Category Archives: Poverty, Hunger, Malnutrition

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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? Photo credit: CIMMYT A new stress-tolerant maize variety compared in Zimbabwe. CIMMYT/Johnson Siamachira Target for 10 million more climate-smart farmers in southern Africa amid rising cost of El Niño by Sam Storr El Niño may…

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Focus group led by COSA research partners in October 2015 with members of one of the producer organizations involved in the Kenya impact evaluation Over the years, the Committee on Sustainable Assessment (COSA) has…

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? Photo credit: SciDevNet Copyright: Flickr/IITA Could systems research transform Africa’s agriculture? by Alex ABUTU I know across Africa, presidents are repositioning their policies to reflect agriculture as the new engine for growth, and are also…

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Anil Regmi was one of the six finalists of GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Argripreneur Project. As one of the YAPpers, he received an intensive training helping her strengthen the business plan proposal presented with measurable milestones.…

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The International Livestock Research Institute, and other partners in the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) have released eight briefs to help CGIAR Research Programs integrate key ‘capacity development in…

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Photo credit: ScoDevNet Copyright: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos Women, tech key to curbing food insecurity in Africa Focusing on identifying and harnessing these social advantages could help in tackling the technological challenges faced by African women. by Pauline…

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Photo credit: SciDevNet Copyright: Flickr/IITA A step towards better nutrition for African children by Alex Abutu Speed read A cassava staple is consumed by more than 130 million people in Nigeria Fortifying it with soy could help…

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A farmer leads his sheep and goats to market in Menz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). The contribution of animal-source foods to global warming cannot be ignored. But encouraging everyone to become vegetarian or even vegan isn’t…

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A camel train in the Methera region of Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). We can shrink the carbon footprint of livestock, but we need to properly measure their emissions first. Written by Polly Ericksen, program leader…

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The Policy Round Table of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), meeting in Rome on 17 Oct 2016, discussed the report on Sustainable Agricultural Development for Food Security and Nutrition: What Roles for Livestock?…

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BETTER SCIENCE, BETTER LIVES The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), headquartered in Africa and working in poor countries worldwide to provide better lives through livestock, held its Institute Planning Meeting from 4 to 7 Oct 2016.…

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Photo credit: Pixabay Farmers of the Benna tribe in Ethiopia CCAFS, CTA Demonstrate Value of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture…

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Photo credit: CCAFS – CGIAR Exchange meeting with farmers on farmer-managed natural regeneration in Niger. Photo: P. Savadogo (view original) ? A real opportunity to scale up Climate-Smart Villages in Niger In Niger, the World Bank…

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This article was posted originally on 19 Oct 2016 by GFAR. Photo credit: Dominik Schraudolf on Pixabay Article by Ksenija Simovic, #CFS43 Social Reporter: ksenijasimovic(at)gmail.com ‘This week marked a milestone for the Committee on World Food…

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Local hen and her chick in a village of Mozambique, where production costs for farmers are 30% higher than the cost of importing chicken (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). With a growing appetite for chicken in…

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Cattle being watered at the Ghibe River in southwestern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Is it OK to keep eating meat? Or even milk, cheese and eggs? ‘It’s almost guaranteed that this topic will come…

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We hadn’t left the Milan Congress 2015 when the YPARD’s Mediterranean team – a group of 25 agriculturists from the South and the North Mediterranean- got together and said: “This was a very rich…

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Jean Dubuffet, Vache aux deux arbres (Cow with two trees), 1943, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art. This week, Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), will participate in a panel discussion…

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Boran cattle in Yabello, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/ Camille Hanotte). By Thumbi Mwangi, Washington State University A majority of rural households in Africa keep different livestock species. But only a small proportion can afford to keep…

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? Photo credit: FAO A worker adjusts a plough attachment in Djibo, Burkina Faso. Spare parts must be available for tractors to be useful. Sustainable mechanization has much to offer in sub-Saharan Africa Feeding the burgeoning…

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? Photo credit: CIMMYT CGIAR system retools to fight hunger and climate change ? CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future, dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources…

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I recently participated in the GODAN Summit. What really struck me was that every speaker at the summit, especially those who spoke at the plenaries, recognised that “Open Data” is much more than opening…

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Taking a value chain approach is essential to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, according to scientists working at International Livestock Research Institute project (ILRI). Making smallholder producers more aware of market opportunities will help…

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Capacity development plays a critical enabling role in facilitating the adoption and scaling out of value chain development interventions and approaches by addressing attitudinal, knowledge and skills gaps in value chain actors, service providers and value…

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By Marco Marzano de Marinis, Secretary General, World Farmers’ Organisation Antimicrobial resistance, often referred to as AMR, is an increasingly serious threat to global public health. As the international community is now on the way…

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? ? Food and nutrition security key to Africa’s development by Gilbert Nakweya  Fostering food and nutrition security is key to sustainable development. But access to high quality seeds from research and development by smallholder farmers…