ABSTRACT: Lowlands’s ecology represents nearly half of the agro forestry region irrigated for rice in Niger. This research aimed at evaluating practices of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in these ecologies. On-farm testing was conducted in three (3) different regions (Tahoua, Zinder and Dosso). SRI practices in these regions were compared to conventional rice production […]
Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and the Government of Burundi, the PNSADR-IM is at work in the Imbo region in the communes of Mpanda, Buganda, Rugombo, Gihanga and Mutimbuzi to improve the living conditions of households. Dairy […]
“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 […]