- Source: CCAFS With its largely untapped land-resources for agriculture expansion, could Africa really be the world’s next low-carbon breadbasket? New article argues probably not, at least not for the global population. This as farmland conversion of important wet savannahs and…
- Dr. Mark Holderness is a food scientist who uses science to address agricultural and rural development challenges. He began his career as a cocoa pathologist in Papua New Guinea and has since gone on to work on agricultural projects around the world. He worked with CAB International, an…
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- The Africa Union (AU) has re-defined and strengthened its cooperation with traditional continental partners (Africa-Europe Partnership, China-Africa Forum, TICAD with Japan), and has engaged, after 2004, in a number of new continent to continent partnerships, aiming at enhancing development…
- For the last two decades, NGOs have been the targets of many multilateral and bilateral organizations in development partnerships. At the same time, research has developed similar partnerships with NGOs. Since 1995, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) opened its…
- The first joint SPAAR/FARA Plenary was held from April 12-14, 2000 in Conakry, at the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Guinea. The Plenary took place at the end of the African Agricultural Week, which drew a little over one hundred participants representing the various components of…