Article d'impact
Agriculteurs : pour faire fortune, téléchargez mAgri
Une start-up du Botswana fait profiter les petits exploitants ruraux des technologies numériques. Brastorne Enterprises, lauréate du concours Pitch AgriHack 2016 du CTA, gère une plateforme mobile baptisée mAgri, qui entend améliorer l’accès des agriculteurs aux informations, marchés et financements.
Lire la suiteLa route vers une agriculture céréalière et animale résiliente au climat
Depuis la parution du rapport L’ombre portée de l’élevage – impacts environnementaux et options pour leur atténuation de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), le secteur de l’élevage du bétail fait l’objet de toutes les attentions dans le monde entier, en raison de sa contribution aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans l’atmosphère.
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Agri-Food Forum looks to the future
The 2015 Caribbean Pacific Agri-Food Forum, held in Barbados, focused on many of CTA’s priority interventions for the regions. There was a strong emphasis on impact. In Africa, CTA has been encouraging greater intra-regional trade, and we played a prominent role in two important conferences in Equatorial Guinea and Rwanda.
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Strengthening resilience, greening the desert
An African alliance to combat desertification is improving food security, through tree planting and farmer-managed natural regeneration. Across Africa, the threats of desertification and land degradation are always present, especially in the Sahel and the southern edge of the Sahara. Poverty and hunger are a constant prospect. In response, farmers and communities in dryland areas are developing ways to sustainably manage.
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Building better markets to increase farmers’ resilience
Dairy farmers in Eastern Africa are growing their income, thanks to a program that helps develop skills, strengthens links to markets, and improves access to financial services. Productivity and incomes have increased; monthly milk intake at the dairy enterprises increased from 529,000 litres to 8 million litres between 2008 and 2013. Milk aggregation at the dairy enterprises has empowered farmers to negotiate for better prices.
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Blog articles
Favoriser l’adoption de services d'images satellitaires avec des prêts aux petits agriculteurs
Une alliance entre le Centre technique de coopération agricole et rurale (CTA) et la Fondation Rabobank facilite l’octroi de crédits aux petits producteurs ougandais. Ce partenariat améliore ainsi l’adoption d’un programme ICT4Ag novateur lancé par le CTA, et l’aide donc à atteindre son objectif de viabilité financière.
Lire la suiteClimate-proofing communities in Mozambique and Rwanda
In drought and flood-prone communities in Mozambique and Rwanda, low carbon initiatives are introducing renewable solar-powered irrigation systems to reduce the use of fossil fuels and increase climate resilience.
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L'agriculture intelligente face au climat
Les changements climatiques et leurs impacts sur les petits exploitants agricoles des pays en développement sont on ne peut plus d’actualité. Dans ce contexte, l’apprentissage par les pairs dans le domaine de l’agriculture intelligente face au climat (AIC) offre à tous les acteurs une chance égale de relever ce défi, à leur rythme et en fonction des conditions sur le terrain.
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Agriculture résistante au changement climatique : des partenariats locaux pour réussir
Le Centre technique de coopération agricole et rurale (CTA), reconnaissant le rôle stratégique des réunions pour le développement agricole et rural, a organisé une réunion d’examen de projets de trois jours, du 23 au 25 novembre, à Johannesburg, en Afrique du Sud, autour du thème « Développer des solutions climato-intelligentes pour la culture céréalière et l'élevage en Afrique australe ». Cette réunion s’est tenue à la veille de la 4e Conférence scientifique mondiale sur l’agriculture climato-intelligente (ACI), les 28-30 novembre.
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Prefácio
Desenvolvimento é uma essência preciosa, normalmente semeada com dedicação e adubada pela troca de vivências, conhecimentos, técnicas e descobertas. Seus frutos podem ser tão mais diversos, coloridos e saborosos quanto mais generosa e sincera tenha sido a distribuição de suas mudas e sementes e o compartilhamento dos segredos de sua lavoura. Foi com esse espírito e conceito que germinou a presente publicação.
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Nouvelles de l'entreprise
Femmes africaines et changement climatique : la volonté de vaincre
Les pratiques d’agriculture climato-intelligente contribuent à lutter contre les conditions dévastatrices auxquelles sont confrontés les producteurs en Afrique depuis ces dernières années. Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba est coordinatrice de programmes du Réseau pour l’analyse des politiques sur l’alimentation, l’agriculture et les ressources naturelles (FANRPAN), partenaire de longue date du CTA. Elle explique en quoi les femmes jouent un rôle de premier plan et contribuent aux efforts des producteurs pour lutter contre le changement climatique.
