Contents
Focus on: Biodiversity
- Model behaviour - the race to conserve crop wild relatives
- Biocultural protocols: empowering stewards of livestock diversity
- Safeguarding Madagascar's biodiversity
- Thailand's Karen rotational farmers seek recognition as stewards of biodiversity
- Agrobiodiversity challenges in the Pacific
- Conserving wild plants in West Africa
- Cooking up success for local foods in Pohnpei
Points of view
Developments
- Haiti's earthquake: agriculture the key to recovery
- Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar: reaching out to farmers in rural India
- Artificial glaciers for summer irrigation
Book reviews
- Nature's matrix
- The state of food and agriculture 2009: Livestock in the balance
- Science and innovation for development
- Agribusiness and innovation systems in Africa
- Land grab: The race for the world's farmland
- Modern and mobile: The future of livestock production in Africa's drylands
- Dryland opportunities: A new paradigm for people, ecosystems and development
- Video in development: Filming for rural change
- Reaching the unreached: Community based village knowledge centres & village resource centres
News brief
- 'Women can't wait' campaign launched
- Severe Mongolia winter causes livestock disaster
- Pests and diseases threatening cassava in Southeast Asia
- New innovations for insuring the poor
- Developing countries in need of improved biosafety regulations
- Appropriate technologies could negate impacts of climate change
- Guidelines for management of animal genetic resources released
- Kew discovers 290 new species in 2009
- Yam research gets funding boost
- Turning urban food waste into fertiliser
- Solar-powered irrigation boosts production in Benin
- Payments for environmental services gaining ground
- Jamaica launches agriculture market information system
My perspective
Country profile
In pictures
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March 2010
March 2010
