|
Agricultural Education and Training in South Africa
A major transformation of the agricultural sector is taking place in South Africa. The main thrust is to bring more black farmers into commercial agriculture and to ensure the success of these new farmers. By the end of 2014 the South African government wants black owners to possess 30% of land. The success ... read more
|
|
Avian Influenza Control Indonesia
Indonesia is more affected by H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza than any other country in the world. It is disrupting the livelihoods of over 10 million people. The Indonesian and Dutch government established a partnership programme which aims to contain the risks of Avian Influenza in Indonesia ... read more
|
|
CDI and the process of EU Enlargement
Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) is actively involved in facilitating processes of change in EU candidate and neighbouring countries to work in accordance with European directives and policies in the field of biodiversity conservation (including the management of protected areas), water management and rural development. More specifically CDI helps ... read more
|
 |
Climate Change Adaptation in Ethiopia
Sustainable land use, food supply and water management are critical concerns for countries in East Africa. In regions that are very vulnerable toclimate change, the specific circumstances and needs have to be mapped before an adaptation strategy to climate change ... read more
|
 |
Consequences of the legal timber trade for Ghana’s local population
An international agreement on trade in legally produced timber concluded by the European Union and Ghana is intended to combat supplies of illegally logged timber from Ghana. Wageningen UR is studying the consequences of this agreement for the livelihood of local communities. The European Union intends to tackle the problem of illegally logged timber ... read more |
 |
Cross-border protection and management of the River Bug
Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation and its European partners are making efforts to provide assurances for the rich plant and animal life in and around the River Bug. The River is an important corridor in the Pan-European Ecological Network, a linked network of European nature areas. The River Bug, which originates ... read more |
 |
EU-India agriculture free trade agreement
The negotiations between the EU and India about a free trade and investment agreement (FTA) are in an impasse. India shields its agricultural sector from the world markets. Opinions vary on whether open trade would spur hardship or contribute to development of India’s rural areas. The Dutch Ministy ... read more |
 |
Farmer Entrepreneurship and Innovating Agribusiness in Africa
Agri-ProFocus promotes farmer entrepreneurship in developing countries. Agri-ProFocus is a partnership of Dutch donor agencies, credit institutions, companies, training and knowledge institutions. They share the vision that stronger producer organizations are key to economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries ... read more |
 |
Farmers in the Drivers’ Seat in Eastern and Central Africa
Meeting the increasing demand for food, feed and fuel depends on the productivity and market access of small farms, operated by households with limited hired labor. These small-scale farms remain the most common production units in agriculture. Smallholder agriculture in Eastern and Central Africa holds tremendous opportunities ... read more |
 |
Financing Sustainable Forest Management
Sustainable forest management in tropical countries has been one of the FAO’s spearheads for many years. However, in practice many noble plans come to nothing due to the lack of financial resources. The FAO’s Financing Sustainable Forest Management project will change this situation. The Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) has developed a website and workshop that ... read more |
 |
Food and Nutrition Security Programme in Palestine
The Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) collaborated with Juzoor Foundation for Health and Social Development to develop the capacity of Palestinian health staff in community-based nutrition approaches, nutrition communication and nutrition promotion. Juzoor Foundation has formulated the needs for strengthening the capacities of various ... read more |
 |
Food and Nutrition Security Support Project Plan Nederland
When Plan Nederland started a project on improving livelihoods and household food security to improve child nutritional status in 2004, it did not have a comprehensive, integrated approach.The organisation of Plan’s work in five domains meant that childnutrition interventions fell under the Health domain ... read more |
 |
Food Security Support Initiative for Dutch Embassies
In the context of the Food Security Support Initiative of the Task Team Food and Nutrition Security by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, six embassy support missions were conducted in 2011 by Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation and others, in the selected Fast Track Process Countries Ethiopia, Kenya, ... read more |
 |
Forest Governance and Accountability
Good forest governance is an increasingly important topic for stakeholders in many different settings around the world. Two international initiatives to improve forest governance are the regional Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) ministerial processes supported by the World Bank, and the European ... read more |
 |
Global Community Biodiversity Management Study
Why conserve and manage plant genetic resources for food and agriculture? Commercialization of food markets often leads to simplification in the range of crops cultivated in agricultural systems. This loss of genetic resources has resulted in major concerns about future food and nutrition insecurity and the vulnerability of ... read more |
 |
Global Consultation on Palm Oil Strategy
Nearly 40% of all vegetable oil traded worldwide is palm oil. It is widely used in food, cosmetics, industry and as a biofuel. Already the world’s dominant oil, the demand is set to grow dramatically over the coming years, especially from China and India. Most palm oil is produced in tropical areas using land that was once rainforest ... read more |
 |
Global Partnership Forest Landscape Restoration
