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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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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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EU aid budget: it ain’t (just) about the money
It is pantomime season in the UK, where British citizens go to the theatre to cheer their heroes, boo their villains, and laugh at bad jokes. But – as I discovered in the margins of A4I events in Brussels earlier … Continue reading
Who is your international development champion?
Who is your preferred champion of international development issues? The answer, as you might expect, depends on who you are, and where you live. In a recent report for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation published in March 2012, Intermedia set … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural development, blogs, champions, food security, government, international development, media, social media, UK
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