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Right now, African leaders are making decisions that will determine the structure of the continent’s food system for a generation or more. Among these decisions are a host of investments in digital technology and policies about how it will be used to empower smallholder farmers and advance rural development. If these investments and policies are sufficiently ambitious, they can help create a food system that fights poverty and promotes economic growth, increases food security, encourages gender equality, and improves health and nutrition for hundreds of millions of Africans.

The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (CRP AAS) has published a working paper entitled Research in development: Learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. This paper aims to synthesize and share learning from the experience of adapting and operationalizing the Research in Development (RinD) approach to agricultural research in the five hubs under the The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems.

A recent presidential decree that would reclaim an area of 700 hectares of Benoa Bay in Bali--an area that covers at least 60 sacred sites--has prompted the Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API) of Bali to call for the support of the international community to pressure a reversal of the decision.

Do you want to help determine how agri-food research and innovation can best meet the world’s development needs?

Be part of the global conversation on the future of agri-food research and innovation!

Join hundreds of scientists, researchers, farmers, civil society, rural women and youth, policymakers, education, business and investment agencies from around the world at the GCARD3 Global Event, to be held in Johannesburg South Africa from 5-8 April, 2016.

We, at GFAR and CGIAR, are committed to integrate, stimulate and mentor the involvement of youth in all of our collective programs. At GCARD3, the Third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, we are taking any opportunity to live up to that commitment.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has released a web update featuring stories making a call for increased investment in smallholder agriculture in order to remove the root causes that lead to conflict and migration, and to better enable achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of ending poverty and hunger.

The Independent Evaluation Arrangement (IEA) of CGIAR is currently conducting three crosscutting thematic evaluations of CGIAR work and activities: Partnerships; Capacity Development and Gender.