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After Haiyan - 'building back better' in the Philippines
Following initial life-saving support for displaced families after Typhoon Haiyan, the humanitarian charity World Vision is assessing longer-term strategies to restore farming livelihoods and improve disaster resilience in the Philippines.
Date published: January 2014
The world is your oyster - if you TRY!
From just 40 members in 2007, the TRY Women's Oyster Association in The Gambia has grown to over 500 and has become the first women's group in Africa to be given exclusive use rights of a coastal fishery, under a co-management plan.
Date published: December 2013
Ghana's climate friendly cocoa
A pilot project in western Ghana aims to produce the world's first climate friendly cocoa, through education of children, training for adults, tree planting and income diversification.
Date published: November 2013
Transparent trading with smartphone technology
The smartphone-based Virtual Cooperative software, developed with farmers in Ghana and Burkina Faso, is supporting transparent and efficient trade in cashew and shea nuts, to the advantage of both sellers and buyers.
Date published: October 2013
With mentoring support and a small grant, a young Sri Lankan woman has, within less than a year, transformed a failed coir business venture into an enterprise producing and exporting coir mattresses, coir pith and coconut husk chips.
Date published: September 2013
Unleashing Africa's agribusiness potential
In Uganda's coffee value chain, a consortium is tapping into the potential for agribusiness to address the complex issues of unemployment, extreme poverty and food and nutrition insecurity by providing agribusiness 'incubation' - a process which nurtures young men and women entrepreneurs.
Date published: July 2013
Online guide charts progress on food and nutrition security
The Farming First Coalition's online guide offers comprehensive analysis of 35 global and regional food and nutrition security initiatives, effectively filling an information gap as the only location where all such information is accessible in one place.
Date published: July 2013
Vietnam's cash cows - building on beef
Improved livestock management and forages have transformed cattle fattening in Vietnam's Central Highlands, earning villagers thousands of dollars and boosting the local economy.
Date published: May 2013
Combating aflatoxin - a value chain approach
To tackle aflatoxin contamination and secure more reliable access for smallholders in Malawi to value-added international markets, a UK-based ethical trading organisation has devised an approach that tackles critical control points - including drying, sorting and storage - to stop moulds developing, and has also established a groundnut processing plant.
Date published: May 2013
Making the most of sea cucumbers
To improve the incomes of remote Pacific island communities, fishers are being provided with support to enable them to process sea cucumbers to the high quality demanded for export, particularly to China.
Date published: April 2013
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