Modern Ghana–The African Development Bank (AfDB) and researchers today launched the US$63.24 million AfDB-funded initiative that aims to raise agricultural productivity and also lift millions of Africans out of poverty. The project, which will ru…
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African Development Bank launches N9.4bn initiative to lift Agric. productivity
DailyTimes–The African Development Bank (AfDB) and researchers have launched a US$63.24 million (about N9.4billion) AfDB-funded initiative that aims to raise agricultural productivity and also lift millions of Africans out of poverty. The project…
Looking back on Forest Day
The world’s top forestry experts and high-profile decision makers gathered on the sidelines of the UN Climate talks yesterday for the last Forest Day, as the event shifts to a more integrated focus on achieving food security and overcoming climate ch…
“Come out of the forest” to save the trees
Forestry experts have called for a new approach to managing land and tackling climate change – challenging the ongoing debate that forests have to be sacrificed for the sake of rural development and food security.
Caring about forests is caring about the people who depend on them
Why should we care about forests? And in particular, why should smallholder farmers be concerned about deforestation issues? Won’t conserving trees compromise food production? Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). Written by Cecilia Schubert