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With Diversity at the heart: a 2050 Vision for Global Food System Transformation
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100866
Publication year
2019
Authors
Khoury, Colin K.
Argumedo, Alejandro
Dempewolf, Hannes
Guarino, Luigi
Haan, Stef de
Wenzl, Peter
DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.
Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan…
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IPGRI in sub-Saharan Africa: Regional report - SSA 1999-2000
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105413
Abstract
The sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region comprises 48 sovereign states. Well over 600 million people live in Africa south of Sahara. The vast majority of these people depend directly on the land for their sustenance. Overall, only about 6% of Africa's land is cultivated. Even so, the agricultural sector is the largest source of employment and provides a high…
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WOCAT - success stories that the world can learn from
Food security depends on productive crop and pasture land. Yet these are increasingly threatened by challenges including climate change, land degradation and competition over limited resources. Currently over half of the land used for agriculture worldwide is moderately or severely affected by land degradation – seriously affecting the livelihoods of millions of farmers and our…
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To fight malnutrition in Africa, embed nutrition in agriculture programs
Given its impressive track record over the last 20 years, Rwanda has rightly been considered a model for reducing poverty and hunger in Africa. Between 1990 and 2015, hunger was reduced by almost half. Yet leaders and researchers are still confronted with a puzzling fact: despite higher crop yields and increasing incomes, nutrition is not improving.
This…
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Boosting African agribusiness with a new generation of cooperatives
For the International Day of Cooperatives to be celebrated on 1 July, the Linking Farmers to Markets team of CIAT and the Enhancing Development through Cooperatives (EDC) initiative of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) just published a new policy brief that underlines the need of a new generation of farmer cooperatives to promote and…
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Our land is wise: it will treat us the way we treat it
18th WOCAT Networking Meeting ‒ Promoting Sustainable Land Management and Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
Seventy percent of the world’s available water resources are being used in agriculture, while 43% of degradation worldwide is caused by overgrazing. These numbers demonstrate the link between agriculture and environmental harm, and…
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El científico Daniel Debouck recibe el máximo reconocimiento del Reino de Bélgica
Daniel Debouck, investigador del Programa de Recursos Genéticos del CIAT, recibió la Orden de Leopoldo, el máximo reconocimiento que otorga el Reino de Bélgica, por sus 40 años de trabajo científico.
En una emotiva ceremonia celebrada el pasado miércoles en el CIAT, Jeroen Cooreman, embajador del Reino de Bélgica, en…
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Scientist Daniel Debouck receives the highest recognition of the Kingdom of Belgium
Daniel Debouck, a researcher in CIAT’s Genetic Resources Program, received the Order of Leopold, the highest recognition that the Kingdom of Belgium bestows, for his 40 years of scientific work.
In an emotional ceremony held this past Wednesday at CIAT, Jeroen Cooreman, Belgian ambassador to Colombia, made the delivery of…
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Entre todos construimos la política pública de seguridad alimentaria
Más de 400 personas asistieron al Foro Municipal de Seguridad Alimentaria para hacer sus aportes a la construcción de la política pública en esta materia, encaminada a garantizar la sana alimentación de los caleños, erradicar el hambre en las calles y luchar contra problemas como la desnutrición y la obesidad. Organizaciones relacionadas directamente con la…
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Geoffrey Hawtin, Chairman of CIAT’s Board of Trustees, awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin, Chairman of CIAT’s Board of Trustees, has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). This honour was presented as part of the Queen’s Elizabeth II Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. The award is a recognition for Dr. Hawtin services to Global Agrobiodiversity…
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Los esfuerzos para reducir la deforestación y construir la paz sí pueden ir por el mismo camino
¿Qué pueden tener en común los países que actualmente luchan por frenar la deforestación y la degradación de sus bosques? ¡Mucho! Además de compartir impactos negativos por la pérdida de la cobertura de bosques, la tala indiscriminada de árboles, los incendios forestales, etc., a una buena parte de estos países los une otro drama: su población ha sido, o es, afectada por conflictos armados y todo lo que ello representa: violencia, desplazamientos forzados,…
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Enabling knowledge sharing and exchange in gender research across CGIAR: a working paper series
Adopted in 2012, the CGIAR system level gender strategy set the agenda for how all new global CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) would integrate gender into research activities. During the first phase of its Research Programs, CGIAR’s approach to addressing gender inequality in its research had two main goals. The first was to build capacity…
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Descriptors for Allium (Allium spp.)
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72700
Publication year
2000
Authors
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center
Full Citation
International Plant Genetic Resources…
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Nine ways to take climate-smart agriculture to scale in Africa
When I went to Northern Uganda for the first time with my research team, we weren’t sure what to expect. We were of course aware of the devastation in the war-torn area, but the full scale of the impact on agricultural production – the life line of local communities – was not so well known.
By Caroline Mwongera
An extension worker…
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El equipo Big Data fortalece relaciones con África
Hugo Dorado, uno de los integrantes del grupo de Big Data, viajó a África como parte del Programa Global de Intercambio de Personal en el CIAT. Para él, esta fue una oportunidad para aventurarse en el análisis de grandes volúmenes de datos para distintos proyectos en nuevas regiones.
El programa de intercambio tiene como objetivo promover la reunión de las…
