GFAR Executive Secretary Mark Holderness was invited and sponsored to present a paper on ‘Collective Action, the future for Agricultural Research and Innovation’ to the 2^nd International Conference on Agricultural Research, held on 24-29 September in Beijing, China. The Conference was organized by Partner in GFAR, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The mission also included participation in the working group for the G20 MACS Agricultural Technology System and the development of the China-Africa Technology Transfer Consortium.

Farmers are enthusiastically adopting Utuba, a reliable, high-yielding new durum wheat.

Aflasafe helps farmers keep their food safe and reduce postharvest losses.

Hundreds of delegates from across Africa and the world met recently at the Global Landscapes Forum in Nairobi, intent on working together to help restore land.

New evidence in The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2018 confirms a rise in world hunger: the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to levels from almost a decade ago.

The reports says that climate variability and extremes are key drivers behind this rise, together with conflict and economic downturns, and are threatening to erode and reverse gains made in ending hunger and malnutrition.

Dr. Iman El-Kaffass of GFAR Secretariat recently traveled to Jordan to continue work with AARINENA and the Association of Arab Universities - both headquartered in Amman - on two main aspects of GFAR's Key Focus Area: Organizational Strengthening and Transformational Learning.