Forest Tenure

The 2016 peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP created institutional space for an effective implementation of needed rural reforms. However, the change of power structures also contains risks, like the deterioration of natural resources and the strengthening of other armed groups.

Agriculture is central to adaptation and mitigation of climate change. This is well recognized in the Paris Agreement, where many developing countries including Kenya prioritized agriculture as one of the critical sectors for the realization of their transformation to climate resilient development pathway.

This report seeks to provide an analysis of the political, social, cultural, institutional, environmental, agricultural and economic context of seven districts of Northern Uganda (Kitgum, Agago, Oyam, Lira, Amolatar, Dokolo and Napak), with a view of compiling a basket of climate smart agriculture options that are gender-responsive and suitable for the conditions of the respective districts.

SADC Future project supplementary material: Systems analysis and sectoral linkages impacting climate resilient development in the SADC region.

Credit constraint is considered by many as one of the key barriers to adoption of modern agricultural technologies, such as chemical fertilizer, improved seeds, and irrigation technologies, among smallholders. Past research and much policy discourse associates agricultural credit constraints with supply-side factors, such as limited access to credit sources or high costs of borrowing.

The SADC Futures project has developed a range of foresight training materials. The SADC Futures Foresight Training Toolkit forms part of this knowledge series and presents content that was given during the SADC Futures webinar series, a six-part virtual webinar series and facilitated training.

Tanzania is the sixth largest producer of potatoes in Africa. They are generally grown in regions having an elevation of 1,800 and 2,700 meters above sea level. About 70 - 80% of the potatoes are produced in the Southern Highlands, particularly in the Iringa, Njombe and Mbeya regions. SAGCOT reported an annual potatoes production of over 1.7 million metric tons in the year 2017 (SGCOT, 2017).

Even though drought tolerant maize (DTM) varieties have proven yield stabilization benefits, the adoptions remains low. In this research, we explore the risk spectrum that male and female smallholder farmers face in agriculture and the gendered barriers and drivers to adoption of drought tolerant maize varieties.

Since the market-oriented Doi Moi reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, Vietnam’s livestock sector has experienced rapid growth. Although policies have been implemented at the national and provincial levels to guide this growth in a sustainable manner, blind spots and implementation gaps remain.

The study examined the factors for the successful implementation of bylaws on sustainable crop intensification. The study used the new institutionalism theory to examine the implementation of bylaws in the potato cropping system in southwestern Uganda. A mixed model featuring both qualitative and quantitative approaches was used in the study. This involved analysis of primary data.

This report is the result of the joint impact study of CTA support to ACP partner organisations and networks led by the CTA in Wageningen, which details the impact of the relationship and collaboration between IPACC and CTA over 7 years beginning from 2007.