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Whilst women produce the majority of food in smallholder production systems, they lack status and access to key resources. Haven Ley of the Gates Foundation provides her viewpoint on how a better gender balance should be supported.
Date published: January 2012
After her untimely death in late September 2011, the legacy of Wangari Maathai's lifelong commitment to rural women and forests is highlighted by Francesca de Gasparis, European Director of the Green Belt Movement, set up by Maathai over 30 years ago.
Date published: November 2011
A part-time farmer with a passion for agriculture, Alana Tukuniu offers her views and advice to young people wanting to start an agricultural enterprise in the Pacific. Agriculture, she argues, is instrumental in addressing climate change, health issues and environmental challenges, and keeping cultures alive.
Date published: September 2011
Simon Levine believes passionately that the current famine in the Horn of Africa was preventable. But pro-pastoralist policies and reform of the humanitarian system are required, and until these are in place, drought will cost the lives of people and livestock at frequent intervals.
Date published: August 2011
Jesus Quintana, a climate and environment specialist, discusses IFAD's new Environment and Natural Resource Management Policy and the links between rural poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation.
Date published: June 2011
In response to catastrophic food shortages and world hunger, UN Messenger of Peace HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein calls for an urgent and effective global response and challenges governments and other donors to fulfil their commitments to increasing agricultural investment.
Date published: March 2011
In his new book, The new harvest, Calestous Juma states very clearly that Africa is a continent that can feed itself within a generation. For readers of New Agriculturist he outlines why, despite the challenges of ever increasing population and climate change, he thinks Africa will change its image of being a basket case to becoming a breadbasket.
Date published: February 2011
Via Campesina regional co-ordinator Alberto Gomez Flores believes that the agreements made at the Cancún climate summit have failed humanity, and put the futures of smallholder farmers and their access to land in jeopardy.
Date published: January 2011
Director general of IFPRI, Shenggen Fan, believes that the MDG of halving global hunger by 2015 can be achieved, but only by changing from the current 'business as usual' approach to agricultural assistance and development.
Date published: November 2010
Louis Amede, general coordinator of the Journalists of Central and West Africa for Agriculture, reflects on the role of the media in helping to restore agriculture to the top of the development agenda.
Date published: September 2010
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Edition française
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- Repenser la recherche agricole en Afrique de l'Ouest: Priorité aux agriculteurs
- Mieux vivre avec les éléphants au Zimbabwe
- Bill Gates opte pour l'innovation dans le monde agricole
- L'agriculture intelligente face au climat
- La lutte contre la faim est d'abord un programme politique
- Biodiversité et développement - Une bibliographie annotée
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