Este guia foi financiado por recursos da Fundacao Bill & Melinda Gates.Os resultados e conclusões contidos neste documento são dos autores, e não necessariamente refletem posições ou politicas da Fundacao Bill & Melinda Gates. O Instituto de Recursos Naturais - Natural Resources Institute (NRI ) contribuiu com os documentos de referencia e uma versão inicial deste guia.

L’initiative de Neuchâtel (IN) a été fondée en 1995. Elle est un forum informel de discussions de bailleurs de fonds et d’institutions à vocation internationale engagés dans le développement rural pour travailler sur les services de conseil agricoles (cf www.neuchatelinitiative.net).

Dans la perspective d’étendre ses activités en Afrique, l’IN a décidé lors de sa réunion annuelle en novembre 2007 à Montpellier, d’élaborer une proposition de programme basé sur les besoins et les demandes des acteurs en Afrique. Un premier atelier qui s’est tenu à Bruxelles en mars 2008, réunissant des représentants de l’IN, du Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), de l’African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) et d’autres institutions (IFPRI, etc.) ont permis d’élaborer les premiers éléments pour un processus de consultation. Ce processus vise à élaborer une proposition de collaboration qui s’inscrit dans le cadre du NEPAD avec son « Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program” (CAADP) et du “Framework for Africa’s Agricultural Productivity” (FAAP).

The partners Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services, the four African Regional Farmer Organisations (RFO)1 and Neuchatel Initiative (NI) have undertaken a consultation with stakeholders in Africa in 2008 in order to explore opportunities for future collaboration to strengthen Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) in Africa. The present report is from the part of the consultation that took place in Malawi.

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The proceedings of the 2012 conference

A toolkit for practitioners

Using low-cost videos within your agricultural development project can be an effective way for increasing the scale of your activities by leveraging the expertise of local experts and farmers for a broader audience. Since the videos may be created in the field by your staff, the cost will be lower than professionally produced videos, and the turnaround time from concept to final product will likely be much faster. Given the cost and time benefits, you will also likely be able to create many more videos than you would be able to do otherwise.

For decades now, radio has been a dominant source of information for farmers in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Although the reach of radio varies from country to country, it is estimated that between 80 and 90 percent of households in Africa have access to a functional radio. The liberalization of regulatory environments in a number of countries has further increased the number of independent and community radio stations broadcasting over the airwaves.1 Given the fact that adult literacy rates in sub-Saharan Africa are just over 60 percent and that electricity in many rural communities is non-existent, battery-powered radios are often the most affordable and practical way for rural farmers to access information.

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How sustainable are mechanisms of management advice for family farms in west africa?