Monthly Archives: December 2016

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Nathanael Johnson, a talented food writer at Grist, a non-profit environmental news and commentary site based in Seattle, has published a thoughtful special series of eight articles around a question seldom looked at squarely in…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Farmer from southern Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ region holding one of her household chickens (photo credit: ILRI Camille Hanotte). Written by Calestous Juma, Harvard University. Africa, which imports nearly 83% of the food it…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Farmland in Mali (photo by World Bank). ‘. . . [A]ccording to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, . . . [Africa] will . . . need to…

Originally posted on DESERTIFICATION:
? ? Boost for Africa’s smallholder farmers’ access to sustainable agricultural technologies as USAID announces $ 50 million Africa RISING Phase 2 by JONATHAN ODHONG The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Food Security in…

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? Photo credit: CIAT An ecosystems approach to the SDGs in Africa: why we need to listen to farmers by Juliet Braslow To address all the SDG’s, we’re going to need to think like farmers. That…

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? Photo credit: CIAT Blog Study finds 40% more milk and tens of millions of dollars in revenue possible for African farmers adopting new drought-resistant pasture grass by Georgina Smith New varieties of high-quality, drought-resistant forage…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Figure 1. Gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) across regions, in purchasing power parity (UNESCO Institute for Statistics). ‘. . . In 2012, the share of the world’s articles with at least one African author was…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Scanning electromicrograph if the interaction of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria (coloured blue) with a human white cell. The bacteria shown is strain MRSA252, a leading cause of hospital-associated infections in the US and UK (image credit: National…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
ILRI veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert Delia Grace (photo via Flickr ©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto). This opinion piece, written by ILRI scientist and program leader Delia Grace, was originally published by Devex on 16 Dec 2016.…

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? Photo credit: Balcony Garden Web Vegetables that are productive, for example, beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. are the most suitable for urban gardeners. Other vegetables like spinach, lettuce, carrots take less space and productive too, this…

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? Photo credit: ICRISAT Women at the groundnut processing center. Photo: WOFAN GROUNDNUT VARIETIES WITH HIGHER OIL CONTENT EMPOWERING WOMEN IN NIGERIA Using improved varieties of groundnut for processing that offer at least twice the potential…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Role of MAA classifications in regional production. (a) Percentage of food calories produced in each of three regions originating in units classified by MAA. Includes calories delivered from 41 major crops into the food system,…

Originally posted on The GFAiR Blog:
I remember one time I was asked to walk 10 kilometers away from home to find a local buyer to sell our marakuja and papaya fruit so that my parents could pay my school…

Originally posted on The GFAiR Blog:
At the occasion of YPARD 10 years, Marina Cherbonnier, the current communications and knowledge manager, expresses what the added value of YPARD is, as an international network of young professionals in agriculture. I was…

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? Photo credit: FAO A farming family in Kyrgyzstan takes a break from the day’s work to share a meal. Malnutrition in the crosshairs One in three people suffers some form of malnutrition – Enormous economic…