Conference Witnesses Signing of New Agreement and Launch of New Trends Research on Agricultural Investment On the opening day of the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development  (GCARD2),experts from over 70 countries are gathering to track global progress &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/uruguayan-president-mujica-to… 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" />

To address the issue of feeding 9 billion People and to have  national food security, the speakers at the today&#8217;s (29/10/2012)  GCARD2 parallel session on partnerships addressed the importance of public-private partnerships. Introducing the session on partnerships, Ken Cassman (CGIAR &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/need-for-global-partnerships-… 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" />

La agricultura en la actualidad se enfrenta con dos problemas fundamentales: el desafío de alimentar a 9,000 millones de personas en los próximos cuarenta años y preservar los recursos del planeta. El aumento en la demanda de alimentos lleva consigo &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/los-veterinarios-y-la-segurid… 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" />

Shouldn’t we strengthen the existing roles of both males and females of Malawi, rather than focus on defining new roles/empowering women and youth? This was the most though provoking question asked at the Think Tank Meeting for the Advisory Committee &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/gender-bias-by-gender-role-co… 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" />

After 2 days of intensive training on social media and social reporting, the GCARD2 Social Media Team received their Certificate from H.E. Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Tabaré Aguerre The opening ceremony of the second Global Conference on Agricultural Research &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/the-gcard2-social-media-team-… 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" />

With world food prices rising by 138% over the past ten years (according to the FAO Food Price Index) and with the UN 2011 World Population Prospects stating that, by 2050, the world population will surpass 9 billion, the challenges of &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/the-road-to-food-security-is-… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="<

In an era of food crisis, around 1 billion people go to bed without food and almost 16,000 children die due to hunger every day. Scientific experts and policy makers have gathered at Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/regional-fora-a-holistic-appr… 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" />

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Farmers are silently innovating, adopting new practices and continuously improving. Innovations are a blend of traditional knowledge and modern science. At the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) in Punta del Este, Uruguay, farmer led innovations has been &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/farmer-led-innovations-entrep… 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" />

“You will be surprised” is the logo written on the t-shirts of the bunch of youngsters at the GCARD2 pre-conference session of YPARD, which stands for Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development.