Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB)
Agriculture and livelihood projects focus on helping people provide food for themselves and their families in the longer term. We work with farmers to increase their yields through sustainable agriculture practices, and help people generate more income from what they grow.
- Since 2014, the Foodgrains Bank network has sponsored a Conservation Agriculture Capacity Development Program to maximize coordination and learning between Canadian Foodgrains Bank members and partners implementing Conservation Agriculture (CA) programming in sub-Saharan Africa. This program has...
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20/04/2020 L’infertilité du sol est une contrainte majeure pour l’amélioration de la production agricole envers les petits agriculteurs. Dans les zones d’interventions des membres de Canadian Foodgrains Bank, les sols se dégradent et deviennent médiocres en éléments nutritifs et matières organiques. L’...
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20/04/2017 Agriculture de conservation (AC) — caractérisée par les trois principes liés à la minimisation de la perturbation du sol, couvrant de façon permanente le sol et incluant les rotations et les associations de cultures - s’est avérée efficace pour restaurer la santé et la fertilité du sol, améliorer...
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Les agriculteurs du sud du Niger ont mis en valeur 5 millions d’hectares de terres et augmenté la production alimentaire de plus de 500 000 tonnes par an en gérant naturellement les arbres et arbustes à l’aide de la Régénération Naturelle Assistée (RNA) par les Agriculteurs. Le mouvement RNA a...
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Agriculture and livelihood projects focus on helping people provide food for themselves and their families in the longer term. We work with farmers to increase their yields through sustainable agriculture practices, and help people generate more income from what they grow.
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Équilibrer les besoins du bétail et la nécessité de garder les sols couverts est un défi permanent pour l’agriculture de conservation dans le monde entier. Lorsque les résidus de culture, l’herbe et les matériaux de paillage sont rares, la santé des animaux et celle du sol en soufrent. La...
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Lesson plans and activities for children and youth to learn about issues related to world hunger. Ourgoalis a world without hunger.
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Services to Foodgrains Bank members and partners have included on-site training, facilitation of exchange visits and annual networking events, and information sharing with stakeholders outside of the Foodgrains Bank network. By 2018, these efforts had helped contribute to a doubling in the...
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20/01/2017 What is extension? Traditionally extension has been an approach where information from researchers has been transferred to farmers through extension personnel. The information flow in that case was top down (from researchers to farmers). The assumption was that farmers lack knowledge and hence...
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Session:Conservation Agriculture (CA) provides clear soil conservation benefits, but meta-analyses from across sub-Saharan Africa indicate that CA on its own only provides a small increase in yields – not enough for most farmers to overcome food insecurity in the short term. Taking a more...