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Linking Farmers to Market - Enhancing poverty reduction (Market Access) in Rwanda through Agroprocessing & Value Addition

Linking Farmers to Market - Enhancing poverty reduction (Market Access) in Rwanda through Agroprocessing & Value Addition

Agro processing means transforming products originating from agriculture, forestry and even fisheries. It is a subset of manufacturing that...
Linking farmers to markets - Contracting out of Poverty: small changes can bring big results for smallholders

Linking farmers to markets - Contracting out of Poverty: small changes can bring big results for smallholders

Contract farming – a set agreement between a farmer and a buyer – is a widely used approach for agricultural processing companies and...
Smallholder Enterprise Development - Co- investment for building viable cooperatives in Nicaragua

Smallholder Enterprise Development - Co- investment for building viable cooperatives in Nicaragua

Cooperatives play a critical role in building value chains that links smallholders with higher-value agricultural products. They provide downstream...
Smallholder Enterprise Development - Moving women out of poverty through the development of small fish processing enterprises in Malawi

Smallholder Enterprise Development - Moving women out of poverty through the development of small fish processing enterprises in Malawi

Malawi, located in southern Africa, is one of the countries in Africa which is highly dependent on fish as a source of animal protein. ...
Smallholder Enterprise Development - Biodiversity-based community enterprise in rural Thailand: The indigo weavers of Kut Haet

Smallholder Enterprise Development - Biodiversity-based community enterprise in rural Thailand: The indigo weavers of Kut Haet

The long dry season and rocky terrain of northeastern Thailand make farming in Sakon Nakhon quite challenging, but that certainly does not stop...
Smallholder Enterprise Development - A hard nut to crack: Greater adoption of new techniques for njansang production could lift earnings and bring flavour to more meals

Smallholder Enterprise Development - A hard nut to crack: Greater adoption of new techniques for njansang production could lift earnings and bring flavour to more meals

Great cooks in Cameroon have a secret ingredient: a fine, pale-brown paste made by grinding the roasted kernels of the forest tree species...
Combining SMS messages to enhance services of famers unions to its members

Extension Approaches-Combining SMS messages to enhance services of famers unions to its members

Written by: : S. Kachelriess-Matthess, P. Keller, C.N. Orleans, B. Agbo, Y.A. Baro, S. Frankel, J. Shantz   The African Cashew...
Strengthening local adaptive capacity

Strengthening local adaptive capacity – the key to sustainability in the face of climate change

Persistent drought... incessant rain... flash floods... hurricanes.... forest fires... hardly a day passes without a news item on how climate...
Climate Change - Enhancing climate resilience of aquatic-agriculture systems in Bangladesh

Climate Change - Enhancing climate resilience of aquatic-agriculture systems in Bangladesh

Written by: Manjurul Karim and Michael Phillips-WorldFish Center   Moshni is typical of many small villages in the vast coastal delta...
Climate Change-Green Revolution on Risk

Climate Change-Green Revolution on Risk

Written by: Maryam Naseer   Climate Sustainable Agriculture or eco-friendly environment is on priority of many countries while discussing...
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Extension Approaches-The Innovations-Household Pit Storage Rehabilitation Using Plastic Bag Lining and its Impact on the Reduction of Grain Storage Loss in East Hararge Zone: the case of Babile, Gursum and Midega Tola Woredas

Written by:Temesgen Kassa and Zelalem Belayneh   In Ethiopia, as in many parts of the World, large numbers of poor and food insecure...
Extention Approache

Extension Approaches-Innovative Approaches to Extension: The One Acre Fund Method

Written by: Nicholas Daniels, Kenya government relations analyst, One Acre Fund, and Stephanie Hanson, director of policy and outreach, One Acre...
Extention Approaches-From S

Extention Approaches-From Supply-Driven Extension to a Demand-Led Approach: A Learning Experience from Pakistan

Written by: M. Kalim Qamar and Magdalena Blum   Shazia Kausar, a young woman suffering from Hepatitis C and enjoying membership of Debsi...
Extention Approach

Extension Approaches-Rural Farmer Empowered through Use of Mobile Phones: Lessons from Western Uganda

Written by: Kenneth Masuki, Jeremias Mowo and Rick Kamugisha   The work by the African Highlands Initiative (AHI) in Rubaya sub-county,...
Extension Approaches-Micro- watershed management planning through extension and knowledge sharing in Guatemala

Extension Approaches-Micro- watershed management planning through extension and knowledge sharing in Guatemala

Written by: John Preissing and Estibalitz Morras Dimas   In Central America there are numerous examples of extension experiences from...
Extention Approaches

Extension Approaches-Advisory Services for Family Farms: A success story in Benin still in search for sustainability

Written by:Guy Faure, CIRAD, UMR Innovation, France; Ismail Moumouni, University of Parakou, Benin; Aurelle de Romemont, CIRAD, UMR Innovation...
Extention Approaches-Agriculture As a Business in Northern Ghana

Extension Approaches-Agriculture As a Business in Northern Ghana

Written by:Erin Antcliffe-Engineers Without Borders   Engineers Without Borders Canada and the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture...
Extention Approaches-Facilitating Innovation

Extension Approaches-Facilitating Innovation

Written by: Dominique Hounkonnou, Suzanne Nederlof, Niels Röling and Arnold van Huis   The international consensus was that...
Extention Approache

Extension Approaches-Farmer Field Schools on Integrated pest Management Programme; a new Extension Approach in Jordan

Written by: Ashraf Alhawamdeh, Director of Participatory Extension Unit/NCARE-Jordan   IPM approaches in Jordan are not new, and have been...
Extension Approaches-Farmers’ Innovations: A Survival Strategy for Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia

Extension Approaches-Farmers’ Innovations: A Survival Strategy for Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia

Written by: Abate Bekele (PhD), Kebebew Assefa (PhD) and Demeke Nigussie (M.Sc)   In Ethiopia, small-scale farms are still viable...