Category Archives: Agriciltural Policy

#Climatechange and vertical gardening

Posted on 18/08/2015 by

Climate change and vertical gardening.

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What is wrong with feeding animal by-products?

Posted on 26/07/2015 by

What is wrong with feeding animal by-products?. It all depends who you ask, as they all have a saying in this case: the animal, the producer, the renderer, the consumer. I am going to prepare a detailed article on this … Continue reading →

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Three Myths About Food & Farming @Farmbizafrica @FarmAfrica @FARAinfo

Posted on 18/05/2015 by

Three Myths About Food & Farming.

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Precision feeding key to sustainable #livestock production, says UN body @LivestockSustai @DSMFeedTweet

Posted on 20/02/2015 by

Precision feeding key to sustainable livestock production, says UN body The compound feed industry needs to get behind initiatives that foster precision feeding on small farms in developing markets to help optimize use of on-farm ingredients backed by commercial feed mixes to plug nutritional … Continue reading →

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Four things you should know about agriculture & food in Africa @Agribussiness @AgribussinessNig @AfricaAg @

Posted on 27/06/2014 by

Four things you should know about agriculture and food in Africa The World Bank estimates that Africa holds 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. Coupled with a youthful workforce and water resources, the potential for agribusiness in Africa cannot … Continue reading →

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PAEPARD: Now online: an educational series on family farming

Posted on 02/10/2013 by

Family farmers have much to offer in terms of food production and sustainability. And yet, conventional agricultural education gives little importance to sustainable family farming and the way it works. – report This initiative is aim at closing the gap … Continue reading →

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PAEPARD: 2013 Agricultural Research for Development Conference

Posted on 01/10/2013 by

The sub-themes were:
*Capacity Development
*Sustainable Intensification
*Climate Change
*Multi-disciplinarity Continue reading →

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