South Africa - Agriculture History

In monetary terms, agriculture's share of the economy has long since been outstripped by those of the mining and secondary industries. In 1960, agriculture contributed 11.1 percent of the GDP, down from about 20 percent in the 1930s. By 1999, however, agriculture's share of the GDP had dropped to 5 percent. Despite the farming industry's declining share of the GDP, it remains vital to the economy, development, and stability of the Southern African region. The various sectors of the industry employ approximately 1 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce.

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Agriculture in south africa

The agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors are crucial to South Africa’s socio-economic development. However, the future of these sectors depends on critical issues such as cli mate change, population growth, skills shortages, changes in consumer needs and shifts in the global economy and related markets.

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South African agriculture

South Africa has a dual agricultural economy, with both well-developed commercial farming and more subsistence-based production in the deep rural areas.

Covering 1.2-million square kilometres of land, South Africa is one-eighth the size of the United States and has seven climatic regions, from Mediterranean to subtropical to semi-desert.

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agriculture development Katalyst Innovation Fund

Innovation is one of the driving forces in agriculture development. However, for commercially-driven businesses, innovation can be expensive and risky, which often prevents the emergence of important new ideas. That is why Katalyst has launched the Katalyst Innovation Fund (KIF), offering co-funding and technical support in order to nurture and encourage breakthrough innovations in Bangladesh’s agri-business sector:

KIF supports market actors from the private sector in developing innovative inclusive business models that deliver both commercial benefits and income-generating opportunities for small and poor farmers. We are looking for your inclusive business solutions that provide small farmers with better access to products, inputs, services, and know-how, applicable across one, several, or all sectors in which we work.

KIF is managed by the Katalyst Innovation Fund Management (IFM) team.

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Katalyst Innovation Fund (KIF) - empowering the next generation of agri-business in Bangladesh

The Agri-business for Trade Competitiveness Project, branded as Katalyst, is one of the largest market development initiatives in Bangladesh. Working together with various market actors, the project generates new income opportunities for small and poor farmers across the country

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Booker Washington Institute, Kakata, Liberia

BWI’s Renewable Energy Center in Kakata, Liberia is doing daily runs of three PP20’s to supply a large portion of their campus with power. Planning to begin a commercial mini grid project, BWI REC hopes to begin selling power at affordable rates to a even larger service area adjacent to the campus, and hopes to become self sustaining. Too remote to be included in the unreliable national power grid, BWI has had to use expensive diesel power in their attempt to reboot their institution after its devastation during the recent civil wars.

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Sure Green Island, Palawan, Phillipines

Green Island is a village island located about 14 kilometers off the coast of Roxas, Palawan.  It is a small flat island with an area of only about an eighth of a square kilometer with an estimated population of 375.  The main source of livelihood is fishing and seaweed farming.  Due to the island’s remote location, potable water is shipped form the mainland by boat, and electricity has been supplied by  25 kVa diesel generator which only serves some parts of the island intermittently, depending on the supply of costly diesel

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GEE Energy

Shenzhen Green and Clear World Environmental Engineering Inc (GEE)
Located in the Yantian District, International Creative Harbor, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, GEE are using their Power Pallet to develop sustainable waste management solutions. They focus on research and development on the processing of municipal solid waste (MSW) especially its conversion into useful power. MSW incineration as an a energy and waste management solution is growing very rapidly in Chinese at pace with their booming economy. Efforts by the Chinese government to meet GHG

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El Jardín Botánico, Bogotá, Colombia

Two PP20 biomass gasifier-gensets from ALL Power Labs were purchased by system Integrator, Tetra Tech, with the help of a USAID grant, and installed in the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden of Bogotá. Located in the capital, it is Colombia’s largest botanical garden and serves both as a recreation and research center. Our biomass gensets are part of a program to create a sophisticated demonstration site featuring multiple forms of renewable power generation integrated into a micro-grid, including solar arrays and energy storage.

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Biodico, Redrock Ranch, Five Points, Fresno County, California

Biodico is a sustainable bio-refinery operator located in Santa Barbara, California. Committed to sustainability and R&D they have partnered with Redrock ranch in the center of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Redrock sits among the state’s extensive almond and nut orchards on the most productive agricultural land in the USA. Implementing and studying a wide range of alternative energy solutions, and with the assistance of California Energy Commission grants, Biodico has partnered with Redrock Ranch and APL to install a PP20 Power Pallet with an early prototype version of our combined heat and power (CHP) option.

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Songhai Center, Benin, West Africa

 APL recently delivered the first of its PP20s to the Songhai Center in Benin. From the Songhai website: “The Centre Songhai is principally involved in agricultural training, research, and production for sustainable livelihood in Africa. Founded… in 1985, the Center has been managed by Africans since then. The Center’s aim is to create the conditions for improving the lives of Africans, the great majority of whom live in rural areas.”

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Community Development in Rural America: Collaborative, Regional, and Comprehensive

More than 59 million people live in rural America, and nearly 9 million, or 18 percent, are living in poverty. This compares with 12 percent poor in the suburbs and 20 percent in central cities. One-fourth of all rural children are growing up poor, and in some chronically poor areas, child poverty is nearly 50 percent. While this is an improvement from the 1960s, many parts of rural America still have lagging or seasonal economies where families piece together a livelihood, making wreaths in one season, picking blueberries in another, or fishing in another.

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RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Objectives

The general objective in this area is the sustained improvement of the quality of life of the low-income rural population while at the same time seeking to assure an effective and efficient contribution by the rural economy to the national development process. For that purpose, support will be given to the development of "campesino" economies and other low-income sectors in rural areas through various combinations of efforts geared to the specific circumstances of each local community.

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Agriculture and Rural Development

The development objective of the Agriculture and Rural Development Project is to assist the Recipient to promote competitiveness and growth in the livestock and horticulture sub-sectors over the next decade through implementation of selected measures of its agricultural strategy and institutional development. There are three components to the project

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Rural poverty in Africa

Africa is the world's second largest continent after Asia. It has a total surface area of 30.3 million km², including several islands, and an estimated total population of 888 million (2005, UN). The vast Sahara Desert, covering an area greater than that of the continental United States, divides Northern Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Poverty in Africa is predominantly rural. More than 70 per cent of the continent’s poor people live in rural

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Paving his way out of poverty

From 16 to 20 November IFAD brought together government partners, UN agency and private sector representatives, national and international NGOs and civil society to mark 30 years of partnership between the Salvadoran Government and the Fund.

The event, IFAD Week in El

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Rural Development in bangladesh

1. Rural Development
2. Description  Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas.  Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of land-intensive natural resources such as agriculture and forestry.  However,

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Regional development

Regional development is the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed. Regional development may be domestic or international in nature. The implications and scope of regional development may therefore vary in accordance with the definition of a region, and how the region and its boundaries are perceived

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International Fund for Agricultural Development

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (French: Fonds international de développement agricole; FIDA) (Italian: Fondo Internazionale per lo Sviluppo Agricolo) is a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries. It was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as

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INVEST IN FARMERS

One out of every two people on this planet struggles to feed and educate their children. When powered by opportunity, they have a chance to work their way out of poverty and transform their lives. For 40 years, Opportunity

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Rural and Community Development

Nearly 60 million Americans live in rural areas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, through its Rural Development mission area, provides financial resources and support for rural communities, residents and businesses

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Developing World Electrification

In many parts of the developing world, electricity generation is often non-existent, or at best unreliable. In Nigeria, for example, a vast nation of 150 million people, has a generating capacity of 4,000

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