Agricultural biodiversity plays essential roles in development and in sustaining livelihoods, food security and nutrition. However, despite its vital role in food security, nutrition, sustainability and resilience, incomes, ecosystem services and social coherence, efforts to bring greater...
22/05/2013
Horticultural crops have enormous importance around the world, in ensuring nutrition, incomes, resilience to environmental change and fulfilling a wide variety of valuable purposes from foods and medicines to spices and flower crops for millions of people. However, work to improve these crops...
01/03/2013
Under its work program stream on promoting agrobiodiversity, GFAR has supported through AARINENA the work of a small group of expert lead by Dr. Mohammed Zehni (Libya) with technical support from Bioversity International and ICARDA, which helped to revamp the plant genetic resources network for...
23/02/2013
The problems being addressed in this session are related to ensuring global food and nutrition security, as well as promoting resilience in production systems and delivering ecosystem services through agricultural biodiversity. Whole landscape management approaches embody biodiversity management,...
27/10/2012
The CGIAR Research Program No. 6: Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Governance (CRP6), brings together four of the world’s leading research centers in their respective subjects: the World Agroforestry Centre, CIFOR, CIAT and Bioversity International —...
11/10/2012
The Water, Land and Ecosystems Program addresses the dangers facing development in a world of finite resources. Its goals are: sustainable intensification; to improve the sharing of benefits and risks on which our future depends; to support the political discourse that underpins a long-term,...
11/10/2012
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...
11/10/2012
The 2nd All Africa Horticulture Congress (AAHC2) took place from 15-20 January 2012, in South Africa. The Congress aimed to bring together scientists involved in diverse horticultural endeavours in Africa and to provide a platform that encourages a spirit of communication, collaboration and...
25/01/2012
Written by Patrick Dugan For Smrity Kona and her family living in southern Bangladesh, the farming year is driven by the annual cycle of monsoon flood and dry season drought. When waters are high family members fish with an assortment of gear in deeply flooded wetlands, they plant ...
14/12/2011
Written by Jeffrey Sayer[1] and Duncan Pollard[2] Farmers everywhere impact on the environment. In many situations their activities influence the ecosystem services upon which broader society depends. In rich countries billions of dollars are spent every year to provide farmers with incentives...
14/12/2011
The draft Strategy was presented to the 12th General Conference of the Association of Agricultural Research Institutes in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) held in Kuwait City, Kuwait, from 16 to 17 November 2011. The General Assembly agreed on the following...
07/12/2011
The Development Opportunity Crops Initiative (DOCs) At the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2010), GFAR’s multi-stakeholder constituencies prioritized the issue of agro-biodiversity, as one of prime global importance. With the International Treaty...
28/11/2011
Source: CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers This month saw the 10th anniversary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Plant genetic resources are important as they are the raw materials needed by farmers, scientists, and...
25/11/2011
The multi-stakeholder constituencies of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) have prioritized the issue of agro-biodiversity as one of prime global importance. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources in Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) recognizes the importance of...
25/02/2011
GFAR’s constituencies have prioritized the issue of agro-biodiversity as one of prime global importance, affecting as it does the lives and livelihoods of millions of small farmers and communities who are dependent upon local crop varieties and indigenous species and recognizing also the...
17/01/2011
