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If agriculture is an aging profession, we need to make some changes!
Ask a young person what they wish for their future, and very few will mention agriculture. Whether…
GCARD2: Young professionals “Make Agriculture Cool Again”
The story of a dream, a nightmare and a wish… Video: Social media can be more than &#…
Agriculture and forestry: mainstreaming research findings that work for…
Partnerships are fundamental to conducting research. Douglas Sheil/CIFOR PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay (…
Delivering the Change Together
Delivering the Change Together - Reflections on GCARD2 - Mark Holderness, GFAR…
I am writing to thank you all very much for the very dynamic and rich discussions in Punta del…
Brazil: Innovation and smallholder partnership provides nutritious foods to…
Experts who gathered at the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (…
South-South exchange: Adapting ahipa in Africa
Researchers from the International Potato Center (CIP) are working in Benin for a project designed…
Bionic beans breeding better nutrition
For a poor fairytale farm-boy named Jack reduced to selling the family’s emaciated cow as a last…
Appropriate knowledge for smallholder farmers will make the world more food…
Millions of food insecure farmers could improve their yields, incomes and resilience if they have…
Building pathways to nutrition
Helen Keller International reflects on GCARD 2 Household Nutrition Security session. I’d like to…
The second freedom for women
In the wake of green revolution, notable increases in agricultural incomes and subsequent…
Growing coffee and bananas generates 50% more revenue for farmers
What do coffee and banana have in common? One is a cash crop and the other is a food crop.…
The shop that potatoes built
After a highly aggressive mystery maize disease crippled crops in 2011, Kenya’s number two crop –…
Global food production: recalibrate or die
The vast “corn belt” of the Midwestern United States, the “amber waves” of wheat in India’s Punjab…
Capacity strengthening program strengthens passion for helping others, too
Msekiwa Matsimbe is not afraid to get her feet wet, whether mingling with a crowd of international…
Un niño, una computadora
Uruguay tiene presencia mundial no solo por el fútbol. El Plan Ceibal hace que nuestro país tenga…
For the record…
“We want GCARD to become a real process, not just an event,” said Monty Jones of FARA-Ghana, in his…
El “GRAN HERMANO” de los frigoríficos
A partir del 2007 Uruguay cuenta con un “Sistema Electrónico de Información de la Industria Cárnica…
Agriculture’s potential for solving YOUTH unemployment
Youth unemployment is one of the most serious problems affecting developing countries. A lack of…
Desarrollo indivudual, desarrollo nacional
Cuando pensamos en el desarrollo individual de los pequeños productores muchas veces perdemos de…
No partnership = no foresight = no food.
One of the best examples of the inter-connectedness of the three themes for this year’s Gobal…