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Este artículo también está disponible en español. With the participation of more than 30 researchers from four CGIAR Centers located in the Americas, a planning workshop for a new CGIAR Research Initiative, AgriLAC Resiliente, was held between April 4 and 6. Its purpose was to define the implementation of activities to improve the livelihoods of producers in Latin America, with

Read this article in English. Con la participación de más de 30 investigadores de cuatro Centros CGIAR ubicados en las Américas, se llevó a cabo entre el 4 y 6 de abril un taller de planeación de la iniciativa AgriLAC Resiliente, cuyo propósito fue definir la implementación de actividades para mejorar los medios de vida de los productores de América

Ukraine, which had long been called the breadbasket of Europe, became an agricultural powerhouse for the world’s developing countries in recent years with investment in food technology and storage and transport infrastructure. Ukraine’s share in global wheat exports is around 10 per cent, whereas the Russian share is around 18 per cent. Around 26 countries in the world get more

In an effort to further safeguard critically important biodiversity to strengthen the climate resilience of smallholder farmers, ICARDA contributed a further 6,336 seed samples to Norway’s Svalbard seed Vault in February 2022. A total of 100,931 accessions in the form of seeds from ICARDA are now stored in the vault – almost 10 percent of all the vault’s stored accessions.

I morti non eroici per fame Fermate questa guerra. Subito. Fatelo per i bimbi ucraini, certo, ma anche per quelli del Sudan. Che muoiono come le mosche. E per quelli di quasi tutta l’Africa e di mezza Asia, perché le armi uccidono, in modo subdolo, anche a grande distanza. Cominciando sempre dai più deboli, dagli indifesi, dai dimenticati dal Signore.

Agriculture is one of the five main greenhouse gas-emitting sectors where innovations can be found to reach net zero emissions, according to the new documentary and ten-part miniseries “Solving for Zero: The Search for Climate Innovation”. The documentary tells the stories of scientists and innovators racing to develop solutions such as low-carbon cement, wind-powered global transportation, fusion electricity generation and

Ukraine and Russia boast some of the most fertile land on Earth. Both are major agricultural producers, particularly of wheat, maize, barley and sunflower oil. Together, they grow about 15% of the world’s wheat, but account for about 30% of global wheat exports; Ukraine alone supplies about 50% of the global market for sunflower oil. In addition, Russia, Ukraine and

It has been 41 days since the Russians launched their invasion of Ukraine, and agriculture executive Alex Lissitsa sighs deeply into the camera of his smartphone. He says that even he doesn’t really know what is left of his company. He is planning on heading out to the fields the next day to take a look, but he has