Read Full Document Here.. Agriculture development is indispensable for poverty reduction and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Among other crops, rice is considered one of the most important and promising crops to achieve a Green Revolution similar to Asia, which lead to a drastic increase in paddy yield due to the diffusion of modern […]
Future strategies for sustainable food security will need to get greater productivity from available land, labour, water and other resources, producing more food, as much as possible, with reduced inputs. The System of Crop Intensification (SCI) which emerged from an agroecological production strategy developed for rice in Madagascar in the 1980s has shown promise in […]
“I’ve been a farmer all my life. I had not received any training in agriculture and only used my local knowledge, ” says Yohana Zablon (63), a smallholder farmer from Njage Village in Morogoro, Tanzania. “A few months ago, I was approached by some members of Tupendane Youth Group in our village, who had just […]