José Graziano da Silva of Brazil has been elected Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a three-year term he will undertake as of January 2012, succeeding Senegal’s Jacques Diouf. Former Brazilian food security minister, Graziano da Silva earned recognition for his policies against hunger and malnutrition whichRead More …
World media has the hots for climate change report
3 June, 2011 by (comments)The just-released “hotspots” report from CCAFS, highlighting the mounting threat of climate change to smallholder farmers across the tropics, has generated worldwide media interest today. The report comes at a crucial time – in the run up to the UN’s Bonn climate change conference, starting next week – where itRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change
CIAT participates in global debate on gender issues
28 March, 2011 by (comments)CIAT’s Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA) Initiative looks forward to working with the United Nations and other development agencies in positioning rural women and gender equality at the center of agricultural research, following the success of global discussions held as part of the 55th Meeting of the UN CommissionRead More …
Filed Under: Events
New commitments from poorer countries to stem climate change
23 March, 2011 by (comments)An impressive dossier of pledges from developing nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions has just been released by the United Nations, Bloomsberg Businessweek reports. The proposals include Mongolia embracing solar power, Costa Rica becoming carbon neutral, and the Central Africa Republic expanding its forests. They follow on from the agreements reached atRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change
Eco-efficient agriculture could solve “crisis of poverty” – UN
9 March, 2011 by (comments)Eco-efficient farming could help confront the food and “poverty” crisis by boosting yields and reducing food prices, according to the United Nations (UN), BusinessGreen reports. The new UN report announced yesterday on UNifeed, Agro-ecology and the Right to Food, argues that a switch to sustainable, or “agro-ecological” agriculture will help maintainRead More …
Filed Under: Agro-ecology and Economics
Coffee and climate change photofilm now in Spanish
1 March, 2011 by (comments)Click to watch the Spanish version of Two Degrees Up – PART ONE: Colombia. The 6-minute photostory documents the experiences of smallholder coffee farmers in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, who are already feeling the effects of rising temperatures on their crucial, high-value cash crop. The English version on the storyRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions
DFID to announce major reforms to overseas aid
28 February, 2011 by (comments)The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is poised to announce major reforms to its USD13 billion international aid program, which could see the end of direct aid to several countries, and greater focus on improving livelihoods in conflict zones and “failing” states. Some 16 countries could lose direct aid, including Niger, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burundi, Cameroon, Iraq, Gambia, China andRead More …
Filed Under: Africa, Asia, Regions
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