World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) have created this toolkit to help everyone better understand the exposure of farmers to climate change and variability, what impact it might have on them and food production, and how they can adapt. This collection of participatory exercises, which they call ‘tools’, are designed for those who facilitate discussions with farmers:… [Read More]
Agriculture Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Agriculture for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Guide to Climate Change Adaptation in Cities
Cities—especially in developing countries—are on the front lines of climate change impacts. These impacts range from an increase in extreme weather events and flooding to increased air temperatures and public health concerns. Climate change affects both human well-being and the economy, posing threats to the livelihoods and assets of people living in cities. Most vulnerable… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: Hands-on Energy Adaptation
Hands-on Energy Adaptation Toolkit (HEAT) is an online resource that is designed to lead you through an assessment of climate vulnerabilities and adaptation options in your country’s energy sector and raise awareness among key stakeholders. HOW HEAT provides an interactive, step-by-step guide, as well as an analytical framework and support tools, to help policymakers consult… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems
Agriculture begins with seed. Without seed, there can be no crops and no food production. When harvests fail or seed stocks are lost, seed insecurity ensues, which can reduce food security and livelihoods. In most smallholder farming systems farmers save seed from the previous harvest to plant in the next season. They select seed from… [Read More]
A Free Publication on Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains
This publication has been produced to fill a key knowledge gap in the emerging field of value chains for nutrition by providing guidance on how to design nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects, with a particular focus on smallholder producers. This guide provides validated step-by-step guidance for NSVC project design, relevant not only for IFAD but… [Read More]
A free Local Regulation of Agriculture Toolkit
The New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture is pleased to present the Local Regulation of Agriculture Toolkit, developed with grant funds provided by Farm Credit East Northeast AgEnhancement. They have created the Toolkit for farmers and municipal decision makers to guide development of local farm friendly regulatory environments in which agricultural enterprises can operate successfully,… [Read More]
A free Toolkit for Transforming Food and Agriculture to Achieve the SDGs
Food and agriculture stand today at a crossroads. Looking back, major improvements in agricultural productivity have been recorded over recent decades to satisfy the food demand of a growing global population. But progress has often come with social and environmental costs, including water scarcity, soil degradation, ecosystem stress, biodiversity loss, decreasing fish stocks and forest… [Read More]
Save and Grow: A Free Policymaker’s Guide to the Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Crop Production
Save and Grow addresses the crop production dimension of sustainable food management. In essence, it calls for “greening” the Green Revolution through an ecosystem approach that draws on nature’s contributions to crop growth, such as soil organic matter, water flow regulation, pollination and bio-control of insect pests and diseases. This guide offers a rich toolkit… [Read More]
Free Gender and Inclusion Toolbox: Participatory Research in Climate Change and Agriculture
This toolbox was guided by the valuable feedback and recommendations of key practitioners, scientists and subject experts at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the CGIAR and many local development partners. They also benefited greatly from the many workshops, co-design events,… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Handbook: Water Demand Management
During the implementation of the WATER POrT component of the WATER SUM project, the beneficiary countries explicitly requested capacity building on water demand management. One of the project tasks was therefore dedicated to this topic and included training events, demonstration case studies, workshops, and the development of good practice case studies in order to share… [Read More]
A Free Training Guide: Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Development
This training guide was prepared by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to fill that gap by supporting work to investigate the gender dimensions of responding to climate change in the agriculture and food security sectors. The final goals are to improve food production, livelihood security and gender equality in the context… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Practitioners: Interactive Radio for Development Projects
This Interactive Radio Toolkit is adapted from and expands on Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners in December 2012 under USAID’s FACET project. Though many examples used here highlight agriculture, this adaptation is for development projects more broadly and draws on the wisdom and experience of colleagues in many fields who… [Read More]
A Free Food Security Communications Toolkit
This toolkit was prepared as part of the EC-FAO Programme on “Linking Information and Decision Making to Improve Food Security” which is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food security professionals increasing realize that they must use communications strategically for their work to have… [Read More]
Free Women in Agricultural Toolkit: Mobile Services Practitioners
The GSMA mWomen and mAgri programmes have produced the Mobile Agricultural Services Toolkit as a guide for mobile operators, other mobile providers, and development practitioners to better serve women in this segment. It includes recommendations and tools for each stage of the product development process, as well as examples of good practices. The products and… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Urban Agriculture
Small community gardens, urban farms that span several city blocks, and intensive indoor hydroponic or aquaculture facilities are all examples of urban agriculture. This fast-growing phenomenon has the potential to nourish the health and social fabric of communities and create economic opportunities for farmers and neighborhoods. But it also comes with a unique set of… [Read More]
A Free SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit
The SERVIR program adopted a Service Planning approach to ensure that its services help developing countries effectively solve challenges related to agriculture, water management, land use and disaster management. Building on experiences with the new approach, this Service Planning Toolkit is a resource for SERVIR Hubs as they, with their partners, strive to make an… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on “How to Program Digital Tools into Agriculture Programs”
Digital technology has enormous potential to improve food security in Feed the Future countries and around the world. The purpose of this toolkit is to demonstrate the importance of digital tools in agriculture. It will give a brief overview of the digital tools that are currently being used in the field by U.S. Agency for… [Read More]
A Free Publications on Improve Agricultural Crop Production Forecast Statistics in Sub-saharan African Countries
Agriculture is an important economic driver for sustainable development in Africa and employs between 60 and 80 percent of the country’s rural population. The sector also contributes to food security, foreign exchange earnings and provides raw materials for agro-based industries in the region. For instance, it accounts for about 30.2 percent of the gross domestic… [Read More]
A Free Publication on Pulse Crops for Sustainable Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this free publication from FAO, you can learn about Pulse Crops for Sustainable Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa is a problem affecting 153 million individuals (ca. 25%). This problem could be worsen by the ongoing soil degradation, being cause by the reduction of soil organic matter and insufficient nutrient supply…. [Read More]
A Free Gender and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Toolkit
This toolkit provides a set of resources for obtaining a landscape assessment of gender and ICT, providing implementing partners currently operating and planning on-the ground programming with practical, well researched tools they can use to obtain data on women’s access and usage of mobile phones and other connected devices. The Toolkit instructs users on how… [Read More]
