You have until July 31st to submit your abstract to the Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Microbes to Markets conference 2012, to be held in Nairobi in October. The event is co-hosted by CIAT and the University of Nairobi.
The Two Degrees Up series of short films about the possible impact of climate change on smallholder agriculture has recently been published by Reuters AlertNet.
While many experts believe that livestock belong decidedly on the minus side of any environmental equation – given, for example, the role of expanding cattle production as a driver of deforestation in the Amazon – a group of experts in animal feedi…
In the opening session of Agriculture and Rural Development Day, which was held today in parallel with Rio+20 and focused on “agriculture’s journey from Durban to Rio+20 and beyond,” the main questions the speakers addressed were “where is agri…
