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World Agroforestry is currently looking for a Project Administrator. The position holder will offer administrative support to ensure that the project achieves its goals and objectives.
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Partner in GFAR IITA is pleased to announce upcoming training programs for the year 2022.
IITA is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
By the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) A digital soil map for Nepal launched in 2021 provides access to location-specific information on soil properties for any province, district, municipality or a particular area of interest. The interactive map provides information useful for new crop- and site-specific fertilizer recommendations for the country.
By The Land Portal The landscape of land data is different from many other types of data held by governments because land tenure systems are social, political, and economic in nature. Land tenure systems determine how land can be used, controlled or transferred, and for how long, for what purposes and under which conditions. Having … More The Land Portal: Bringing together data governance and FAIR principles
GFAR Talks is an exciting new webinar series showcasing informed debates on challenging and provocative topics related to agrifood system transformation. Organized in collaboration with the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development and moderated by Prof.
The second brief produced by GODAN for the Collective Action on Inclusive Digital Ag. This brief focuses on the challenges of accessing data useful to small-scale farmers, addressing the following questions:
- What are the barriers that smallholder farmers face when trying to access data, specifically from public sources?
- How can these barriers be overcome?
The first brief produced by GODAN for the Collective Action on Inclusive Digital Ag. This brief focuses on data sharing aspects of smart farming. The brief addresses the following questions:
- Why do farmers want / need to share data and with whom?
- What are the challenges and risks that farmers, particularly smallholder farmers, face with the adoption of digital technologies and the sharing of their data?
- What are the measures and safeguards to protect against exploitation when sharing data? How can smallholder farmers harness the benefits from sharing such data?
By CABI CABI has been awarded a $4.5 million contract from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to work with them to help address known constraints to data utility in agriculture development investments.
The World Civil Society Organizations Coordination Committee of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming proposed the need to produce a guide that summarizes the different international and regional legal frameworks and instruments that play a role in supporting and defending family farming, with a description of how this support is being put into practice. The World Rural Forum decided to commission the elaboration of the study to the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
By Samwel Onyango, Cassava Project Assistant and Masters graduate in Food Safety and Quality, University of Nairobi The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly disrupted food systems. In the ‘new normal’, Kenyan farmers are struggling to revitalize their farms and are keen to mitigate some of the challenges experienced due to lockdowns, controlled gatherings and movement restrictions … More Revitalizing Kenya’s cassava value chain post COVID-19