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Video: Seeds and sustainability: Maize Pathways in Kenya
August 31, 2011 / News This short film from the STEPS Centre brings together an engaging cast of characters including a farmer, a scientist, a regulator and a seed policy analyst. Each has a different view about how best to secure seeds for farmers growing
FAC Newsletter July 2011 Issue 7
July 14, 2011 / News Issue: No. 7 July 2011 Issue: No. 7 , July 2011 Africa’s Green Revolution: FAC research on the politics of seeds and seed systems in Africa Young People, Farming & Food: An international conference on the future of the agrifood sector in Africa Global Land Grabbing FAC co-hosts successful international
International ClimateChange Policy Goals: Cascading into Agricultural Processes and Policies in Keny
July 6, 2011 / News Background note for comments Harun Warui and Kennedy Were
Poulton Presentation for the Africa College International
June 29, 2011 / News By Colin Poulton Presentation for the Africa College International “Food Security, Health and Impact” Knowledge Brokering Conference Leeds, UK 22-24 June 2011
?Replacing Pastoralism with Irrigated Agriculture in the Awash Valley, North-Eastern Ethiopia
June 28, 2011 / News Replacing Pastoralism with Irrigated Agriculture in the Awash Valley, North-Eastern Ethiopia: Counting the Costs by Roy Behnke and Carol Kerven The development of hydropower and the availability of irrigated land per capita is lower in sub-Saharan Africa than in any
Blessings Chinsinga – Seeds and Subsidies: The Political Economy of Input Programmes in Malawi
June 14, 2011 / News FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The Netherlands’ Ministry
Douglas Magunda – The Politics of Seed Relief in Zimbabwe
June 14, 2011 / News FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The Netherlands’ Ministry
Elijah Muange – Can Agro-Dealers Deliver the Green Revolution in Kenya?
June 7, 2011 / News FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The
John Thompson – ‘The Politics of Seed in Africa’s Green Revolution’
June 7, 2011 / News FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The
Structural and procedural properties important in promoting bio-enterprises as alternative…
June 7, 2011 / News Structural and procedural properties important in promoting bio-enterprises as alternative livelihoods to pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods There is increasing interest in rural development circles in promoting alternative livelihoods opportunities for pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods. However, there is very little empirical
IDS Seminar: A Business Approach to Food Security
June 7, 2011 / News Listen to Chris Brett (speaker), John Humphrey (chair) and FAC researcher, Jim Sumberg (attendee) discuss what they took from the seminar, A Business Approach to Food Security, IDS (31 May 2011) and what they think the food industry should do
Oxfam launches Grow campaign
June 7, 2011 / News Oxfam launched a new campaign called Grow, which aims at securing the world’s food supply by calling on governments, businesses and consumers to take action on climate change, minimising food price fluctuations, preventing landgrabs and halting the move toward biofuels.
NEW Report: Mapping hotspots of climate change and food insecurity in the global tropics
May 31, 2011 / News A new report has matched future climate change ‘hotspots’ with populations that are already suffering from chronic food problems, mainly Africa and South Asia. However, China and Latin America are also at risk. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,
More than climate change: pressures leading to innovation by pastoralists in Ethiopia and Niger
May 11, 2011 / News By Yohannes GebreMichael, Saidou Magagi, Wolfgang Bayer, and Ann Waters-Bayer An exploratory study was made in Ethiopia and Niger into pastoralists? responses to climate change. It identified a wide range of technical and institutional innovations that pastoralists developed to adapt to new
Communiqué of the 1st Dialogue of Ministers of Agriculture, Science and Technology
May 5, 2011 / News Communiqué of the 1st Dialogue of Ministers of Agriculture, Science and Technology FARA Secretariat, Accra 29 April 2011
Biofuels and Land Appropriation in Colombia: Do Biofuels National Policies Fuel Land Grabs?
May 3, 2011 / News by Victoria Marin, Jon C. Lovett and Joy S. Clancy Biofuels driven land grab is often identified with land transactions conducted in developing countries by transnational/foreign companies/governments for the production of biofuels/feedstock for exports. This captures only partially the dynamics
Resisting Agribusiness Development: The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate
April 19, 2011 / News Resisting Agribusiness Development: The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in West Papua, Indonesia. Longgena Ginting, WALHI/FoE Indonesia, Jalan Selamet Ketaren 100, 20371 Medan, Indonesia and Oliver Pye, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, Bonn University, Nassestrasse 2, 53113 Bonn,
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April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Dynamics in land tenure, local power and the peasant economy: the case of south-east Petén, Guatemala
Ye Jingzhong and Wang Chunyu?
April 13, 2011 / News Mining and Land in North China:politics and livelihoods
Megan Ybarra?
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Taming the Jungle, Saving the Maya ForestThe Military’s Role in Guatemalan Conservation
Ward Anseeuw, Antoine Ducastel and Jean-Jacques Gabas?
April 13, 2011 / News The end of the African peasant?From investment funds and Finance-Value-Chains to questions about the African peasant
Oane Visser and Natalia Mamonova?
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Land Deals in Russian Agriculture: Exploring investors land acquisition strategies
Tom Lavers
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – The role of foreign investment in Ethiopia’s smallholder-focused agricultural development strategy
Dr. Kyla Tienhaara & Dr. Wynet Smith
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Negotiating Carbon Concessions in Developing Countries: Issues of Capacity, Confidentiality & Corruption
Thea Hilhorst, Joost Nelen, Nata Traoré
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Agrarian change under the radar screenRising farmland acquisitions by domestic investors in West Africa Results from a survey in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger
Tania Salerno
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Transnational Land Deals in Mindanao: Situating Ambivalent Farmer Responses in Local Politics
Takeshi Ito, NoerFauziRachman, Laksmi Adriani Savitri
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Naturalizing land dispossession: A policy discourse analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) Papau, Indonesia
Max Spoor? and Oane Visser
April 13, 2011 / News Presentation – Land Grabbing in Former Soviet Eurasia
Laura Silva Castañeda?
April 13, 2011 / News Certification dispositifsand land conflicts:the case of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Thomas Sikor?
April 13, 2011 / News Global enclosures? Exploring the dynamics of forest-based climate mitigation
ShapanAdnan
April 13, 2011 / News Resistance to accumulation by dispossession: Struggles for land by the poor peasantry in rural Bangladesh
Sérgio Sauer
April 13, 2011 / News Agrarian structure, foreign land ownership, and land value in Brazil
Rosanne Rutten & Gerben Nooteboom
April 13, 2011 / News GulfState Investments in Indonesiaand The Philippines
Ritu Verma
April 13, 2011 / News The ‘New’ Politics of Land and Development: Experiences of Dispossession, Social/Gender Equity and Environmental Sustainability in East & Southern Africa