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.
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20-04-2020 Soil infertility is a key constraint to improving crop production for small-scale farmers. Soils throughout Canadian Foodgrains Bank members’ program areas are degraded and deficient in nutrients and organic matter. Soil testing measures the soil’s health and nutrient holding capacity and...
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20-04-2017 Conservation Agriculture (CA)—characterized by the three linked principles of minimizing soil disturbance, permanently covering the soil, and including crop rotations and associations – has proven effective at restoring soil health and fertility, improving the capture and use of rainfall, and...
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Wakulima wa mashariki mwa Niger wameweza kukomboa ekari million tano na kuongeza uzalishaji wa chakula kwa zaidi ya tani 500,000 kwa mwaka kwa kutunza miti asilia na vichaka kupitia wakulima kusimamia mali asili. Wakulima kusimamia mali asili ilianza mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 1980,katika miaka ya...
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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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Kuweka uwiano kati ya mahitaji ya mifugo na haja ya kuweka udongo ukiwa umefunikwa ni changamoto endelevu katika kilimo Hifadhi duniani kote. Wakati mabaki ya mazao, nyasi, na matandazo ugavi wake umepungua, afya ya wanyama na afya ya udongo hutetereka. Mashindano kwa ajili ya vifaa hivi unaweza...
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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...
- 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...