Pro-Poor Livestock Policy: Initiative Status and Prospects for Smallholder Milk Production A Global Perspective

This Pro-Poor Livestock Policy: Initiative Status and Prospects for Smallholder Milk Production A Global Perspective report is 16 Mb. The Executive Summary is relayed below. Click here or on the image to download.
Of an estimated 2.6 billion people in the developing world surviving on less than US$2 per day, some 1.4 billion are classified as ‘extremely’ poor inasmuch as they live on less than US

Plusieurs voleurs de légumes surpris dans le Nord

IL ne se passe pas un jour sans qu’une plantation de légumes ne soit visitée par des voleurs. C’est du moins ce que soutiennent des planteurs de la région nord du pays. Durant la seule journée de dimanche, deux planteurs ont eu la désagréable surprise de constater que des pommes de terre avaient été volées dans leurs plantations.
À la rue Riverside, Balaclava, en début de soirée de dimanche,

The many uses of mobiles

Mobile phones can deliver information in many different ways

Over the years, ICT Update has covered the many ways in which mobile phones are used to promote agricultural and rural development. The technology has proven so useful that it is likely to remain a popular method of information delivery for some time to come.

A recent World Bank report noted that mobile phones were ‘the single most

Mobile Phones Connect Farmers to Agricultural Information

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Mobile Phones Connect Farmers to Agricultural Information
Sep 21, 2010 (America.gov/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- "My goat is sick. Its neck is swollen. It can't eat," an old woman in a remote village in Uganda said. She spoke to a man passing by with a mobile phone.

"Let me see if I can help," said Laban Rutagumirwa.

He sent off a text

Les planteurs veulent relancer la culture de fruits locaux

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« VOUS savez combien de vitamines et de fibres il y a dans la goyave ? Il y en a même plus que dans lorange ! » Mais, déplore Krit Beeharry, le président de la Mauritius Agricultutral Marketing and Cooperative Federation ( MAMCF), « le Mauricien a trop tendance à penser que ce qui est cultivé en dehors de son pays est mieux » . Une attitude que Krit

Pomme d’amour : Un virus provoque une hausse de prix

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La pomme d’amour va mal.
En effet, le virus provoquant le Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl veut sa peau. Ce virus attaque la plante dés qu’elle commence à fleurir ou juste avant qu’elle ne rapporte. La plante se frise alors, jaunit, et ne rapporte pas.
« La situation est assez grave » , commente Kreepaloo Sunghoon, secrétaire de l’association des petits planteurs du

Mauritius vs Kenya - Kenya PS wants team set up to save wheat farming

Agriculture permanent secretary Romano Kiome. Photo/FILE  By KABURU MUGAMBI akaburu@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Thursday, September 16 2010 at 15:50
The Ministry of Agriculture has called for inter-ministerial intervention to save wheat sub-sector from collapse due to low production and competition from imported flour.
The milling industry faces a serious threat from duty free grain

Turmeric Farmers Cooperative Society Limited - La culture du safran relancée

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RODRIGUES est- elle en mesure dexporter du safran ? En tout cas, des agriculteurs optimistes pensent positivement et mettent déjà les bouchées doubles pour arriver à leurs fins.
Une société coopérative connue comme la Turmeric Farmers Cooperative Society Limited vient de voir le jour. Le Project Manager , Sunita Albert est déjà en négociation avec

World Food Day at the University of Mauritius by the Agricultural Society

At the University of Mauritius (UoM), this event will be organised by the Agricultural Society (affiliated to the Students' Union) in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture. (proposed dates: 11th and 12th November 2010 - To be approved by the Registrar).

The objectives of the WFD 2010 at UoM will be to:

1) encourage attention to agricultural food production through various activities

Global hunger 'unacceptably high', UN report says

Facts: Undernourishment in 2010, by region (millions) ::Source-FAO::
Asia and the Pacific: 578
Sub-Saharan Africa: 239
Latin America and the Caribbean: 53
Near East and North Africa: 37
Developed countries: 19

Global hunger has fallen this year but remains "unacceptably high", a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. The FAO estimates there are 925 million

World Food Day Theme: United Against Hunger

United against Hunger
The theme of this year’s observance is United against hunger, chosen to recognize the efforts made in the fight against world hunger at national, regional and international levels. 
Uniting against hunger becomes real when state and civil society organizations and the private sector work in partnership at all levels to defeat hunger, extreme poverty and malnutrition. 
In

World Food Day 2010 Special Coverage

Dear Friends,

 Next month we shall be celebrating the World Food Day. To mark this event, MAISNET shall be making special coverages at international, regional and local level. We are also open to contributions. Send us your articles for publishing in our blog. 

 Thanks to Nawsheen for tipping us on the event and sending us some relevant links! 


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Free Download: CTA Special Publication on " Population and Agriculture"

Admin's note: This is CTA's special issue on 'Population & Agriculture' released in August 2010.  Download is free.

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Strawberry Culture

LE même rituel, chaque matin, depuis que la saison de la récolte de fraises, « ce fruit rouge de luxe, car rémunérateur » , a commencé. Dès laurore, Rumila Mungur, directrice de la société familiale Fresh Strawberries Ltd , est à pied doeuvre. A cueillir, avec laide de ses fi ls, son époux et deux employés, 15 kilos de fraises, dans sa plantation, à Floréal.
Quelle vend aux supermarchés de

Freedom of Information vs Dissemination of Information: Where is the line?

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Admin note: This is a good reflection to have: What can we share as information and what should we not!!

Ce droit garanti par la Déclaration universelle des droits de lhomme est menacé dans notre pays. Il sagit du droit de chercher et de recevoir linformation. Déjà, laccès à linformation était difficile en raison de la culture du secret qui prévaut dans la

Backyard / Home Gardening

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Elever des animaux et cultiver des légumes permettent de réaliser des économies.
Quil est loin le temps des potagers. Des poules ou/ et canards que grand- mère ti nuri dans son arrière- cour. Et si le mieux- être du Mauricien de demain passait aussi par un retour à ces pratiques considérées dantan ? « Il est temps, vu le coût élevé de la nourriture,

Food Security: Bread Fruit Potential

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La crise alimentaire, est loin dêtre terminée. Indira Boodhram, directrice du laboratoire de micro-propagation de lEtat, a trouvé un moyen de la contenir : la culture du fruit à pain en plus grand nombre. Même si presque plus personne nen parle aujourdhui. « Larbre à pain a presque disparu de Maurice. Il nous faut des milliers de ces arbres très vite dans

Southern Africa failing to innovate, says study

Blog admin note: My opinion on this is that we are doing research but the outputs are not visible because the works are not published / shared. 
I will create another post later on how we can publish materials. For the time being I would like you people to react to the article.
[OUDTSHOORN, SOUTH AFRICA] Countries in southern Africa are producing so few scientific publications and patents that