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GAFSP Launches $75 Million BIFT to Boost Food Security in Low-Income Countries
Global: The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) has launched a new $75 million Business Investment Financing Track (BIFT) to accelerate financial innovations supporting smallholder farmers and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the agriculture sector. This financing window is designed to foster inclusive, climate-smart and nutritious food systems, primarily in low-income and vulnerable […]
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Ensuring Crop Science Serves Smallholders: A Conversation with Joe Cornelius
Africa & Middle East: As Gates Ag One formally announces the opening of its headquarters, Farming First spoke with CEO Joe Cornelius about the organisation's mission.
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Institutionalising Community-Based Resource Management in the Solomon Islands
Oceania: WorldFish has collaborated with governments in the Pacific to introduce Community-Based Resource Management of fisheries and inform policy.
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New Career Progression Website Launches to Help Agriculture Professionals
Global: A new Skills for Agriculture website has been launched by CABI to help the career progression of professionals working in agriculture.
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Science, Technology and Innovation Approaches Paving the Way Forward for Food Systems Transformation
Global: UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment recognised the importance of science, technology and innovation approaches as evidence-based guides to shape national and sub-national food systems transformation.
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Largest Seed Sector Congress in the Southern Hemisphere Takes Place in Cape Town, South Africa
Global: Seed industry professionals from all over the world gathered for the historic ISF World Seed Congress to find solutions to current challenges.
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Planting the Roots of Peace: Humanitarian Heidi Kühn Wins 2023 World Food Prize for Restoring Agriculture to De-Mined Land in Former War Zones
Global: Heidi Kühn of the United States will receive the 2023 World Food Prize for her farmer-focused development model that revitalizes farmland, food security, livelihoods, and resilience after devastating conflict.
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New Malabo Montpellier Panel Report: Climate-proofing Africa’s food systems needs new and reimagined financing models to meet $41.3 billion adaptation cost
Africa & Middle East: African governments will need to tap into all domestic and global sources of adaptation finance to meet a shortfall of more than $40 billion to climate-proof food systems, according to the Malabo Montpellier Panel.
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COP27 Brief: Dialogues and commitments at the intersection of agriculture and climate
Global: World leaders gathered in Egypt from 6-18 November for the COP27 climate conference, where a number of sessions and dialogues were held to discuss the intersection of agriculture and climate change, among other topics.
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Borlaug Dialogues Round-up: A better way to feed the world
Global: After a day orienting food security experts from around the world on the interconnected challenges of climate change, COVID-19, global conflict and more, the second day of the Borlaug Dialogue began to delve deeper into the agricultural development landscape with a keynote speech from Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Haiti’s Farmers Showcase Resilience in the Face of Covid-19 Pandemic
Latin America & the Caribbean: How Haiti’s smallholder farmers defied the Covid-19 pandemic to continue to produce and export goods, thanks to long-term investment in food systems.
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Food Security High on G7 Agenda as Impacts from Climate, COVID-19 and Conflict Grow
Global: Food security and the G7 as impacts from climate, Covid-19 and conflict are on the rise.
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