L’atelier qui est intitulé : ‘’Fabrication des machines et équipements agricoles dans les pays de l’Afrique du Nord’’ permet aux experts de la sous-région d’échanger les expériences vécues dans le domaine de la conception, de la fabrication, de l’adaptation et de la vulgarisation des machines et équipements ainsi que dans le domaine de la maintenance.

This paper examines managing the nexus between poverty, declining agricultural productivity and natural resources requires an approach that integrates appropriate technologies, institutional innovation, and an enabling policy environment.

In this paper an attempt has been made to cover the question of soil fertility and fertilizers from description of the soils to experimental work and fertilizer sales to the farmers. The wideness of the subject makes it necessary to summarize rigidly, giving the main features of each section.

Les pays de l'Afrique du Sahel sont soumis, et particulièrement au cours des dernières décennies, aux à aléas climatiques et éprouvent de ce fait les plus grandes difficultés à assurer leur autosuffisance alimentaire. Les populations rurales confrontées à un milieu de plus en plus hostile délaissent les campagnes pour migrer et venir grossir les effectifs des populations urbaines non productives.

The President-Elect of the African Farming Systems Research and Extension Network sent a request to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa inviting Mr. G.I. Abalu, the Commission's Senior Regional Adviser in Food and Agricultural Policy and Planning to attend the Second International Symposium of the African Farming Systems Research and Extension Research Network.

Les pluies sont rares en Afrique et particulièrement au Sahel. Elles ne tombent que durant trois ou quatre mois de l’année souvent de façon tumultueuse. Leur irrégularité et leur distribution inégale dans l’espace ont été pour une grande partie à la base du déficit énorme et persistant de la production alimentaire et agricole dans la plupart des régions africaines.

This paper sets out the point of view of the ECA on the subject of transfer of technology and the issues in this field which form the main items of concern within the African region within this region, the scope of the subject of technology transfer is much wider than the present coverage of the formal concern and discussions which have been going on in the UN system as the result of the UNCTAD II Resolution on technology transfer.

L'étude sur l'harmonisation des politiques agricoles dans les Etats membres de l'Organisation du Bassin de la Rivière KAGERA répond donne a cette nécessité de fournir une information sur la situation de l'agriculture dans cette sous-région de l'OBK à toute la Communauté internationale (promoteurs/operateurs économiques, bailleurs de fonds bilatéraux et multilatéraux; institutions financières,...) pour lui permettre d'examiner le genre d'assistance et le volume d'intervention en faveur du développement du secteur agricole qui constitue une grande priorité des Etats de cette sous-région.

The major agricultural products of Tanganyika are subject to a degree of control under the various commodity boards established for that purpose. The degree of control varies from direct participation in marketing in the case of cotton lint and' seed, to the control of production and intermediary arrangements for marketing in the case of pyrethrum and purely advisory capacity in the case of sisal. The general trend of Government policy is towards more direct participation.

The establishment of a self-sustaining process of economic growth and development is the internal affair of Africa. The continent's on-going economic crisis is rooted in major problems of mass poverty food shortage, low productive base and backward technology. Production subsidies continue to be one of the most potentially useful tool for attaining the food self-sufficiency goal of Africa. The purpose of this report is to examine the role that agriculture production subsidies can play in the goal of attaining food self sufficiency in Africa.

The mission to Holetta, Ethiopia was undertaken from January 22 to 26 following; receipt by the Director of the Joint ECA/FAO Agriculture Division of a request from the Head of the Training and Manpower Development Service of the Institute of Agricultural Research of Ethiopia for advice and assistance in servicing a national workshop on agricultural research.

The scale and persistence of the food crisis in Africa during the last

20 years is of the gravest concern to African governments as well as to the international community. Food production is not able to keep pace with population growth and many countries in the continent have become increasingly dependent on imports of food stuffs originating from international aid.