UN Conference on Climate Change (COP18) has begun in Doha, Qatar. Climate change is adversely affecting food security and livelihoods of the people from the poorest regions of the world. The Seeds for Needs initiative’s new project in Ethiopia lo…
In Africa agricultural land covers more than double the area covered by forests, and that ratio is rising. This makes trees on agricultural land a promising tool for addressing climate change mitigation, through their ability to store carbon. But what …
Last month, the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems in partnership with the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish hosted a joint Knowledge Management and Communications Workshop which was held in Addis Ababa.
While progress is being made at the local level to move ahead with an international scheme to reduce carbon emissions via decreasing deforestation (REDD+), countries at the Doha UN climate summit need to ‘think big on emissions targets and funding’…
A delegation from the Government of Bangladesh led by Begum Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture, and accompanied by Tariq A Karim, High Commissioner of Bangladesh in India, Md Abdul Hamid, Additional Secretary of Agriculture, and Wais Kabir, Execu…
