Items in the category "Food Security"
[Document] Mark Holderness, GFAR Executive Secretary, was invited as a moderator for the Network development meeting of the Eurasian Centre for Food Security (ECFS) in Moscow, Russian Federation, from 18 to 20 November 2013. Dr Holderness gave a keynote presentation â€Shaping the future together...
[News] Moscow, Russian Federation 8-20 November 2013 Mark Holderness, GFAR Executive Secretary, was invited as a Moderator for the Network development meeting of the Eurasian Centre for Food Security (ECFS) in Moscow, Russian Federation. Responding to the 2008 food price crisis...
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[News] Prof. Monty Jones, Chair of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, will be a keynote speaker at the next Economist Conference “Feeding the World 2013: Accelerating Global Collaboration on Food Security” to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January...
[Document] The Wheat Initiative1 aims to encourage and support the development of a vibrant global wheat public-private research community sharing resources, capabilities, data and ideas to improve wheat productivity, quality and sustainable production around the world.
[Document] The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) – with over 900 partners from among international research institutes, national academia, development agencies and donors, extension services, private sector, NGOs and civil societies - develops new rice varieties with increased yield potential,...
[Document] HKI’s food-based models integrate nutrition, agriculture and health sectors at the community and household levels. Working with local NGOs and local government partners, we establish community-based extension services (demonstration farms and farmers) to reach underserved poor and extreme-poor...
[Document] The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an initiative that works across African countries to improve the productivity and sustainable production of smallholder farmers, the majority of who are women. AGRA strives to effect change across the entire agriculture value chain through...
[Document] Action Contre la Faim (ACF) – a Nutrition Security Approach to tackle under-nutrition (malnutrition?) Lessons from the field, way forward and research needs
[Document] The MAIZE Research Program (CRP) is a CGIAR global alliance bringing together CIMMYT, IITA and more than 300 institutions (NARES, advanced research institutions, NGOs, CBOs etc.). It aims at ensuring that public-funded international agricultural research helps to sustainably intensify maize-based...
[Document] The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish and the role of development partners: The overall rationale, assumptions and approach adopted by the program will be described, and the specific role that we expect development partners to play in achieving its objectives.
[Document] While the research agenda is growing, there remains limited concrete evidence on how agriculture–nutrition linkages work. A mapping exercise has been completed by DFID/LCIRAH outlining the research gaps. However more nutrition-relevant data from agricultural interventions needs to be generated,...
[Document] Enhancing diversity through the use of neglected, underutilized crops and species will not only diversify agro-ecosystems and rotations, but also likely to improve adaptability to extreme climatic conditions, provide resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses and produce harvestable yields where...
[Document] Over the past three years, the World Bank has made a concerted effort to scale-up work in nutrition and is strongly committed to increasing the multisectorality of its investments by supporting nutrition through other relevant sectors, such as agriculture, social protection and education. The Bank'...
[Document] The various AR4D initiatives focusing on improving food security face similar challenges such as how to link basic biological research at the international level to its application on the ground in specific countries and contexts, or how to work with development actors to ensure that research...
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[Document] Background document for the GFAR Steering Committee meeting in Montevideo (August 2008): the Declaration of the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy (Rome, June 2008)
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[Document] Global food security has become increasingly dependent on only a handful of crops. Over 50% of the global requirement for proteins and calories are met by just three, maize, wheat and rice; only 150 crops are commercialized on a significant global scale. Yet, humankind has, over time, used more...
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[Document] Planeta Valle is a Regional Development Entity that is being established as a joint collaboration between the local (provincial) Government, the private sector (coordinated by the Chamber of Commerce of Cali), the academic and research community spearheaded by a major University (University del...
[Document] The Near East and North Africa Region is food deficit and for many years, it has been the largest net food importer among developing countries. As some 60% or more of the population of the region live in the rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood, the decreasing agricultural...
[Document] Le réseau Interface a été créé pour répondre aux problèmes de développement du secteur agrobusiness confronté à la mutation de l¿environnement des affaires dans ce monde de globalisation et d¿exacerbation de la concurrence. Espace de réflexions, d¿échanges et d¿actions, INTERFACE couvre...
[Document] INTERFACE, le Réseau des Professionnels de l¿agro-alimentaire en Afrique est né le 23 Mai 1997 à Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso pour répondre aux problèmes de développement du secteur privé africain émergeant, confronté à la mondialisation de l¿économie. Quatorze délégués provenant de l¿Afrique de l¿...
