The 3rd Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3) formally opened on Tuesday evening, 5 April 2016, at the Birchwood Hotel and O.R. Tambo Conference Centre in Boksburg, South Africa. Addressing the overall theme of ‘No One Left Behind; Agri–food Innovation and Research for a Sustainable World,’ the Conference is part of a two-year consultative process to build collective actions to transform and strengthen agricultural research and innovation systems in line with the vision developed through GCARD1 and expressed as joint initiatives among GCARD2 stakeholders.

Within two weeks, 96 young professionals from every region of the world applied to be part of the GCARD3 Global event’s youth delegation.

To mark the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is stepping it for women to raise awareness about their roles and recognize their invaluable contribution to agriculture and other socio-economic, cultural and political aspects of life in the world’s most vulnerable communities in rural drylands.

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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.