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Grasslands To Combat Climate Change
From Voice of America A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says grasslands have vast untapped potential to limit climate change by absorbing and storing carbon...
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The International Organization for Animal Health has announced that it plans...
The International Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has announced that it plans to study the impact of livestock and poultry production on climate change, its first foray into environmental issues....
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New book ‘Science and Innovation for Development’
Science and Innovation for Development By Professor Sir Gordon Conway and Professor Jeff Waage, with Sara Delaney. Published by UKCDS January 2010. ISBN: 978 1 84129 0829 ‘…We hope that this book will...
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Challenge Program for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)...
CCAFS is seeking Regional Facilitators for West Africa, Eastern Africa and the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The Regional Facilitators will be hosted by CGIAR centres operating in the regions, and will be...
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ILRI-led, SLP-funded study published today in Science Special Issue on Food...
Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems M. Herrero P. K. Thornton, A. M. Notenbaert, S. Wood, S. Msangi, H. A. Freeman, D. Bossio, J. Dixon, M. Peters,...
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Intensive versus extensive livestock systems and greenhouse gas emissions
From the Food Climate Research Network The purpose of this briefing paper is to explore the different ways in which one might view the contributions that livestock in intensive and extensive systems...
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Zambia – Difficult time in the farm sector
From the Meat Trade News Daily website New evidence from a study from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) indicates that on-going extreme changes and variability in Zambia’s...
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Extreme Weather Tests Pastoralist Perceptions in Kenya
The effects of climate change – such as drought, livestock deaths and resource conflict – may be all too apparent for the pastoralists of northern Kenya, but there is much to be done to explain the...
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World scientists meet again over climate change in Kenya
Read on People Daily Online website (China) Climate change in Africa and the world at large has impacted on many fronts resulting in drought and floods hence resulting in food shortage. Consequently,...
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Meat, food security, climate change… Should we eat less meat to increase food...
An interesting letter exchange between John McDermott (ILRI’s Deputy Director General for Research) and Vicki Hird (Senior Food Campaigner at Friends of the Earth) is published in the June 2010 issue...
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Diffa: the morning light
Seen on IIED website The ancient tradition of pastoral nomadism in landlocked Niger in West Africa is a source of huge cultural wealth in one of the poorest countries on earth. But with Niger’s eastern...
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Study predicts massive impact of drought tolerant maize in Africa
From Science Blog 26/08/10 Cattle grazing maize residues after harvest in Zimbabwe. Photo: Sabine Homann As climate change intensifies drought conditions in Africa and sparks fears of a new cycle of...
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Dryland opportunities: A new paradigm for people, ecosystems and development...
Drylands cover 41 percent of the earth’s terrestrial surface. The urgency of and international response to climate change have given a new place to drylands in terms both of their vulnerability to...
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Agricultural biodiversity, smallholder farmers, and adaptive capacity –...
Stockholm Resilience Centre is looking for input, comments and suggestions on the commissioned report by Hivos and Oxfam Novib: “Agricultural biodiversity, smallholder farmers, and adaptive capacity –...
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Report on ‘Global livestock production systems’ is now online
The book provides a stocktaking of where we are with livestock system classification. It presents the most up to date maps of global livestock production systems and provides revised estimates of the...
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Landscapes for People, Food and Nature: an international initiative for...
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature is an international collaborative initiative that aims to scale up successful strategies that simultaneously improve livelihoods, conserve biodiversity and...
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CIMMYT opens two research positions on agricultural systems for climate...
1. Agricultural Systems/Climate Change Mitigation Achieving sustainable food security in a world of growing population and changing diets is a major challenge under climate change. The International...
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EcoAgriculture Partners releases a discussion paper on Performance and...
This Discussion Paper published by EcoAgriculture Partners with support from CARE and WWF-US examines how Conservation Agriculture (CA) might support climate change adaptation and mitigation in the...
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Virtuous Circles: Values, Systems and Sustainability
End of last year IIED and IUCN published a book in which the authors explain that our current way of providing food and other basic needs involves industrialised systems that are linear, centralised...
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The Montpellier Panel releases their report “Growth with Resilience:...
Last month the Montpellier Panel presented the report on ‘Growth with Resilience: Opportunities in African Agriculture’. The report’s vision states: “The challenge is to generate agricultural growth...
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