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Investing in Agriculture to Overcome the World Food Crisis and Reduce Poverty and Hunger (IFPRI / CGIAR / IISD)

willem van cotthem wrote 2 weeks ago: Read at : CGIAR “Lakatos, Christina (IFPRI)” <C.LAKATOS@cgiar.org> African SD Poli … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Desertification, Drought, food / food security, hunger / famine, IFPRI, poverty

$9.5m for food aid

homepaddock wrote 1 month ago:   We’re giving $9.5m in aid to help fight the world food crisis. The funding would be delivered v … more »

Tags: Rural, INTERNATIONAL, Food aid, GM, Kyrgyzstan NZ Rural Trust, No Minister, UN, Whale Oil

Food Crisis

jebsharp wrote 2 months ago: The UN has just finished an emergency meeting on the global food crisis.  We (at PRI’s The W … more »

Tags: United Nations, Jeb Sharp, Food, Hunger, WFP, Ban Ki-moon

Global warming, hunger and poverty (Willem)

willem van cotthem wrote 3 months ago: MY COMMENT SENT TO THE VOA NEWS Dear Sirs, Today I have been reading your article http://www.voanews … more »

Tags: Agriculture, climate / climate change, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, Drought, Ecosystems, environmental refugees, family gardens, food / food security

UNCCD : partnerships on Africa and Agricultural research (ENB / IISD)

willem van cotthem wrote 3 months ago: Read at : Linkages Update - Thursday, 27 March 2008 Earth Negotiations Bulletin <enb@iisd.org> … more »

Tags: Desertification, Agriculture, UNCCD, ICRISAT, ICARDA

Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope? (CGIAR)1 comment

willem van cotthem wrote 4 months ago: Read at : CGIAR http://www.cgiar.org/impact/global/climate.html Global Climate Change: Can Agricult … more »

Tags: Agriculture, climate / climate change, ipcc, UNFCCC

Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic: Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don't

Eric A. Blair wrote 4 months ago: Here is what Stewart Swerdlow has to say about the seed bank… http://expansions.com/News.cfm … more »

Tags: Politics, YOUR MINDSET, health, secret, Scandals, From Freedom to Fascism, Nutrition, History, New World Order

Plant genetic resources hard at work

Maryanne wrote 4 months ago: Collectively, the plant genetic resources preserved at 11 CGIAR Centers constitute a powerful weapon … more »

Tags: Plant genetic resources, genebanks, Plant gentic resouces, Sustainable Agriculture, Svalbard

Gates funding to help poor rice farmers succeed amid climate change

Maryanne wrote 4 months ago: The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is receiving significant new funding to harness maj … more »

Tags: Rural economic growth, climate change, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, International Rice Research Institute, irri, Rice, rice research

Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?

Maryanne wrote 4 months ago: No one understands better than farmers do how the weather, especially when it takes a turn for the w … more »

Tags: climate change, Agriculture

Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope? (CGIAR)

willem van cotthem wrote 7 months ago: Read at : CGIAR http://www.cgiar.org/impact/global/climate.html Global Climate Change: Can Agricult … more »

Tags: Agriculture, climate / climate change, FAO, ipcc, UNFCCC

Getting the Better of Global Climate Change (CGIAR)

willem van cotthem wrote 7 months ago: Read at : CGIAR http://www.cgiar.org/monthlystory/december2007.html Getting the Better of Global C … more »

Tags: Agriculture, climate / climate change

Scientists call for crop research on adaptation (IISD / Icrisat / CGIAR)

willem van cotthem wrote 7 months ago: Read at : Linkages Update 2007-12-13 http://www.iisd.ca/recent/recentmeetings.asp?id=6#mtg4998 SCIEN … more »

Tags: Desertification, Ecology & Environment, climate / climate change, UNCCD, ICRISAT, ipcc

UNCCD/CST : ICRISAT director-general to chair (Google Alert / The Hindu)

willem van cotthem wrote 10 months ago: Read at : Google Alert - desertification The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200709121 … more »

Tags: Desertification, UNCCD

HIGHLIGHT RESOURCES on climate change (dgAlert)

willem van cotthem wrote 10 months ago: Read at : dgEnvironment & Development New Highlight: Climate and Global Food Security HIGHLIGHT … more »

Tags: food / food security, Agriculture, climate / climate change

CGIAR Virtual Library (id21)

willem van cotthem wrote 10 months ago: Read at : id21 <id21NRnewsAdmin@lyris.ids.ac.uk> id21NRNews 35 - the latest id21 Natural Resou … more »

Tags: Books/Publications

Forest Day, an event in parallel with UNFCCC COP13 (CGIAR)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Dear All, Please note that Forest Day has the support of the UNFCCC Secretariat, but it is not a par … more »

Tags: Forestry, UNFCCC

Managing Water for Food and Environmental Security (dgAlert / USAID

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : dgFood Security http://topics.developmentgateway.org/foodsecurity/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId= … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Desertification, Drought, Ecology & Environment, food / food security, hunger / famine, Public Health, Soil, water

The Inconvenient Fruit

frankahilario wrote 1 year ago: An Inconvenient Truth: William Dar, The Filipino As Global Manager THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH, ITS ORIG … more »

Tags: 'The Filipino As Global Manager', The Inconvenient Truth, biofuel, ethanol, global manager, Global Warming, global warning, ICRISAT, India


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