We are recruiting for a Communications Officer for our Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP). Closing date for applications: August 16 2013.


We are recruiting for a Communications Officer for our Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP). Closing date for applications: August 16 2013.

Last week, members of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) travelled to Ghana to participate in the Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW). For one whole week researchers, policy makers and farmer represen…

Today’s issue focuses on two momentous events: the Integrated Breeding Platform, which held its annual meeting recently, and the orderly closure of GCP next year.
In late March 2014 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II will finalize its report on “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), CCAFS and partners will host a high-level meeting in response to the IPCC Report’s findings. DATE & TIME TBC

A sustainable smallholder agriculture sector will not only feed more people on this continent but also reduce poverty’, Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, said last week.