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Oomisha saliixa uumama Itiyoophiyyaatti – Faalama keemikaala midhaaniifi hir'ina oomishaa (in Afaan Oromo)

This video was created as part of a project to support the organic sesame value chain in Ethiopia, in collaboration with GIZ and Tradin Organic. It provides information on how to avoid accidental contamination of local products by external contaminants.

Read the open access article in Global Environmental Change here:

Read the open access article in Global Environmental Change here:

Yams are tuber crops essential for food security in West Africa. However, tuber productivity of traditional cropping systems is much lower than the yield potential. This is due to the high level of soil fertility required by these plants and its rapid decrease when the plot is cropped with yams.

In West Africa, many smallholder poultry and fish farmers do not have access to feed protein sources, resulting in quantitative and qualitative feed shortages that affects the production of meat, eggs and fish.

The application of organic resources in agricultural land enhances soil fertility and quality, with positive social, economic and environmental impacts. However, the respective techniques have failed to be implemented in farmers’ cropping systems on a large scale.

In Africa, the demand for organic products has been growing steadily over the years. Many grass-roots initiatives in Africa have started to sell organic products in neighbourhood shops, street markets or in organic shops in a town.

Le striga est une petite plante parasite qui affecte les céréales et spécialement le sorgo, une culture très importante dans l’Afrique occidentale.

Un groupe de producteurs-chercheurs au Mali teste la différence entre le compost traditionnel, composé d'ordures ménagères et de résidus pas bien décomposés, et le compost amélioré, composé d’un mélange de résidus végétaux, ordures ménagères, et déchets animaux.

The project Organic Resource Management for Soil Fertility (ORM4Soil) is developing farmer driven research to build soil fertility and improve food security in Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Kenya. In this Video, local farmers talk about soil fertility of their land.

This video shows the recent progress of the activities of the ORM4Soil Ghana Team in the field. Farmers from around the study area of Kade were invited to inspect the results of the trials which they had contributed to design in the beginning of the study.