Tag: farming
Video: Stepping Up Agricultural Production in Uganda
Africa & Middle East: Farming First TV talks to the President of the Uganda National Farmers Federation on priorities for Ugandan agriculture.
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Why Indonesia’s Farmers Are Getting Younger
Asia: What is luring these young people from cities back to farms in Indonesia?
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Emily Alpert: Can You Be Resilient on One Acre or Less?
Africa & Middle East: Our guest author, Emily Alpert, Deputy Director of Agriculture for Impact, concludes our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. An acre is about the size of a football pitch. That might seem like a […]
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Prabhu Pingali: Women’s Groups as Conduits Towards Resilient Communities
Asia: Our guest author, Prabhu Pingali, Professor of Applied Economics & Director of the Tata-Cornell Agriculture & Nutrition Initiative at Cornell University, continues our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. Women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are […]
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What is the Role of Agricultural Technologies for Global Food Security?
Global: A wealth of technologies is now at our disposal for boosting yields of the world’s key staple crops, in order to face the large demands on our food supplies by 2050. But how can we measure which ones will be most effective, when, and where? Which combinations of technologies will have the largest impact? Until […]
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13 Highlights from Farming First’s 2013 Activity
Global: 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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Farming First Launches Infographic: Food and Farming in 2030
Global: 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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Enough Food IF – Hunger Summit Pledges £2.7bn to tackle malnutrition
Global: On Saturday 8th June 45,000 people gathered in London’s Hyde Park to campaign against the devastating hunger and malnutrition suffered by millions all over the world. The Enough Food IF campaign, set up by Bill Gates in partnershipwith organisations including Oxfam, UNICEF and Twin, aims to raise awareness of the main themes due to be […]
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