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World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Food security
Nutrition

Kathmandu, Nepal, 25 June 2018 — The Government of Nepal, through the Ministry of Agriculture,…

Agroforestry systems for producing nutritious food for smallholders in Odisha, India

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security
Nutrition

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) South Asia Regional Programme recently launched a three-year p…

India’s northeast Bihar State gears up to approve and implement a ‘livestock master plan’

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Village household scenes from northeastern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Bihar is gear…

Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever

Health
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths…

Innovations for sustainable rice farming: Jain Irrigation Systems joins IRRI consortium advancing direct seeded rice systems

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

Partnership with company that pioneered modern drip irrigation in India opens new possibilities for …

Opening the doors to food security through genomics

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Food security

The development of Green Super Rice, a new breed of stable, climate-smart, high-yielding varieties, …

Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?

24.06.18

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

As the quest to protect and restore forests advances and evolves, the age-old question of…

Film-making farmers and the changing landscape of rice extension in Indonesia

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

24.06.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

It is time for farmers to take the lead in telling their stories and conceptualizing…

How migration benefits economies and food security

22.06.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY KATE AMBLER, ALAN DE BRAUW AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT The current political climate and global refug…

A better way for vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters and livestock herders alike—By ecologist Ian Scoones

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

22.06.18

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Goat herds returning home at sunset in Namunyak Conservancy of the Northern Rangelands Trust. Kenya�…

FAO.org: Pollutants from agriculture a serious threat to world’s water

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

22.06.18

Environmental health
Health

New report paints a worrying picture, provides recommendations on what can be done.…

Critically endangered mountain gorilla population grows despite threats to forest habitat

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Environmental health

The number of critically endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) living in the ra…

Daniel Debouck: The man who knows his beans

CGIAR Genebank Platform

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Biodiversity

Daniel Debouck, former CGIAR CIAT genebank manager, has dedicated 40 years of his professional life…

AfDB to invest $120 million to boost cassava and others

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

The African Development Bank (AfDB) today said it will invest $120 million in the next…

Blogs.WorldBank.org: Secrets to successful irrigation management from Central Asia

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Environmental health
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

About 60 percent of the region’s people are employed by the agricultural sector, which depends…

More people, more food, worse water?