This document describes the Research Data Management training course organized by the World Agroforestry Centre. Data management is a key area in any research and if not done well can limit the usefulness of the data. The main aim of this training is to encourage research scientists to allocate necessary resources to data management. These resources include both time and skilled personnel. The course also aims to give participants the necessary skills to handle their data in a systematic and organized way and to preserve their data for future use. brImplementing the ideas introduced in the course should lead to: br 1. Improved processing efficiency.br 2. Improved data quality.br 3. Improved meaningfulness of the data.br
This publication provides planners, decision makers and engineers with guideline to sustain irrigated agriculture and at the same time to protect water resources from the negative impacts of agriculture drainage water disposal
CEFA has been working in Southern Somalia for many years, particularly in the agricultural sector, focussing on the re-introduction of rice cultivation in partnership with local communities and the EU Somalia Unit based in Nairobi. From 1996 to the present, rice cultivation has been re-estabhshed in Jowhar District, Middle Shabelle through the implementation of three project phases. The purpose of this review is to determine the extent to which the project has reached its objectives at the end of Phase III and to make recommendations for the new Phase IV.
(Extracts from executive summary)This paper is a synthesis of relevant projects in the area of flood early warning and control. It identities opportunities for carrying the work forward in Somalia. Recognising the operational constraints of managing flood on two major rivers in a national context of complex emergency, the paper presents recommendations to bring the monitoring and response of flood on the Juba and Shabelle rivers into line with andldquobest international practiseandrdquoin flood event.
An estimated 500 million small farmers men and women produce most of the developing worlds food, yet their families suffer more hunger than even the urban poor, have higher rates of poverty and enjoy less access to basic social services. Meeting international commitments halve hunger and poverty in the developing world by 2015 means reaching these farm households. However, traditional approaches have not worked. In order to provide the conditions that will permit poor farm households to improve their own lives, governments, non-governmental organizations and international agencies must understand more clearly the agroecological, physical, economic and cultural environment within which farmers and their families live their farming systems. Only in this way can realistic policies, investments and technical assistance programmes be developed and implemented, and the latent capacity of the farming population fully released. Through an examination of a wide variety of farming systems across the developing world, this book shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify key local, regional and international priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty. It examines the various strategies open to poor farm families seeking better lives, and shows how such strategies differ in relative importance from one farming system to another. Finally, the book discusses how an effective response to these priorities and strategies will require a rethinking of the roles of key stakeholders in the development process farmers themselves, their communities, civil society, governments and the international community.
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