GFAR Update
Newsletter date: 16/06/2014
Welcome to the GFAR Update!
GFAR Update is a briefing service from the GFAR Secretariat. Our aim is to keep you regularly informed and aware of new initiatives and actions around the world, so that these can have greater reach and impact for those we serve - the world’s poor.
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International Encounters: Agricultural Research and Family FarmingThere are over 500 million family farms spread across the world, on all continents. Family farmers are the main producers of foodstuffs in many regions and vitally contribute to the variety ...read more |
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Capacity-building material for local and indigenous agricultural communitiesThe Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), the Collaborative Programme of Participatory Plant Breeding in Mesoamerica, implemented in local communities of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes ...read more |
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Does the feminisation of agricultural labour empower women? Insight from female labour contractors and workers in northwest SyriaWith major socio-economic changes in the Middle East and North Africa spurring men’s exit from agriculture, women now represent over 60 per cent of the agricultural workforce in several ...read more |
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Prospects__ Agriculture and rural development assistance in the post-2015 development frameworkThe Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) has released a study “Prospects_ Agriculture and rural development in the post-2015 development framework” which was ...read more |
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CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems Publishes its Gender Strategy 2014Throughout 2013 GFAR provided technical input to the Drylands Systems CRP by supporting the integration of a gender and youth focus informed by gender experts of the ...read more |
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