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Call for good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the e-Agriculture Community of Practice (COP) are launching a call for good and promising practices on the use of ICTs for Agriculture. Are you using ICTs to improve crop production, …
Read More »African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) Volume 17 No. 2 (2017) Special Issue devoted to Biofortification
Biofortification in Regional Agriculture and Nutrition Policies
FARA is organizing a side event entitled ‘Embracing biofortification in national and regional agriculture and nutrition policies and strategies, during the Commemoration of 7th African Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADNFS). This side event falls within the Sub-theme 4 of the ADNFS i.e. harnessing partnerships for improved child nutrition …
Read More »Presentation 04: Indicator data collection: Importance and challenges
SPHI is expected to reach 10 million households in 17 countries in ten years to achieve two broad categories of goals. This presentation highlights the related agriculture and nutrition indicators and the challenges in collecting them.
Read More »RAC Media Event Report- Tanzania
This article reports on Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) in Tanzania, and the media event conducted to orient staff from different media houses, as to be familiar with basic promotional information and materials on the RAC Project, and orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) for use for awareness creation Nature of the event …
Read More »Adapting agriculture to climate change: collecting, protecting and preparing crop wild relatives
What is the Global Crop Diversity Trust? Public-private partnership raising an endowment fund that will provide continuous funding for key crop diversity collections (starting with international collections maintained by CGIAR Centres) Goal: “to advance an efficient and sustainable global system of ex situ conservation by promoting the rescue, understanding, use …
Read More »SCALING UP IN AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND NUTRITION
Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition, however, is a major challenge. …
Read More »Farmers’ Perception of and Coping Strategies to Climate Change: Evidence From Six Agro-Ecological Zones of Uganda
In Uganda, weather-related events such as prolonged dry seasons, floods, storms, mudslides, extreme rainfall, and delayed/early rains have become more frequent and/or intense. This has left most of the rural poor farmers’ food insecure and their livelihoods threatened. A total of 192 sweetpotato farmer households distributed in six agro-ecological zones …
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