Communication and ICTs

Since the end of March, the regional initiative YenKasa Africa has organized a series of webinars on experience capitalization. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with its OPenACP Programme -FO4ACP, co-facilitated the second webinar of this six-part series. Through this series of webinars, YenKasa Africa, a communication initiative for family farming and rural development in Africa, is strengthening

On Tuesday, 28 March 2023, YenKasa Africa regional initiative, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), held the first session of a series of webinars aimed at strengthening the capacity of organizations in knowledge management. The webinar series in French reviews the online course on “Experience capitalization for continuous learning”. This course is available free of

To learn more, register for this series of webinars on experience capitalization in French. Registration is open now! How many times have you been told “we don’t need to reinvent the wheel”? How many times have you been asked to take stock of what has been done in your organization? Do you want to know how to learn from the past, how to share and transfer knowledge? If so, this

The systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock (CSL) is a promising strategy for the sustainable intensification of agrosystems. In the face of declining land fertility, irregular rainfall and low input use, several technologies within this approach have been identified to improve producers’ income in the Sahel. Thus, the SustainSahelproject is co-conducting with farmers a network of agronomic trials associating trees and shrubs to evaluate and document their impacts on

After Senegal and Burkina Faso, the second event for disseminating innovative technologies was held in Mali from 17 to 21 October 2022. Several activities were on the programme: visits to test fields, training for drone pilots, and a farmers’ day, among others. In Mali, the plant Gliricidia Sepium is highly prized by farmers and is very effective in fertilising the soil and an excellent feed for livestock. However, not all

Work package 6: Co-creation of a feed ration calculation tool for ruminants. Presentation of the tool to representatives of national producer federations and innovations platforms in all three of the project’s focus countries. Following a first study with experts in Senegal on the applicability of a pilot ration calculator developed by the section Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel (‘Optimizing a feeding tool with nutritional details