Lire la suiteEU helping smallholder farmers become climate smart
Agriculture is a source of and solution to climate change. Convinced that agriculture can help achieve global goals of adaptation and mitigation to climate change, the European Union (EU) is supporting CTA to help smallholder farmers in Southern Africa become climate smart.
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Spreading the word: the benefits of effective knowledge management
Krishan Bheenick, Senior Programme Coordinator of Knowledge Management at CTA, explains the value of knowledge management techniques such as experience capitalisation, which are being introduced as part of CTA’s Southern Africa Flagship Project with the aim to build smallholder farmers’ resilience through the adoption of climate smart agriculture.
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Transmettre des données satellite sur les téléphones portables des agriculteurs
L’accès à des données météorologiques précises et en temps opportun est essentiel pour permettre aux petits exploitants de prendre des décisions informées et d’améliorer leur résistance aux impacts du changement climatique (sécheresses, températures élevées, inondations et développement des nuisibles et des maladies).
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A time to reflect on how to scale up climate-smart agriculture
Innovative partnerships and consortiums to scale up climate-smart agriculture (CSA) will be the topic of a presentation to be made by CTA at the 4th Global Science Conference on CSA, being held from 28-30 November in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event will be hosted by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and will focus on catalysing local innovations and action to accelerate the scaling up of CSA.
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Communiqués
Opening Statement by Michael Hailu, Director of CTA
Opening statement delivered by Michael Hailu, Director of CTA, at the Blending4Ag conference, on Monday 7 November. The Blending4Ag conference is taking place in Brussels and is focusing on the strategic use of international and national development finance and philanthropic funds to mobilise private capital flows into agricultural value chains in developing countries.
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The future farmer: disrupting agriculture
Right now, in Southern Africa, there are a lot of young farmers that are doing great things, they are ambitious with an appetite to grow, and want to achieve this growth through the creation of profitable agribusinesses that will deliver the same quality of life as other professions. They are just not visible. What we see at events like the recent African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), which took place in Abidjan between 4th-8th September 2017, is just a microcosm of a larger pool of agripreneurs.
Lire la suiteWill young people be attracted to the agricultural sector if access to finance is made possible?
Will young people be attracted to the agricultural sector if access to finance is made possible? Will they be willing to involve themselves in agriculture? According to Mike Njau, the answer is yes.
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Improving access to finance by farmers: what can central banks do?
The common feature of African farmers is that most of them practise small-scale subsistence farming. In the last few years, however, various interest groups started focusing on agriculture as one of the key drivers of rural development and the number of commercial farmers increased. Yet, most of them are still smallholders.
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Entretien
Noi Paulina Selepe / Lesotho : Au Lesotho, l’union fait la force
Quand Noi Paulina Selepe, une éleveuse de 29 ans, a lancé son entreprise agroalimentaire, elle a réalisé que celle-ci était trop petite pour alimenter le marché de viande de poulet en croissance rapide de son pays.
Lire la suiteFarmers need to organise
For Theo de Jager, president of the Pan-African Farmers’ Organization, mechanising agriculture in Africa calls for farmers, especially women, to join together and organise in cooperatives, to be able to access modern equipment.
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Farms could become the offices of the future
Interview with Michael Oluwagbemi, co-founder and executive partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners and operator of the Wennovation Hub based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Les combats de Rose face au changement climatique
Rose Kamanga a grandi dans une ferme avec ses parents et elle cultive actuellement une parcelle de 10 hectares dans le village de Dika Mhlanga, dans le nord du Malawi. Pour résoudre les difficultés causées par la sécheresse, les précipitations irrégulières et les températures élevées, elle s'est lancée dans un programme visant à introduire des pratiques climato-intelligentes dans son exploitation, sur les conseils d'un agent de vulgarisation agricole du gouvernement.
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Article de revue
CTA Handbook: An ICT Agripreneurship Guide
This Handbook provides a step-by-step roadmap designed to equip aspiring ICT entrepreneurs, with the information and knowledge they need to start an ICT-based business in the agricultural sector, outlining key opportunities and challenges that will be encountered along the way. Using real-life examples, it provides strategies and pathways for averting common mistakes faced by early-stage entrepreneurs.
