Monthly Archives: June 2014

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Last year we posted a blog article about the role of infographics in communicating policy and advocacy messages in a simple, accessible and powerful way. The trend for the…

Originally posted on Brussels Development Briefings:
The Brussels Development Briefing on ‘Building resilience of SIDS through trade and agribusiness development‘, will be held during the morning of Friday 11 July 2014, at the ACP Secretariat in Brussels. This 37th Briefing…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The 2nd of June marked the one year anniversary of the Nutrition for Growth summit in London hosted by the UK Department for International Development, the Brazilian government and…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
A live chicken vendor weighs a chicken in Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). An article by Mark Tran in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog, How to stop zoonoses spreading – don’t keep…

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Brucellosis, also referred to as undulant fever, is a highly contagious zoonotic disease caused by the microorganism Brucella which infects multiple animal species including cattle, sheep, pigs, sm… See on aghealth.wordpress.com

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety Regional and international experts in agriculture, health, research and trade have drawn up a plan of action for the control of aflatoxins in Africa, following a strategy development workshop organ… … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
In many of the world’s dry areas, goats provide poor people with nutrition and livelihoods. An imGoats Project is working to transform the lives of goat keepers in India and Mozambique by turning their subsistence-level…

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development A new FAO study reports that more than 85 per cent of poor livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa live in extreme poverty; here, at a Toureg encampment near Fakara, in Niger, a boy … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Workshop participants From 29 April to 2 May 2014, the Humidtropics CGIAR research program held a capacity development workshop in Nairobi. Organised by the International Livestock Research Institute ILRI), Wageningen UR, and the International Institute…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: Where to Get Quality Agricultural Information Online, @e_agriculture @FAOKnowlege @ICT4Agric @CTA See on http://www.bigpictureagriculture.com

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety Food safety is a major concern in human nutrition. A system of traceability in poultry processing plants will make all the movement of raw materials and processed products transparent. This … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Sril AgroVet Ltd:
#OIE collaborates with #IIAD and others centers to promotes global Animal Health OIE collaborating centres represent expertise in a specific sphere of competence relating to animal health issues. As a collaborating center, IIAD will…

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety The National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (recently renamed the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases [IIAD]) has been recognized as a collaborating center in the specialty of … Continue reading →

“Critics argue that investments in building resilience with no consistent way of evaluation will fail to produce desired development outcomes.” report http://wle.cgiar.org/blogs/2014/05/02/lose-sight-resilience-thinking-pursuit-resilience-metrics/ Posted from WordPress for Android

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Over the past few years, American consumption of hummus has grown dramatically. Until the 1990s, hummus was unknown outside of specialty Middle Eastern grocers. Today, it’s in virtually every deli and grocery store across…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Congress is considering re-imposing requirements that at least three-quarters of all US food aid be transported on American flagged ships. The requirement, which had been reduced to half of all US food aid by…

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety A research team has figured out how to disable a part of the SARS virus responsible for hiding it from the immune system — a critical step in developing a … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
A very appropriate theme when Africa is rising, was one of my first thoughts. Participants were researchers, academics, policymakers from the UN, AU, governments and NGOs as well as people like me who…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Smallholder farmers produce the bulk of the world’s food with only minimal resources such as land and water. In fact small-scale food producers farm less than one quarter of…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
A new report recently released by the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, entitled, The Nutrition Sensitivity of Agriculture and Food Policies, investigates, through eight country case studies, current…

Originally posted on Juju Films:
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