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Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Africa is often referred to as a continent of opportunity, economic or otherwise. In part because of the progress made – since 2000, rates of extreme poverty and hunger…

With more than 50 million people in refugee camps or fleeing conflict, the World Food Programme is using mobiles to provide critical food assistance Source: http://www.theguardian.com “We were curious: if we used mobile technology, could we get information faster, cheaper, … Continue reading →

The first step any country should take to improve the micronutrient status of its population, according to Ruel, is to “work on the food system” Source: http://www.ifpri.org See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security

When a scientist says something works, or is better, it’s based on what research has demonstrated, or at least what it has demonstrated up to that point in time.  So when the Union of Concerned Sci… Source: onpasture.com Based on the review … Continue reading →

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
At Agriculture for Impact we talk a lot about resilience and in particular how farms and rural economies can become more resilient to shocks and stresses like climate change,…

Mr. Adesina also says the best performing stocks in the Nigerian market today were agriculture-related stocks Private sector investment in Nigeria’s agricultural sector was valued at over $8billion… Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security

World Bank pledges to support the design of a reform package for water resources management and irrigation in Nigeria. ————————— The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on F… Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & … Continue reading →

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Friday that the ministry was collaborating with other ministries to protect Nigerians from being infected by the Ebola virus. Chukwu told newsmen in Abuja that surveillance had been mounted in all … Continue reading →

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
As the threat of climate change, natural resource scarcity and declines in the provision of the majority of ecosystem services continue, agroecology is increasingly being explored as an option…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
In the wake of the 2008 food price crisis, which exacerbated food insecurity and increased smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to shocks and stresses, recognition of the barriers smallholders face in…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Last year we posted a blog article about the role of infographics in communicating policy and advocacy messages in a simple, accessible and powerful way. The trend for the…

Originally posted on Brussels Development Briefings:
The Brussels Development Briefing on ‘Building resilience of SIDS through trade and agribusiness development‘, will be held during the morning of Friday 11 July 2014, at the ACP Secretariat in Brussels. This 37th Briefing…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The 2nd of June marked the one year anniversary of the Nutrition for Growth summit in London hosted by the UK Department for International Development, the Brazilian government and…

Originally posted on AgHealth:
A live chicken vendor weighs a chicken in Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). An article by Mark Tran in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog, How to stop zoonoses spreading – don’t keep…

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development Brucellosis, also referred to as undulant fever, is a highly contagious zoonotic disease caused by the microorganism Brucella which infects multiple animal species including cattle, sheep, pigs, sm… See on aghealth.wordpress.com

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety Regional and international experts in agriculture, health, research and trade have drawn up a plan of action for the control of aflatoxins in Africa, following a strategy development workshop organ… … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
In many of the world’s dry areas, goats provide poor people with nutrition and livelihoods. An imGoats Project is working to transform the lives of goat keepers in India and Mozambique by turning their subsistence-level…

See on Scoop.it – Sustainable Livestock development A new FAO study reports that more than 85 per cent of poor livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa live in extreme poverty; here, at a Toureg encampment near Fakara, in Niger, a boy … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Workshop participants From 29 April to 2 May 2014, the Humidtropics CGIAR research program held a capacity development workshop in Nairobi. Organised by the International Livestock Research Institute ILRI), Wageningen UR, and the International Institute…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: Where to Get Quality Agricultural Information Online, @e_agriculture @FAOKnowlege @ICT4Agric @CTA See on http://www.bigpictureagriculture.com

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety Food safety is a major concern in human nutrition. A system of traceability in poultry processing plants will make all the movement of raw materials and processed products transparent. This … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Sril AgroVet Ltd:
#OIE collaborates with #IIAD and others centers to promotes global Animal Health OIE collaborating centres represent expertise in a specific sphere of competence relating to animal health issues. As a collaborating center, IIAD will…

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety The National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (recently renamed the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases [IIAD]) has been recognized as a collaborating center in the specialty of … Continue reading →

“Critics argue that investments in building resilience with no consistent way of evaluation will fail to produce desired development outcomes.” report http://wle.cgiar.org/blogs/2014/05/02/lose-sight-resilience-thinking-pursuit-resilience-metrics/ Posted from WordPress for Android

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Over the past few years, American consumption of hummus has grown dramatically. Until the 1990s, hummus was unknown outside of specialty Middle Eastern grocers. Today, it’s in virtually every deli and grocery store across…

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Congress is considering re-imposing requirements that at least three-quarters of all US food aid be transported on American flagged ships. The requirement, which had been reduced to half of all US food aid by…

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety A research team has figured out how to disable a part of the SARS virus responsible for hiding it from the immune system — a critical step in developing a … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
A very appropriate theme when Africa is rising, was one of my first thoughts. Participants were researchers, academics, policymakers from the UN, AU, governments and NGOs as well as people like me who…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
Smallholder farmers produce the bulk of the world’s food with only minimal resources such as land and water. In fact small-scale food producers farm less than one quarter of…

