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A project to bring  together ecosystem services, agricultural productivity, and smallholder livelihoods in landscape planning has been awarded an Innovation Fund grant from the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). The project is will be implemented in Peru, Kenya and Tanzania, it says on the WLE website. It is co-led by the […]

It’s pitch-dark by the time the small group of eager but weary scientists reaches the remote rural community of Hierbas Buenas. Already late for an appointment with local leaders, they’re nearing the end of a 3-day journey in the Peruvian Amazon, which has given them a glimpse of the varied places and people that will […]

Transforming the Global Landscape Organized by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development With Deborah Bossio, CIAT When Tuesday 10 June CEST 15:00 / EDT 09:00 Where Online via WebEx (access details on request) Speakers Deborah Bossio, Director of Soils Program, International Center for Tropical Agriculture What Landscape approaches are gaining ground in the arena […]

The role of agriculture isn’t just to feed us enough, it is to feed us well. This week the CGIAR Consortium placed the weight of its agricultural research expertise behind efforts to improve global nutrition and public health as it committed to make breeding for mineral and vitamin traits the norm in conventional food crop […]

See more on the session here This presentation is trying to re-think investment: how the Llanos region can be understood as a business, what their goals, risks and solutions are.