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related to ARD activities in January
2018.
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This book reviews
the existing knowledge on scaling technologies and innovation.
30 January 2018. A 2017
report by the Uganda Agribusiness
23-26 January 2018. Davos,
Switzerland. AGRA will be focusing in the future on helping to strengthen
country capacity to work with the private sector, find investment opportunities
and improve leadership around key agriculture issues.
23-25 January 2018.
Nairobi. East Africa platform where international and regional food and
beverage companies meet, network and establish business ties.
24 January 2018. This
paper assesses the role of learning video in changing vegetable farmers’
behaviour towards sustainable agriculture.
23 January 2018. Webinar. To
gain a better understanding of how agriculture interventions can contribute to
improved nutrition, USAID’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project,
Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally
(SPRING), partnered with USAID
From February
2018 onwards
22-25 January 2018. Ibadan, Nigeria. Sientists, development
specialists, agricultural experts, representatives from national agricultural
research and extension systems (NARES), and entrepreneurs from the private
sector mainly from Africa assembled in IITA for the inauguration and planning
workshop of the African Development Bank (AFDB)-funded program called
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT).
22-24 January 2018.
Montpellier. This conference was organized by CIRAD in partnership with AFD,
the CGIAR System Organization and CGIAR Research Program on Policies,
Institutions, and Markets (PIM), the NEPAD, the GFAR, UNDP-ART, AgroParisTech,
IAMM, INRA, the RIMISP, Wageningen University, and with the support from the
French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the French Ministry of
Agriculture and Food.
22 January 2018. Opportunities
and Challenges along the Value Chain. From Agricultural Farming to Food
Processing and Distribution.
18-19 January 2018.
Nairobi. This workshop took place in conjunction with the International
Conference on Powering Agriculture, which aimed to enhance renewable energy
solutions for agricultural development, organized by the German International
Development Agency (GIZ) and the United States Agency for International
Development(USAID).
17 January 2018. Norwegian
incubator in search of fintech, agribusiness start-ups.
This call is
open to applicant organizations that will work in partnership with others to
carry out research in one (or more) of the eligible countries: Burundi;
Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Rwanda; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; and
Zimbabwe. Deadline for applications is 1 March 2018.
This FAO report
identifies a range of pathways through which support to food security and
livelihoods can also help build resilience against conflict and contribute to
sustaining peace.
17 January 2018. The PRIMA
Foundation announced the PRIMA Calls for proposals for 2018.
17 January 2018. Innovation
Accelerator Kenya call for proposals 2018. The deadline for submission of these
proposals is 6th
February 2018
17 January 2018. Aid
International and Development Webinar.
13-17 January 2018.
Researchers at BGI and other centers are in the process of sequencing — and
resequencing — the genomes of 101 plants for the African Orphan Crops
Consortium (AOCC), an international effort to improve nutrition in Africa
through genome-assisted breeding resources and training.
16 January 2018. The Hague.
Innovation Network Feeding Cities – 2nd meeting
15 January 2018. "A
'crazy idea' has resulted in the ability to grow durum wheat in the extreme
heat of famine-affected Senegal, Mauritania and Mali,
15 – 18 January 2018.
Stellenbosch. South Africa. Combined Congress 2018 of the Soil Science Society
of South Africa and Crop Science Societies of South Africa, with the African
Crop Society. The theme of the Congress is Sustainable agricultural systems for
food security in Africa.
12 January 2018. A new CTA
publication
12 January 2018. A support
to 120 African researchers working to help the continent adapt to climate
change and bolster the scientific community
12 January 2018. This
report is the result of a study on demand-led plant variety design for markets
in Africa, sharing the best practices from private and public sector breeding
programmes
11-12 January 2018.
Arusha, Tanzania. A workshop organised by the African Centre for Research,
Agricultural Advancement, Teaching Excellence and Sustainability (CREATES)
99 pages, April
2016. This study focuses on the willingness to pay for agricultural training
through video in the Oueme valley (Benin).
10 January 2018. Webinar.
10 January 2018. A recent
paper by Dr Carl Lachat of Gent University, Jessica Raneri of Bioversity
International, and others introduces Dietary Species Richness, a new food
biodiversity indicator to help examine the correlation between agrobiodiversity
and diet quality.
Published 9 January 2018. Final report of the
project: Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops in
Africa (SARD-SC) (20 pages)
30.
Decade-long
research explores solutions to vitamin A deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa new resource ***
9 January 2018. Key
findings in a decade-long research project at the University of
Nebraska–Lincoln may lead to solutions in sub-Saharan Africa’s challenge with
vitamin A deficiency
8 January 2018. A UNEP
report (2015, 212 p), highlights the urgent need for a blended financing model
combining publicly, privately, domestically and internationally sourced
finances in Africa. Furthermore, in Africa, energy development must be
considered a socioeconomic development and job creator accelerator.
8 January 2018. Opinion
7 January 2018. Access
Agriculture videos, including the one on yoghurt making and on making a rabbit
house.
4 January 2018. Bill Gates,
has hailed the efforts of Dr. Segenet Kelemu, Director General of the
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe).
3-5 January 2018. Oxford. Professor
Leon A. Terry, Director of Environment and Agrifood at Cranfield University,
has called for a paradigm shift in funding strategies and research programmes
in order to tackle food waste on a global scale.
Funded by the UK
Department for International Development (DFID), APRA’s directorate is at the
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK.
UNEP launched a
new study called: Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface: a Gap Analysis
(134 pages). The key findings will be presented to the Member States during the
4th Global authors meeting of the Global Environment Outlook-6, taking place
from the 19th to the 23rd of February 2018 in Singapore.
12 December 2017. GFAR has
commissioned a series of short videos telling the farmers’ stories in their own
words. The videos tell a vital story of why the living conservation and use of
these irreplaceable resources are crucial, not just to the communities
concerned
Total number of page views in the month of January 2018:
Most viewed pages on PAEPARD blog over the
past month: 16,222
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