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Category Archives: africa
Launch of the 2013 Montpellier Panel report – Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture
On the 18th April, the Montpellier Panel launched a new report, outlining their solution to tackling hunger and resource scarcities in Africa, Sustainable Intensification. At a seminar hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, climate change, science and technology, smallholder, sustainable intensification, the Montpellier Panel
Tagged Africa, agriculture, APPG, CGIAR, climate change, ecology, European Union, FANRPAN, farming, food, GM, hunger, IIED, intensification, Montpellier Panel, science, sustainability, sustainable intensification, technology
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International Women’s Day 2013
Today is the 102nd International Women’s Day. Annually on 8th March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements. Since its establishment it has been growing in recognition and is now a public holiday … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, farmer, Gates Foundation, Huffington Post, Sustainable agriculture, women in agriculture
Tagged agriculture, APPG, BMGF, FAO, farming, gender, IFAD, ILDO, international women's day, Montpellier Panel, Nature, WFP, women
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Food staples as a target for nutritional improvement: can the hard-to-reach smallholder farmers benefit?
Access to food staples as a target for nutritional improvement was the focus of one of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) Annual General Assembly breakout sessions on 31st January. Howarth Bouis from HarvestPlus introduced and led the … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, food security, nutrition, private sector, Resilience, scaling up, smallholder
Tagged biofortification, donors, farmers, food security, HarvestPlus, nutrition, nutrition security, Wageningen
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Getting GAFSP to reach the parts that other programmes do not reach
The World Café sessions of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Annual General Assembly on 30th January were a unique opportunity to discuss some hot topics in the donor community. Yurie Tanimichi Hoberg from the World Bank led a … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, private sector, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized
Tagged agriculture, donor, farmers, GAFSP, government, platform, rural development, world bank
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Enough food for everyone IF….
One in eight women, men and children go to bed hungry every night and by 2025 nearly a billion young people will face poverty because of the damage done to them now through hunger and malnutrition. These are just some … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, famine, farmer, food security, G8, Gates Foundation, governance, scaling up, smallholder
Tagged accounatbility, campaign, David Cameron, food insecurity, G8, governance, hunger, if, land, malnutrition, policy, tax, transparency
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Can water harvesting technologies help to feed one billion hungry?
by Lisa Bunclark In ‘One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?’ Gordon Conway states that one of four routes to achieving a food secure world is through the use of appropriate innovative technologies. Water harvesting technologies (WHTs) offer the … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, farmer, science and technology, smallholder, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized, water, women in agriculture
Tagged Africa, burkina faso, crops, harvesting, technology, water
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Tackling the food security nexus: achieving more with less
By Gordon Conway and Liz Wilson: This piece was originally published on the Guardian Sustainable Business blog on 22 January. We are faced with three daunting and urgent global challenges: repeated food price spikes, nearly a billion people who are chronically hungry, and … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, climate change, farmer, farmers as entrepreneurs, food security, scaling up, science and technology, seeds, smallholder, soil, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized, water, women in agriculture
Tagged action, agriculture, change, energy, fertilisers, food, food security, global, government, hunger, hungry, land, price, sustainable intensification
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Can agriculture achieve growth with poverty reduction in Africa?
In a new briefing paper Strategies and Priorities for African Agriculture: Economywide Perspectives from Country Studies published on the 9th January, Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, Samuel Benin, and Shenggen Fan of IFPRI recommend some key priorities and principles for achieving … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, governance, scaling up, smallholder, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, African Union, agricultural development, agriculture, CAADP, economics, governance, growth, IFPRI, poor, poverty
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Eating Orange Flesh
Gordon Conway writes for the Huffington Post. Eating orange flesh in Mozambique is not an episode from a bizarre horror movie. On the contrary it is a message of life-saving nutrition and hope for millions of young children. Orange is … Continue reading
Bringing agriculture to market: learning from Madina
What are the critical challenges we must address to feed the world? How can we overcome them? There are some of the questions that Gordon Conway, Director of Agriculture for Impact, answers in his forthcoming book ‘One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?’, … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, food security, Ghana, nutrition, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized, video content
Tagged accra, book, Cornell, food, Ghana, Madina, market
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