The latest edition of New Agriculturist (2013-4) is now online
Newsletter date: 01/08/2013
The latest edition of New Agriculturist (2013-4) is now online at www.new-ag.info.
Over the year ahead, GFAR is continuing to sponsor a series of articles in New Agriculturist, highlighting your actions and sharing stories of how you have taken forward the key programmes and partnership initiatives discussed in GCARD2. Through this, we aim to help to scale out knowledge of your work and your development impacts among thousands of readers. The latest edition focuses on value chains and smallholder entrepreneurs.
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We look forward to your further contributions to each themed edition and to bringing wider attention to how you are all now “Delivering the change together”.
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| The latest edition of New Agriculturist (2013-4) is now online at www.new-ag.info. The latest edition of New Agriculturist includes a focus on value chains, with examples from Africa and the Pacific. Stephen Hall of WorldFish gives his perspective on the need to broaden fisheries policies through stakeholder involvement. From Peru, a picture story on work to protect the future of Brazil nut trees; and a review of Bankrupting Nature, whose authors explain how we are exceeding our planet's natural boundaries. |
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Since 2008 TWIN, a UK-based ethical trading organisation, has been working with the Sopacdi coffee co-operative on the shores of Lake Kivu in DRC to create access to international markets for its high quality coffee. read article
An Italian-based pulse processor has been working to open up new, high-value, export markets in Europe to smallscale Ethiopian bean farmers. read article
With the support of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, a Fijian ginger processing company has expanded into new international markets and improved the supply chain, enabling farmers to produce more and better quality ginger. read article
Building a value chain based on cultivation of sorghum to supply a national brewing company is bringing new wealth and opportunities to communities in semi-arid central Kenya. read article
Value chains - built to last?
High in the Peruvian Andes, the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture has been working with Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation and McDonalds to enable smalscale vegetable farmers earn a better living. read article
In Costa Rica, The Coca-Cola Company has joined forces with one of its orange juice suppliers - TicoFrut - to engage smallholders in the supply chain and train the next generation of orange farmers. read article
In 2010, WorldFish set out to explore the business case for investment in smallholder aquaculture by examining several donor funded projects. Research found that investments in smallholder farmers and their organisations can be commercially viable, creating economic as well as social and environmental benefits. read article
In Uganda's coffee value chain, a consortium is tapping into the potential for agribusiness to address the complex issues of unemployment, extreme poverty and food and nutrition insecurity by providing agribusiness 'incubation' - a process which nurtures young men and women entrepreneurs. read article
The Farming First Coalition's online guide offers comprehensive analysis of 35 global and regional food and nutrition security initiatives, effectively filling an information gap as the only location where all such information is accessible in one place. read article
Improved livestock management and forages have transformed cattle fattening in Vietnam's Central Highlands, earning villagers thousands of dollars and boosting the local economy. read article
In the Brazil nut forests of the Peruvian Amazon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research are trying to resolve a controversial question: can selective timber harvesting coexist with Brazil nut production? read article
Stephen Hall, WorldFish
Agriculture contributes only 0.3 per cent of the national GDP and employs an estimated 4 per cent of the population. With rising food imports and increasing global food prices, the Government is prioritising agriculture as a way to diversify the economy, increase the country's food security and provide sustainable and productive employment opportunities. read article
GFAR present a selection of brief news items based around recent international and regional events and meetings concerned with agricultural innovation and its implications in development. read article
Recent news, including the increasing trend of international coffee companies providing direct support to farmers in Asia and Africa, a study which has identified 'at risk' wild relatives of staple foods and identified their locations, and a pilot project to detect and prevent illegal logging in the Indonesian rainforest using recycled mobile phones. read article
Reviews of some of the latest agriculture and rural development publications, including Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries by Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockstrom. read article
