- The conference provided a valuable opportunity to take stock of current understanding and actions around building a common agenda of resilience for food and nutrition security. Around 800 participants attended from 75 countries, though very few farmers and private sector stakeholders were…
- 29 November is International Farmer Innovation Day, coordinated through the Prolinnova-PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecological-oriented agriculture and natural resource management global network. The Day heightens awareness of farmers’ innovations in adapting to a continuously changing…
- 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…
- DFID’s Ministers have approved the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters Programme (BRACED) which is expected to benefit up to 5 million people, especially women and children, by building their resilience to climate extremes (mostly droughts and floods). This…
- Innovation and enterprise A side event organized by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation highlighted the importance of linkages between public and private sectors. Dr Denis Kyetere, Executive Director of AATF, Her Excellency Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, African Union Commissioner…
- Sudan and Ethiopia have recently been diversifying from traditional agricultural commodity exports to include higher-value horticultural crops, including fruit. The organic sector is the fastest-growing segment of the global banana market, but in response to several constraints, the global…
- The latest edition of New Agriculturist is now online with two sections, supported by GFAR. To be notified when each new edition of New Agriculturist becomes available on-line sign up directly to the email here. New Agriculturist The latest edition of New…
- Global consultation on the future of the CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development) movement. Objectives of the Consultation: review progress and achievements to date, and identify lessons learned consider the priority areas of action identified in 2011 and 2012…
- 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…