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Mark Holderness was honoured at the recent Annual General Meeting of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA) in London, The TAA awarded Mark as ‘Development Agriculturalist of the Year, 2018’, recognising his outstanding contribution to agricultural development.
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A new “Climakers” initiative, launched on the sidelines of the COP24 talks, will help address the biggest threat farmers say they fear, according to Luisa Volpe, head of policy development at WFO in an interview.
This is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Iman El-Kaffass, Senior Advisor, Capacity Development and Organizational Transformation, GFAR, on the occasion of the GUNi International Conference “Generating Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities,” held in Barcelona, Spain on November 19-21. The Conference was a forum for debate on the role of the humanities, and the interrelation between humanities, science and technology in the 21st Century. In this clip, Dr.
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FAO's e-Agriculture caught up with the new YPARD Director Mr. Yemi Adeyeye and interviewed him on a number of issues affecting the youth in agriculture and especially in Africa.
e-Agriculture: Congratulations for the appointment to Director YPARD,could you briefly introduce yourself?
Over 300 farmers, farmer leaders, women and youth farmers, and representatives from farmer and fisher organizations (FOs) from all corners of the Philippines, representatives from government offices, civil society organizations (CSOs), and development partners participated in the Knowledge Learning Market and Policy Engagement 2018 of the 5th International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) held at the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) Convention Hall in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines on 7-8 November 2018.
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Members of GFAR Secretariat were pleased to welcome yesterday a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) to formalize the basis for direct future partnership and collaboration between GFAR and CAAS.
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What is the most effective way to end hunger sustainably? And what would it cost? These two questions are central to a new initiative: Ceres2030 aims at giving answers to the fundamental endeavour to evaluate the benefits, costs and trade-offs of agricultural interventions to ensure effective action. The project is a joint initiative by International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Cornell University and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).