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Learning and Capacity Strengthening Newsletter
April 2006

Announcements
  1. The Global Open Food and Agriculture University (GO-FAU): Contributions to Master's Programs in Agricultural Economics/Agribusiness – Curriculum and Course Materials
    GO-FAU, a distance education support initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and partner universities, strengthens M.Sc. agricultural programs by providing high-quality course materials, faculty capacity strengthening, and thesis facilitation. Partner universities deliver the courses, support learners, provide accreditation, and award degrees. IFPRI coordinates this Program for the CGIAR. Newest information available on GO-FAU’s website is an Agricultural Economics curriculum and related course materials. It contains postgraduate-level curriculum and course materials in agricultural economics/agribusiness for 28 courses. In some cases, it provides links for downloading the article abstract or full text from the publisher's site.
    Email GO-FAU@cgiar.org
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  2. IFPRI Dataset
    Kenya: The Influence of Social Capital on Sustainable Agriculture in Marginal Areas, 2003
    The dataset has been made available by the International Food Policy Research Institute under a competitive grants program organized by the 2020 Vision Network for East Africa. The data are derived from a survey of rural households in Machakos and Taita-Taveta Districts in Kenya. Four sub-locations were chosen in each district based on terracing density and physical infrastructure endowments. A village was then selected randomly from each of the sub-locations. The study was used to investigate, analyze, and document farm-level social capital in marginal areas and evaluate its effects on soil conservation investments, resource-use patterns, and agricultural productivity with consequent food security implications.
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  3. Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology (KC)
    The Knowledge Center is the information sharing initiative of International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). KC is a not-for-profit organization that delivers the benefits of new agricultural biotechnologies for poverty alleviation to farmers in developing countries. Its mission is to collect and distribute authoritative and well-documented information on all aspects of crop biotechnology and to facilitate sound decisionmaking processes relating to the safe use of biotech crops. It aims to build capacity in national programs by establishing a global network of Biotechnology Information Centers (BICs), with nodes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The site includes a section on coming meetings, courses, and workshops related to crop biotechnology worldwide.
    more info...
  4. Rural Poverty Portal
    Powered by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the rural poverty portal is a web site where policymakers, donors, research institutes, nongovernmental organizations, and other development partners can share information about eradicating rural poverty. On the portal, the information can be browsed by topic, region, or country. It aims to streamline the search for information on rural poverty by providing access to millions of links from a single entry point.
    more info...
  5. New Approaches for Measuring Household Food Insecurity and Poverty: The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale
    The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance project (FANTA), in collaboration with Cornell and Tufts universities, has developed a Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) measure and a guide with a standardized questionnaire and data collection and analysis instructions.
    more info...
  6. The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
    TEEAL, an annually updated full-text and bibliographic library, contains the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture.
    more info...
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