Delivering Change Through Empowered African Women Scientists

Filomena dos Anjos is passionate about poultry. For the past 15 years, this senior lecturer and veterinarian at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique has worked with poultry farmers—who are primarily women—to control Newcastle disease through vaccination campaigns. In Mozambique, more &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/delivering-change-through-emp… 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" />

Le défi d’un système de recherche agricole pro-pauvre

L’un des défis majeurs de la Recherche Agricole pour le Développement est comment construire un système de recherche agricole plus proche des petits exploitants. Pendant longtemps la recherche a été l’affaire des seuls scientifiques qui l’ont pratiquée en vase clos &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/le-defi-dun-systeme-de-recher… 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" />

GCARD2 and the Agribusiness Society of the University of the West Indies

From all accounts the Global Conference for Agricultural Research Development (GCARD) is set to truly have an impact on global agriculture at all levels in one way or another! The GCARD2 will focus on the ways to implement the tasks &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/gcard2-and-the-agribusiness-s… 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" />

GCARD2. Breakout Session P2.2 Land, Water, Forests and Landscapes – Session Brief

The current and future food security of South Asian countries has twin challenges of resource fatigue and decelerating productivity growth of food grain crops. Realizing the importance of these issues not only at national level but also at regional level, the regional NARS (Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan), CGIAR centres and the key donors together launched a common regional platform as Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains (RWC) in May 1994 which is led by NARS and facilitated by CGIAR centres in the region.

GCARD2. Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Speaker Brief

The Africa-Brazil and LAC-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplaces (~Mktplace~) have been arising as effective mechanisms for South-South Cooperation supporting smallholders. These are partnerships comprised of public and private not for profit, national and international partners who mobilize resources focused on fostering partnerships between Brazil and other developing countries in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.

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