The latest edition of New Agriculturist (2013-5) is now online
Newsletter date: 01/10/2013
The latest edition of New Agriculturist (2013-5) 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 (2013-5) is now online at www.new-ag.info. A focus on disability and agriculture, and opinions on innovation platforms for technology adoption from the FARA Science Week are included in the latest edition. FAO’s Eve Crowley advocates strengthening farming institutions as the most vital step to transforming smallholder agriculture. We also review Feeding Frenzy by Paul MacMahon, who offers a stringent analysis of the global food challenge. |
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FAO's James Edge explains how poverty, food security and disability are linked, and outlines what can be done to bring disability issues into the mainstream of development. read article
In Bangladesh, a project that set out to improve the food security of women-headed households learnt a number of lessons on the best ways to ensure equal participation of people with disabilities. read article
In Niger, CMB International works with people with disabilities and their families to develop gardens with a well and simple watering canals. Not only do the gardens provide food, fodder and firewood, but they have also improved communities' attitudes towards people with disabilities. read article
In Kenya, a pilot project has raised awareness about the importance of including people with disabilities and developed strategies to include them in urban agricultural activities. read article
Working with local partners, the Coffeelands Trust - a fund which provides direct support for coffee farmers - supports the physical and economic rehabilitation of landmine-affected victims and their families in Colombia. read article
Disabled individuals in the village of Dazuuri in Ghana have difficulty adapting to the new demands and uncertainties brought on by a changing climate and are highly exposed to the negative effects of those changes. However, dry season cultivation of vegetables has solved many problems for the blind and disabled of Dazuuri, and it's a strategy of their own design and initiative. read article
Finding ways of helping female horticulturalists in Papua New Guinea to develop their business acumen, is the aim of ACIAR-funded research carried out by the University of Canberra. read article
In Peru, the AGROECO project is working with 40 women to help them improve the quality of their vegetable production to meet the standards necessary to supply five of the most demanding gourmet restaurants in Cusco. read article
Josephine Selvaraj and Tshepiso Marumo have, from small beginnings, built large-scale beekeeping and honey processing operations in India and Botswana. Inspired and ambitious, they are now sharing the lessons and providing a role model to other women and young people. read article
With mentoring support and a small grant, a young Sri Lankan woman has, within less than a year, transformed a failed coir business venture into an enterprise producing and exporting coir mattresses, coir pith and coconut husk chips. read article
To fight malnutrition through agriculture, practical solutions involving nutrition, social and health factors are needed. Projects in Mali, Ethiopia and India undertaken by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (part of the CGIAR consortium) illustrate how this can be done. read article
Small producers face debilitating institutional and financial constraints. Eve Crowley, from FAO, outlines how institutions that work on behalf of smallholders can be strengthened. read article
South Africa's agricultural sector is characterised by a dual economy, comprising well developed commercial farming, with established supply chains, and smallscale subsistence-based production. 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 research on the 'nitrification inhibition' capacity of Brachiaria forage grass, the 2013 Yara Prize winners, a study which has revealeclimate change pushing pests towards the poles, a new tool which pinpoints areas where proven agricultural water management technologies and methods would be most effective, and the threat of Black Sigatoka to Caribbean banana and plantain crops. read article
Reviews of some of the latest agriculture and rural development publications, including Feeding frenzy - The new politics of food by Paul McMahon. read article
