“Women are a key part of the mainstream in agriculture, yet they face formidable obstacles,” said CIMMYT gender and development specialist Vongai Kandiwa during a recent seminar in Nairobi, Kenya. Vongai was speaking on the importance of having a s…
Archive for December, 2012
Putting poo safely into the right place–the fields!
A world in need of potty training. It’s shit economics. And pretty lousy ecology, too. Our misuse of human excrement must count as one of the modern world’s worst, but least discussed, resource failures. It is turning rivers into cesspools, d…
Bridging the gap between publishing research and applying it in the forest
In 2008, David Boshier and colleagues from Bioversity International started creating free ‘off the shelf’ materials that would make forest genetic resources training relevant, attractive and accessible, both in language and availability to …
How to address new biofuel challenges when impacts on environment and society are ‘mixed’
The impacts of biofuel production have been mixed, making it difficult to generalise as “bad” or “good” for the environment, economy and society.
Inaugural meeting of the Livestock and Fish advisory committee
On 11-13 December 2012, the Science and Partnership Advisory Committee of the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program held its inaugural meeting in Nairobi. First on the agenda was a meeting with management teams of ILRI and the Livestock and Fish pr…