Interactive web app lets users map forest carbon emissions activities
A new online portal for monitoring, reporting and verifying carbon emissions allows researchers and practitioners to better manage forest inventories, its creators say.
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Investing in smallholder aquaculture can create economic, social and environmental benefits
Writing in New Agriculturist, Wayne Rogers, Malcolm Beveridge and Michael Phillips argue that “nvestments in smallholder [aquaculture] farmers and their organisations can be commercially viable, creating economic as well as social and environmental b…
Project news
Use a computer to choose the best way to manage your land
Governments can use a computer model to see the effects of different land uses. We tested one model in a watershed in the Philippines, saving time and money.
Prestigious Award for BecA-ILRI Hub Scientist, Jagger Harvey
ILRI’s Jagger Harvey was presented the prestigious Societal Impact Award by The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in Norwich, UK. The award, one of four given to TSL alumni who have worked with developing country agriculture, was presented to Dr Harvey …
Press Releases
Press Release – Global leaders launch initiative to bridge conservation and agriculture
As the world faces ongoing food crises, extreme weather and population growth, Bioversity International and global partners are responding by launching the ‘Bridging Agriculture and Conservation Initiative’ to develop solutions to food security and…
Registration now open for Global Landscapes Forum, to develop the climate and development agenda for 2015 and beyond
More than 1,000 policymakers, journalists, leaders and experts in forests and agriculture will gather in Poland in November on the sidelines of UN climate talks to participate in a new two-day event: The Global Landscapes Forum. Registration is now open.
Press Clippings
Partnerships bear fruit in drive for Africa to feed Africa [Trust.org: Thomson Reuters]
Fisheries policy – widening the net
Stephen Hall, director general of WorldFish, believes that fisheries policy development needs to involve stakeholders at all levels and view the sector within the broader context of rural development.
Publications
Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics
Large trees store large amounts of biomass. Several studies suggest that large trees may be vulnerable to changing climate, potentially leading to declining forest biomass storage. Here we determine the importance of large trees for tropical forest bio…
Solomon Islands Malaita Hub Scoping Report
This report marks the transition from the scoping phase to the diagnosis phase in which output from scoping was used to develop a hub level theory of change for identifying research opportunities.
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Innovations for sustainability and resilience in aquatic systems
Presented by Tabeth Chiuta on 18 July, at the 2013 Africa Agriculture Science Week, held in Accra, Ghana.
Climate-Smart Agriculture presentation, Sonja Vermeulen
At the Africa Agriculture Science Week AASW 15-20 July, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Head of Research Sonja Vermeulen gave a presentation on Climate-Smart Agriculture in an African context.