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CCAFS Climate Smart Villages project in South Asia: An Introduction

CCAFS — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:41:55 +0000

This video is an introduction to the CCAFS Climate Smart Village project in South Asia. CCAFS SA has introduced the model of “Climate Smart Villages (CSVs)” in India, which is being implemented and scaled-up with the help of other CGIAR pro...

Climate Smart Village Project: Residue Management

CCAFS — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:25 +0000

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has introduced the model of “Climate Smart Villages (CSVs)” in India. In this video, you will learn more about the benefits from residue management which is bei...

Climate Smart village project: Index-based Crop Insurance

CCAFS — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:43:08 +0000

Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) South Asia has introduced the model of “Climate Smart Villages (CSVs)” in India. In this video, people who have received insurance payments due to crop losses, are be...

AfricaRice : Addressing the gender dimensions of rice research and development

Africa Rice Center — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:09:01 +0000

How do men and women rice farmers respond to the impacts of climate change, particularly relating to safeguarding food security and livelihoods? In sub-Saharan Africa, rice is primarily a women’s crop in the rainfed upland and lowland ecologies. They...

Copy of Crop Wild Relatives

Bioversity International — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:03:36 +0000

Crop wild relatives are the unrecognized and often unnoticed backbone of plant breeding programmes. While a new push aims to secure collections of crop wild relatives in genebanks, Bioversity International is continuing its work to protect these import...

COP18SideEvent_Forest_Day_6

World Agroforestry Centre — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:24:38 +0000

COP18SideEvent_Forest_Day_6 Forest Day 6 took place on the sidelines of the 18th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 18) to the UNFCCC. It was seeking to inform UNFCCC’s global agenda and forest stakeholders on ways to move forward with agr...

Is the Window of Opportunity for REDD+ Closing?

World Agroforestry Centre — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:52:17 +0000

Is the Window of Opportunity for REDD+ Closing? Side-event at COP18, Doha: Is the window of opportunity for REDD+ closing? A presentation by Meine van Noordwijk (ICRAF) From: WorldAgroforestry Views: 8 0 ratings Time: 21:32 More in Nonprofits & Activism

ICRISAT at the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture

ICRISAT — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:32:33 +0000

ICRISAT at the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture Dr Rajeev Varshney Director, Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG) & Principal Scientist -Applied Genomics, ICRISAT delivering his presentation on “Open data in genomics and modern breeding… From: icrisatco Views: 10 0 ratings Time: 09:27 More in Nonprofits &

New lethal coconut disease threatens Papua New Guinea smallholders’ livelihoods

Bioversity International — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:12:13 +0000

In Papua New Guinea, a new lethal plant disease called Bogia syndrome is killing more and more coconut palms, other palms species and some banana varieties. With support from Bioversity International and CGIAR, COGENT is mobilizing the fight against th...

CIAT Director General Hails new Program

ICRISAT — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:12:11 +0000

CIAT Director General Dr. Ruben G. Echeverría highlights the importance of the new CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and its vision for the future.

Policymakers’ Responses to Food Price Crises — May 2, 2013 — Per Pinstrup-Andersen

IFPRI — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:39:34 +0000

In this seminar, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University, presents results from a 14-country stud...

A Glimpse From the Field: A Ganges Study Tour

CPWF — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:15:17 +0000

A Ganges Basin Development Challenge field trip visited project sites in the southern part of Bangladesh from Oct 31 to Nov 05, 2012. Some of the focused activities were related to varietal trial, cropping patterns, community-based water management, co...

D8 Open Data for Agriculture: G8 Side Event at IFPRI — May 1, 2013 — Johannes Keizer

IFPRI — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:11:53 +0000

Presentation by Johannes Keizer, FAO, at the D8 Open Data for Agriculture: G8 Side Event at IFPRI, on OpenAgris (http://agris.fao.org/openagris/)

D8 Open Data for Agriculture: G8 Side Event at IFPRI – May 1, 2013 – Neil Fantom

IFPRI — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:02:30 +0000

Presentation by Neil Fantom, World Bank, at the D8 Open Data for Agriculture: G8 Side Event at IFPRI, “Ten Things We’ve Learned at the World Bank,”

AfricaRice Perspectives : Dr Jonas Chianu

Africa Rice Center — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:21:59 +0000

Dr Jonas Chianu, Principal Agricultural Economist, African Development Bank (AfDB), speaks during his recent visit to AfricaRice, Cotonou, Benin, 26 April 2013. He is also Task Team Leader of AfDB-funded project on Support to Agricultural Research for...

Video: Which way to food security in East Africa? Scenarios for the future

CCAFS — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:26:30 +0000

Which way to food security in East Africa? Scenarios for the future What does the future hold for food security in East Africa? Watch video on how scenarios are developed with regional partners. http://www.ccafs.cgiar.org

AfricaRice Perspectives : Dr Kenneth Cassman

Africa Rice Center — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:56:40 +0000

Dr Kenneth Cassman, Professor of Agronomy & Horticulture, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA, speaks during his recent visit to AfricaRice, Cotonou, Benin, 24 April 2013. Dr Cassman is also Chair of CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC).

Our Forests Our Prosperity

CIFOR — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:49:59 +0000

Agroforestry for better livelihoods of upland farmers in Northwest Vietnam

World Agroforestry Centre — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:38:20 +0000

Agroforestry for better livelihoods of upland farmers in Northwest Vietnam A story of how World Agroforestry Vietnam is trying to use agroforestry science to support upland farmers’ farming practice and thereby improving their livelihoods. From: WorldAgroforestry Views: 15 0 ratings Time: 05:24 More in Nonprofits & Activism

Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease

CIMMYT — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:50:01 +0000

A new challenge for maize scientists in East Africa.