A new ILRI paper provides a wealth of research-based livestock facts little known (and less cited) in current global debates on the roles farm animals play in reducing or promoting global poverty, hunger, malnutrition, gender inequality, ill health, in…
From CIFOR’s Director General: some thoughts on how to broaden the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals, including a goal on landscapes.
Through five years of on-farm trials supported by the governments of East Timor and Australia using locally-suited crop varieties provided by five centers of the CGIAR-Consortium, small-scale farmers in East Timor learned about and acquired seed of imp…
Date: April 18, 2013
Time: 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EDT
Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time. Presenter(s): Chair: Shenggen Fan, IFPRI. Speakers: Thomas Jayne, Michigan State University; Shahidur Rashid, IFPRI; Derek Byerlee, World Bank (Ret.); …
CIMMYT fights hunger and poverty in the developing world through smarter agriculture. We are the world’s number one caretaker and developer of maize and wheat, two of humanity’s most vital crops. Maize and wheat are grown on 200 million hec…
