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Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
Beyond the farm: promoting agribusiness as a way out of poverty Just improving farm yield is not enough to lift families and communities out of poverty – we also need to change the…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Ezekial Rop, a smallholder farmer in Moiben, Kenya (photo credit: Jeff Haskins). ‘Supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource stewardship is one of the quickest ways to lift…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Pastoral areas of Africa are experiencing a booming livestock export trade and inflow of investment that can be harnessed to grow national economies (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). A comprehensive economic evaluation of pastoral livestock’s often…

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
Agriculture policies in many African countries are failing to recognise the true needs and priorities of their young people, say authors of new research published today by the Institute of Development Studies. Unemployment…

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
Farming by machete and hoe does not appeal to young Africans – or policymakers. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Agriculture employs most of Africa‘s young people and is likely to continue to…

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
Youth are the future. Invest in them!. Youth are the future. Invest in them!  “Education is crucial, enabling young people to live up to their potential” With more than 200 million people aged between…

Beef Runner Earlier this week, I was busy in the barn at one of our farms despite the humidity and rain. We were working cattle and pulling bulls from the cow herds. The calves were receiving their first round of … Continue reading →

Is castration really a management matter? Beef Runner Why do farmers and ranchers castrate cattle? There can be many welfare and management reasons behind the use of castration in cattle. Castration also comes to mind when I think of the … Continue reading →

Beef Runner What is a Factory Farm? Does feeding cattle corn harm them? Why are cattle finished in feedlots? These are a few of the questions I often receive when discussing the beef we eat and how cattle are raised. … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition 16 June 2013, Rome – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva formally recognized 38 countries for reducing hunger by half well ahead of international targets for the year 2015. During a high-level … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition 4 June 2013, Rome – Denouncing the huge social and economic costs of malnutrition, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today called for resolute efforts to eradicate malnutrition as well as hunger … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Food for All: Tackling Hunger and Malnutrition | Commentary Roll Call There has never been a greater need for a comprehensive and sustainable approach to tackling hunger and malnutrition. See on news.google.com

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Environment News Service We Must Confront Climate Change to End Poverty Huffington Post To help our clients prepare for the risks of a warming planet, we asked the scientists at the Potsdam … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition   FAO urges end of malnutrition as priority / Social and economic costs of global malnutrition unacceptable   ROME, Italy, June 4, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Denouncing the huge social and … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety On a recent visit to Japan, I was struck by the remarkable success of smallholder farming. I left the country convinced that subsistence farming can eradicate Africa’s hunger crisis. I wade … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security   THIS is the third in the series on healthy and responsible living. Today I would like to share my experiences about the several farming practices that not only seek to … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Our Collective Failure To Address Malnutrition Is a Glaring Scandal of the 21st Century. Published on 11 June 2013. share +. June 8 – As we gather in London this weekend … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security New research published this week in the respected medical journal, The Lancet, underscores one area – undernutrition in young children – where there is a lot more work to do. According … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Dr. Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, says key issues in coming months will be input and production costs; demand; output levels for 2013 and 2014; and prices and margins.   YouTube: http://agtoday.us/14bOYrG   … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Could Agriculture Bloom in the Desert? Qatar Works to Invent an Innovative Oasis PBS NewsHour But it will likely be fueled by renewable resources, like ingenuity, imagination, and perseverance. See on … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Toward Freedom, a progressive perspective on world events See on http://www.towardfreedom.com

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Children not eating well costs Uganda more than 5% of its national income, the first large-scale survey of the economic impact of malnutrition shows. See on http://www.bbc.co.uk

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety I have been working for nine months as an agricultural economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya. I have come to realize that there are not … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
A failed maize crop in Ghana. A report by CCAFS is advising Africa’s farmers and policymakers to adapt to climate shifts now to ensure communities are protected from climate change devastations (photo credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT).…

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Myjoyonline.com Prioritise smallholder agriculture development; farmers tell gov’t Myjoyonline.com At a SEND-Ghana sponsored forum at Dodowa in the Shai-Osudoku district, the farmers bemoaned the lack of sustained efforts to assist them … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Malnutrition biggest killer of African children Africa Review Speaking to the Africa Review in a telephone interview after the rally, Mr Gates said malnutrition is a huge problem because if a … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Bill Marler’s Food Safety Today, by Bill Marler: updated automatically with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos. (RT @bmarler: Bill Marler’s Food Safety Today is out! See … Continue reading →

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
World Environment Day, the theme being food loss and food waste, got us thinking about practical ways we can reduce the amount of food we throw away. In developing…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
The world’s bee populations have been under stress in recent years, fueling concerns over the future of agriculture.  The combination of colony collapse disorder—the cause of which remains disputed—and expanded use of certain classes…

