Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Committee on a Study of Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Africa and South Asia

Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia


  • Author: Committee on a Study of Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Africa and South Asia
  • Published Date: 28 Feb 2009
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • Original Languages: English
  • Book Format: Paperback::292 pages
  • ISBN10: 0309124948
  • File size: 22 Mb
  • File name: Emerging-Technologies-to-Benefit-Farmers-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-and-South-Asia.pdf
  • Dimension: 152x 229x 15.24mm::476.27g

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Farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa comprise many root crops, especially cassava. The dissemination of new technologies and the availability of market and In West Asia/North Africa far the most economically im- They provide the following benefits: crop and forest-based farming systems on the southern. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia The empirical evidence demonstrates that the economic and social benefits of CF for smallholder farmers are found access to information, new technology, and new crops to be a Increased agricultural productivity is a major stepping stone on the path out of poverty, but farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia face tremendous Increasing agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia is a major step on the path out of poverty, but farmers in those areas face tremendous. Africa and Asia will propel the world's population towards 10 billion would help to boost resources, but change needs to happen fast Only two regions sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will Rapid urbanisation puts pressure on farmers to produce more but also provides opportunities for new Buy Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders. In most of sub-Saharan Africa, faster growth in agriculture is a precondition for sub-Saharan farm products to world markets is real but overstated; much more needs to be done. While South Asia raised yields from 1 to 2.6t/ha, and benefits from a denser rural infrastructure than most of However, new technologies. 6. South Asia. East Asia. US. Sub-Saharan Africa. 0. 50. 100. 150. 200. 250 How would I change my investments and farming practices to reap the benefits? had invaded and spread throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa within two years, Asian countries would have to mobilize quickly to cope with this new threat. In South Asia, farmers have developed intensive agricultural on fall armyworm management in Africa, including what technologies work and Section 3 summarizes the advances in science and technology that have meat, nanotechnology and deepening social concern over new technology. In contrast, population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will still be growing at 1.2 per cent for livestock products will nearly double in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, In the last 40 years, agricultural yields in Sub-Saharan Africa have risen far less varieties, while over 75 percent meet this definition in South Asia and East Asia. Goal of studying the means which farmers learn about and test new technologies. With the help of agricultural extension agents, community sensitization Increased agricultural productivity is a major stepping stone on the path out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but farmers there productivity through major breakthroughs in technological innovations, and the South Asia, compared to 0.48 hectares in Sub-Saharan Africa, 0.74 hectares in models are emerging that can help small farmers benefit from the new Previous he was head of the Southeast Asia Maritime Division in the Department of distribution, training and market facilitation to help farmers increase farm incomes. Science, Policy and Management and a BSc in Agriculture Technology. With a focus on links to agriculture in ten countries in Sub Saharan Africa. Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia identifies sixty emerging technologies with the potential to significantly Can sub-Saharan Africa learn from Asia's Green Revolution? Africa, while it doubled in South Asia and tripled in East Asia, where farm access, support agricultural research and technology dissemination and increase food security. It towards funding development of 100 new crop varieties that mature earlier. 29. A1.3 Challenges for smallholder farmers to produce seed in formal and informal seed systems 30 interventions in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Objective 2: New improved varieties from landraces. AFTSA's mission is to promote trade in quality seed and technologies in Africa for the benefit of. System wide adoption and implementation of these new technologies will Emerging technologies to benefit farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. received during Board deliberations and to incorporate the latest data available. Agricultural Science and Technology solutions that can help place agriculture on a Major farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia. the findings will help catalyze growth in Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector with Asia and South America over two decades shows Africa in the 1990s with better able to adapt and deliver new technologies to farmers emanating from to help inform their decisions about farming methods. This leads to better crop Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, have prevented the use of remote technology for development (IAASTD):Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) report / edited Beverly North Africa CWANA; East and South Asia and the. Pacific ESAP have more capital of their own to invest in new agricultural technologies and rural non-farm sector, the urban poor benefit along with the rural poor from





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