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Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research: gender audit: may 2018

[…] removing the unhelpful association of gender equality with women’s participation should be a priority. Efforts to integrate gender into research projects have been observed across all directorates. However, the standard response to incorporating gender in research is to count the number of women participants and consider the gender work complete. The way women are […]

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Director/Global Head – Business Development

[…] Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is currently seeking a Director/Global Head – Business Development. ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, Read more...

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Distance learning for farmers: Experience during the pandemic

Distance learning for farmers: Experience during the pandemic In response to the COVID-19 pandemic's disruption of farmer training—a crucial component for enhancing the resilience and livelihoods of smallholder farmers—CIMMYT innovated educational solu...

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What do we know about the future of agri-food systems in Eastern and Southern Africa?

[…] out smallholder farmers and small stores. Women will be disproportionally affected by market changes as they constitute most retailers in the traditional food market sector. Some women, however, will gain from the rise in food demand as the sector will remain a key provider of food. Unequal increases in incomes, however, are likely to […]

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Managing seeds and agricultural losses in the wake of extreme climate events: Lessons from Nepal

What to read next: Ready for the seed sector | Nepal’s seed sector partners join forces to realize the National Seed Vision 2013-2025 | Agricultural solutions to tackle humanity’s climate crisis | Collective efforts to fight fall armyworm in Nepal

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Foresight, climate change, and agrifood systems

[…] change data, allowing them to integrate these insights into their own analyses and decision-making processes. Navigating uncertainty: Climate variability and policy making Figure 1 (click to expand) However, Figure 1 also makes it apparent that each scenario tells a different story of how climate change might unfold – from a hotter Africa on the […]

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5G technology and smart agriculture to aid Indian farmers

[…] power and credit services, and low awareness of the options. Digital technologies offer many answers to this problem, along with better management of scarce natural resources. Mobile internet has the revolutionary potential to connect rural populations and enable technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in remote areas. Compared to its predecessors, 5G offers […]

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Global Research Program Director – Enabling Systems Transformation

[…] Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is currently seeking a Global Research Program Director “Enabling Systems Transformation”- ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in Read more...

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What do we know about the future of food, land and water systems in West and Central Africa?

[…] Urbanization and related trends are creating new opportunities for the region’s agricultural value chains to meet nutrition and employment needs, including those of women and young people. However, climate change poses a significant threat to future agricultural production in the region, and dependency on food imports is mostly projected to increase. Foresight studies that […]

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ILRI vacancy: Principal or Senior Scientist, Team Lead, Mazingira (Environment) Centre (Closing date: 19 September 2020)

[…] is offering a unique opportunity to the right candidate to lead and expand a team of researchers analyzing the environmental footprint of livestock systems in developing countries.  The environmental footprint of livestock continues to be a concern for consumers and governments trying to reconcile food production with environmental sustainability. However, … Continue reading →

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Bridging the gap between finance and action on World Soil Day

[…] contribute a substantial portion to the mitigation needed in the agriculture sector. Soil carbon alone can have equal or larger impacts on mitigation than all current practices. However, the amount of carbon soil can store is dependent on the overall health of the soil and over a third of our soil is unhealthy. Improving […]

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Consultant (Knowledge Management and Communications)

[…] at the launch event (90-120 min) in consultation with the Communications and project teams and synthesize the outcomes to produce a knowledge brief. The consultant will also write communications pieces for the website to promote the launch event. For the inception workshops in countries, the consultant will capture knowledge exchanged at the meetings to […]

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Financial Highlights from 2018

[…] 3 (W3) – Project investments: funding allocated by Funders individually to projects that are defined by the Funders themselves (with partners) and that are aligned with system- wide investments. Window 2 (W2) – Program investments: funding allocated by Funders individually to any component (CRP, Platform or initiative) of the system-wide portfolio as prioritized, defined […]

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The modern face of breeding programs: gender fatigued no more

[…] sciences, clearly recognized the need for, and value of interdisciplinary work, teams, and the vital role of social science in scaling up the impact of breeding programs. However, as is most often the case in interdisciplinary work, it is easier said than done. Actual execution depends on close collaboration between breeders and social scientists […]

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Will innovation be the true game-changer of food systems transformation?

[…] that our food systems, as they operate nowadays, are not sustainable and that “nothing less than a Great Food Transformation” is required to fix this. This is, however, as far as the consensus goes. How this great transformation should take place and who should be in the driving seat is not so clear. Part […]

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Power, agency and benefits among women and men maize farmers

[…] gender norms in rural Nigeria.

