Africa-Brazil

Productivity Enhancing Technologies

Development of land productivity enhancement and saving technologies.

For example: approaches to biological nitrogen fixation and utilization; improvement of livestock breeds and health; molecular and conventional approaches for genetic improvement and adaptation of crop plants, arable crops, fruit trees and forestry species; biodiversity management; molecular characterization and conservation of plant genetic resources; soil, water, and crop management; storage technologies; and food processing.

Development of technologies for adaptation and mitigation of climate change.

For example: forestry and agroforestry options for fighting desertification, poverty and hunger; livestock distribution, health, and productivity, plant breeding, crop management, water harvesting and management techniques, soil reclamation, and re-forestation.

Policy, Institutional and Market Strengthening and Knowledge Management

Strategies for knowledge management and improved access to knowledge and information by stakeholders in the commodity chain.

For example: policy analysis; market studies; ICT for development; communication strategies to farmers, policy makers, and private sector; gender sensitivity in communication; and trade in agricultural commodities.

Strategies and policies for institutional strengthening.

For example: capacity building; re-engineering institutions; engagement of private sector in agriculture; innovation systems; and engagement of government support in research.

Smallholder and Poverty-Alleviation Targeted Technologies

Development of technologies and strategies/systems to reduce poverty and hunger.

For example: improvement of cash flow for farmers, and improvement of information flow and of agricultural lending systems.

Mechanization appropriate for smallholders.

Natural Resource Management Improvement

Generation of natural resource and soil conservation technologies with reduced drudgery and low cost.

For example: regeneration of degraded lands, conservation agriculture including soil and water conservation, usage of legumes in cropping systems, crop rotation techniques, and development of organic farming.