Description of the project: The Kagera river, a tributary of the Nile, is being threatened by silting due to unsustainable farming methods. Its river basin is a very rich agricultural ground supporting 16.5 million people in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The project aims to improve and modernize current farming methods, in order to improve food security and ensure resilient livelihoods for people and animals living in this area. Groups of 50 new beneficiaries are trained every month on farming methods, followed by a tree-planting scheme by the river.
Improved cultivation techniques
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Passion fruit is a rustic, adaptable crop used in foodstuffs and medicine at both small and industrial scales.
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This plough has been used with great success in Kebkabiya, Sudan. Here is a highly visual guide to its use.
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Noix de cajou à porter leurs fruits qui peut être faite en grignotine.
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Report on Environmental Protection by sustainable reforestation and education
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As the prices of both land and labour rise in China facility-based agriculture is beginning to gain momentum. Rather than growing food in open fields Chinese farmers are increasingly likely to use greenhouses and other covered facilities for cultivation. In 2010 there were more than 3.5 million acres in use for facility agriculture and this is expected to grow by a further 50% by 2020.
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The project “Making Agriculture and Market Systems Work for Landless, Marginal and Smallholder Farmers in Bangladesh” aims to improve the food security and livelihoods of 15,000 vulnerable, marginal farming households (approximately 75,000 people) and 300 rural private agricultural service providers in Bangladesh.
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Demonstrations are a very effective way of introducing and explaining improved or unfamiliar ways of doing practical tasks, and give people the opportuinty to 'learn by doing' by allowing participation. The brief includes an example of a ploughing demonstration in Sudan.
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This technical brief explains about the diseases and pests that affect onion farming and their management and prevention.