Small-scale farmers and productivity

Presented as part of the seminar: South at the Steering Wheel – Improving sustainability in land investment for bioenergy in sub-Saharan Africa

29^th May 2012, 08:00 – 17:30

Naturvårdsverket (Swedish EPA), Stockholm, Sweden

Speaker: Peter Roberntz, WWF

Peter Roberntz focused on small-scale farmers and land productivity in relation to bioenergy land investment. Issues of interest to be discussed are;

• African farmers as a resource, incl traditional knowledge
• The need of village land use maps & tenure
• Support, also financial, and capacity building of African farmers
• Empowering, e.g. establishment of farmers associations
• Identification and up scaling of successful models, e.g. integrated models such as Agro-Forestry, out-grower models etc. What works where?
• Support market access