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Read MoreOpportunities for Farming First Supporters
: Want to get your content out to the Farming First audience & beyond? Got a news story, expert view or farmer voice that needs sharing? Check out the ways you can contribute throughout 2018 and get your message out to our captive audience of sustainable agriculture advocates. To submit content for consideration please contact [email protected]. […]
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Private Sector Drivers for Sustainable Growth in Agriculture
Asia: Vice President of Programs at CNFA highlights the ways the private sector can catalyse sustainable agriculture and tackle global food security issues.
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Video: Beyond the Chocolate Bar – How Mars is Helping Smallholder Farmers
Africa & Middle East: Farming First TV interviews John Cordaro, Global Business Advisor at Mars, to find out how the company supports producers
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13 Highlights from Farming First’s 2013 Activity
: 2013 has proved to be another action packed year for Farming First, as we further our goal of getting sustainable agriculture to the top of the global agenda. As we near the end of the year, ‘Farming First co-chairs Morgane Danielou and Robert Hunter take a look back and count down the top 13 moments […]
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Rachel Kyte: What Next for Climate-Smart Agriculture?
: In this guest post, Rachel Kyte, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, reflects on the lack of progress made in getting agriculture on the agenda at the recently concluded UN climate talks, and she looks to the newly launched Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture as a possible channel for building consensus and fostering […]
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Bart IJntema: Enabling African Farmers to Feed the World
: In this guest post, Bart IJntema, Senior Vice President, Food & Agricultural Development at Rabobank International, explains how African agriculture’s current yield gap can be narrowed by investing in supportive initiatives across the supply chain. In Future of Farming, a book recently published, Rabobank asserts that productive agricultural areas aren’t simply those with the best […]
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Farming First Launches Infographic: Food and Farming in 2030
: This week in New York the first Open Working Groups will begin to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015. In an effort to inform the SDGs, Farming First has launched a creative infographic that skips forward in time to 2030, when the […]
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EVENT (25 Nov): Eradicating Hunger and Malnutrition in our Lifetime
: Farming First is hosting a high-level luncheon “Eradicating Hunger and Malnutrition in our Lifetime” at the United Nations (West Terrace Dining Room) in New York this Monday, 25th November, 1-3pm. Participation is limited so please RSVP to [email protected] to secure your place. Agriculture should be central to the post-2015 development process and the formulation of […]
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Climate Smart Agriculture: Stories of Success
: A series of success stories of climate smart agriculture in action, has been released by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) to demonstrate the varied ways climate smart agriculture can take shape. In an effort to inspire future policies and investments for […]
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Why Have Farmers Yet Again Been Forgotten at the UN Climate Talks?
: Representatives from the World Farmers Organisation (WFO) have just written two articles from their vantage point on-site at the UN climate talks in Warsaw. Despite multiple years of farmers coming together to ask UN negotiators for getting agriculture onto the climate agenda, it looks as if any progress will be postponed yet again to another […]
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“Let us Choose What Works for our Farms,” Say Farmers about the Tools and Technologies Needed to Tackle Climate Change
: At last week’s World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa, a panel of five farmers from four continents discussed how they are responding to the challenges which global climate change will pose to their farms. (Read the Reuters Alertnet coverage of the event here; see the full event programme and video here.) The panel was […]
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