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Story: Story: ICT in Agriculture
According to the World Bank, it took cell phones more than 15 years to reach 70% penetration in the United States. In Kenya? It took only 8 years to reach almost everyone! How is Kenya’s Mpesa transforming lives? By 2013, Mpesa was handling transactions worth about $22 billion. Today, ...more
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Story: Story: Launch of INGENAES Community of Practice (CoP) in Uganda
The Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS) is currently partnering with the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) University’s project on the Integration of Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES). The INGENAES project supports the United ...more
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News: News: UFAAS PARTNERS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN TO IMPLEMENT GENDER AND NUTRITION INTEGRATION WITHIN UGANDA
Services'. INGENAES is sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the 'Feed the Future' programme, and strives “to increase agricultural production and the incomes of both men and women in rural areas who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods”. The ...more
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Story: Story: SCALING UP CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE; INTEGRATING YOUTH, WOMEN AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION.
Currently, the farm is operating with over 1000 Holstein dairy cows with the state of the art infrastructure. He also practices dairy in another farm he has set up at Nottingham road. Dairy in his farm is practiced from a no till fodder/pasture base system comprising of; Growing rain fed maize silage in ...more
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Resource: Resource: Agricultural Production: Improving "Dabsha" Mango Trees Productivity and Fruit Quality by Biological Fertilizers
://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=218&doi=10.11648/j.ajaf.20160406.14 Other Agriculture 10.11648.j.ajaf_.20160406.14.pdf United Arab Emirates <a href="/users/james-wilson" title="View user profile." class="username" xml:lang="" about="/users/james-wilson" ...more
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Resource: Resource: Extension Handbook: What every Extension worker should know
1136 reads We share a MEAS Extension Handbook by Murari Suvedi and Michael Kaplowitz of Michigan State University https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15810717/MEAS%20%282016%29%20Extensi... click the link to download a copy. Best Practices Agriculture Africa <a ...more
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News: News: NIFAAS Workshop on the Use of AFAAS VSNP for Advisory Services comes up January 2017
These include: professionals in Research Institutes, Universities, Colleges of Agriculture and related Institutions, practitioners in both the Federal and States Ministries of Agriculture, NGOs in agriculture and rural development, and farmer-based organizations (FBOs). Training Method The training is ...more
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News: News: FAO to increase capacity of African women in agriculture
984 reads The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to invest in securing women’s rights to land and other productive resources, developing their capacity to boost food production and creating more wealth for family farmers, while preventing and minimizing food ...more
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Organisation: Nigerian Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (NIFAAS)
process of registering with the Corporate Affairs Commission. It is governed by a Steering Committee and it is hosted by the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS) Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Physical Address: ...more
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News: News: NEPAD’s transformation into the African Union Development Agency
205 reads 10 July 2018 At the recent 31st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of African Union Heads of State and Government in Nouakchott, Mauritania, African Heads of State and Government received several reports, including the status of the implementation of the AU Institutional Reforms presented ...more