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  3. YPARD Monthly Newsletter – July 2015
    YPARD monthly newsletter for July is now online! In this issue, learn everything about YPARD key achievements in 2014 with YPARD’s freshly released 2014 annual report.   Find out more about YPARD Mentoring program officially launched from 4-6 June in Nairobi, Kenya and meet the ‘YP of the…
  4. Kenya minister hails FARA, ASARECA, CORAF and CCARDESSA on climate change initiatives
    Addressing delegates during the “Continental conference on enhancing regional and continental collaboration and informed decision making for adaptation to climate change in Africa”, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi March 10, 2015, Kenya’s, cabinet secretary, ministry of agriculture, livestock…
  5. Collaborative Foresight: Finding solutions to youth unemployment in East Africa through agriculture
    Agriculture accounts for almost 30% of the average GDP of the economies of East Africa countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia). It also provides employment and livelihood for more than 40% of people in the region. However, with a combined population of 249.9m people …
  6. Africa’s first Water Fund to tackle rising threats to food security, water and energy supplies
    Every rainy season Jane Kabugi’s home comes under attack. The torrential rain so desperately needed downstream to fuel Kenya’s rising electricity demands – and Nairobi’s water requirements – has literally been tearing her home and farm apart.   “There was a time when this house of mine…
  7. YPARD Newsletter
    The newest edition of the Young Professionals in Agriculture Development (YPARD) newsletter has now been published, and can be found here.
  8. Don’t risk your health for nutrition!: Why gender matters for food safety
    The results from the participatory risk assessment of these value chains are published in Grace et al 2010, and a paper analyzing the gendered dimensions of risk is underway by Delia Grace, Sophie Theis, Kristina Roesel, Erastus Kang’ethe, and Bassirou Bonfoh.   In rural Mali, a Fulani…
  9. Discovery of beans that can beat the heat could save “meat of the poor” from global warming
    Source: CGIAR   As a result of a major breakthrough, beans – once feared to be a casualty of climate change – are now set to withstand extreme temperatures, protecting a staple food of the poor in developing countries.   Amidst fears that global warming could zap a…
  10. Call for stakeholder views on the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
    Please contact us (see below) if you would like to share views on the A4NH program or any of its projects. We are visiting Bangladesh, India and Kenya soon and might be able to meet you. Otherwise, we can offer a phone/skype interview. We will also be circulating a short survey. We look…
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