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If Einstein had been a farmer

If Einstein had been a farmer

In a world of climate change, food insecurity and rapid urbanization, just try to imagine for a few minutes what Albert Einstein would be…
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Less violation, more innovation

Less violation, more innovation

“Women are never raped, they are part of the rape”: citing this common saying in Pakistan, Ms. Azra Sayeed of the International Development…
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Pastoralist women and food security: resourcefulness on the margins?

Pastoralist women and food security: resourcefulness on the margins?

“Here, we have an unique opportunity to be fed on the role of pastoralist women in achieving food security and sustainable development”
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How can we redress gender differences in extension services for farmers?

How can we redress gender differences in extension services for far...

It is an undeniable fact that women play a key role in striving towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of achieving Zero Hunger by…
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Trees of refuge giving back lost chances

Trees of refuge giving back lost chances

You must be out in space if you have not heard about the refugee crisis — a dreadful outcome of many ongoing conflicts, including those in…
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Genetically Modified Crops: Seeds of Hope or Deception?

Genetically Modified Crops: Seeds of Hope or Deception?

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the…
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Failure to meet the SDGs is not an option

Failure to meet the SDGs is not an option

written by Dr Dennis Rangi, Director General, Development at CABI
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A place where the plants come to us

A place where the plants come to us

Lessons from the Singapore experience…
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Get involved, involve men

Get involved, involve men

Empowering women has been a topic of discussion for so many years yet you can never get bored of these presentations. Why? Well it’s…
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Forests that feed us

Forests that feed us

What they do and how we can help
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Once there was a female farmer who made cheese in Georgia…

Once there was a female farmer who made cheese in Georgia…

During the 43rd Committee on World Food Security (CFS43), participants discussed farmers, ago-entrepreneurs, and family businesses. There…
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You gotta fight… for your right… to food

You gotta fight… for your right… to food

When the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) reformed in 2009 it identified the promotion of the right to food as one of its goals. This…
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Data democracy: a new age

Data democracy: a new age

The power of data over our lives is hard to overestimate. It governs how we understand and interact with the modern world, how it is…
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A cultural heritage under threat and under valued

A cultural heritage under threat and under valued

“Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.” Daniel Quinn
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The tradeoffs of indigenous and community land right promotion

The tradeoffs of indigenous and community land right promotion

“All this is a long-term process, but we keep having the commitment and look forward that the guidelines will definitely help to improve…
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Five steps towards more diverse food systems

Five steps towards more diverse food systems

On the surface at least, modern foods systems appear to be astonishingly diverse. A person walking into a supermarket almost anywhere in…
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Agrobiodiversity for people and planet

Agrobiodiversity for people and planet

You should eat a kilo of Cavendish bananas a day, if you’d like to fulfil your recommended intake of vitamin A. Or, you could eat one To’o…
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