlook report provides a summary of staple food availability, surpluses and def...

Research and Development
Agricultural Production and Trade Structure Profile in Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo (DRC)P.E Lubanda, R. Selby, Lubos Smutka

The African region represents the weak point of the world economy. Many African countries have still not finished the process of transforming their economy. Agriculture represents only a minor portion of their economies’ performance – however it is s...

Research and Development
Agricultural Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture and the Whole Economy Including an Analysis of the Impacts of the “Plan Maroc Vert (PMV)” in Morocco
MoroccoIsmail Ouraich and Wallace E. Tyner

Climate change is one of the major risks facing developing countries in Africa for which agriculture is a predominant part in the economy. Alterations in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures will most likely translate into yield reductions i...

Training and Capacity Building
Women’s Empowerment, Agricultural Extension, and Digitalization: Disentangling Information and Role Model Effects in Rural Uganda
UgandaEls Lecoutere David J., Spielman and Bjorn Van Cam...

In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to female members. Nevertheless, female f...

Research and Development
Supermarket Contracts and Smallholder Farmers: Implications for Income and Multidimensional poverty
KenyaO. Ogutu, Sylvester ; O. Ochieng, Dennis ; Qaim, M...

The food retail sector in many developing countries is transforming with a rapid growth of modern supermarkets. Supermarkets are not only influencing how food is sold to consumers, but also how agricultural products are sourced from farmers. Especial...

Training and Capacity Building
Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tanzania
TanzaniaApurba Shee, Carlo Azzarri and Beliyou Haile

Initiatives on the sustainable intensification of agriculture have introduced improved technologies tailored to farmers’ local conditions by trial demonstration with free provision of improved seeds and fertilizers. It is not clear, though, whether s...

Training and Capacity Building
Can Ethiopia feed itself by 2050 -Estimating cereal self-sufficiency to 2050
EthiopiaTesfaye, Kindie Ittersum, Martin K. van Wiebe, Kei...

Producing adequate food to meet global demand by 2050 is widely recognized as a major challenge, particularly for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Godfray et al. 2010; Alexandratos and Bruinsma 2012; van Ittersum et al. 2016). Increased price volatility of...

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