February 1st, 2013 | Featured, News
First nations people are calling on the government to respect treaty rights with regards to environmental destruction for industrial development
And who is Indigenous?
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
More »October 12th, 2011 | News
The first session of the plenary meeting on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) held at UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya came to an end on the 7th of October 2011. Discussions during this five-day meeting ranged from the functions and operating principles of the platform; the legal issues [...]
More »April 18th, 2011 | Announcements, Articles
The African Journal of Agricultural Research (AJAR) is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. AJAR publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of agriculture including arid soil research and rehabilitation, agricultural genomics, stored products research, tree fruit production, pesticide science, post harvest biology and technology, seed science research, irrigation, agricultural engineering, agricultural [...]
More »January 31st, 2011 | Events
Scientists and climatologists will converge in Punjab Agricultural University at Ludhiana, India, at a 3 day international conference to discuss the impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity. The Platform will be represented by Dr Toby Hodgkin, who is the current Platform coordinator. The themes for the conference are: 1) Agriculture: abettor and sufferer 2) [...]
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November 1st, 2010 | Announcements, Featured, Publications
A Special Issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (AGEE), focusing on agricultural biodiversity in Africa is being prepared. Please refer to the ‘Aims & Scope’ of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment for details. Please NOTE that the emphasis of AGEE is on experimental papers that report unpublished research results focusing on the inter-linkages between agroecosystems and [...]
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