April 4th, 2013 | Articles, News
Scientists and stakeholders within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) s have developed an interactive atlas of wild plants in Guatemala that are closely related to crop plants. The atlas will make it easier to preserve plants with genes that may be vital to global food security. The Atlas of Guatemalan Crop Wild Relatives, accessible [...]
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April 1st, 2013 | Announcements, Job opportunities
Apply for an international consultancy to work on the UNDP/GEF FSP project “Sustaining agricultural biodiversity in the face of climate change in Tajikistan”
Deadline for application: 29 April 2013
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March 8th, 2013 | News
The multiple benefits of agroforestry may be the solution to food security. Agroforestry – the integration of trees and shrubs with crops and livestock systems – has strong potential in addressing problems of food insecurity in developing countries. If carried out well, it allows producers to make the best use of their land, can boost [...]
More »December 18th, 2012 | Publications
Taking departure in the theory of resilience in social-ecological systems, this publication presents an analysis and discussion of how resilience theory can be applied to agro-ecosystems. Building on the premise that agro-ecosystems are too complex for resilience to be measured in any precise manner, the authors delineate behavior-based indicators of resilience within agro-ecosystems.
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November 30th, 2012 | Events
The University of Saskatchewan and its partner institutions invite Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) project teams and all those interested in this global food security initiative to the Linking Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health conference, February 6-8, 2013. This comes at a time when researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders increasingly recognize nutrition as an important [...]
More »November 22nd, 2012 | Announcements, News
Take time to look at the finalised IPSI strategy. This stategy was unanimously endorsed by the IPSI -3 in Hyderabad. It is anticipated that this strategy will form a basis for the next implementation phase of IPSI. Download the IPSI Strategy and view the Comments and Responses here. For further information about the Satoyama Initiative, to [...]
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