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Where Do the World's Hungriest People Live? Not Where You Think

To shine a spotlight on this issue, I co-wrote a chapter on the urgent need to find solutions for the Missing Middle in the International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI) 2014/...

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"DR know and Citizen can": The futures of science and innovation platforms

By 2025, the role of agricultural scientist will have evolved from data interpreter, to “polymath”, offering services to support all citizens as innovators and ensuring that the science associated to innovation platforms is in pursuit of social justice. 

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Agricultural Heritage – Our Key to the Future

For millennia communities of farmers, herders, fishers, and forest people have developed complex, diverse, and locally-adapted agricultural systems. These systems have been managed with time-tested, ingenious techniques and practices that have led to community food security

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The Strategy for CGIAR’s next ten years is evolving with every voice

With less than a week to go (until 27th February 2015) in the Second Phase of Consultation on the SRF, there has been an overwhelming sentiment from participants in the various channels of the consultation that the SRF has made significant advances...

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“Foresight is not about prediction; it’s not about projection. Foresight is about exploration and anticipation”

This is how Robin Bourgeois, Senior Foresight Advisor at GFAR Secretariat, introduces what foresight is about. 
 
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Together, we are shaping the future of agriculture

CGIAR, in developing the Strategy and Results Framework (SRF) for its next decade of research, is working through GFAR to reach out to all the Global Forum’s stakeholders, to ensure that the new SRF is robust and reflects the GCARD Road Map...

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The Forum in Action

World Congress on Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest Systems

Embrapa is pleased to invite you to participate on the World Congress on Integrated Crop-...

The cost of cheap food

Gunnar Rundgren, author and former President, International Federation of Organic Agriculture...

About soils research

The status of soil has always profoundly shaped the fate of society. Yet, the modern world...