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Food scarcity remains a fundamental cause of violent outbreaks across the world. Bryce Evans investigates the issue.

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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.

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» TED2013 Selects Allan Savory | Healing the Grasslands, Rangelands and Savannas of the World.

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» Evidence Supporting Holistic Management | Healing the Grasslands, Rangelands and Savannas of the World.

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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…

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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 …

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Moneyweb – Breaking news, independent analysis, latest JSE share prices, exchange rates and data on investment, finance and business in South Africa

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I passed the ACVPM specialty board exam! Read on for everything you need to know about studying for and passing it yourself.

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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 for the…

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Cheaper subsidy plan could soon breach global trade rules; India and others in G-33 bloc hope for break on this at Bali meet

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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 of sustainable production.

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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.

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Du Pont global food security index shows availability of food improving in 2013, with rising incomes making affordability less of an issue

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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…

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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.

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Regional 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 
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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 …

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International conference on managing quality in chains, 2-5 September 2013, Cranfield University

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allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience

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Global Washington convened more than 200 people at Microsoft’s Redmond campus Thursday evening for a panel discussion centering around innovative solutions to

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Agriculture is destructive, but doesn’t have to be. Livestock could help tackle climate change, desertification and rural poverty, writes Judith D Schwartz

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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…

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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.

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Trained for jallikattu for long, Pulikulam cattle are fierce, resistant to diseases and suitable for ploughing

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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 do not possess several characters and…

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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 in …

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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…

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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’ (UN, 2012).

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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 thousands of plants on Earth, 11 account for most of what we eat (corn, rice, wheat, cassava, potatoes, sorghum, millet, beans, barley rye and oats) .  Not surprisingly, those 11 plants are the same that have been cultivated by humans for thousands of years–makes you think that early humans, while not technologically advanced, were constantly conducting agricultural experiments and found many of the best animal and plant resources for human consumption.  This is one reason losing local indigenous knowledge about cultural ecology and the species’ genetic diversity would be a great loss for humanity.  

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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 to reach the threshold of American consensus. The man to thank — or blame, depending on how you feel about these things — is a former Soviet biologist who is bankrolling the endeavor with an eye on becoming a U.S. salmon farmer.

“I have no doubt the FDA will approve a genetically modified animal at some point,” says Kakha Bendukidze, the largest shareholder in AquaBounty Technologies, a Boston-area biotech company that wants to bring its genetically altered AquAdvantage Salmon to American dinner tables and supermarkets. “Whether it’s this fish or some other animal, it has to do this, or it risks America losing its biotechnology edge to countries like China.”

More than 33,000 fishermen, environmentalists and food safety advocates have written to the FDA to oppose the approval. Among their worries: that this genetically engineered fish might cause unique allergic reactions in humans; that it might escape and mix with wild salmon and ultimately out breed and out eat them; and that the fast-growing broods could flood the market and cripple the wild salmon fishing industry in coastal states like Alaska, Oregon and Washington

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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.

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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 the prob…

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This Oxfam spoof on the 1992 classic film Glengarry Glen Ross depicts the ugly side of what have come to be called “land grabs.”

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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. …

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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 was a “recruiter” of smallho…

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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…

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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 organizations say tha…

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zoonoses, animal welfare, animal health,food safety,veterinary,animal disease,animal,health,animal production,Bernard Vallat

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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 to doub…

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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 by various actors—including developing country governments, members of the international community, and other key stakeholders—progress in fulfilling these commitments remains mixed.  It will be essential for actors to “walk the talk” and move from rhetoric to action. Several important actions will be needed including:

–Investing in agricultural science and technology. These investments should include technologies for improved crop and livestock breeding; advanced biofuels derived from non-food feedstock; low carbon agriculture; resource-use efficiency which saves water and energy, as well as reductions in food losses and waste; and safe food systems. Technologies must be smallholder friendly and regionally applicable.

–Advancing a “nexus” approach in policy planning and implementation that takes into consideration the agriculture, nutrition, and health nexus and the food, water, and energy nexus. Sectoral synergies must be explored that promote win-win solutions while minimizing trade-offs at the same time. Environmental sustainability goals, for example, should not come at the expense of achieving food and nutrition security.

–Strengthening the capacities of developing countries through increased technical and financial support. These efforts should build the capabilities of national institutions to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate programs, initiatives, and policies. Experiences from Asian countries, like China and India, have shown that returns from these types of efforts are high.

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The book of the papers of the conference held in India a year ago.

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