Statistical Brief on the Agricultural Research of Cape Verde

The primary purpose of this brief is to provide various statistical and institutional details on the development and current status of the public agricultural research system in Cape Verde. This information has been collected and presented in a systematic way in order to inform and thereby improve research policy formulation with regard to the Cape Verdean NARS. Most importantly, these data are assembled and reported in a way that makes them directly comparable with the data presented in the other country briefs in this series. And because institutions take time to develop and there are often considerable lags in the agricultural research process, it is necessary for many analytical and policy purposes to have access to longer-run series of data. NARSs vary markedly in their institutional structure and these institutional aspects can have a substantial and direct effect on their research performance. To provide a basis for analysis and cross-country, over-time comparisons, the various research agencies in a country have been grouped into five general categories; government, semi-public, private, academic, and supranational. A description of these categories is provided in table 1.

Statistical Brief on the Agricultural Research of Cape Verde

The primary purpose of this brief is to provide various statistical and institutional details on the development and current status of the public agricultural research system in Cape Verde. This information has been collected and presented in a systematic way in order to inform and thereby improve research policy formulation with regard to the Cape Verdean NARS. Most importantly, these data are assembled and reported in a way that makes them directly comparable with the data presented in the other country briefs in this series. And because institutions take time to develop and there are often considerable lags in the agricultural research process, it is necessary for many analytical and policy purposes to have access to longer-run series of data. NARSs vary markedly in their institutional structure and these institutional aspects can have a substantial and direct effect on their research performance. To provide a basis for analysis and cross-country, over-time comparisons, the various research agencies in a country have been grouped into five general categories; government, semi-public, private, academic, and supranational. A description of these categories is provided in table 1.

A Luta Contra a Desertificação em Cabo Verde

O problema da seca, dos processos de desertificação e da fome são particularmente acutilantes no arquipélago de Cabo Verde, onde a irregularidade das chuvas associada ao carácter insular e às características do relevo, muito acentuado nas ilhas com maior potencial agrícola, constituem desafios avassaladores, que no passado implicavam a morte por fome de percentagens significativas da população. Após as fomes da década de 1940, começaram a ser implementadas um conjunto de infra-estruturas de combate à desertificação, baseadas na conservação do solo e da água, que hoje são omnipresentes na paisagem da ilha de Santiago e das ilhas com maior vocação agrícola, e que em muito contribuem para que desde então os períodos de seca não tenham degenerado em crises alimentares sérias. Neste trabalho fazemos o inventário das diferentes técnicas usadas num esforço colectivo que ganhou um fôlego acrescido depois da independência, e que constitui um dos pilares da sociedade Cabo Verdiana no caminho para o desenvolvimento sustentável.