West-Africa
AGRIDAPE
AGRIDAPE (Revue sur l'agriculture durable à faibles apports externes), as stated by its subtitle, is a Magazine about Sustainable Agriculture with Low External Inputs. This notion refers to all those technological and social choices available to farmers that are willing to improve their production with an eye for a better environmental management. The Magazine focus is on the optimal use of local resources, natural processes but also the handling of measurement and control inputs when needed. It tries to stimulate the capacity of individuals and communities of building their future on the base of their own skills, values, and cultures. We seek to combine local knowledge with scientific expertise in order to help not only individuals but also institutions and policymakers in finding the solutions that better fit the need of small farmers in West Africa.
Latest issues
Numéro spécial - Les éleveurs du Sahel face à la crise pastorale de 2009
This special issue of AGRIDAPE presents the consolidated results of research on the pastoral crisis that occurred in the Sahel in 2009/2010.
Marchés locaux et régionaux
This issue of AGRIDAPE explores local and regional markets as an alternative for food security and food sovereignty.
Forêt et agroforesterie
This issue of Agridape 27.2 will allow readers to discover the many experiences around the theme "Forest and Agroforestry" for better management of our natural resources.
Jeunes et agriculteurs
This issue of Agridape shows that the youth may be the engine of economic prosperity through good agricultural policy.
Partenariats pour l'apprentissage
This issue of AGRIDAPE looks at partnerships for learning, presenting many cases of farmers partnering with other farmers, NGOs and researchers to learn, exchange and organise themselves better.
L'EAU
This issue of Agridape looks at issues surrounding the blue gold we call water. It highlights the threats the worlds most valuable resource is facing and will continue to face as time goes on. The issue explores ways in which agriculture can tackle and reduce these threats.
Elevage durable
This edition of Agridape is focused on issues surrounding sustainable livestock farming. It discusses the value of rearing livestock but also the harmful effects that intensive farming can cause to the environment. It delves then into the ways in which farmers can rear livestock and sustain themselves and their families while limiting damage to the environment.
La diffusion des pratiques durables
This issue of Agridape Magazine focuses on the dissemination of sustainable practices. This issue seeks to make a small review of some innovative practices developed at a local scale and are now known worldwide. It also examines the intiatives of capitalisation, scaling and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices but also on factors that hinder their extension and generalisation.
Femmes et souveraineté alimentaire
This issue is based on Women and Food Sovereignty. It seeks to highlight the important role of women in agriculture and the fact that they are quite often undervalued. This issue features articles on initiatives around the world that are trying to combat discrimination against women.
Entreprenariat rural
This issue of Agridape seeks to understand and show how rural businesses are generating sustainable growth and equitable income as well as supporting themselves and their families.This issue emphasises the importance of diversifying in order to become less vulnerable. This magazine includes many articles featuring examples of rural entrepreneurs worldwide.
Cultiver la diversité
This edition of Agridape focuses on Cultivating Diversity in farming. It focuses on the debate over which of the two main basic models of farming to promote. Family farming that is built around food sovereignty and small scale producing while the other known as agribusiness which is usually on a larger scale and more profit orientated. It includes many thought provoking articles from proponents of both models.
Changements Climatiques, entre résilience et résistance
Climate Change is the topic up for discussion in this issue. It discusses the huge challenges that Climate Change poses for agriculture both presently and in the future. The issue explores examples of resistance to problems caused by Climate Change and ways in which todays farmers can limit contributing to further climate changes.
Agriculture durable et inclusion sociale
Agridape explores the importance of social inclusion in this issue. It seeks to highlight the need for participation of local farmers in sustainable agriculture projects. It discusses in particular the importance of the most vulnerable social groups involvement in decision making processes.Various NGO's discuss the success of initiatives that have ensured full participation from all social groups in the communities they are working with.
Des sols vivants pour une agriculture plus durable
This issue is in short a celebration of soil. The magazine highlights the wealth of life present in soil and discusses sustainable agricultural practices that help feed and maintain the richness of soil. Since the quality of a farmers produce is dependant on the fertility of the soil, knowledge about how to treat it is essential for a farmers success.
