Monthly Archives: July 2013

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition At the November 1974 UN World Food Conference in Rome, representatives of 133 governments called for the eradication of the scourge of hunger and malnutrition. See on http://www.the-star.co.ke

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Trained for jallikattu for long, Pulikulam cattle are fierce, resistant to diseases and suitable for ploughing See on http://www.thehindu.com

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock Agenda SLA LAHORE – The key solution for ensuring sufficient poultry products everywhere is to study the indigenous breeds, chalking out strategies for their efficient use in their respective home tracts, as modern breeds … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture A few weeks ago a colleague and reader of tech4agri indicated his satisfaction with the most recent blog posts. Appreciative of his comment I asked if he would like to know more about any topic … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture More and more the talk of the global agriculture diaspora centres in the every increasing global population and the threat of food insecurity. Currently the global agri food system is steeped in mo… Bukar … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: " Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to remain the most food-insecure region over the next decade" Report USDA See on http://www.ers.usda.gov

Originally posted on The FARA Social Reporters Blog:
If we are to produce more food, we need to do so on existing, not new, agricultural land. ‘Sustainable intensification’ is one of those phrases regularly bandied about in discussions about agriculture. What…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
The Vietnamese Journal of Preventive Medicine has published a special edition on risk assessment for health research in Vietnam. The June 2013 special edition is a compilation of over 10 original research papers on the application…

Originally posted on The FARA Social Reporters Blog:
African fisheries will benefit from a new agreement between NEPAD and WorldFish. Partnership and collaboration between organizations that have similar goals in mind and are determined to succeed can lead to tremendous…

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Hunger and undernutrition are amongst the most persistent global development challenges. Part of Millennium Development Goal 1 is to ‘Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger’ … Continue reading →

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
When the writing of One Billion Hungry: Can we feed the world? began in 2010, it was estimated that there were around one billion chronically hungry people in the…

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics…   This brief article highlights that as much as technology has changed food production, there this is much more that has remained the same.  Of the … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Sometime this summer or soon after, the federal Food and Drug Administration may finally approve the first-ever genetically modified animal for human consumption — a fast-growing Atlantic salmon that has taken 17 years … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food issues The proposal being touted is that Big Food can solve the obesity epidemic with the palatable oxymoron ”healthy junk food”. This creates a tempting stew of science, aesthetics, politics and morality. See on http://www.smh.com.au

See on Scoop.it – Friday Links Did you know that Africa consumes 24 million tons of rice yearly, and only 11 million of them are produced in Africa? Africa has always been held back by issues of food sustainability, and … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Friday Links This Oxfam spoof on the 1992 classic film Glengarry Glen Ross depicts the ugly side of what have come to be called “land grabs.” See on http://www.endinghunger.org

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development What do insects have to do with poverty or food insecurity? We talk about strengthening water, land and ecosystems services, and about conserving resources for poverty alleviation and development. … See on aasw6.wordpress.com

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Whatever happened to jatropha? Is the wonder biofuel that crashed back on the up? And should we care? Last July, while visiting Liberia, I met a local man who said he … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Agriculture experts are gathered in Accra, Ghana for the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week. The event is sponsored by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA. The theme of th… … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Only seven of the 53 African Union countries who pledged to commit at least 10 percent of their national budgets to investment in agriculture in 2003 have reached that goal. Aid … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development zoonoses, animal welfare, animal health,food safety,veterinary,animal disease,animal,health,animal production,Bernard Vallat See on http://www.oie.int

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Youth engaging youth in agriculture Africa has the youngest population in the world; over 200 million people are between ages 15 and 24 and the African Economic Outlooks expects this number … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security BLOG by Dr. Shenggen Fan director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)   Although many notable commitments to agriculture and food and nutrition security have been made in recent years … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition The book of the papers of the conference held in India a year ago. See on http://www.ifpri.org

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition In this report, IFPRI describes the evidence on land, water, and energy scarcity in developing countries and offers two visions of a future global food system—an unsustainable scenario in which current trends … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security See on http://www.slideshare.net