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Permanent bed width has little effect on crop yield under rainfed and irrigated conditions across Central Mexico

[…] permanent beds, where the top of the raised beds is not tilled, which allows them to obtain the benefits of conservation agriculture for yield and soil quality. However, narrow (0.75–0.80 m width) and wide (1.50–1.60 m width) beds are commonly implemented without scientific evidence available as to whether the width of the beds affects […]

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Big data and new technology can help us understand and respond to climate change and conflict risks – here’s how

[…] is that the influence of climate change impacts on violence is small compared to factors that have historically driven conflict, namely economic performance, development, and institutional capacity. However, there is more disagreement and uncertainty about just how “risky” climate will be in the future. One source of this uncertainty is that the speed and […]

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Sparking conversations: Research supports rethinking of agricultural withholding tax proposition in Kenya

[…] the government’s deficit. Cash Transfer scenario. The 5% tax is applied in the same way as in the “cooperative tax incidence” scenario above. In this is scenario, however, we assume that the revenues from the withholding tax are used to provide (additional) cash transfers to households in the bottom three income quintiles (i.e., poorest […]

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Digital Solutions for Agriculture : A Step Towards Sustainable Water Management

[…] and water sustainability in the region.        Evapotranspiration Measurement Tool Understanding Evapotranspiration (ETa) is crucial for effective water management, especially in arid regions like MENA. However, measuring ETa has traditionally been complex, expensive, and labor-intensive. The lack of coordinated measurement initiatives in the MENA region has further exacerbated the challenge of water […]

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Do efforts to mitigate the climate crisis harm national and international security? What the experts say

[…] up doing more harm than good to the people and environment they wish to protect? There’s thankfully increasingly awareness on the links between climate change and security. However, much of the climate security debate has so far focused on the ways climate change worsens security between and within states, with less attention given to […]

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Leveraging the energy transition for gender-equitable growth in rural livelihoods

[…] reduce the transactional costs for participating women, but will only do so if they are contextually designed. Effectiveness rather than scalability is the objective of these models. However, it is desirable if the models are also found to be scalable. A good example is the entrepreneurship model of J-WIRES  (JEEViKA Women Initiative Renewable Energy […]

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Waking up in a post-Cop 27 world

[…] now, here’s my take. Did we make significant progress this time?  Waking up to COP27’s breakthrough decision on Loss and Damage felt like, this time, we made significant progress. However, reading the draft decision over a coffee dampened my spirits somewhat. It’s not yet clear how much money will be provided, and it’s rather sobering to […]

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Opinion: Big data shows big promise for feeding the world

Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, however, are reliant on large sets of data to help farmers make informed decisions and predict crop outcomes. From soil moisture to weather patterns and historical yield, countries like the United States and the United Kingdom have a lot of “big data” to put to work. The United States Department of Agriculture […]

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Climate-smart agriculture practices influence weed density and diversity in cereal-based agri-food systems of western Indo-Gangetic plains

[…] crop and management practices will grow and proliferate, while others will disappear. In this way, the emerged weeds might be considered as bio-indicators for applied management practices. However, due to the negative impression and its impacts on crop production, weeds as bio-indicators in particular agro-ecosystem/region were poorly understood and have found little interest. Climate-smart […]

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Economic benefits of different silvo-pastoral systems in Colombia

Improving both quality and availability of cattle feed in the tropics is among the main strategies to increase productivity and reduce the sector’s environmental impacts. Over the last decades, high amounts of research and development funds have...

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Multiple cropping could help feed the world

[…] and income and has additional benefits—increased crop diversity, improved functioning of agricultural systems, spare land for biodiversity or other uses and reduced use of inorganic fertiliser and pesticides. However, it can also have disadvantages such as increased risk of crop failure and risk of environmental degradation.

This strategy is not new. Many farmers already practice […]

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New nexus tool supports holistic management of the Incomati Basin

[…] South Africa to its mouth just north of Maputo’s bustling docks in Mozambique, the Incomati River basin supports lives, livelihoods, and irreplaceable ecosystems across eastern Southern Africa. However, growing irrigation and energy needs and accelerating climate change have placed increasing water stress on the transboundary river basin. Without responsive, data-driven, and coordinated management from […]

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Consultant (Editorial)

[…] Base Application Deadline: 15 April 2022 Type of contract: Consultancy Contract Language(s) required: English (Native/fluent writing and oral skills) About WorldFish WorldFish is looking for a contractor or independent consultant to write and generate interesting material for WorldFish’s websites, blogs, infographics, newsletters, video products, and science publications. Contractors or consultant responding to this advertisement should have exceptional writing, […]

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Effective data management is a game changer for smallholder sheep and goat breeding programs

[…] vital socioeconomic role in the agricultural sector across Central and West Asia, and North Africa (CWANA) and beyond, providing valuable resources such as meat, milk, and wool. However, insufficient, or ill-adapted breeding programs and practices are compromising the conservation and improvement of animal genetic resources, resulting in lower quality and less productive herds, which […]