Pemba village is located 48 kilometers from Turiani in Mvomero district in Morogoro region. Its inhabitants are farmers and herdsmen (including migrants of the Masai tribe).
The effect of climate change has been a major obstacle to farmers and livestock keepers in ensuring they have access to food security for their livestock and their families.
Mr. Mdimu Kedeko Kikoyo is one of the few maasai who has engaged in agricultural activities. After he faced a food shortage for his livestock which is the main source of food for his family, he decided to engage himself in agricultural activities as an alternative to cover the gaps but still he did not have a good production.
In 2012 he received a leaflet from his friend explaining about Inades Formation Tanzania, services and training offered. He decided to make a trip to search for the office physically and join with the correspondence courses. He received approximately 18 booklets including maize production, cattle feed, beekeeping e.t.c. He decided to transform the knowledge learnt into practice from time to time to see if any changes will appear.
Mdimu Kedeko Kikoyo
Some of his successes
Through the knowledge he acquired from the maize booklet, he was able to increase maize production from 5/6 bags to 18/20 bags per acreage.
Together with his wife, they decided to set apart an acre in front of their house to use it as a demo plot for their fellow villagers to learn on the best farming practices they have read in the maize booklet.
Through knowledge gained, Mr Mdimu is now a good environmental keeper since he utilizes a small portion of land for cultivation activities to get enough production rather than cultivating a large area with a poor production.
Through his success, he has been able to persuade his community to join in training and participate in agricultural activities. He has also organized a total of 38 Maasai and form two serving and lending groups.
Mdimu looks to the future with serenity
“From this production increment, it will help me improve my residential house later after selling surplus of my produce. Help my community engage themselves in better farming practices since it requires a small area for farming and get many produces. In this way I believe that even pasture for our livestock will be easily obtained because the environment will be conserved “. “Inades Formation is my Hero”
The National Platform of Action for Family Farming in Côte d’Ivoire (PANAFCI) organized, from March 25 to May 10, 2019, two information and awareness raising tours for family farmers and CSOs on the scope and implications of major policies, laws and programs for the development of the agricultural sector and the implications.
A total of 459 farmers and civil society organizations
participated in information and awareness-raising workshops on the scope and
implications of major agricultural sector development policies, laws and
programs in Côte d’Ivoire.
These workshops, initiated by PANAFCI, aimed to
increase family farmers’ knowledge of the different various legal and
regulatory systems that govern their field of activity and thus contribute toa better participation on their part
in the formulation and implementation of these systems.
Indeed, the Ivorian agricultural sector is governed by
a set of legal and institutional mechanisms designed to ensure its development.
Thus in 2015, an Agricultural Orientation Law aimed at organizing the country’s
agricultural policy was adopted. However, these mechanisms are little or not
known to the main actors in the agricultural world made up of family farmers
who live in rural areas.
These men, women and families, farmers and family farmers, are the basis of nutrition in both villages and cities, even though they are ironically the most deprived of the economic system and seem to have no possibility of recourse.
This situation challenges PANAFCI, one of whose
objectives is to build the foundations and spaces for dialogue between public
authorities and family farmers on the one hand and between the latter and the
various development actors at the national and international levels on the
other.
Abengourou workshop
The tours took place on March 25, 27 and 29 for the
first phase, in the cities of Daloa/Haut-Sassandra region; Bouaké/Gbêkê region
and Abengourou/ Indénié-Djuablin region; and for the second phase on May 06, 08
and 10 in the cities of Bondoukou/Gontougo region, Yamoussoukro/District of Yamoussoukro
and Gagnoa/Gôh region.
In addition to members of the host regions’ platforms,
each workshop brought together representatives of producer and civil society organizations
from neighbouring regional platforms.
Thus, the Daloa workshop welcomed representatives from
the Cavally, Gôh, Marahoué and Lôh-Djiboua regions; the Gbêkê region welcomed
participants from the Poro regions, Tchologo, Aries/Yamoussoukro District and
the Indénié-Djuablin region included representatives from the Mé, Gontougo,
Moronou and Nzi regions.
The Bondoukou workshop welcomed the delegations of Mé,
Moronou, Indénié-Djuablin and Sud Comoé; the Yamoussoukro workshop welcomed the
delegations of Poro, Tchologo, Gbêkê and N’Zi; and finally, the Gagnoa workshop
brought together the delegations of Cavally, Sud-Comoé, Marahoué and
Loh-Djiboua.