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
A new report recently released by the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, entitled, The Nutrition Sensitivity of Agriculture and Food Policies, investigates, through eight country case studies, current…

Originally posted on Juju Films:
Cattle | Gombe State Nigeria | JujuFilms.tv

Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
A study commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and published by the World Health Organization earlier this week reached some starting public health conclusions. The study found that the proportion of overweight…

“Despite the incentives and the expanding markets for primary and secondary agricultural commodities, the involvement of the youth in agricultural activities has steadily declined in recent years (Adekunle et al. 2009)”

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Global malnutrition could fall 84 percent by the year 2050 as incomes in developing countries grow – but only if agricultural productivity continues to improve and climate change does not severely … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety FAO and OIE boost collaboration on animal health Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s insight: “OIE and FAO’s longstanding collaboration has proved its efficiency in the prevention and control of numerous animal … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety By Judith D. Schwartz, Author, Chelsea Green Publishing This post is part of a series produced by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, marking the occasion of its fifth Global … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety By Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute This post is part of a series produced by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, marking the occasion of its … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety The potential of insects as human food and animal feed to assure global food security and availability of animal proteins in a sustainable way has been the main focus of … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Thought + Food:
For some time now, we have been aware that coffee farmers have been facing the challenges of climate change; either from too much rain or from drought. Coffee crops are also being attacked by coffee…

See on Scoop.it – Poverty, Hunger & Malnutrition Results story of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) After 4 years on the ground. Strong results include drastically increased yields and extensive training for smallholder. Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)‘s … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety A damaged maize cob that, if harvested with clean cobs, can contaminate all the cobs with aflatoxins (photo credit: Joseph Atehnkeng/IITA). ‘The UN World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that bi… … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Using updated practices can cut greenhouse gas emissions and save livestock farmers money, says FAO report. See on m.scidev.net

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security Farming must feed more people more sustainably. Zareen Bharucha looks at scientific approaches past and present. See on m.scidev.net

Originally posted on Kalu Samuel's Blog:
R-L Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, Hon. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Federal Republic of Nigeria and Dr. Jendayi Frazer, EAX Board Chairman Photo credit: EAX KIGALI, RWANDA – Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, Honorable Minister of…

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See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety FAO says a second “Green Revolution” may be required to boost agricultural yields and feed the world’s expected 9 billion people. See on mask-africa.com

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
New research has shown that plants may be more intelligent than we think. A recent study conducted by the University of Western Australia, demonstrated that the plant, Mimosa pudica,…

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety A team of 300 IT experts is working to build a single online application and payments system in time for the new CAP scheme in 2015. See on http://www.fwi.co.uk

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety Health Ranger research breakthrough: How to block nearly all the mercury in your diet using common, everyday foods See on http://www.naturalnews.com

Originally posted on Food Governance :
This video – Imagining Research for Food Sovereignty – highlights the outcomes of the farmer exchanges and the St Ulrich workshop deliberations. For more information about the St. Ulrich Workshop on Democratising Agricultural Research for Food…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Napier grass (aka ‘elephant grass’), a major feed supplement for dairy cows and other ruminant animals in Kenya (photo credit: Jeff Haskins). Even though research has shown that [greenhouse gas] GHG emissions from the Western…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security See on http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety The StopRats project will focus on helping local people make use of sustainable anti-rat technologies. See on http://www.scidev.net

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
For tens of millions of people in rural Africa, life has gotten harder in recent years. Reliant on erratic rains, working exhausted soil and hobbled by decades of underinvestment and neglect, many have…

See on Scoop.it – Agriculture, Climate & Food security   DEADLINE- May 24 2014 Conference IHAV conference is a project-based conference which will gather from across the globe, 100 outstanding and innovative African youth visionaries and 10 inspir… See on … Continue reading →

See on Scoop.it – Food Policy, Supply, Security & Safety OSLO (Reuters) – Increasing similarity in diets worldwide is a threat to health and food security with many people forsaking traditional crops such as cassava, sorghum or millet, an international … Continue reading →

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Is humanity substituting the quality and safety of our meat with quantity? Published in January 2014, the Meat Atlas looks at commercial and small & medium scale meat production in…

Originally posted on Foundation for Young Farmers:
New technologies and ideas – from mobile phone information systems to new crop varieties – are rapidly transforming agriculture across Africa. Yet the sector continues to be stereotyped as one synonymous with poverty…

See on Scoop.it – Precision Agriculture GLOBAL – Aquaculture will provide close to two thirds of global food fish consumption by 2030 as catches from wild capture fisheries level off and demand from an emerging global middle class, especially in … Continue reading →