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HIGHLIGHTS Researchers call for the integration of fisheries into rice systems and irrigation schemes Integrated systems increase social and environmental resilience against the impacts of climate change and can preserve food and nutrition security in vulnerable communities Shifting from monocrop systems to multifunctional agricultural landscapes improves both biodiversity and system productivity​ Two seminars convened by WorldFish, the International Water Management

Jessica Bogard, a dietician and public health nutritionist from Australia, was awarded the 2021 APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education, which recognizes early-career scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to scientific excellence. Read more

A special issue (Aug 2021) of the Scientific and Technical Review journal of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) turns the spotlight on the operation of veterinary services in a world affected by various external factors such as climate change and emerging zoonotic diseases. Veterinary services are a global public good underpinning animal agriculture. Therefore, governments need to ensure

Land rights remain a complex and ambiguous subject for the majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa. In Ethiopia, formal state laws assert that women have equal rights regarding land use and access. However, Ethiopia’s pastoral areas are often highly influenced by both religious and customary systems, under which women tend to have weaker land rights.

A farm machine-hiring center set up in two villages in South India is showing how research-led interventions, based on a clear understanding of on the ground realities, can result in saving time, cost and labor for dryland farmers while creating jobs for rurally-based youth. ICRISAT studies show that besides improving on-farm operational efficiency and saving time, mechanized farming has the

Developing countries are already enduring the worst of climate change. Floods and droughts are impacting natural resources and water availability, and vulnerable smallholder farmers with limited access to government support and lower capacity to adapt to these climatic events face extreme risk. Weather Index Insurance (WII) may increase the ability of these vulnerable farmers to face climate shocks. Using mainly

Background Food and nutritional security of resource poor farmers globally is increasingly under threat due to climate change. In Uganda, agricultural production rates are low, exacerbated by frequent erratic rainfall and droughts. The loss of genetic diversity in farmers’ custody has greatly narrowed the genepool from which they choose varieties that do well in challenging environments. In order to strengthen

The Alliance has joined with Ethiopian research partners and Italian pasta makers to explore a new use for durum wheat varieties.