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development AGA, Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization,FAO See on http://www.fao.org

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety See on http://www.fao.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Nalanda district, an agricultural village in Bihar, India’s poorest state, was until recent times a placid, quiet village with no electricity and a place where farmers still favor animal power for … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Want to grow watermelons? Just noticed that your chickens are dying off and you don’t know what to do? Join FarmingKenya, the leading farming-related Facebook group where tips and advice are … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Read at : http://freshrootsurbancsa.wordpress.com/ Let’s Grow A Schoolyard Farm! Let us build a farm! Changing one school at a time Grow … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Research centre (aka ICRAF) putting trees on farms to raise farmers’ income and reduce poverty, working between agriculture and forestry See on http://www.worldagroforestry.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security See on blog.worldagroforestry.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Research centre (aka ICRAF) putting trees on farms to raise farmers’ income and reduce poverty, working between agriculture and forestry See on http://www.worldagroforestry.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security It is now clear, after the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that climate change poses a serious threat to growth and sustainable development in Afr… … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety We first review historic and conceptual background to integrative thinking in medicine. See on http://www.mendeley.com

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Prevention and control of agriculture-associated diseases Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: Prevention and control of agriculture-associated diseaseWelcome to AgHealth, the website of the agriculture-associated diseases component of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition for Health. The … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, informal markets play an important role in supplying most of the meat, milk, eggs and fish that poor people depend on for their nourishment. Informal … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety A training workshop on advances in quantitative animal genetics and breeding evaluation procedures takes place at the International Livestock Research Institute 17th to 22nd June 2013. Led by Dr Ra… See … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety See on http://www.slideshare.net

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Global Policy Forum is a policy watchdog that follows the work of the United Nations. We promote accountability and citizen participation in decisions on peace and security, social justice and international … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Sustainable Livestock Digest:
The amount of water in your beef depends where the animal was reared. As such, blanket condemnation of livestock products because they consume a lot of water and are therefore environment unfriendly is unjustified.…

Originally posted on Sustainable Livestock Digest:
ILRIs Okeyo Mwai (right) and another participant at a quantitative animal genetics and breeding evaluation workshop, June 2013 Accurate record keeping of livestock details is necessary if Africa is to benefit from animal genetic…

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition great-green-wall-trees-senegal-sahara-desert See on news.nationalgeographic.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Aid agencies are warning donors to act now to avert another drought-related food crisis in the Sahel that could mean over 11 million people sink into further food insecurity, poverty or malnutrition. … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Stocks of millet and sorghum, locally known as Guinea corn, in northern Nigeria’s markets are dwindling as traders buy them up to export across the border to Niger, where some 10 million … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The FARA Social Reporters Blog:
CGIAR: “We are already engaging with a large number of partners in Africa. And we are determined to make sure we continue to align our research with the priorities of these development…

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Age-old techniques of tilling the land so that it replenishes itself are putting food on the table and keeping poverty at bay in Western Zambia. See on http://www.takepart.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Five ways to help fight hunger around the world. See on http://www.takepart.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition See on judyandjohn-africa-2010.blogspot.com

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Science says eating together might be better. See on foodtank.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security The right trees, coupled with the right varieties of crops, rural advisory services, and a supportive policy environment can have a huge impact on crop yields, nutrition and income in Africa. … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety In June, researchers and partners from CGIAR research programs, including Livestock and Fish, discussed ways to tackle the main constraints smallholder farmers face. The discussion were part of eng… See on … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture With up to 9.3 billion people to feed in 2050 in the world, it becomes urgent to find ways to increase agricultural productivity across Africa, the second most populated continent. One option devel… See … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition The Agriculture Minister said this on Monday. Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight:  “Realising the Potential of African Agriculture: Catalytic Innovations for Growth’’, organised by the Rockefeller Foundation, an international NGO See on … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security I have been traveling to Ghana and Burkina Faso to visit two ILRI research fellows whom I am supervising. They are currently finishing their data collection in the field with the … Continue reading →