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Originally posted on opencancer:
High in protein and low in fat, poultry has always been a great source of nutrition for people of all ages. However, a significant number of chicken processing plants nationwide involve a high concentration of new…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Food scarcity remains a fundamental cause of violent outbreaks across the world. Bryce Evans investigates the issue. See on http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security How the government is responding to the growing population’s demand for food, while minimising the impacts of farming and food production on the environment. See on http://www.gov.uk

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security » TED2013 Selects Allan Savory | Healing the Grasslands, Rangelands and Savannas of the World. Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: …We at Savory Institute are very proud to announce that Savory … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security » Evidence Supporting Holistic Management | Healing the Grasslands, Rangelands and Savannas of the World. See on http://www.savoryinstitute.com

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See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Earlier this year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) approved funds to support the development of value chain action plans for the Ethiopia Livestock Master Plan (LMP). The project began… See on … Continue reading →

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Originally posted on Sahel Green Food:
By Dr. B. A. Usman “The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition, in Africa, between the Sahara desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. Having a semi-arid…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security August 10, 2013 — Globally, about 870 million people do not have enough to eat, and more than two billion suffer from micronutrient deficiency, according to … See on http://www.environmental-expert.com

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) collaborates with the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus (Denmark) to support the Climate Food and Farming (CLIFF) Research Network. CLIFF invites applications from PhD…

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Originally posted on PENAPH:
The Participatory Epidemiology Network for Animal and Public Health (PENAPH) just released a glossary of participatory epidemiology terms. The glossary was compiled by Jeanne Coffin and Syed Noman Ali and can be downloaded at http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33352

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Moneyweb – Breaking news, independent analysis, latest JSE share prices, exchange rates and data on investment, finance and business in South Africa Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight:  Sub-Saharan African nations made … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety I passed the ACVPM specialty board exam! Read on for everything you need to know about studying for and passing it yourself. See on http://www.elliottgarber.com

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series by the Financial Times’ This Is Africa publication on realizing Africa’s agricultural potential, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation. The Skoll World Forum is a proud media partner … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Cheaper subsidy plan could soon breach global trade rules; India and others in G-33 bloc hope for break on this at Bali meet See on http://www.business-standard.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Small-scale, family-run farms not only form the base of rural communities in both the developing and developed world and provide a large number of jobs, but they are also at the center … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security This post was co-written by Toni Darbas and Jim Sumberg. Toni Darbas is a social scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. See on http://www.future-agricultures.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Du Pont global food security index shows availability of food improving in 2013, with rising incomes making affordability less of an issue See on http://www.bdlive.co.za

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative for the United Nations, is looking for feedback on their draft report ‘Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Syste…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Dual purpose cattle in Nicaragua The Livestock and Fish program director, Tom Randolph recently visited Nicaragua and Colombia. In Colombia he met colleagues in the International Center for Tropical Agriculture…

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Thousands of years of crop domestication mean that fewer than a dozen flowering plant species now account for some 80 per cent of the world’s diet. See on http://www.abc.net.au

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See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: Project description: The world’s drylands comprise 41% of the earth’s surface and are home to 2.5 billion people – and the majority of the world’s poor.  Dry … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food securityRegional Validation Workshop of the Capacity Development Strategy and Action Plan in support of the implementation of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative See on http://www.fao.org

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Entrance to FARA’s 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW6), in Accra, Ghana, 15-20 Jul 2013 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The following remarks were noted by members of the delegation of 22 staff of the International…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals: environmental stewardship, farm profitability, and prosperous farming communities. Sustainable agriculture refers to the ability of a farm to produce … See on http://www.sciencedaily.com

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security International conference on managing quality in chains, 2-5 September 2013, Cranfield University See on http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience See on allafrica.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Global Washington convened more than 200 people at Microsoft’s Redmond campus Thursday evening for a panel discussion centering around innovative solutions to See on globalwa.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Agriculture is destructive, but doesn’t have to be. Livestock could help tackle climate change, desertification and rural poverty, writes Judith D Schwartz See on http://www.theguardian.com

