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Early Career Fellowship Programme
July 2, 2010 / News Included in this newsletter: Awakening Africa’s Sleeping Giant New FAC website Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development Kenya policy engagement Growth and Social Protection Malawi signs CAADP Compact FAC continues work on Malawi’s fertiliser programme Pastoralism Climate Change FAC in West
Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability
June 24, 2010 / News Philip Woodhouse, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 10 No. 3, July 2010, pp. 437–453. Although modern agriculture has increased food production faster than populationgrowth in recent decades, there are concerns that existing models of‘industrial agriculture’ are unsustainable due to long-run
Changing Climates Changing Lives
June 4, 2010 / News Adaptation Strategies of Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Communities in Ethiopia and Mali More than 1 billion people are currently undernourished, mostly in the developing world (FAO, 2009a). In Africa, more than 218 million people, or around 30 per cent of the
Steve Wiggins at the High Level Expert Forum on ‘How to Feed the World in 2050’
May 13, 2010 / News On October 11 and 12th, 2009 FAO brought together in Rome more than 400 invited participants from across the world in a High Level Expert Forum on ‘How to Feed the World in 2050’. A preparatory exercise for the World
DFID strengthens partnership with FAC
April 30, 2010 / News Topics include: DFID renews funding for FAC FAC launches new research themes West Africa transect study Ethiopia extension consultations The political economy of seed systems – Ethiopia Ministry of Agriculture – district studies in Kenya Climate Change Adaptation Land Deal
Africa’s Green Revolution:consultations with farmers
April 30, 2010 / News Topics include: Africa’s Green Revolution:consultations with farmers GCARD consultations CAADP Africa Forum “How to Feed the World in 2050” Future Farmers
FAC holds international conference on seasonal dimensions of poverty
April 30, 2010 / News FAC’s first Newsletter with articles on: Seasonality Revisted conference Ethiopian Economic Conference GCARD consultations Farmer First Revisited and more
GCARD – The Future of Agricultural Research
March 29, 2010 / News From 28-31 March 2010 the first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) 2010 was held in Montpellier, France. GCARD is organized by GFAR in collaboration with the Consortium and Independent Science and Partnership Council (now being formed) of