First orphan legume genome sequence to be translated to crop breeding to boost food, nutrition and income security of dryland poor
Archive for January, 2013
One more cooperative cooling plant launched in Kenya
A quiet town at the foot of Cherangany hills in Kenya’s North Rift achieves a 2-year dream and milestone of owning and launching a modern dairy chilling facility for bulking, chilling and marketing quality milk on behalf of over 3000 dairy farmers, w…
Non-Integrated Water Resources Management
Integrated Water Resources Management provides a set of reasoned principles that, if followed, would lead us to an improved water future. This promise plus the backing of important international organizations has allowed IWRM ideals to acquire a near monopoly on water management discourse. This is unfortunate because, while the potential benefits of IWRM are large, its implementation comes with its own set of economic, political and time costs, costs which are not always considered in IWRM policy advocacy. Failure to recognize these costs can sometimes result in outcomes counter to the goals of water sector reform. The ubiquity of IWRM [...]
Integrating gender into rural advisory services: Training material
Integrating gender into rural advisory services: Training material by ILRI’s Kathy Colverson to be used in conjunction with “Integrating Gender into Rural Advisory Services: A Trainer’s Manual” (forthcoming 2013).
Workshop highlighted landmark survey of food security in Bangladesh
The Feed the Future Zone in the South and the Rest of Bangladesh: A Comparison of Food Security Aspects, January 16, 2013, Dhaka