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New international land deals database reveals rush to buy up Africa

June 19th, 2012 | Announcements, Featured, Middle, News, Websites

Source: Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) 27 April 2012. guardian.co.uk. New international land deals database reveals rush to buy up Africa. World’s largest public database lifts lid on the extent and secretive nature of the global demand for land. Almost 5% of Africa‘s agricultural land has been bought or [...]

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New Report Finds “Alliance-building” Approach Can Stop Rampant Conflict over Land and Water, Increase Farm Production and Restore Degraded Lands, Rivers

June 15th, 2012 | Announcements, Featured, Initiatives, News, Publications

Effectiveness of approach seen in Africa’s Sahel and in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, and in dozens of other regions; major agriculture groups call for urgently scaling up “Whole Landscape” approaches ahead of Rio+20

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IAASTD findings available on a new website “globalagriculture.org”

May 25th, 2012 | Announcements, Featured, Publications, Websites

The Foundation on Future Farming and Biovision have recently launched the new website www.globalagriculture.org. The site makes the findings of the International Assessment of Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) available by topics and offers updated figures, background information, further reading and news and includes material on current topics such as land-grabbing and [...]

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Kolkata Seed Festival calls for stressing on collective heritage of agro-biodiversity

May 21st, 2012 | Featured, News

The Kolkata Seed Festival, the first of its kind in eastern India, was hosted by this city from April 27 to 29. Its focus was on celebrating and conserving India’s rich heritage of crop diversity.

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Press release: Edible aroids network – a successful first year

May 14th, 2012 | Featured, Initiatives, News

Press release, 9 May 2012: Edible aroids network – a successful first year The International Network for Edible Aroids (INEA) is a consortium of scientists and growers from all over the world who are using edible aroids (taros) as a model to improve clonally propagated crops of the tropics. Supported by the European Union the [...]

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