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April 1, 2022 By ictokan Kano, Workshop Papers Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Elder Abuse, Female Infanticide, Forced Labor, Gender-Based Violence, Harmful Traditional Practices, Neglect Domestic Violence, Rape, Sex trafficking, Sexual Coercion

Towards Understanding Gender Based Violence

Types of gender-based violence include female infanticide; child sexual abuse; sex trafficking and forced labor; sexual coercion and abuse; neglect; domestic violence; elder abuse; and harmful traditional practices such as early and forced marriage, “honor” killings, and female genital mutilation/cutting. All forms of GBV are costly and negatively impact economic growth and poverty reduction efforts (WHO 2004). VAW and IPV have been the subject of extensive efforts to measure costs to individuals, households, and nations. Such studies have shown that the costs of IPV place an enormous burden on individuals and families, with ripple effects throughout society.

April 1, 2022 By ictokan Kano, Workshop Papers Agricultural Commodities, Behaviour change, Export, Import, Infrastructure, Market Information System, Marketing System, Policy, Small-scale

Exploiting Export Potentials for Sustainable Increase in Volume and Quality of Processed Output of Tomato, Rice and Wheat in Kano State

Behavioural change takes more than Good Agricultural Practices sessions. Limited rural infrastructure restricts farmers in processing and adding value to their products. When farming communities thrives, economies grow with enhance volume, quality and value. Depending on rain patterns are becoming more uncertain, under utilization of Irrigational facilities as well as lack of access to technology by rural farmer limits production. Most Small-Scale farmers have very little access to credit that could enable them to buy machinery, build irrigation systems. The present marketing system of Agricultural Commodities in Nigeria is highly disorganized and uncoordinated due to lack of coherence government policy.…

April 1, 2022 By ictokan Kano, Workshop Papers Complaints, Environmental, Grievances, Impacts, Outcome, Redress, Resolution, Sensitization, Social

Sensitization Meeting on GRM and GBV for Rice, Wheat and Tomato farmers in Kano State.

Effectively addressing grievances from people impacted by World Bank projects is a core component of managing operational risk. Grievance redress mechanisms (GRMs) can be an effective tool for early identification, assessment, and resolution of complaints on projects. Understanding when and how a GRM may improve project outcomes and this can help both project teams and beneficiaries improve results. Project-level GRM is a problem-solving mechanism of World Bank supported projects established and managed by Borrower Project staff that facilitates the resolution of grievance raised by people directly affected by environmental and social impacts under World Bank financed projects. It provides a…

April 1, 2022 By ictokan Kano, Workshop Papers Biodegrading, Biomass, Burning, Climate Change, Composting, Eliminate, Minimize, Moisture, Pollution, Recover, Recycle, Reuse

Exploring the Opportunities of Converting Agricultural Waste to Wealth in Rice, Tomato and Wheat

Agricultural waste is a type of waste, typically originating from plant or animal sources, which may also be degraded by other living organisms. Composting is biodegrading agricultural waste to supply plant with essential nutrients for normal growth and development. Recycling is converting agricultural waste into another useful agricultural and industrial produce. Farmers burn agricultural waste to reduce labor cost of evacuating it from farm, control pest, reduce soil temperature and loss of moisture and Improve soil fertility.

March 29, 2022 By ictokan Improved Technologies, Kano Climate-Smart, Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Nutrition-Sensitive, Urea Deep Placement

Use of Urea Deep Placement Technology among Rice Farmers in Kano State.

Assessing the level farmers’ usage of Urea Deep Placement (UDP) is important to improve the efficiency of soil nutrient. Extension organizations such as KNARDA are responsible for disseminating the technology. The demonstration provides an insight into the practice of UDP among the Project’s registered farmers engaged in rice production as a means to improve the efficiency of soil nutrient, promote climate smart agricultural practice as well as improve productivity of the rice fields. Fertilizer deep placement is a technology practiced by placing granulated fertilizer directly in the root zone (IFDC, 2013). The ultimate aim of the technology is to improve…

March 29, 2022 By ictokan Improved Technologies, Kano Equipment, Productivity, Rice, Technology, Tomato

Technology Demonstration on farm operations, using motorized hand-held cutter and harvesting equipment for Rice, Tomato and Wheat.

The three 3-day technology demonstration was conducted to 600 farmers across all value chains of rice, tomato and wheat, out of which 300 farmers (male: 256, female: 44) were from rice production. The demonstration showed the use of rice/wheat cutting machine etc. A total of 150 farmers (male: 87, female: 63) were drawn from tomato production, they were shown the use of weeding machine.

March 29, 2022 By ictokan Improved Technologies, Kano, Tomato Food Security, Packaging, Post-Harvest Loss, Shelf Life

Technology Demonstration on Wet Tomato Processing

APPEALS Project Kano State Co-ordinating Office in collaboration with NSPRI Kano zonal office facilitated a Demonstration entitled Interactive/Practical Demonstration on Improved Processing and Packaging Technologies for Wet Tomato Products and shelf-life extension of Tomato Fruits. The demonstration intended to address the gaps and challenges that are being faced by stakeholders in tomato production and processing, including the need to build food security in tomato. The Demonstration gathered 120 participants working in tomato production and/or nutrition programme sector of Kano State Nigeria. The Demonstration was a great opportunity to bring participants from various groups together to learn improved techniques in production…

March 29, 2022 By ictokan Kano, Studies Internet, Print and electronic media, Productivity, Radio, Television, Value Chain

Survey on Media Preference among target beneficiaries of APPEALS Project, Kano State.

This study “Survey on Media Preference among Target Beneficiaries of Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project in Kano State” was conducted using the survey and Focus Group discussions to collect data from farmers, Heads of farming clusters and presenters of agricultural programmes on radio. Three hundred and seventy (370) questionnaires were administered to farmers in twelve local government areas of Kano state. Likewise, three sessions of FGD were conducted with Heads of farming clusters and presenters of agricultural programmes on broadcast media in Kano State. The study found that farmers are well informed on APPEALS activities through radio,…

March 29, 2022 By ictokan Kano, Studies Income, Infrastructure, Opportunities Assessment, processing, Strength, Value Chains

Needs Assessment on Identification of Infrastructure for Production Clusters across Rice, Wheat and Tomato Value Chains

The main objective of the needs assessment was to map out areas for development of infrastructure across production clusters in Kano. The specific objectives of the exercise are to; • Identify and map out areas across production clusters of the three value chains (Rice, Tomato and Wheat) for the development of infrastructures. • Identify key actors across the production clusters that have major stakes in development of infrastructures, • Identify key strength, opportunities and needs for the infrastructure development in the site areas, • Proper recommendations on way to develop other infrastructure and other relevant facilities within the selected site,…

March 29, 2022 By ictokan Kano, Studies Agro-processing, Bagwai, Bunkure, Cluster, Garko, Kura, Service Provision, Small-scale, value addition

Identification of Agro Processing Clusters for Rice, Wheat and Tomato for APPEALS project in Kano State, Nigeria

The Kano State Agro-processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project (APPEALS) survey on the Identification of Rice, Wheat and Tomato processing clusters was conducted between 15th July and 2nd August, 2019. The main objective of this study was to identify and assess the small scale cottage processing industries and to map out areas, activities and benefits accrued to the processing units and clusters in Kano State and develop and present a detailed and clear picture on what small agro-processing systems require to effectively manufacture and market processed products based on the strength of each unit and cluster; and to…

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