Andy Jarvis says to look at the livestock “hoofprint” as an opportunity as much as a call to immediate action. “Developing countries are where it’s at! They have the biggest potential for mitigation and major system transformations. There are s…
Archive for April, 2012
‘Developing countries are where it’s at in reducing livestock’s ecological hoofprint’ – (promiscuous agricultural) geographer
Farming Waters, Changing Lives
Farming Waters, Changing Lives Climate change – sea level rise – increased salinity; these are some of the challenges to development in Bangladesh. The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems is working in Bangladesh to help …
Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems: Program summary: Solomon Islands
Of a total population of just over half a million people, 75% of Solomon Islanders are subsistence-oriented small holder farmers and fishers. Most people live on the coastal margins of the almost 1000 island archipelago while those that live inland hav…
Launch and planning meeting of AISRF chickpea project
The launch and planning meeting of the project on Genomic approaches for stress tolerant chickpea funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology under the Australian Indian Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) programme was held on 17 April at ICRISAT-Pat…