Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research

European Congress on Conservation Agriculture 4-7 October, Madrid, Spain

[ October 4, 2010 to October 7, 2010. ] European Congress on Conservation Agriculture: Towards agro-environmental, climate and energetic sustainability.

Development agencies and donors, policymakers and administrators, environmentalists, farmers, agricultural scientists and advisors, and the agricultural industry are welcome to attend this event.

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Borlaug LEAP Funding Opportunity

The Norman E. Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program is requesting applications for Fellowship awards of up to US$20,000 on the following topics:
1.  Applications are requested from sub-Saharan African students conducting research on topics related to USAID’s global hunger and food security initiative.  The focus region is sub-Saharan Africa.  All topics related to agriculture (as [...]

Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets.

Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Stewart Lockie ,  David Carpenter
A book which explores the relationships between the exploitation and conservation of agricultural biodiversity and the livelihoods of agricultural communities, and evaluate the capacity of national and multilateral institutions and policy settings to support the protection and capture by communities of agrobiodiversity values.
The book [...]

6th Henry A. Wallace Inter-American Scientific Conference: “Agrobiodiversity in Mesoamerica – from genes to landscapes

[ September 20, 2010 to September 24, 2010. ] The aim of the Wallace conference is to strengthen the use and management of agrobiodiversity in Mesoamerica by bringing together international research  and public sector organizations, universities and civil society to study, analyze and take action to promote sustainable land management, in recognition of the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, as declared by the [...]

PRATEC, Andean communities and the importance of their “crianza”

  
PRATEC, the Andean Project for Peasant Technologies (Proyecto Andino para las Tecnologías Campesinas) is a Peruvian non-governmental organization, founded in 1988 and devoted to the recovery and valorisation of traditional agricultural practices and associated knowledge.  
PRATEC participates in the efforts of Andean Amazonian peasant communities to counter the socially and ecologically destructive effects of industrial agriculture and [...]