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Improving the breeds of farm animals is one important way of resolving food problems to ensure food security for the sustainable development of humanity. This was said by Chan-Woo Kim, the ambassad… See … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition At the November 1974 UN World Food Conference in Rome, representatives of 133 governments called for the eradication of the scourge of hunger and malnutrition. See on http://www.the-star.co.ke

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Trained for jallikattu for long, Pulikulam cattle are fierce, resistant to diseases and suitable for ploughing See on http://www.thehindu.com

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock Agenda SLA LAHORE – The key solution for ensuring sufficient poultry products everywhere is to study the indigenous breeds, chalking out strategies for their efficient use in their respective home tracts, as modern breeds … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture A few weeks ago a colleague and reader of tech4agri indicated his satisfaction with the most recent blog posts. Appreciative of his comment I asked if he would like to know more about any topic … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture More and more the talk of the global agriculture diaspora centres in the every increasing global population and the threat of food insecurity. Currently the global agri food system is steeped in mo… Bukar … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: " Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to remain the most food-insecure region over the next decade" Report USDA See on http://www.ers.usda.gov

Originally posted on The FARA Social Reporters Blog:
If we are to produce more food, we need to do so on existing, not new, agricultural land. ‘Sustainable intensification’ is one of those phrases regularly bandied about in discussions about agriculture. What…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
The Vietnamese Journal of Preventive Medicine has published a special edition on risk assessment for health research in Vietnam. The June 2013 special edition is a compilation of over 10 original research papers on the application…

Originally posted on The FARA Social Reporters Blog:
African fisheries will benefit from a new agreement between NEPAD and WorldFish. Partnership and collaboration between organizations that have similar goals in mind and are determined to succeed can lead to tremendous…

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Hunger and undernutrition are amongst the most persistent global development challenges. Part of Millennium Development Goal 1 is to ‘Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger’ … Continue reading →

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
When the writing of One Billion Hungry: Can we feed the world? began in 2010, it was estimated that there were around one billion chronically hungry people in the…

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics…   This brief article highlights that as much as technology has changed food production, there this is much more that has remained the same.  Of the … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Sometime this summer or soon after, the federal Food and Drug Administration may finally approve the first-ever genetically modified animal for human consumption — a fast-growing Atlantic salmon that has taken 17 years … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food issues The proposal being touted is that Big Food can solve the obesity epidemic with the palatable oxymoron ”healthy junk food”. This creates a tempting stew of science, aesthetics, politics and morality. See on http://www.smh.com.au

See on Scoop.it – Friday Links Did you know that Africa consumes 24 million tons of rice yearly, and only 11 million of them are produced in Africa? Africa has always been held back by issues of food sustainability, and … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Friday Links This Oxfam spoof on the 1992 classic film Glengarry Glen Ross depicts the ugly side of what have come to be called “land grabs.” See on http://www.endinghunger.org

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development What do insects have to do with poverty or food insecurity? We talk about strengthening water, land and ecosystems services, and about conserving resources for poverty alleviation and development. … See on aasw6.wordpress.com

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Whatever happened to jatropha? Is the wonder biofuel that crashed back on the up? And should we care? Last July, while visiting Liberia, I met a local man who said he … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Agriculture experts are gathered in Accra, Ghana for the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week. The event is sponsored by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA. The theme of th… … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Only seven of the 53 African Union countries who pledged to commit at least 10 percent of their national budgets to investment in agriculture in 2003 have reached that goal. Aid … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development zoonoses, animal welfare, animal health,food safety,veterinary,animal disease,animal,health,animal production,Bernard Vallat See on http://www.oie.int

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Youth engaging youth in agriculture Africa has the youngest population in the world; over 200 million people are between ages 15 and 24 and the African Economic Outlooks expects this number … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security BLOG by Dr. Shenggen Fan director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)   Although many notable commitments to agriculture and food and nutrition security have been made in recent years … Continue reading →