Paying people to conserve environmental services is not as easy as it first seemed, says a study of payment schemes in four watersheds in the Philippines. In practice it hasn’t been easy to achieve, largely owing to the huge lack of knowledge about h…
Archive for March, 2013
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Kenya: Women-Led Farm Initiative Aims For Peace, Prosperity
Bio-Innovate’s next steps: Bio-Incubate, Bio-Communicate…
The first Bio Innovate regional scientific conference (25-27 Feb 2013) ended last week with a focus on next steps and ‘big actions’ to come. The groups pondered bottlenecks in the enabling (or disabling) environment, specific priority actions that …
Building Capacity to Address Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages through CAADP
This year, the second and third CAADP Nutrition Capacity Development workshops are scheduled to take place in Tanzania from February 25 to March 1 and in South Africa in June/July 2013. The regional workshops, the first of which took place in Senegal i…
Scientist/Senior Scientist in GIS/Geospatial Science
ICRISAT is seeking applications from a dynamic and highly innovative scientist to lead geospatial research at ICRISAT. The Scientist (Internationally Recruited Staff) will be based at ICRISAT HQ in Patancheru, Hyderabad, India. The position will be bas…