Sustainable modernization of agriculture and rural transformation in Africa

August Eleventh Workshop on Rural Development in Sub Saharan Africa

Road density is six times greater in Asia than it is in rural Africa.

Emphasis is placed on the use of rural radio, one of the most widespread communication tools in Africa that is especially effective for teaching remote rural audiences.

In this scope, specific policy related rural poor household level research is now being conducted in Africa and Latin America, which aims at developing more appropriate rural poverty eradication strategies.

Third, Africa is economically isolated, owing to very poor infrastructure, large over land distances, and many landlocked countries. These geographical barriers keep much of Africa, especially rural Africa, out of the mainstream of international trade.

The participants from west Africa will develop capacities to reflect more critically on land degradation and rural livelihood issues.

This is especially true of the least developed countries and the rural areas of countries in sub Saharan Africa.

Economic policy and institutional changes for use of environment friendly technologies for sustainable agriculture and rural development in Africa

The Green Revolution of the mid 1960s, which brought increases in food production and rural incomes and the sustainable modernization of agriculture and rural transformation elsewhere in the world, largely missed Africa.

Recognizing that the majority of the extreme poor lived in rural areas, especially in Africa and Asia, the Millennium Project had proposed rural development as one of the seven key development clusters.

Millions of women continued to die during childbirth, particularly in rural Africa, where there was little access to medical assistance.

35 Advancing rural women's empowerment information and communication technologies in the service of good governance, democratic practice and development for rural women in Africa , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004.

A World Bank study found that women in rural Africa spend 65 per cent of their time on journeys on foot.

In this context, INSTRAW has elaborated a project proposal to examine Women s Poverty in Rural Africa in its 1998 1999 biennium.

When conditions are right, we know and see that that innovation is ready to explode in rural Africa, just like anywhere else.

According to findings of the International Telecommunication Union, limited infrastructure, affordability and education are the main barriers for rural women in Africa.

For example, the UNICEF Regional Office for West Africa has helped in the development of a training kit for rural radio producers.

The real question is, how can markets be developed in rural Africa to harness the power of innovation and entrepreneurship that we know exists?

In Africa, UNICEF will coordinate its efforts closely with the African Development Bank in support of the Bank's Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative.

Africa is the only continent where rural poverty has been increasing and per capita food production has been declining over the last two decades.

Through Dimitra, FAO collects detailed information on organizations and projects concerning rural women, food security and sustainable development in Africa and the Near East.

The prevalence of violence against women in South Africa varies from region to region, between urban and rural and between black and white communities.

The UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa will organize a pilot multidisciplinary course in Ghana, Land degradation and management in a rural livelihoods context .

Through the Dimitra project, FAO collects detailed information on organizations and projects concerning rural women, food security and sustainable development in Africa and the Near East.

Through the Dimitra project, FAO collects detailed information on organizations and projects concerning rural women, food security and sustainable development in Africa and the Near East.

Through the Dimitra project, FAO collects detailed information on organizations and projects concerning rural women, food security and sustainable development in Africa and the Near East.

Through the Dimitra project, FAO collects detailed information on organizations and projects concerning rural women, food security and sustainable development in Africa and the Near East.

Similar successful examples are known in Latin America (e.g., Banco Solidario in Bolivia), less so in Africa (the Kenya Rural Enterprise Programme is a good example).

In the field of solar power, solar panels were used in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa to provide electrical power to homes in rural areas.

In recognition of the fact that the majority of the extreme poor live in rural areas in many regions, especially in Africa and Asia, the Millennium Project proposed as one of seven clusters of national strategies for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals the promotion of vibrant rural communities by increasing food productivity, raising rural incomes and expanding rural access to essential public services and infrastructure.3

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A Schools for Africa initiative, managed by UNICEF and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, aims to boost enrolment through school construction in rural areas in six African countries.

It highlights IWMI work with poor rural communities in Africa and Asia to improve livelihoods and food production and Development Cooperation efforts to bring drinking water and better health and sanitation to poor communities in Africa and South East Asia.

See Economic and Social Survey of Africa, 1994 1995, paras. 616 621, and A. R. Khan, Reversing the Decline of Output and Productive Employment in Rural Sub Saharan Africa (Geneva, ILO, 1997, Issues in Development Discussion Paper 17), pp. 14 15.

Discussions have taken place regarding the inclusion of a drug component in the training of agricultural extension workers in eastern Africa and in rural education in Central America.

A new office was established in 1997 in Abidjan, initially devoted to servicing rural development projects financed or co financed under IFAD loans in western and central Africa.

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