To help aspiring entrepreneurs in Mali kick-start their food ventures, a five-day Smart Food workshop was recently conducted in the country’s Diola region. Women and men were trained in all aspects of producing value-added foods from sorghum, millet, groundnut and cowpea for improving household nutrition as well as for sale. The workshop was organized under the aegis of EU-APSAN-Mali project.
An international team of researchers from 41 organizations has assembled chickpea’s (chana) pan-genome by sequencing the genomes of 3,366 chickpea lines from 60 countries. Led by the ICRISAT, the team identified 29,870 genes that includes 1,582 previously unreported novel genes. The research is the largest effort of its kind for any plant, putting chickpea in a small group of crops
Over the past two weeks, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gathered in Glasgow, UK for COP26, the most important climate summit since the landmark Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015. It was the first opportunity for countries to come together to review and step up their national commitments to reduce emissions by 2030. And it
Even the best-laid plans have had to be revisited, revised, postponed, or cancelled as a result of the global health emergency that the COVID-19 pandemic represents. In 2019, the SPIA team were making preparations to accompany the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) as they implemented a first wave of a new sample for the Uganda National Panel Survey (UNPS). This
During COP26, when climate change is high on the agenda, and political leadership scrutinized for commitments to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG), households might not always realize how they also contribute to GHG emissions, even those committed to using renewable energy at home. But we all eat, and food waste dumped on urban landfills is considered to be the third major
For reduced market barriers, diversified enterprise and livelihood opportunities, and increased availability of diverse nutrient-rich foods What are Bean Business Innovation Platforms? Bean Business Platforms are vehicles designed to implement program interventions by bringing together diverse and critical actors to improve business ecosystems and incentivize actors in bean corridors. This approach is operationalized through innovation platforms that aim to eliminate
The Secretary-General of The Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation (KIADPAI), Prof. Abdelouahhab Zaid, accompanied Egypt’s Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly on a visit to the Dates Complex, a 14 Fedan facility in Egypt’s New Valley Governorate, that produces around 5000 tons of dates annually. The New Valley dates complex was recently renovated and further developed
BY THOMAS WHAMOND With the approach of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (WTO MC12) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 in Geneva, Latin American and Caribbean countries face major challenges in the governance of agriculture and food trade—particularly the need for predictable and transparent trade systems critical for food security and environmental sustainability in the region and for the world. A new book, The