- Farming First’s 2015 campaign “The Story of Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals” has been shortlisted for a Gold EMEA SABRE Award under the “associations” category. The shortlist was selected from among more than 2,400 entries in this year’s competition, which recognizes Superior…
- Farmers conserve and improve food crops which constitute the basis of food and agriculture production worldwide, particularly those in centers of origin and crop diversity. Seeds are life for these communities and their families, but also for all humankind. Seeds of Sovereignty, a film produced as…
- If agriculture is to share an economically efficient portion of the mitigation burden, investment is urgently needed to support massive innovation and changes in agricultural practices—and likely the entire food system. There is a widely held assumption that sustainable…
- Berlin, Germany, 20 April 2015 – As part of its contribution to the International Year of Soils, the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) launched today at the Global Soils Week “Growing Smart Together,” an online platform that features a collage of video interviews of various…
- The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA) is a stakeholder in the Global Forum on Agricultural Research. On the occasion of World Soil Day, AIRCA has posted a story “Healthy soil: the foundation for healthy people and landscapes”. …
- Source: World Bank Land degradation is a global problem, affecting about a quarter of the world’s land area (FAO, 2013) and impacts one out of three people (UNCCD, 2013). Degradation of land resources is a growing problem in the Eurasian region and is increasingly manifested in…
- Participants at the meeting of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity emphasize the need for sharing and collaboration across borders to achieve global biodiversity conservation targets. Conservation scientists, development practitioners and policy makers attending a side event…
- This three-week e-consultation on Combating Soil Salinization in Eurasia is initiated by the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS) in collaboration with the World Bank. It will run from May 12 to May 30, 2014. The ECFS was established by the Government of the Russian Federation at Moscow…
- The Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has recently launched CAPFITOGEN, an initiative aimed at strengthening technical capacity of national programs and developing information and analysis tools for plant genetic resources. …