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Reinforcing the gender lens in research on value chains and technology adoption
The CGIAR Research Programs on PIM and on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) have been collaborating on reinforcing the gender focus in research
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Enabling evaluation: Building capacity with our partners
MTID partners with FONGS, a federation of farmers’ associations in Senegal, to build M&E capacity.
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International Women’s Day 2016: Empowering women with data and evidence in Bangladesh
One of a researcher’s biggest fears is that research outputs go unread, gathering dust on people’s shelves before ending up in the recycling bin. However, this fear was unfounded for our work on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), which has gone from esoteric research tool to a widely-used data collection tool that has […]
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You are what you eat: Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change
New study predicts more than 500,000 additional deaths by 2050 due to changed diets if no climate change mitigation is achieved.
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Is the global seed industry Investing in smallholders?
Improved seed varieties resistant to heat, drought can help farmers increase their yields
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Walking the wire on biotechnology at FAO
This week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted an International Symposium on The Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition at its headquarters in Rome. It has all the trappings and gravitas of a UN meeting: member-nation delegates, placards bearing their countries’ names, earphones streaming simultaneous translations […]
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Food and nutrition security programs: Too focused on agriculture?
Food and nutrition security (FNS) is a multi-dimensional concept, spanning the agriculture, trade, health, and social sectors. Often, however, policies only address FNS through one lens: that of food production.
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“A war against hunger:” 2015 Global Hunger Index illustrates progress, challenges, and the hunger-conflict connection
Panelists at the Washington, DC launch of the 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) offered sobering facts and heartbreaking stories, but also cause for cautious optimism. The 2015 Global Hunger Index—the tenth in an annual series produced by IFPRI, Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe that measures hunger globally, regionally, and nationally for 117 countries—shows progress, with a […]
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The case for investment in restoring degraded lands
Land degradation occurs in all agroecologies around the world, but it can be reversed. (Originally published on the Agrilinks site).
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Encouraging adoption of better seed technologies: What works?
Reduced or eliminated yield gap, would have profound effects on smallholder incomes