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See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition The book of the papers of the conference held in India a year ago. See on http://www.ifpri.org

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition In this report, IFPRI describes the evidence on land, water, and energy scarcity in developing countries and offers two visions of a future global food system—an unsustainable scenario in which current trends … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development AGA, Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization,FAO See on http://www.fao.org

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See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Nalanda district, an agricultural village in Bihar, India’s poorest state, was until recent times a placid, quiet village with no electricity and a place where farmers still favor animal power for … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Want to grow watermelons? Just noticed that your chickens are dying off and you don’t know what to do? Join FarmingKenya, the leading farming-related Facebook group where tips and advice are … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Read at : http://freshrootsurbancsa.wordpress.com/ Let’s Grow A Schoolyard Farm! Let us build a farm! Changing one school at a time Grow … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Research centre (aka ICRAF) putting trees on farms to raise farmers’ income and reduce poverty, working between agriculture and forestry See on http://www.worldagroforestry.org

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See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Research centre (aka ICRAF) putting trees on farms to raise farmers’ income and reduce poverty, working between agriculture and forestry See on http://www.worldagroforestry.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security It is now clear, after the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that climate change poses a serious threat to growth and sustainable development in Afr… … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety We first review historic and conceptual background to integrative thinking in medicine. See on http://www.mendeley.com

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Prevention and control of agriculture-associated diseases Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: Prevention and control of agriculture-associated diseaseWelcome to AgHealth, the website of the agriculture-associated diseases component of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition for Health. The … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, informal markets play an important role in supplying most of the meat, milk, eggs and fish that poor people depend on for their nourishment. Informal … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety A training workshop on advances in quantitative animal genetics and breeding evaluation procedures takes place at the International Livestock Research Institute 17th to 22nd June 2013. Led by Dr Ra… See … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Global Policy Forum is a policy watchdog that follows the work of the United Nations. We promote accountability and citizen participation in decisions on peace and security, social justice and international … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Sustainable Livestock Digest:
The amount of water in your beef depends where the animal was reared. As such, blanket condemnation of livestock products because they consume a lot of water and are therefore environment unfriendly is unjustified.…

Originally posted on Sustainable Livestock Digest:
ILRIs Okeyo Mwai (right) and another participant at a quantitative animal genetics and breeding evaluation workshop, June 2013 Accurate record keeping of livestock details is necessary if Africa is to benefit from animal genetic…

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition great-green-wall-trees-senegal-sahara-desert See on news.nationalgeographic.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Aid agencies are warning donors to act now to avert another drought-related food crisis in the Sahel that could mean over 11 million people sink into further food insecurity, poverty or malnutrition. … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Stocks of millet and sorghum, locally known as Guinea corn, in northern Nigeria’s markets are dwindling as traders buy them up to export across the border to Niger, where some 10 million … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The FARA Social Reporters Blog:
CGIAR: “We are already engaging with a large number of partners in Africa. And we are determined to make sure we continue to align our research with the priorities of these development…

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Age-old techniques of tilling the land so that it replenishes itself are putting food on the table and keeping poverty at bay in Western Zambia. See on http://www.takepart.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Five ways to help fight hunger around the world. See on http://www.takepart.com

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See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Science says eating together might be better. See on foodtank.org

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security The right trees, coupled with the right varieties of crops, rural advisory services, and a supportive policy environment can have a huge impact on crop yields, nutrition and income in Africa. … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety In June, researchers and partners from CGIAR research programs, including Livestock and Fish, discussed ways to tackle the main constraints smallholder farmers face. The discussion were part of eng… See on … Continue reading →

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See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture With up to 9.3 billion people to feed in 2050 in the world, it becomes urgent to find ways to increase agricultural productivity across Africa, the second most populated continent. One option devel… See … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition The Agriculture Minister said this on Monday. Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight:  “Realising the Potential of African Agriculture: Catalytic Innovations for Growth’’, organised by the Rockefeller Foundation, an international NGO See on … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security I have been traveling to Ghana and Burkina Faso to visit two ILRI research fellows whom I am supervising. They are currently finishing their data collection in the field with the … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/06/innovative-ideas-to-feed-world-giving.html Innovative ideas to feed the world: giving a platform to young people to share ideas on ending hunger and pov… See on desertification.wordpress.com

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture Smallholders need to work the logic of markets. For that they need skills – and they do not come spontaneously. To make farming a business, farmers need specific services to help them in doing … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Last week, African leaders pledged to reprioritise agriculture in their national policies and increase state spending to end hunger across the continent by 2025. At the conclusion of a meeting at t… … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Science on the Land:
Probably the least catchy of titles belongs to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). Not catchy! But these people have a lot of information to share. This week, they…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: Sustainable intensification, an agricultural development pathway that aims to reconcile food production and environmental protection, is a highly politicised term that divides academics and practitioners alike. … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Ugandan smallholder farm landscape (photo credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT). A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) calls for ‘more nuanced policy-making to boost smal… See on clippings.ilri.org

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See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Presented by Jimmy Smith, ILRI Director General, at the African Livestock Conference and Exhibition (ALiCE), Nairobi, 26−28 June 2013 See on http://www.slideshare.net

Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
With the controversy around the Food Prize, and Food Security Conference after Food Security Conference being sponsored by large seed and food corporations, it is interesting to consider how the market power of…

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Florence Chepkirui, a blind dairy farmer in Saoset village in Kenya’s Bomet District (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The director general of the International Livestock Institute (ILRI) has call… Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
Farming could be key to solving youth unemployment in Africa.

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See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security A new web tool is helping farmers understand their emissions. See on http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security This is a great argument against the technology-driven, big-ag “food security” approach which focuses on the “need to feed the world” through more and flashier technological inventions. It addresse… See on … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Cracking the Nut Africa: Improving rural livelihoods and food security, 14-16 October 2013, Kigali, Rwanda Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: ThemesProper feeding of a growing populationReducing costs and risks of serving … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety When I first saw this link in my newsfeed this morning (via Butter Believer), I knew I had to share it. The video is a response to a Time Magazine article … Continue reading →

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

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety The United States and the European Union are currently negotiating a new free trade agreement known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TFTA), sometimes also referred to as the Transatlantic Trad… … Continue reading →

Originally posted on PENAPH:
PENAPH is posting this OHCEA announcement  as it should be of interest to our members. Please contact the organizers listed in the announcement for more information. One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA), a network of…

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: Feed the Future: Launched in 2010, Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.  With a focus on smallholder farmers, particularly … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety A study released by the Earth Policy Institute last week concluded that for the first time in recorded history, farmed fish production outpaced beef production. While both have been on an … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture I’m currently working on a project analyzing the use of Africa in the agricultural biotechnology debate with a couple of students. We’re looking at how proponents and opponents of biotechnology ref… See on globalfoodpolitics.wordpress.com