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
By Warren Nyamugasira Recently, our leaders have been commemorating, on our behalf, 50 years since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) now African Union (AU). Despite the twists and turns over the past…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
“In addition to providing high-quality food products (meat and milk), livestock is the most important source of on-farm income and insurance in the low-input farming systems of semi-arid southern Africa.” ILRI’s sister center the International…

Originally posted on Science on the Land:
Yesterday Sharon Oosthoek at Nature told us about some new science, showing that pesticides spark broad biodiversity loss. It’s easy to spray pesticides within legal limits. But many pesticides accumulate in soil and…

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
African markets are relatively small and new to Taiwan, but their strong economic growth could turn them into drivers of the country’s exports, Taiwan’s main trade promotion body said Tuesday. Africa, along with other emerging markets,…

Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
I am a huge learning addict. Case in point – this blog, which gives me a good reason to go and do hours (sometimes) of research on things such as flood prevention or…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Camels cover dozens of kilometres in search of water; average distances to watering points in the outskirts of Marsabit and Moyale, in the upper east corner of Kenya, run into dozens of kilometres (photo by…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
New 5-minute ILRI film, New approaches to chicken farming reduce poverty without adding to disease risks.  ‘. . . Before he got into chickens, Bradshaw had raised pork and cattle on Greenfire Farms, his plot of…

Originally posted on PENAPH:
The Asia Pacific Participatory Epidemiology Network (APPEN) based at Chiang Mai University is holding its first Introductory Training for PE Practitioners. The course is divided into two 5-day sessions. The first session was held at Khon…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
A 2 day Tanzania dairy value chain impact pathways workshop was held on 7-8 May 2013 to communicate and validate the program’s intervention logic in the Tanzania dairy value chain,…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Papua New Guineans Protest Land Grabs in 2011. Image courtesy Greenpeace. The BBC yesterday reported on a new database covering global land acquisitions by governments and private investors and arrived at the conclusion that…

Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
Have you ever wondered how cities today, and in the past, are provided with the immense amounts of food they need to feed their inhabitants? Carolyn Steel gives a fascinating overview on the…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Now that summer is here and I have a bit of time away from the classroom, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time in my garden. I’ve also been catching up on some…

Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
These past days, dramatic scenes have unfolded all over Germany and Central Europe in general: after unrelenting rainfalls had overburdened the natural absorption capacity of soils and riverbeds, massive floods spread throughout Central…

Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
This weekend, David Cameron hosted the G8 “Hunger Summit” in Northern Ireland, resulting in promises, pledges, praise – and a lot of backlash from African civil society, who this summit was supposed to…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles. Global Action on Nutrition, ICRISAT…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The 19th OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022 was recently released, which is an annual report on projections for 15 agricultural products over a ten year period. It covers OECD countries…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
From 9-11 September 2013, the CGIAR research programs on ‘policies, institutions and markets’ and ‘livestock and fish’ will organize a first AgriFood Chain Toolkit conference in Kampala. The AgriFood chain…

Originally posted on CH4D:
Back row:   Yordanos Mekonnen, Eshetu Zerihun, Said Mohammed, Michael Temesgen, Gelane Kumssa , Judy Bettridge,  Camilla Brena, Alemayehu Guteta, Jibril Yusuf Front row:  Zelalem Gutu, Marisol Collins All fieldwork has now been completed. The eight…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Dead livestock are scattered on the ground in drought-ridden Somalia. Image courtesy FAO FEWS. A new study exploring the root causes of the two-decade drought that ravaged the African Sahel from the 1970s to…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Danielle Nierenberg and Ellen Gustafson at Food Tank posted a list of “15 Websites Saving the Environment by Changing the Food System.” As usual, they’ve done their research and have a pretty good list…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
A report in the medical journal The Lancet last week argued  that undernutrition is responsible for approximately 45 percent of all under-five child deaths around the world. Some 3.1 million children die each year…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
The US Circuit Court of Appeals this morning issued a victory to Monsanto, affirming the decision of a lower court that found organic growers could not seek to block Monsanto from suing for contamination…

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Who Calls for Action Against Malnutrition AllAfrica.com Governments should take serious action against malnutrition to reduce the rate at which the vice is claiming lives of children, the World Health Organisation … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety LONDON, United-Kingdom, June 10, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Nigeria’s Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Akinwumi Adesina attended G8 Food Security and Nutrition events this weekend … See on … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Roughly 165 million children worldwide will have poor health, lower IQ, and decreased earning potential due to malnutrition. See on http://www.mnn.com

See on Scoop.it – Food supply & food safety Award winning food safety blog. … USFoodSafety.com. Click Here for the US Food Safety website. ECO Bags · Bioni Coating Solutions for Food Processing Facilities · Mediterranean Diet Cookbook … See … Continue reading →

Originally posted on CH4D:
Chickens have had a variety of samples taken; blood will allow us to look for different diseases which may be circulating in the population, and also allows us to look at the genetics of the…