Lire la suiteNew directions for targeted outcomes
While reflecting on its 30-year history during its anniversary year in 2014, CTA was also busy making plans for the future. CTA's goal is to contribute to enhanced agricultural and rural development policies and inclusive value chains that promote food and nutrition security, prosperity and sustainable management of natural resources across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).
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Article syndiqué
CTA Invests in Smart Agriculture
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA), has invested over €449,000 euros in scaling up climate-smart agricultural solutions for cereals and livestock smallholder farmers in Zambia.
Lire la suiteCOP23: Long overdue UN agreement clears path for talks on transforming agriculture
BONN, November 22 - Innovations to transform agriculture in the face of climate change are ready and waiting to be deployed now that UN negotiators have finally committed to discussing them. After six years of talks, negotiators agreed to request SBSTA and SBI, the two divisions of the UN's climate framework (UNFCCC), to jointly review issues associated with agriculture.
Lire la suiteReceitas para o Desenvolvimento
Com as feiras e demonstrações simulou-se o que é possível executar em casa, com os alimentos disponíveis e/ou fáceis de serem produzidos no próprio quintal ou na machamba. Com efeito, depois das aulas se nota uma mudança de atitude, tanto na diversificação do cardápio como no número crescente de hortas caseiras. E estes são só dois exemplos.
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South Africa: Community Participation Is Needed for More Effective Anti-Poaching
One method of protecting endangered species is to take a militarised approach. This " green militarisation"is now widely criticised. It often leads to human rights violations and may deepen existing divides between conservation and communities. It may not even be effective in the short or long-term.
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Insurance: incentive for climate resilience
Frequent extreme weather and climate shifts pose a challenge to already vulnerable groups such as smallholder farmers in the developing world. Between 2004 and 2014, farmers are said to have endured the brunt of the 100-billion-dollar cost of climate-related disasters.
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Background articles
Gelo e poupança
Início do século 21: A falta de registo não significa necessariamente incapacidade de escrever por parte de membros das comunidades de pesca e de comercialização do pescado. Em muitos casos, não percebem a necessidade de o fazer. Similarmente, a resistência em relação à evisceração e ao uso correcto do gelo pode ser por questões de cultura e de hábitos de consumo. Talvez porque nos anos passados, sem corrente eléctrica, não houvesse condições de conservação…
Lire la suiteIniciativa Piloto do Governo e Parceiros acelera desempenho de projectos em Moçambique
O estabelecimento da unidade de coordenação do Subprograma FIDA na Diretoria Nacional do Tesouro a fim de apoiar os projectos do FIDA no âmbito do programa ODM1c teve um impacto positivo na melhoria do desempenho financeiro dos projectos. ‘’O trabalho da unidade é muito positivo. A causa da nossa ineficiência tem a ver com outros factores, como as licitações...’’
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Resilientes mulheres de Sihane
O distrito de Sihane, na província Moçambicana de Inhambane foi selecionado para este projecto devido a uma série de mudanças climáticas. Dentre estas, os níveis das águas do mar estão a subir restringindo o acesso às praias e, portanto, as actividades de pesca e turística. Os moradores vêem a erosão ameaçando suas habitações. Para completar este quadro catastrófico, a invasão das terras pelas águas do mar também enfraquece as zonas aráveis dificultando a agricultura familiar nelas praticada.
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A encurtar o caminho para o desenvolvimento regional
O envolvimento directo da comunidade e das autoridades locais na seleção da estrada a ser reabilitada levou à apropriação do projecto pela comunidade. Depois de finalizadas as obras, a estrada passou a ser mantida por ela sob coordenação do Governo local. Visando assim a circulação de pessoas e bens e o escoamento de excedentes agrícolas, impulsionando assim a economia. Apesar de tanto benefício, a reabilitação trouxe novos desafios, em particular para a sustentabilidade ambiental e a segurança no trânsito.
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A Importância dos Furos Multiúso para a Cadeia de Carnes Vermelhas no Distrito de Massingir
Duas foram as consequências inesperadas da vinda dos furos. A primeira foi redução do roubo dos animais, garantindo deste modo seu controle e sua segurança. A segunda, a redução de conflitos entre famílias por devastação de culturas causada pelo gado nas machambas. Os impactos a curto e longo prazo deverão ser reforçados com o estabelecimento de bancos forrageiros e de hortas sob sombrites.
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