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Last year, GFAR partnered with and supported Food Tank - The Food Think Tank in its efforts to engage wider involvement in sustainable food systems in the 2014 International Year of Family Farming.
More than 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger and two billion suffer from nutrient deficiency.
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CACAARI Secretariat informs that e-discussions on “The role of Agricultural Innovation Systems in Central Asia and Caucasus countries and China towards more sustainable food security and nutrition” will be open until the 5th of June, 2015.
These online discussions have been launched and initiated by Central Asi
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has been honoured in the prestigious 2015 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Project Prizes.
As part of the International Year of Family Farming, GFAR contributed to the meeting “International Encounters - “Family Farming and Research” held in Montpellier 1-3 June 2014. We are pleased to share the proceedings of this meeting which was a key event in 2014 where the role of research regarding family farming was investigated.
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