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New Research: How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections Dr. Trần Anh Thông's recent study explores the evolution of agricultural extension systems in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam as they face challenges from climate change, market forces, and rural development pressures. Key findings: 1. Agrarian transitions are creating new demands from farmers that go beyond technical farming advice 2. Extension services face challenges in resources and capacity to meet evolving needs 3. Innovative models like pluralistic extension platforms are emerging to foster stakeholder co-learning 4. "Champions" play a key role in developing new extension approaches Explore the full paper: https://wix.to/levKf7M #HAPRI #HAPRIPublication #AgrarianTransitions #AgriculturalExtension #ClimateChange #MainlandSoutheastAsia

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🌳 👨🌾 #Agroforestry in Germany is moving forward, but is it enough? An insightful #poster shared by our German partners from the The University of Bonn during the #EURAF2024 conference reveals the details. 💚 2023 marked a milestone for agroforestry in Germany with the introduction of a legal definition and the launch of new funding opportunities, including a national subsidy of 200 €/ha for wooded areas through Eco Scheme 3. Yet, despite these advances, significant challenges remain. 😟 10 of 16 federal states offer investment support or subsidised consultancy, but the impact on profitability remains negligible. 😟Ambitious targets (65,000 ha by 2027) are at risk. 😟Inadequate funding, excessive bureaucracy, and restrictive definitions are among the major barriers that farmers face. 📊 Probabilistic modeling using a Decision Analysis approach confirms that current funding schemes do not significantly improve the Net Present Value of AF systems. 🚀 The Deutscher Fachverband für Agroforstwirtschaft (DeFAF) e.V.) has proposed alternative funding strategies to better support AF adoption. For Germany to meet its agroforestry targets, #policymakers must address the institutional barriers and assess the possible solutions. 👉 Check the full poster on the 'Agroforestry Adoption in Germany' by Simon Swatek, Dr. Prajna Kasargodu Anebagilu, Marcos Jiménez Martínez, and Eike Luedeling: https://lnkd.in/d5bDSYk8 #Agroforestry #SustainableAgriculture #Germany #Policy #EcoScheme #HorizonEurope

Cultivating change through collaboration! IFDC is happy to announce the Soil Values program, funded by the Netherlands Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS), aiming to improve the soil fertility and productive capacity of 2 million hectares of farmland in the Sahel region for a brighter agricultural future in the Sahel region. Soil Values will operate through three strategic pathways: 1. Agro-ecological pathway: Targeting practices for smallholder farmers within landscape elements. 2. Inclusive market development pathway: Engaging the private sector to provide market incentives for soil fertility management. 3. Enabling environment pathway: Aligning public sector institutions, policies, and governance structures to stimulate sustainable soil fertility management. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eb43-CrN #SoilValues #AgricultureDevelopment #FarmingSystems #Productivity #AgriculturalProductivity #SmallholderFarmers #Farmers #Sahel #Program #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria SNV Wageningen University & Research International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) AGRA World Agroforestry ISRIC - World Soil Information International Water Management Institute (IWMI) The World Bank

📢New book on the state of #agroecology in #Europe! MAPPING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGROECOLOGY IN EUROPE COUNTRY REPORTS SERIES VOLUME 2 🌿The publication of the Second Volume of Mapping the Development of Agroecology in Europe comes at a critical time when agriculture is high on the #EU #policy agenda and agroecology provides a rational, credible way forward. At the beginning of 2024, the European partnership of Agroecology #LivingLabs and #Research Infrastructures was launched to support the implementation of agroecology at the European scale for enhanced #sustainable #agriculture and #foodsystems development. 🌍Mapping the Development of Agroecology in Europe aims to provide an overview of the reality of agroecology in different European countries. This second volume covers eleven new countries: Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Moldova, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. This adds to the thirteen countries already mapped in Volume 1 of the country report series. Read on: https://lnkd.in/gZwmJZBY

🌿✨ We were thrilled to participate in the AGROMIX Agroforestry Policy Summit in Brussels! 🌍🌳 On April 17, 2024 Agroecology Europe together with #AGROMIX, a sister project of MIXED, held a policy summit on agroforestry in Brussels. #H2020MIXED was represented by Tommy Daalgard (Aarhus University) and Holger Pabst (Institut für Ländliche Strukturforschung (IfLS)). 👀The IfLS used this opportunity to contribute results of its policy work in MIXED and to compare and harmonise the results with other agroforestry projects. The objective is and remains to remove existing barriers and close gaps. Still, there is considerable room for improvement in the political-regulatory framework conditions for agroforestry, from investments and area measures to training and economic efficiency. 👉Explore how MIXED project contributes to advancing agroforestry and sustainable farming practices. Learn more about our insights from the summit here: https://lnkd.in/daJwByzV

Since its conception phase, the Soil Values program, funded by the Netherlands DGIS, has sought to be inclusive. As a result, the program organized exchange workshops with national development actors supporting the agricultural sector in the countries concerned to adapt interventions to the specific realities of each target country. These national workshops produced four proposals, one for each of the four countries of intervention, which form the foundations of the Soil Values program. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3w3I5BD #SoilValues #AgricultureDevelopment #FarmingSystems #Productivity #AgriculturalProductivity #SmallholderFarmers #Farmers #Sahel #Program #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) AGRA World Agroforestry ISRIC - World Soil Information International Water Management Institute (IWMI) The World Bank SNV Wageningen University & Research

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In 2022, Vietnam's Mekong Delta (VMD) produced over 55% of the country's rice and more than 70% of farmed aquaculture products, making agriculture the backbone of its economy. The application of innovative agricultural techniques has significantly boosted farm productivity and local farmers' incomes. Since 2008, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education has partnered with Vietnam's Directorate General for International Cooperation on water and development through the IHE Delft Water and Development Partnership Programme. Within the #DUPC3 project “Trans-Path-Plan: Water Transformation Pathways Planning,” the research team in the #Vietnam node is exploring innovative techniques and transformation pathways in agriculture in the Mekong Delta using theoretical and empirical approaches. Understand why some innovations thrive while others falter, and how these processes contribute to sustainable development goals in the delta. Here is our latest blog from The Vietnam Node ➡️🔗https://bit.ly/3Vkqga9 #VietnamNode #Transpathplanning #sustainablefarming #waterways #innovativeagriculture #sustainableagriculture #MekongDelta #Delta #SDGs #agriculture #transpath #farmers #blog

Do you want to know how to combine literature recommendations and expert opinions to improve the prioritization of various climate-smart agricultural practices? Do you struggle with aligning expert opinions and meta-data? Our newly published paper presents an approach to combining these elements, using Ethiopia as a case study. Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) #Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems (SI-MFS) Lulseged Tamene Zenebe Adimassu (PhD) Degefie Tibebe Degefie, PhD Read the full paper here