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A New Recipe for Trust - Next Generation Sequencing in the Food Industry
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have a range of applications, including the…
CGIAR Announces Elwyn Grainger-Jones as New Executive Director
[Re-posted from the CGIAR website: http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/cgiar-announces-elwyn-…
APPG call for evidence: The impact of rural infrastructure on smallholder…
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture & Food for Development is currently inviting…
Brazil’s Dietary Guidelines: Eat Real Food, Together
In Brazil, one in two adults and one in three children are overweight or obese. With these numbers…
Protracted conflicts causing alarming spikes in severe hunger
Joint FAO-WFP news release Protracted conflicts affecting 17 countries have driven millions of…
4 Per 1000 calls for applications for Scientific and Technical Committee
The “4 per 1000: soils for food security and the climate” Initiative (hereinafter the “Initiative…
TAP and CABI release Common Framework on Capacity Development
Capacity Development is a high priority among the Partners in GFAR. The Tropical Agriculture…
Call for papers: Open Data Research Symposium for Agriculture and Nutrition at…
The GODAN Summit (15-16 September 2016, New York) is the first global conference organized by GODAN…
Partner Spotlight: The Issues of Onions
Access Agriculture is an international NGO which showcases agricultural training videos in local…
Partner Spotlight: Reaching farmers through the medium of video
Each week, the GFAR Secretariat will turn the spotlight on a Partner in GFAR to share their work…
UN seeks to boost response to El Niño's dire impact in Africa and Asia/…
6 July 2016, Rome - Combined efforts to prevent further human suffering, strengthen resilience and…
IFAD shares stories of empowerment in Annual Report
IFAD has released its 2015 Annual Report which contains facts, figures and stories that highlight…
CCAFS looks back on an important year
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has just released…
2016 World Food Prize Laureates honored for work fighting "hidden hunger…
During a ceremony at the U.S. State Department last week, the 2016 World Food Prize Laureates were…
YPARD Kenya Mentorship programme to graduate 15 mentees
In June 2015, YPARD launched a 12-month pilot mentoring program in Kenya. 15 YPARD Kenya members –…
TAP holds 2-day symposium on capacities for nutrition security
As a follow up to the e-conference on "Innovation systems for food security and nutrition:…
IFPRI alerts of global malnutrition epidemic in new report
IFPRI has released its 2016 Global Nutrition Report, which offers the startling findings that…
GACSA Annual Forum 2016 promises to be a dynamic gathering on climate-smart…
The Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture will be holding its Annual Forum from 14 to 16…
Johns Hopkins Report Analyzes the Benefits and Limitations of Urban Agriculture
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health …
A Paradigm Shift From Industrial to Agroecological
A new report by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) examines…