“On almost any metric – yields, level of exports, contribution to gross domestic product – African agriculture does underperform,” Nicholas Minot, a senior research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington-base…
Archive for March, 2013
World Bank Urges African Agriculture Rethink – Inter Press Service
New ideas about producing fuel and food on farms
Thinking about what to plant on farms is changing to include mixed systems. In the Philippines, the World Agroforestry Centre has been looking at ways of making smallholders’ farms more efficient producers of food and also fuel. Both are predicted to…
Gender and rice research: Why should we take this seriously?
GRiSP Director Bas Boman blogs about why it is important to pay attention to gender in “rice for development research” and how we could actually go about doing this.
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