Daloa Workshop
The workshops also recorded the participation of
administrative authorities and technical structures.
During the first phase of the tour, the main
facilitator, Mr. ASSOKO Maillet, Advocacy Officer at the GS of
Inades-Formation, spoke to the participants about the National Development Plan
(2016-2020 NDP), the second about the Agricultural Orientation Law of Côte
d’Ivoire and the third about the National Agricultural Investment Programme
(NIPA 2, 2017-2025).
The second phase focused on the revised National
Strategy for the Development of the Rice Sector in Côte d’Ivoire (SNDR)
2012-2020; the National Strategy for the Development of Non-Rice Food Crops
(SNDCV, 2014-2020); the Strategic Plan for the Development of Livestock,
Fisheries and Aquaculture in Côte d’Ivoire (PSDEPA, 2014-2020).
The workshops enabled participants to familiarize
themselves with and understand the contexts in which the various legal and
regulatory instruments governing agriculture were drafted, the objectives of
these instruments, the measures taken to implement them, the status of program
implementation and the obstacles to implementation.
After each presentation, participants discussed the
texts in relation to their reality and proposed measures to improve and better
implement agricultural laws, policies and programs.
PANAFCI member organizations are committed to
participating in agricultural development at the local, regional and national
levels.
There a was general agreement that the workshops were
very rewarding for all. Administrative authorities and representatives of
technical structures participating for the first time in a PANAFCI activity
welcomed the initiative to which they were pleased to have contributed.
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Inades-Formation
Togo in its commitment to promote food sovereignty took part from April 11 to
13, 2019 in the National Forum of Togolese Farmers (FNPT). This is a meeting of
business opportunities that allowed its agricultural partners (actors of the
food sovereignty project) to exhibit their products, enrich their address book
and forge new partnerships.
Well
packaged and labelled fonio, packaged fonio flour, common bean, fonio and bean
seeds, food brochures, Inades-Formation booklets on agriculture, livestock,
business management: these are some of the articles from this national forum on
the Inades-Formation Togo stand. For this 11th edition, the reflections
revolved around the theme: “agricultural processing poles to enhance
the potential in Togo: a new vision translated by the NDP”. This
is an opportunity for the actors of the food sovereignty project to highlight
the products of their harvest.
Clearly,
visitors were amazed and satisfied with the beauty of the product: “without
a doubt, the quality is there. It’s my first time seeing the fonio so nicely
wrapped up. It is already building my appetite,” said one of the
Aklesso visitors. Even the elected representative of the people, the Honorable
Abass KABOUA, came to the Inades-Formation Togo stand. He congratulated private
organizations for their contribution to development and their commitment to
promoting local products. He appreciated the packaging of the fonio ”Ovali”
and promised to promote it as much as possible.
Public
debates and conferences focused on various themes at this give and take
meeting. Panels from several sectors were run, including one on the fonio
sector, to which the Inades-Formation Togo delegation composed of seed
companies, producers and processors strongly contributed for the improvement of
this sector.
Panel on the fonio sector
This
forum allowed Inades-Formation Togo to capitalize on some achievements: a Whatsapp
platform was created. It brings together national stakeholders in the sector.
The delegation entered into negotiations with other operators with a view to
developing a possible business relationship. The agricultural partners also
discussed with delegates from the MIFA (agricultural financing incentive
mechanism) on the modalities of collaboration.
The Forum
aims to strengthen the development dynamics of agricultural processing poles
through the organization, structuring and financing of agricultural value
chains in order to effectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives
of the National Development Program (NDP). More than six hundred (600) actors
from the agricultural world from Togo and elsewhere took part in this meeting.
The
meeting was opened by the Minister of Agriculture, Noël Koutéra BATAKA. In his
speech, he recalled the government’s actions aimed at making Togolese agriculture
competitive, resilient and income-generating, as outlined in the National
Development Plan (2018-2022 NDP). He also congratulated and encouraged
non-governmental organizations and private structures for supporting grassroots
communities for a developed, prosperous and influential rural world.
The Honorable Abass KABOUA inviting visitors to local consumption
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