- Dear Colleagues and Friends, I have accepted a new position as Director General at the international research institute in Mexico, CIMMYT, starting June 1st 2015, and, as a result, will resign as rector magnificus and vice-chairman of the Executive Board of Wageningen UR. I will,…
- For millennia communities of farmers, herders, fishers, and forest people have developed complex, diverse, and locally-adapted agricultural systems. These systems have been managed with time-tested, ingenious techniques and practices that have led to community food security, the conservation…
- 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…
- The 2014 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation was presented to Dr. Bram Govaerts during the awards ceremony of the World Food Prize (WFP) Borlaug Dialogue international symposium. The third annual US $10,000 award given by the World…
- 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…
- Source: Food Tank Farmers and farmers groups, researchers and scientists, and government leaders and policy-makers from across the continent are gathered to better understand family farming in North America and to agree upon common recommendations for the development and support of family…
- Source: World Agricultures Watch The WAW Secretariat seized the opportunity of the presence of some WAW stakeholders during the CFS-40 to present and collect views on what was recently achieved by WAW and its Partners. In 2011 and 2012, different public…
- GFAR Executive Secretary Mark Holderness represented GFAR at the second Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists of the G20 Nations, held in Moscow 24-25 July 2013. Organized by the Russian G20 Presidency, the MACS brought together Chief Scientists and high level research officials from across…
- The Second Meeting of Chief Agricultural Scientists (MACS) within Russia's G20 Presidency was held in Moscow on 24-25 July, 2013. Among the MACS participants were high-level agricultural research officials from the G20 member countries, representatives of international agricultural…