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Tuyisenge Claudette Agricultural Engineering Rwanda Polytechnic-IPRC Mugisha Benoit Bachelor’s Degree of Agriculture with hons in Soil Sciences University of Rwanda, College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences (CAVM) Isingizwe jean de Dieu Diploma in Agriculture and Food Processing  IPRC MUSANZE Igihozo Aimee Honnette Bachelor Food Biotechnology Food system and sustainability in GLOXPAD Centre for Community Development […]

The dairy sector in Kenya is one of the pillars for smallholder farmers’ livelihoods through the generation of income, employment, and food to 2 million people across the dairy value chain although the sector is still vulnerable to climate change.

In Osun State, Nigeria, live birds from smallholder farmers dominate the market. Live birds are sold unprocessed at live weight prices to traders in the chain.

Rwanda has improved in many sectors including governance, poverty reduction and overall improvements of living conditions. However, the childhood stunting rates remain among the highest worldwide with 38%. Stunting has the tendency to be an invisible problem in Rwanda, yet it has devastating consequences on child growth and prosperity.

The study was carried out to identify potential value addition to tomato crop farm-leftovers and investigate their existing end-uses to suggest a collaboration model between tomato farmers in Nkotsi Sector and IPRC Musanze.

The growing need to feed and sustain the rising world’s population continues to remain a threat to climate. Agriculture accounts for over 24 percent of the Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) and yet less are the strides taken to curb the rising emissions. This paper seeks to explore the knowns and unknowns about low carbon agricultural development in the global south.

Cooperatives are fundamental organizations in smallholder agriculture in developing countries. With the rising and immeasurable effects of climate change effects in such economies, cooperatives urgently need to compete as more ecologically as compared to their current economic and social targets