Vers un commerce plus juste
Fifty percent of the population in the developing countries depend on agriculture and agricultural commodities. As a result small farmers are subject to the laws of supply and demand in a globalising market. This issue of Agridape focuses on the experiences of an alternative trade where the distribution of profits is fair from producer to distributor.
Lutte anti-parasitaire intégrée
This edition of the magazine discusses the challenges of integrated pest control for farmers. The edition looks at the various systems used focusing primarily on the ecological approach to controlling pests.
Pour des semences paysannes
Seeds are the future of agriculture. They are the most essential input. Without good seeds there is little chance of a good harvest. This issue talks about the benefits of local seed supply systems as opposed to relying on commercially produced seeds. The magazine showcases examples of farmers around the world who are taking charge of ensuring the provision of their own seeds for the coming year. Traditional seed systems and innovations facilitate diversity that it both functional to farmers and ecologically sound.
Les paysans s'organisent
Farmer's organisations can take many forms: they can be formal and informal, highly structured or very flexible and have needs to finance their activities. This issue looks at how farmers organisations are structured around the concepts of ILEIA and they the manage to be more effective.
Documenter le changement
Farmers are trying daily to improve their practices and profitability of their operations outside of conventional systems.However, most of these developments in the field of ecological agriculature are not yet well known or widely distributed. In order to try to overcome this obstacle, this issue we highlight examples of processes and methodologies that have helped people to document and analyze their activities in the field.
Des pratiques aux politiques
This issue is titled Practice Policies. There are intiatives being implemented in order to develop sustainable agricultural systems, based on better management of the environment. However often there is a lack of clarity over policy between the farmers and those implementing the changes. This issue looks at the obstacles that can exist and methods that promote more involvement from farmers in policy making and the political sphere.
Petits mais utiles!
This issue of Agridape's title translates as Small but Useful. It discusses the benefits of small scale sustainable farming outfits in contrast with some of the more ultra modernised profit orientated practices that often affect food security, livlihoods and environmental balance negatively.
Les agriculteurs de la nouvelle génération
This issue is about the new generation of farming that the agricultures network is based upon. This edition explores a wide variety of the technical and social choices available to farmers who are eager to link an improvement in productivity and the inclusion of environmental aspects.
Valorisation de la diversité culturale
Valuing cultural diversity is the focus of this issue. It features articles on the diversity of plants and other species, their interactions and their relationships with their specific environments which maintain the balance of life on earth.
Restaurer les terres dégradées
La dégradation du sol est un terme vaste qui renvoie à la manière dontla qualité etla capacité productive des sols peuvent être endommagées temporairement ou définitivement. Elle comprend des processus de détérioration physique,chimique etbiologique comme la perte de matière organique, la diminution de la couverture végétale et de la biodiversité aussi bien qu’une baisse générale de la vie et de la fertilité du sol.
Accés et controle des ressources
L’eau est une ressource vitale et précieuse dont dependent nos écosystèmes et notre production agricole. Face à une émographie galopante et à une urbanisation croissante, le mode actuel de gestion de l’eau, combiné aux changements climatiques, ont poussé certains à prédire une crise mondiale de l’eau dans un avenir proche.
Chaque goutte compte
L’eau est une ressource vitale et précieuse dont dépendent nos écosystèmes et notre production agricole. Face à une démographie galopante et à une urbanisation croissante, le mode actuel de gestion de l’eau, combiné aux changements climatiques, ont poussé certains à prédire une crise mondiale de l’eau dans un avenir proche.
Les champs-écoles à l´oeuvre!
Pour ce premier numéro d’AGRIDAPE, l’édition Afrique francophone des magazines LEISA, l’accent est mis sur les champs-écoles (CE). Dans la pratique, les CE se sont, en effet, révélés un outil d’apprentissage particulièrement performant à l’attention des paysans.
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