FARA: African Development Bank backs young ‘agripreneurs’ to beat climate change

By Megan Rowling

BARCELONA, Jan 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The African Development Bank plans to deploy billions of dollars to help young people build a new digitally-driven model of agriculture that can feed the continent’s people and boost prosperity even as the planet heats up, its president said.

At a global summit this week, the bank and the Global Center on Adaptation announced an initiative to strengthen African efforts to become more resilient to extreme weather and rising seas, threats worsened by fast-accelerating climate change.

CIMMYT: Junior Communications Consultant, Digital

The Corporate Communications department of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is seeking a candidate for a one-year, paid consultancy.

The Junior Communications Consultant, Digital will be based in the organization’s global headquarters in Texcoco, 40 km outside of Mexico City. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she/he will start working remotely, but will shift to in-office work once it is safe.

She/he will work full-time in the following duties:

Three Ways to Ensure COP-26 Delivers for Poor People

COP-26—the latest global gathering of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—meets in Glasgow this November. Six years after the Paris climate conference, the conference will mark the passage of new “Nationally Determined Contributions:” country commitments to reduce carbon emissions ahead of 2030. But it will also revisit a number of long-time controversies, including financing to help developing countries respond to the risk of climate change, carbon markets, and taxes and tariffs on carbon.

Crawford Fund: What Can Farmers Do? Farmer-led, science-based greenhouse gas mitigation strategies for Australia and abroad

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IFPRI: Virtual Launch Event at IFAD Innovation Talks

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Bill Gates on climate change, CGIAR and adapting to a warmer world

Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. CGIAR is the world’s largest agricultural research group: In short, it helps create better plants and better animal genetics. It was at a CGIAR lab in Mexico that Norman Borlaug did his groundbreaking work on wheat, sparking the Green Revolution. Other CGIAR researchers, … More Bill Gates on climate change, CGIAR and adapting to a warmer world

DeSIRA funding in support of GFAR

The European Commission allocates funding through the "Development of Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture" (DeSIRA) inititative in the form of grants, representing around €300 million in total, to multiple organizations across diverse sectors. This brief outlines the activities and objectives of GFAR which will be supported through the DeSIRA initiative.

Purdue University: Precision Soil Maps: Moving Beyond Soil Survey Seminar

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