India

  1. Don't Forget Family Farmers in the Battle Against Climate Change at COP 20
    As nations gather in Lima in December for the 20th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP20), delegates need to consider the important role played by family farmers in mitigating, adapting, and even reversing climate change. By recognizing agriculture's…
  2. Moving in the right direction: join the debate on the CGIAR agenda
    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…
  3. Open Access to Agricultural Knowledge for Inclusive Growth
    What happens when almost 75 people passionately interested in open access to knowledge (including data and information) and improving agricultural informatics in India gather together? Lots of scope for knowledge exchange and opening up of opportunities were only two of the outcomes of the "Open…
  4. Transboundary cooperation key to biodiversity conservation
    Participants at the meeting of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity emphasize the need for sharing and collaboration across borders to achieve global biodiversity conservation targets. Conservation scientists, development practitioners and policy makers attending a side event…
  5. GFAR participates in the 4th Research Data Alliance (RDA) plenary meeting in Amsterdam
    The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international initiative started in 2013 by a core group of agencies interested in all data-related aspects of research (the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian…
  6. Farmers’ Rights Capacity-Building Workshop in Honduras
    The XII National Encounter of Smallholder Farmer Innovators of Honduras was held in the city of Siguatepeque from 3-5 September 2014.  One hundred twenty smallholder men and women farmers, as well as decision makers participated at this meeting.   The meeting was a space to…
  7. FAO sends message on the global need for agroecology
    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…
  8. Expatriates and Agricultural Development
    Shyla Anand, an intern with the GFAR Secretariat has completed a study on expatriates’ contributions to agricultural development in their home economies.   This study examined the ways in which expatriates have impacts on agricultural development, focusing on the financial, knowledge…
  9. Video - Funding Female Farmers for a Less Hungry World
    GFAR and Food Tank have produced this new video highlighting how meeting the needs of women farmers equals a better world. Women are the backbone of the world’s food systems. Across the planet, women and girl farmers play a key role in producing, processing, marketing and retailing food…
  10. Postgraduate Fellowship in Agricultural Sciences
    The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India and TWAS have established a number of fellowships for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue research toward a PhD in emerging areas of science and technology for which facilities are available in the…
Subscribe to India