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Author Archives: Dr. Bukar USMAN, mni
New FAO report discusses options for influencing food environments for healthy diets
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A man works in his vegetable field on the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Anna Fawcus). A new publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focuses on influencing food environments for…
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Where wealth and opportunity walk on four legs—AFKInsider
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Cattle grazing in Borena, Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). ‘It is fair to assume many private investors in Africa did not grow up milking a cow or shepherding cattle through the Sahara Desert. ‘But,…
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Introduction to qualitative research methods for animal health course at University of Liverpool
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PENAPH receives many requests about more information on how to analyze qualitative data. There will be a course in May that addresses qualitative research methods that should be of interest to PENAPH members Introduction to qualitative…
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Sustainable increases in agricultural productivity, food security and reduced greenhouse gas emissions (Land-L)
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Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/global-alliance-for-climate-smart-agriculture-launched/ Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture Launched A coalition formed by 14 governments and 32 organizations will aim to enable 500 million farmers around the world to practice climate-smart agriculture. The ‘Global Alliance…
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To Increase Sustainable Agricultural Practices
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? Photo credit: Food Tank Tata Somba, Benin – September 6, 2012: Local woman with a small child passing through the green field. – http://foodtank.com/assets/images/head/iStock_76694969_MEDIUM_opt_opt.jpg New Report Urges African Governments to Increase Sustainable Agricultural Practices by…
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Adopting new agricultural practices
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? ? What makes farmers try new practices? Date: March 14, 2017 Source: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Summary: Change is never easy. But when it comes to adopting new agricultural…
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Africa can achieve self-sufficiency in wheat production
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? Photo credit: SciDevNet – Copyright: Panos ? Fighting low wheat production in Africa If scientists, farmers and policy makers could consistently work together, Africa will achieve self-sufficiency in wheat production in the very near future. That was…
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Investment required to secure access to water is often beyond the reach of smallholder farmers
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? Land access for Senegal’s small producers under threat Read the full article: IIED Senegal currently has a complex and poorly regulated system of land governance, which — combined with an urbanisation trend and increasing outsider…
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Tools and training materials to help mainstream gender in Humidtropics activities
Originally posted on ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program:
The Gender Strategy of the the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated System for the Humid Tropics, or Humidtropics, committed to the empowerment of women. It focused on four areas: access to…
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New analysis reports we don’t need to double world food production by 2050
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Nelson Chikowa, Malawi potato and groundnut farmer (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘. . . The United Nations projects that the global population will increase from 7.3 billion in 2015 to 9.7 billion in 2050. This growth…
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“The Role of Livestock for ACP countries: challenges and opportunities ahead”
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The twelth Brussels Development Briefing was held on 1st July 2009 (European Commission, Berlaymont Building) and dealt with “The Role of Livestock for ACP countries: challenges and opportunities ahead”. This Briefing discussed key issues on livestock…
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Next Brussels Briefing 48 “Strengthening rural livelihoods in the face of rapid urbanisation in Africa”
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The next Brussels Development Briefing no. 48 on “Strengthening rural livelihoods in the face of rapid urbanisation in Africa” will take place on 20th March 2017 from 14:00 to 18:00, at the ACP Secretariat in…
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Smallholder farmers’ preferences for artificial insemination services through dairy hubs
Originally posted on ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program:
Artificial insemination service in a smallholder dairy farm (photo credit: EADD). Demand for animal products continues to outstrip production in most of sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts by countries to boost livestock production by…
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Winds of change, or more of the same? Urbanization and rural transformation in the context of emerging global initiatives
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? By Alison Blay-Palmer This entry is part of a special series of blog posts about the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS): The Future of the CFS? Collectively reflecting on the directions of…
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The African Union Commission and FAO establish effective knowledge platforms between IGAD member States. / A major regional initiative towards building resilience in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa.
