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Training helps octopus fisher build a better life
Lima Casimir is a 52 year old and a "piqueuse ourite" - an octopus fisher - who lives on the island of Rodrigues 640 kilometres off the island of Mauritius.
Lima's day starts at 5.30 am when she takes her son's boat to go to her breath-taking 'office' - a vast lagoon that opens onto the Indian Ocean. Her office furniture includes a boat and the magnificent coral reefs. To catch the octopus, she uses an iron rod which she wears around her shoulder. The IFAD-funded Rural Diversification Programme trained Lima in how to catch octopus without damaging the coral reefs.
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Empowering
the rural poor
Listen to the voices of the Arhangai and
Huvsgul Rural Poverty Alleviation Project
beneficiares
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Using income from poultry to send children to school
Koteja’s success in generating income from poultry, has encouraged her to increase her livestock flock, which today also includes ducks, goats and a milking cow. Her increased income from poultry and other livestock has enabled her to support her children’s education.
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Japhet's nine goats
In 1996 Japhet from Kenya had just one local goat and was struggling to make a living. He heard about FARM-Africa’s Goat Project and took his goat to be serviced by a Toggenburg buck. His life changed - six years later what was once one goat is now nine! Japhet uses the rich goat manure on his farm, growing far more maize, beans and fodder than ever before. The goats also produce two litres of milk a day, leaving plenty to sell to his neighbours.
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Returning exiles reap a rich harvest
After 14 years of absence because of armed conflict, a community has returned to its homeland in the Peruvian Andes and is learning again how to cultivate the land. FAO's TeleFood campaign is helping them along with the local NGO.
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These were my livestock’s – Pamela’s story
During this drought the first of the problems was the lack of water; it finished the livestock. These days the rainy seasons are dodging the pastoralists; the droughts are not changing into rains.
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Dialogue for peace in Uganda
The pastoralist clans in the northeastern Ugandan region known as Karamoja have a history of conflict stemming from scarce natural resources and the high value of cattle.
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Duck raising: a Chinese village's success
In a small village in China, farmers learn duck-raising techniques and marketing. This successful initiative allowed participants to increase their income; the beneficiaries, in turn, are now spreading what they have learned to nearby villages.
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Livestock and livelihoods
Talk of hunger and most people think of the need to increase the supply of food grains, root crops and vegetables. But livestock, particularly small livestock like sheep, goats and poultry, and dairy animals are also vital for developing food security.
Interview with Simon Mack, Senior Animal Production Officer, FAO
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A practical approach for poultry
All over Africa and in much of Asia too, chicken is the commonest meat, and poultry are clearly an important part of the diet as well as providing a source of income. But the standard of poultry keeping and the income made from keeping poultry varies tremendously from one country to another.
Interview with Emmanuelle Guerne Bleich, Animal Production Officer, FAO
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