Transforming Institutions

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The generation and application of knowledge is critical to meeting the enormous global challenges facing agriculture, yet major concerns remain: the poor have been last to benefit from research (as recently documented in the World Development Report and IAASTD); Many apparently effective technologies have not been adopted and societies have been losing confidence in agricultural science. In essence, why are research and extension institutions not effectively connected with those they are intended to benefit and so not valued and supported to the ... more

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CFS side event - Transforming food systems

CFS side event - Transforming food systems: empowering women to deliver on Food Security and Nutrition

The Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) is organizing a side event on “Transforming...
08/10/2013
Progress of the HSAD initiative in Iraq

Progress of the HSAD initiative in Iraq

Good news from Iraq - this newsletter highlights the progress of the HSAD initiative and its...
07/10/2013
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CFS side event - Transforming food systems: empowering women to deliver on Food Security and Nutrition

The Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) is organizing a side event on “Transforming...
04/10/2013
Mainstreaming gender equality in African

Mainstreaming gender equality in African agricultural research and development: A study of constraints and opportunities

This report presents the findings of a study conducted on the constraints and opportunities for...
30/09/2013
Global Knowledge platform launched to galvanize women’s economic empowerment

Global Knowledge platform launched to galvanize women’s economic empowerment

Source: Global Knowledge Gateway for Women’s Economic Empowermen  ...
27/09/2013
The Global Rice Science Partnership

The Global Rice Science Partnership – Enabling Partnership and Meeting the Needs of Women Farmers

The CGIAR Research Program on Rice, also known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP),...
10/09/2013
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Relevant bookmarks

The role of women in agriculture-ESA Working Paper

Engendering agricultural research, development, and extension (IFPRI)

First Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA) - Proceedings

F@rmletter - The E-magazine of the World’s Farmers issue n. 16, June 2013

AWARD Newsletter - May 2013

Sustainable development from a gender perspective: A glossary

Forests, food security and gender: linkages, disparities and priorities for action

Addressing food insecurity in protracted crises

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