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The African Union Commission and FAO establish effective knowledge platforms between IGAD member States. / A major regional initiative towards building resilience in the Sahel and the…
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Governments Meet to Discuss the Sustainable Future of Livestock in Africa
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Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 (ASL2050) launched today in Addis Ababa, encouraging governments to think beyond livestock today, for the people of tomorrow. ASL2050 is a cross-sectoral initiative analysing…
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CGIAR integrated systems research for sustainable agricultural development in the Mekong—New book
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Image credit: Humidtropics. A new book from CGIAR offers lessons for researchers working with smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia to further adoption of integrated agricultural systems innovations. ‘ Published by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)…
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New mobile project to tackle malnutrition in Africa and Asia
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Lucy Wangeci Kuria of Kenya with her cow and her phone (via Flickr/Jeff Haskins). A CABI-led consortium has gained GSMA funding to help three million people access nutrition information using mobile technology. More than three…
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New Nutrition Knowledge Bank gives direct access to expert nutritional advice via mobile phones
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Tanzanian woman on her cell phone (photo credit: CCAFS/Cecilia Schubert). A new open-access Nutrition Knowledge Bank has been created as part of a GSMA mNutrition initiative to help tackle malnutrition in Africa and Asia. This…
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UN FOOD AGENCY CALLS FOR $69.8 MILLION FOR DROUGHT-STRICKEN SAHEL
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New York, Mar 9 2012 5:05PM The United Nations food agency today called for $69.8 million in additional funding to prevent a full-blown food and nutrition crisis from unfolding in Africa’s Sahel region. In a <“http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/122921/icode/“>news…
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The role of trade in ensuring global food security and adaptation to climate change
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? Photo credit: FAO A market in Boulder, Colorado, USA. People need affordable food, but prices must provide decent livelihoods for small-scale family farmers Declining prices could thwart international efforts to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty…
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Failure to act now will compromise future food production, sabotage 2030 development agenda
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? Photo credit: FAO Members of an Indian farmers group measure local groundwater levels at an observation well. FAO Director-General urges more support to help small farmers adapt to a changing climate Failure to act now…
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“Major transformations” are needed to make food production sustainable
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? Photo credit: FAO Empowering small-scale farmers and providing them better access to information, markets and technologies is key to ensuring future food security. Photo: FAO Business-as-usual not an option with future global food security in…
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Brussels Briefing 47: Regional Trade in Africa: Drivers, Trends and Opportunities
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Experts at the 47th Brussels Development Briefing on the topic of “Regional Trade in Africa: Drivers, Trends and Opportunities” all agreed that Africa’s largest market opportunity lies within the continent. The event, which was…
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Ways Recommended to Turn Camel Again to its Future
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Agri-tourism: Where two Emerging Growth Sectors Meet
Originally posted on The GFAiR Blog:
Many may not realise that agribusiness and tourism are two of the top five emerging growth industries to 2030. According to a recent report from Deloitte Access Economics, our sectors are two of the…
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ILRI and ReSAKSS-ECA train African researchers in influencing agricultural policies
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Joseph Karugia of ReSAKKS at a policy workshop for African researchers (photo credit: ILRI) Correct identification and implementation of comprehensive agricultural policies is an important step in the fight against poverty…
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Antibiotics, Even Worse than Anticipated — Raxa Collective
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
Please come to the sources of the natural health. I assure you camels’ milk really works. Look the use of antibiotics at such a high level in dairy sector and other…
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Superfood (Camel Milk) can Beat the Challenge of Superbug (Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics)
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
The microbiologists continuously exploring camel milk for its unique antimicrobial characteristics. They revealed that camel milk’s (CM) antimicrobial attributes are more important than other… Source: Superfood (Camel Milk) can Beat the Challenge of…
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The Philosophy of Symbiosis and Gut’s Role in Natural Health
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
The philosophy of symbiosis is really great and incredible. All my ideas of natural health are based on this philosophy. I’m never in favor of killing microorganisms in the body, instead, I…
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Sustainable livestock systems – highlights from ILRI’s corporate report 2015–2016
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Making technologies available to smallholder mixed crop–livestock farmers to grow fodder can increase milk yields and quality in an environmentally sustainable manner. Hyderabad, India. (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) In 2015–2016, the International Livestock Research Institute…
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Easy Understandable But Important Features of Camel Milk
Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
According to a promo of Chinese Camel Milk Company of Xinjiang, the camels’ milk features are provided as following. The contents in brackets are provided by author for further details. With ……
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USAID supports the commercial potential of cassava peel for livestock feed in Nigeria
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Women peeling cassava roots in a cassava processing centre (photo credit: IITA). ‘The US government, yesterday, said it has invested $75 million (about N2.3 billion) in [Nigeria’s] agricultural sector, just as it launched agribusiness partnerships…
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Breeding legumes for livestock feed (biomass) as well as human food (grain)
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Cowpea fodder bundles stacked in Niger for livestock feed (photo credit: ILRI). ‘Of the many virtues of grain legumes, one is little recognized. Visitors to the livestock fodder markets of West Africa are always surprised…
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Guide to haymaking using tropical grasses and legumes
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A new extension brief by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) explains the principles of haymaking using tropical grasses and legumes. Produced by ILRI researchers and partners in Zimbabwe, the brief gives practical steps on…
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$265 billion annually !