Governments, industry and campaigning groups are working hard to reduce deforestation. But that alone is not enough. Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) can make good the damage done to landscapes and livelihoods by the destruction of forests. It can help to build sustainable relationships between communities, commercial interests ... read more |
 |
Income for new farmers in South Africa
Low levels of education and a lack of understanding of commercial markets are the factors that prevent many South Africans from earning a decent income. Wageningen UR trains and educates agricultural extension workers in Cape Province. These extension workers in turn provide assistance to South Africans who want to become farmers. Radical land reforms ... read more |
 |
Integrated fish farming and the efficient use of fresh water in Egypt
Egypt is confronted with an increasing pressure on its limited freshwater resources as a result of a growing population,economy and agricultural sector. The available freshwater should beused efficiently, that means raising the food production per cubicmeter of water. Integrating aquaculture and agriculture by using water first for fish ... read more |
 |
Integrated Seed Sector Development in Ethiopia
Wide-scale commercialization of smallholder farming is foreseen to be a predominant source for agricultural growth in Ethiopia. The prevailing ‘hybrid maize model’ for private sector development is considered by some to be most appropriate in realizing African food security. However, contemporary lessons reveal the ... read more |
 |
International Timber Trade Agreement and Livelihoods in Ghana
In 2008 the EU and Ghana signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) to jointly promote legally logged timber as a way of contributing to sustainable forest management. The EU is currently paving the way for only accepting legally produced timber and timber products from Ghana. These changes affect all actors in the timber industry ... read more |
 |
Introduction of EU Standards and Methods for Habitat Identification and Classification
Although Ukraine is not required to implement the EU acquis communautaire, policy documents of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources clearly indicate the wish to align nature protection practices with those applied in the European Union. The objective of the project “Introduction of EU Standards and Methods for Habitat ... read more |
|
 |
Learning about transboundary fisheries governance
Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater body in the world, and is facing severe environmental stress, which is adversely impacting the basin's ecosystem, as well as the region's economy. Apart from supporting a wide diversity of flora and fauna, Lake Victoria also supports a large fishing industry for export and local consumption, ... read more |
 |
Making markets work for smallholder producers in Niger
With a yearly production of about 500.000 tons per year, Niger is the biggest exporter of onions in West Africa. The onion sector is an important pillar for the economy of this poor, land-locked and drought-prone country. For more than 100.000 farmers and for all the other actors in the chain (intermediaries, transporters and traders), ... read more |
 |
Protection and Management of Zasavica Special Nature Reserve
Nature conservation in Serbia is predominantly based on the traditional approach of isolating protected areas from the livelihoods in and around these areas, and nature conservation organisations lack the capacities to work with modern approaches like those promoted by the EU Habitats Directive. In view of the approximation ... read more |
|
Regional Policies Sustainable Fisheries in Northwest Africa
To protect the biodiversity of the coastal waters and to insure the sustainable exploitation of the natural resources, good management and agreements between coastal states are necessary. The most extensivefish stock in the coastal waters of Northwest Africa consists of smallpelagic fish species. These species swim in big schools ... read more |
|
Rural extension services on their way forward
Poverty is more effectively reduced by growth in the agricultural sector than by growth outside the sector. Agriculture thus needs to get more prominence, at global level as well as local level. Especially in countries where the majority of the rural population depends on agriculture for their subsistence and income, the development of the ... read more |
 |
Strengthening Plan Nederland's food and nutrition security programme
Plan Nederland, the Dutch national member organisation of Plan International, is a charity that works worldwide to improve the conditions in which deprived children live. In 2004 the organisation started a project to promote food security in third world countries. To ensure the success of this Food and Nutrition Security Project (FNSSP), Wageningen UR ... read more |
 |
Strengthening regional cooperation in the forestry and water management sector
There are major concerns in South Eastern Europe about deforestation along and close to the water courses and drinking reservoirs, causing soil erosion, deposition of pollutants, clogging of water discharge channels, disturbances in agricultural production and decrease of economic lifetime of hydro power plants. In the meantime each country in the region is faced with the challenge of ... read more |
 |
Support Programme for Institutional and Capacity Development
Changing development policies and practices have highlighted the importance of addressing capacity issues and institutional change in societies. The Accra Declaration (2008) puts capacity development and country ownership at the heart of development challenges. Sector approaches require deeper understanding of institutional ... read more |
 |
Sustainable Horticulture in Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is faced with a serious watershortage in the coming years and has decided to place more emphasis on sustainable production of horticultural crops. The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Agricultural Development Fund (ADF) plan to guide the horticultural sector towards more sustainable ... read more |
 |
Value Capture Fisheries Indonesia
Indonesia is one of the biggest fishery nations in the world with marine resources, which provide its inhabitants with food, labour and income. The fisheries sector sector therefore has a big potential to contribute to the country's economy. Due to poor fishing techniques, the marine resources are often not adequately managed ... read more |
|
|