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Archive for November, 2012
MasAgro made promising advances in its 2011 and 2012 activities
On Monday 12 November CIMMYT and SAGARPA presented the first MasAgro Activities Report 2011-2012 at CIMMYT headquarters in Texcoco, State of Mexico. In his welcome speech, Thomas Lumpkin stated that he is proud to collaborate with a country that has su…
The carbon sequestration potential of farms in the African Sahel
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 …
Blurring the boundaries between research and communications
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.
VIDEO: A delay in key decisions at Doha could see REDD+ lose its climate change focus
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’…