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? Photo credit: UN NEWS CENTRE Rural development and youth employment are strongly connected to migration. Photo: FAO/Riccardo Gangale Global Goals on poverty and hunger require $265 billion annually – UN conference told The world must…
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Small farms to the rescue—reducing hunger by increasing low yields
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John Oboum’s climate-smart small-scale farm site in Western Kenya (photo credit: CCAFS / Cecilia Schubert). ‘One of the most urgent challenges we face in the next several decades is feeding a growing world population without…
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On antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ and livestock production—World Bank expert
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‘For just the fourth time in its 72-year history, the United Nations General Assembly has focused on a health issue: the rise of “superbugs” and antibiotic-resistant infections. These pose a “fundamental threat” to society, said…
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Social scientists can improve the impact of agricultural research
Originally posted on The GFAiR Blog:
As one of the panelists, I attended a discussion on “Strengthening Social Science and Policy Research” hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)’s South Asia Office and the International Rice Research Institute…
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Agrilinks and Microlinks to host webinar on safety of animal-source foods for improved nutrition
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Locally made beef stew sold in Bagnon market at Yopougon, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). What are the key food safety issues related to livestock production and animal-source foods and what are their…
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Nigeria: Learn how Doeland Farms is developing the Rabbit Industry in Nigeria!
Originally posted on Kalu Samuel's Blog:
Do you love rabbits? Do you know rabbit meat tastes so good and are very healthy too? Do you know you can make good money in 2017, raising rabbits? To find answers to…
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Harnessing livestock for the Sustainable Development Goals
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Livestock in India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). One of the fastest growing subsectors in agriculture–livestock–can significantly contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if the opportunities it offers, especially for people in developing countries,…
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Unpacking the tensions between the nutritional and economic goals of pro-poor livestock development
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ILRI’s Delia Grace (left) and Shirley Tarawali (right), made two of the three presentations at the second of a four-part series of meetings-cum-webinars on enhancing nutrition through market-led livestock development in developing countries. This series…
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High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition launches sustainable livestock development report
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? A High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) is the science-policy interface of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is, at the global level, the foremost inclusive and…
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Livestock for sustainable and equitable development—Selected top advocacy communications of 2016
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Visit this Pinterest page maintained by ILRI for 102 advocacy communications: Livestock—Opinions. This year, with a pilot project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation starting in Sep 2016, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)…
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To end poverty without wrecking the environment, put people first—New series by Nathanael Johnson
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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…
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Measuring the roles of livestock in rural households
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Measuring livestock systems—and the socioeconomic benefits they generate—remains a challenge due to a lack of high-quality, nationally representative data. Livestock is often neglected in many national statistical operations and, as a result, decision makers are…
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If Africa learnt to feed its chickens, it could feed its people—Calestous Juma
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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…
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Mission critical: Relentless upscaling of Africa’s agricultural production
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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…
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Smallholder farmers and sustainable agricultural technologies
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? ? 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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Why we need to listen to farmers
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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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Rapid Losses of Africa’s Native Livestock Threaten Continent’s Food Supply (Science Daily)
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720123633.htm Rapid Losses of Africa’s Native Livestock Threaten Continent’s Food Supply, Experts Warn ScienceDaily (July 20, 2010) — Urgent action is needed to stop the rapid and alarming loss of genetic diversity of African livestock that…
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Brachiaria grasses could be the cornerstone of productive and resilient livestock systems
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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…
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Smallholder dairy farming systems in the highlands of Ethiopia: System-specific constraints and options
Originally posted on LIVES-Ethiopia:
Blanket recommendations of technologies and improved practices could be one of the reasons for low adoption of interventions by agricultural systems which are highly diverse in agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions. The purpose of classification of farming…
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Publish or perish: Towards diagnosing, and solving, chronic underinvestment in developing-country research
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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…
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The rise of ‘superbugs’ presents a nightmare scenario—the beginning of the end of modern medicine
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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…
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Are equity and accountability a likely outcome when foxes and chickens share the same coop?
Originally posted on Food Governance :
Critiquing the concept of multistakeholder governance of food security[1] By Nora McKeon This entry is part of a special series of blog posts about the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS): The Future of…
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Access vs excess to antibiotics: The dual antimicrobial resistance issue facing the world
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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Africa’s potential for intensifying production by practising ‘ecological agriculture’ (New Agriculturist)
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Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=2149 Climate change and food systems resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Lim Li Ching, Sue Edwards and Nadia El-Hage Scialabba Published by FAO Website: Earthprint (to purchase this book) or FAO website…
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In 2050, Africa will scarcely be able to grow enough food for its own population.
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? ? Can Africa feed itself? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161213074109.htm Date: December 13, 2016 Source: Wageningen University & Research Summary: In 2050, when the population of Africa is two and a half times larger than now, the continent will…
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Dr. Bukar Ali USMAN, mni 
