- By Helen Briggs BBC Environment correspondent Organic farms act as a refuge for wild plants, offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms, a study suggests. Fields around organic farms have more types of wild plants, providing benefits for…
- 4ème journée d'étude régionale préparatoire au Congrès de Milan, Rabat (Maroc), 20 et 21 Avril 2015. Par Rabii MRAIDI, YPARD membre La Fondation du Dialogue Sud-nord Méditerranée (Louvain-la-Neuve), l’Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire (IAV) Hassan II (Rabat), le GFAR (…
- Agriculture is a sector that is highly vulnerable to climate change. We need to think in terms of how this impacts livelihoods and what this means to our global food systems. Evidence suggests that in the next 40 years meeting our demands for food will change drastically so the time…
- The OECD will convene the 2015 edition of its Global Forum on Development in Paris on 1 April 2015 with the theme “Post-2015 Financing for Sustainable Development”. In mid-2015 all eyes will be focused on the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), taking place in…
- The vision for this high-level event is to share cutting-edge knowledge and evidence on closing the gender gap in farming under climate change, and to convene thinkers and doers in a forum to inspire renewed action. Specific objectives include: Share key research results related to gender,…
- The Chaire Développement durable de Sciences Po, the Chaire Développement durable de l'École Polytechnique, the Alliance Program, and Columbia Global Center Paris are pleased to invite you to the second conference of the cycle of lectures on “Economists facing climate change”: "Addressing the…
- Last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, the FARA@15 Celebration provided the opportunity to announce the first step of a consultation on the new CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework (SRF), as well as the forthcoming launch of the GCARD 3 process. “GCARD3 will be a two-year…
- FSD is an informal interdisciplinary scientific community of practice to promote research and capacity building on farming systems design. The core is science: “The research focus of the FSD community is the farm system level, the interactions and feedbacks at lower and higher levels of…
- The 3rd Global Science Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture will be held in Montpellier on March 16−18, 2015 The Montpellier global science conference on CSA: Will address key research issues, gather CSA facts and figures from developing and developed countries and…
- Written by: Gina Castillo, Agriculture Program Manager at Oxfam America UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Secretary General, Jose Graziano da Silva, reminded the audience during his closing remarks at the FAO’s Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition last week…