This video highlights how through Africa RISING program interventions, a group of farmers at Mlali Village in central Tanzania are today making choices that will ensure they improve their livelihoods while conserving the natural resource base for the future generations.
During the 26th Committee on Agriculture (#COAG26) held at FAO Headquarters on 1-5 October 2018, GFAR was featured as an example of Innovation in Partnership. Watch this short video describing the innovative approach of GFAR in catalyzing multistakeholder networked actions to achieve impacts for smallholder farmers and producers.
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Farmers are enthusiastically adopting Utuba, a reliable, high-yielding new durum wheat.
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Aflasafe helps farmers keep their food safe and reduce postharvest losses.
Hundreds of delegates from across Africa and the world met recently at the Global Landscapes Forum in Nairobi, intent on working together to help restore land.
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New evidence in The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2018 confirms a rise in world hunger: the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to levels from almost a decade ago.
The reports says that climate variability and extremes are key drivers behind this rise, together with conflict and economic downturns, and are threatening to erode and reverse gains made in ending hunger and malnutrition.
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Dr. Iman El-Kaffass of GFAR Secretariat recently traveled to Jordan to continue work with AARINENA and the Association of Arab Universities - both headquartered in Amman - on two main aspects of GFAR's Key Focus Area: Organizational Strengthening and Transformational Learning.