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Brazilian interest in Africa: Agriculture’s final frontier?
In this weekly column, Roger Thurow, former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, describes the interest of Embrapa, the Brazilian agricultural research corporation that engineered a...
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Signs of an American shift from development aid to development investment
Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010, a side event at the COP16 climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico (photo credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT). Huffpost Business this week investigates ‘an...
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Hillary Clinton at IFPRI urges US government to invest in, not cut, a ‘Feed...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on 11 August 2011 about the need to invest in aid for small-scale farmers in Africa and other...
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Fellowship opportunities with Borlaug LEAP for African students
The Norman E. Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (LEAP) is seeking applications for fellowship grant opportunities for Master’s and PhD students from sub-Saharan Africa. The deadline...
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ILRI scientist to direct USAID international project to reduce post-harvest...
Jagger Harvey (left) with Lord David Sainsbury (benefactor of The Sainsbury Laboratory through the Gatsby CharitableFoundation) when receiving the Societal Impact award in Norwich, UK, in 2013 (photo...
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Economist, partners clinch USAID award for drought insurance
From left, award winners Andrew Mude and Chris Barrett inspect cattle with pastoralists in Ethiopia (photo credit: Cornell). A Cornell development economist and his partners in the USAID-funded BASIS...
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US ambassador to Burkina Faso visits ILRI-led Feed the Future Sustainable...
On 6 October 2016 the Ambassador of the United States to Burkina Faso, H E Tulinabo S Mushingi, visited Ziga in Yatenga Province, one of the implementation sites of the Feed the Future Sustainable...
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Accelerating Value Chain Development in Kenya Conference: Highlights Read more about AVCD here and here, about the Livestock Value Chain component of AVCD here, and about the KAZNET crowd-sourced data...
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This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable...
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), introduces ‘Livestock Month’ by Agrilinks, USAID’s knowledge...
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