A detective solves a mystery by starting from the end result – the crime scene – and working backwards to determine the cause – the crime.

Abrar Chaudhury isn’t a fan of top down adaptation costing. “Top down, purely econometric approaches usually way underestimate the true costs of adaptation,” he says.

Self-sufficiency is linked with sustainability. Uruguay, a living example of quality of life improvement with better political and social sustainability adopts smart agriculture for sustainable development.  Popularly known as &#8220;Uruguay es la vaca y el puerto&#8221; (&#8220;Uruguay is the cow &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/sustainability-with-style-sma… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Professor Monty Jones, Chair of the Global Forum on Agriculture Research (GFAR), recently spoke to Voice of America about his expectations for the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2), a GFAR-organized conference that he is chairing. We &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/gcard-two-voices-one-message/… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Ideas empresariales; rol estratregico; acceso al Mercosur; zonas francas; extensiones fiscales; país seguro; economía abierta; capital humano. Haz click para ver video completo. “A small country, big in rice” (Un pequeño país, grande en arroz). Ese fue el nombre de &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/en-cada-acontecimiento-una-po… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

El mejoramiento de la calidad de vida de las familias en la zona rural es uno de los resultados más impactantes de la investigación agropecuaria. La cooperación técnica nacional e internacional para la generación de tecnologías, el mejoramiento genético y &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/resultados-de-la-investigacio… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Uruguay has been selected as a host country for the GCARD2 (Global Conference on Agriculture for Development). It is worth noting that Uruguay has been recognized as a country which has made a significant progress in the agriculture sector. The &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/the-minister-of-agriculture-d… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Cooperative support to smallholder farmers in Uruguay In the small countryside of the Province of Florida, close to the heart of Uruguay, private cooperative societies are working with government to gradually change the lives of farming communities by providing access &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/smallholder-cooperation-promo… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Los obstáculos de comienzos de milenio no fueron menores para la lechería en el Uruguay. En las palabras del Ing. Agr. Daniel Zorrilla de San Martín: “El sector sintió los golpes.