The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System is showing excessive levels of price volatility in the four major food commodities: Wheat, maize, rice, and soybeans, as well as for cotton. Markets for hard and soft wheat and soybeans had already been more volatile than normal since late 2021, well ahead of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, which began
Today during MENA Climate Week held in Dubai, ICARDA carried out an engaging and thought-provoking online ‘fireside chat’, hosted by ICARDA’s Climate Change Advisor Ms. Roula Majdalani alongside three co-speakers from the donor, development, and private sector. ICARDA invited FAO Regional Programme Leader Mr. Jean-Marc Faures together with Ms. Laila Kenawy, National Programme Officer at the Embassy of Switzerland
For the past three years, the International Potato Center’s (CIP) SweetGAINS program in Africa has been conducting market research aimed at helping sweetpotato breeders better understand the traits and qualities that consumers want. These preferences differ by market segment. Women tend to prefer taste and cookability while male farmers think in terms of yield and storage. Building on this research,
Like many women involved in fisheries, Daw Lae Lae Soe faces a world of gender barriers that have only been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. A resident of Hae Lone Village in Myanmar’s Shan State, Lae Soe was once the primary breadwinner for her family by purchasing fresh fish, drying it and then selling the preserved fish onwards for profit.
New initiative follows calls for greater engagement with key partners in reforms aimed at helping the world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership transform food, land and water systems in a climate crisis March 29, 2022 – CGIAR’s System Board is launching a high-level Advisory Panel that will oversee a new series of consultations aimed at strengthening strategic engagement with country
The IITA-led Zero Hunger Project’s partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP is already yielding commendable results with the local production and installation of a complete stainless steel versatile wet hammer mill machine at the FGN/IFAD-VCDP Assisted Cassava Processing Centre in Kwande Local Government Area, Benue State. The team carried out the installation during a five-day capacity development event held at UDECO Fabrication Workshop, Makurdi.
As part of efforts to realize IITA’s Zero Hunger initiative (ZHI) partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP on cassava value chain development in Benue State, the IITA Zero Hunger Project team were in Benue State in February on an assessment and training visit. FGN/IFAD-VCDP Benue State Programme Coordinator, Emmanuel Igbaukum, led the Zero Hunger Project team comprising the Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager
Tanzanian Minister of Agriculture, Honorable Hussein Mohamed Bashe, wants IITA to support the East African region in cassava, soybean, and banana transformation for economic prosperity. In a meeting with IITA researchers, including those working under the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASICS-II), Hon. Bashe acknowledged that agriculture was crucial to the country’s economic prosperity but observed its