An international research hub has opened in Hanoi, Vietnam to develop climate-smart farming technologies for SE Asia.
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As livestock farming intensifies in poor countries, so can livestock–and livestock-to-human–diseases
While livestock contribute about 40 per cent of the value of agriculture and forms a crucial part of household wealth [in Kenya and many other developing countries], experts now say keeping animals is spreading disease and polluting the environment lik…
Feeding Nine Billion in 2050
April 11, 2013—During the next 40 years the world’s population is projected to reach more than nine billion people. Demand for food is expected to increase by 60 percent under business-as-usual assumptions. Competition for land, water, and food cou…
Senegal Prime Minister supports new partnerships to tackle food security in the region
A stronger and more dynamic regional and international research-for-development partnership in agriculture is the way forward for advancing food security and poverty reduction in the drylands.
Stronger regional and international partnerships paving the way for food security and poverty reduction
Partnership is the key to overcoming poverty and food insecurity which remain as serious challenges in the dryland tropics of the world, affecting about 700 million people living on less than $2 a day.