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  1. The call for proposals for grants from the Agriculture Fast Track Fund (AFT) is open from now until 31 December 2013.   The Agriculture Fast Track Fund, a new multi-donor trust fund, managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), designed to…
  2. The European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) has appointed new leaders: Martin Kropff as Chair, Alessandra Giuliani as Vice-Chair and Judith Francis as Executive Secretary. Reflecting these changes and new directions for EFARD, a meeting of EFARD stakeholders was organized…
  3. African countries have been called upon to strengthen partnerships that would provide the needed resources and technologies to support farmers on the Continent to boost food production. Mrs Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union…
  4. The emerging interest in Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) needs to be supported by science-based evidence of how NUS contribute to food security, income generation, better nutrition and climate change resilience. To this end, Bioversity International and the Council for Scientific and…
  5. Source: ICT Update by Josh Woodard & Dominic Otieno Omolo    ICTs can help researchers to interact with farmers. The challenge lies in finding a way of integrating traditional and new communication technologies such as mobile phone, radio and video services to send agricultural…
  6. Through the AFSI sub-group on Managing for Development Results (MfDR), a sub-set of AFSI participants is investigating the impact of funds spent in four partner countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Rwanda, and Senegal. Led by Germany and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this group…
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