Microsoft, through the 4Afrika initiative has collaborated with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to co-create technology solutions in Africa as it works to improve food security for 30 million farming households across 11 countries by 2021. The partnership stands a...
In 2008 $1.25 was the global line. As of October 2016, the new global line was updated to $1.90. See http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-poverty-line-faq. References AGRA. (2014). Africa agriculture status report: Climate change and smallholder agriculture in sub-...
We modelled scenarios that combine conversion to organic production with other systematic interventions, namely the reduction of animal feed grown on arable land and a corresponding reduction in animal numbers and production26, and the reduction of food wastage. As a stand-alone measure, no more tha...
Such discursive-material dynamics have been highlighted by “cultural political economy” in analyses of the remaking of neoliberal capitalism (Jessop2010; Sum2009). Actors, with unequal access to power and resources, interact to construct, contest, and negotiate alternative imaginaries that simplify a ...
AGRA is based on a similar green revolution in Asia, which raised crop yieldsat the cost of bringing increased rural inequality and decreased biodiversity.Asia’s green revolution certainly made the food production statistics look better, but the intensive industrial farming methods it favoured were ...
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作者: Y Xi 摘要: It analysed weeds' features, elaborated the attitude to weeds in organic agricuiture and discussed the measures of weeds integrted management during organic farming 关键词: Organic agriculture Weeds Integrated management 被引量: 2 年份: 1999 收藏...
From offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and Accra, Ghana, AGRA will support work across all key aspects of the African agricultural value chain to help millions of small-scale farmers and their families lift themselves out of poverty and hunger. 展开 ...
In this situation, village communities in conjunction with Agragamee, a local NGO, are able to construct dams, field ponds, and wells, and gully plugging (Satapathy et al. 2011). Local farmers cooperatives is an institutional mechanism for climate change adaptation in agriculture as this ...
particularly in the light of recently documented failures of AGRA projects funded by The Gates Foundation (Wise2020). Overall, webinar participants echoed the more general view that “In Africa, the research agenda….and ‘given’ conceptual frameworks should be continuously re-examined … with the...