Slow Food and FAO join forces
May 23rd, 2013 | Announcements, News
On 15 May 2013 the two organisations signed a three-year agreement to target smallholders and biodiversity
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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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Mainstreaming Agro-Biodiversity into the Farming System in Ethiopia
August 16th, 2011 | News
An inception workshop was held in Ethiopia to introduce the project “Mainstreaming Agro–Biodiversity into the Farming System” According to National Project Coordinator, the project is expected to provide farming communities with incentives (policies, capacity, markets and knowledge) to mainstream conservation of agro-biodiversity, including crop wild relatives into the farming systems of Ethiopia. The goal of [...]
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‘Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of sub-Saharan Africa’ Kigali, Rwanda
February 16th, 2011 | Announcements, Events
The CIALCA Consortium and the CGIAR Consortium Research Programme (CRP) on the Humid Tropics have the pleasure of announcing an international conference on the ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems of sub-Saharan Africa’, to be convened in Kigali, Rwanda from 24-27 October 2011. The conference aims to take stock of [...]
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Making the most of agricultural investment: A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders.
July 7th, 2010 | Publications
A publication about the range of business models that can be used to structure agricultural investments in lower- and middle-income countries, and that provide an alternative to large-scale land acquisitions. Such include a wide range of more collaborative arrangements between investors and local smallholders and communities, such as diverse types of contract farming schemes, joint [...]
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Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)
June 2nd, 2010 | Announcements
Markets and incentives in livelihoods and landscapes strategy: using economic and financial tools to sustain forest livelihoods and landscapes. The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) seeks to influence the ways in which forests are managed and used. As described in this publication, economic factors have an extremely important influence on forest livelihoods and landscapes. The [...]
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