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…
CIAT seeks a visionary and dynamic post-doctoral social scientist to conduct comparative analysis of the effect of social, gender and generational differences on land use, livelihoods and environmental outcomes of smallholder farming in the tropical fo…
As part of the Farms of the Future project, CCAFS together with researchers at Oxford University, have been working to identify areas of western Nepal that are currently experiencing the expected future climate of Beora, a small farming community in Ru…
