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On World Food Day Stephen Devereux writes on the growing consensus that social protection has to be at the heart of any efforts to reduce rural poverty and ensure access to food, or the means to buy f… Sourced through … Continue reading →

Transformation is the development of a strategic action plan for agricultural transformation in Africa. The aim is to build a strong and sustainable agricultural sector for food and nutrition security, youth employment, poverty alleviation and rural transformation. Sourced through Scoop.it … Continue reading →

African agriculture has long been a symbol of the continent’s poverty. But that is starting to change. Thanks to digital technology, Africa’s leaders can today overcome the isolation of the continent’s smallholders and build a new food system suited to … Continue reading →

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Image from GHI’s 2015 GAP Report: http://www.globalharvestinitiative.org By Katy Wilson According to the recently released 2015 Global Hunger Index from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), hunger levels…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
As an outcome of the Rio+20 conference in 2012, countries agreed to embark on the process of developing the Sustainable Development Goals to carry on the work of the…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
On the 19th July after 7 days of discussions, the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed an outcome document containing 17 proposed…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
“We are sleepwalking towards the edge of history’s cliff”. This was a sentence uttered by former vice-president of the US, Al Gore at the recent Hunger Nutrition Climate Justice…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
By Katrin Glatzel As climate negotiators and delegates from nearly 200 countries gather in the beautiful city of Bonn for a last time before the international climate negotiations take…

Originally posted on TRANSMANGO:
Terry Marsden revisits the opinion paper he wrote earlier this month on a common food policy and reflects on the ‘new structures question’. If you would like to comment on this please join us in our…

Originally posted on The GFAiR Blog:
The Global Hunger Index is out, and while it shows the level of hunger in developing countries has fallen by 27% since 2000, it also highlights the disturbing link between armed conflict and severe hunger.…

Originally posted on ILRI news:
In 2014, to mark 40 years of international research, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is facilitating a series of events that highlight the ways in which livestock research advances the global development agenda, specifically…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
By Katrin Glatzel With just over two months left till a new international climate change agreement is being finalised in Paris, the Montpellier Panel is launching a new report…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
By Katrin Glatzel It is not uncommon that young people don’t want to follow in their parents’ footsteps, especially if it means a low income, food insecurity and back-breaking…

Originally posted on ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program:
Smallholder farmers in Uganda (photo credit: John Recha/CCAFS). How do men and women livestock keepers understand or perceive resource ownership? What implications have these perceptions on food security in smallholder settings?…

Originally posted on ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program:
A woman milking a cow in Tanga, Tanzania (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu) Written by Alessandra Galie One of the main goals of gender research in the CGIAR research program on Livestock…

Originally posted on Rural Sociology Wageningen University:
Welcome to Can Tho University For the month of August the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute (MDI) is hosting a summer school case study on Agricultural transformation in developing countries under contexts of…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
By Alice Marks An agroecosystem. Credit: S. Carrière, IRD It is no secret that natural resources such as water, nutrients, land and also biodiversity, are increasingly threatened by the…

Originally posted on Safe Food, Fair Food:
During our writeshop in November 2012, some of the outputs we finalized were a poster (see below) and a factsheet for a wider dissemination of our project goals and achievements. We took advantage…

Originally posted on Safe Food, Fair Food:
We are pleased to announce that the book, Food Safety and Informal Markets: Animal Products in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Kristina Roesel and Delia Grace of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Stephanie Brittain Launched today by Agriculture for Impact, a new Sustainable Intensification database aims to explain the ecological, socio-economic and genetic approaches that together contribute to the Sustainable Intensification…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Investing in smallholder farmers who own livestock in rural Africa, such as these women in Tanzania, is a catalyst for economic growth (photo credit: ILRI/Deo Gratias Shayo). Last October (2013), the World Bank reported on…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Village women and livestock in Niger (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). ‘A key function of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is to estimate food security across the world. These estimates are published each year as…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Theories of change have become part of the landscape of CGIAR research programs – also the program on Livestock and Fish. Livestock and Fish is a complex program characterized by…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
In 2015, the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program will be evaluated by a team commissioned by the Independent Evaluation Arrangement (IEA) office of the CGIAR. You can learn more…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Aflatoxins are highly toxic fungal by-products produced by certain strains of Aspergillus fungi in more than 40 susceptible crops including maize and groundnuts. Aflatoxins can be separated into aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2. When ingested,…

Originally posted on DESERTIFICATION:
Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/10/less-hunger-but-not-good-enough.html Less Hunger, But Not Good Enough By José Graziano da Silva, Kanayo Nwanze, and Ertharin Cousin Every year, we take a snapshot of world progress in the fight against chronic hunger. This…

Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
I am back from Cuba and have a long list of posts in my mind, both from the conference I attended and from talking to Cubans on the street. Coming soon. However, these…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Livestock production in California (image via Flickr/US Department of Agriculture). There’s been an interesting debate published in the Wall Street Journal this week on whether feedlot beef is bad for the environment. Robert Martin, director of the…

Terrain Map of Trinidad In my previous post, GIS a map to food security, I identified eight benefits of GIS technology. Additionally, I introduced you to the Land Information System of Trinidad and Tobago (LISTT) Parcel Viewer, a program under the Land Management Division…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
The Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program director, Tom Randolph, yesterday, 8 October 2012, attended the day-long 45th anniversary celebration in Nairobi for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).…

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Jimmy Smith signs the agreement; Livestock and Fish director Tom Randolph look on Recently, ILRI director general Jimmy Smith signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement between the Swedish University of Agricultural…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Goats at a market in Somaliland (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). By Andrew Wangili A new research brief by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) shows that a livestock marketing information system (LMIS) has improved access to…

Originally posted on The GFAiR Blog:
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) co-organized from 15-17 June, 2015 in Zaragoza, Spain the conference “Agricultural Higher Education in the 21st Century” in which Young Professionals…

Originally posted on Pastoralists, Nomads, Small and Medium Scaled Family Farmers are the Custodian of Native genetic resources and Sustainable Farming Systems:
The food security challenge and health complications, strongly realize the importance of those plants (trees, shrubs, bushes etc) which can add…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
A local pork vendor at the wet market sells her meat to two local women, Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). ? The 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report launched last week (18 March…