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Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Namibia is plagued with a dry climate and poor soils, and the country’s small-scale farmers produce the lowest agricultural yields in the world. With an estimated population of around two...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
The 2015-2019 Government Programme bearing the overarching theme “Achieving Meaningful Change” and inspired by “innovative socialism” is to transform Mauritius into an...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Madagascar a connu plusieurs événements extrêmes liés aux variabilités climatiques actuelles et passées durant ces dernières décennies. Les plus importants sont les cyclones, les inondations et les...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Namibia is one of the countries mostly vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change which may affect our national development goals, particularly the agricultural sector, including food...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
In Namibia, agriculture and forestry contributes 5.1% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and livestock alone contributes 3.5% which is a contribution of 68.63 % to the Agricultural GDP (Namibia...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
This is the edited version of the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) webinar held late October 2015.
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Of the more than one billion global poor, 75 percent live in rural areas and most of these people depend on agriculture to survive. Enhancing farmers’ and agricultural workers’...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Namibia is one of the countries mostly vulnerable to the negative impacts of cli¬mate change which may affect our national development goals, particularly the agricultural sector, including food...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Having identified a general lack of knowledge about the value of livestock manure and integrated manure management at multiple levels in government and society, a concerted action led to the...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
An easily manageable methodology that provides hands-on strategic orientation to those developing realistic and realisable measures for sustainable food loss reduction. The methodology is designed to...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
The Namibia Agriculture Policy is aimed at contributing to increased agricultural production, agro-processing and marketing as well as to serve as an overarching policy in the agricultural sector....
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Climate change preparedness workshops can be held quarterly (every three months) for members of a group wanting to explore and engage with weather patterns, climate variability and change and related...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
The purpose of the RLAT is to provide a sufficiently accurate pre-screening tool for identifying intervention points along agribusiness Value Chains (VCs), working out incentives for VC operators and...
Date of Publication: Sep 2015
Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.) is an indigenous crop that is available only as landraces in sub-Saharan Africa, although it has a great potential for food security. Pumpkin (...
Date of Publication: Sep 2015
IRRI breeds and introduces advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as ooding, drought, and other harmful e ects of climate change. The Institute...
Date of Publication: Sep 2015
A practical manual focusing on good agricultural practices for rice production that promote integrated soil fertility management. Produced by ASHC.
