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CABI and IFPRI land prestigious $250,000 Inspire Challenge 2018 Scale Up award
CABI and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have landed a prestigious $250,000 Inspire 2018 Scale Up award for their ground-breaking ‘Seeing is Believing’ project which helps optimise farmers’ agronomic decision-making. 10 October 2018 – CABI and partners the International Food Policy Research Institute…
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Are forgotten crops the future of food?
Just four crops – wheat, maize, rice and soybean – provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. But scientists in Malaysia are trying to change that by reviving crops that have been relegated to the sidelines. By Preeti Jha22 August 2018 On a small fruit…
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icipe Director General honoured
Dr. Segenet Kelemu among recipients of the Women Economic Forum’s highest recognition, Women of the Decade Award New Delhi, India, 26 April – 1 May 2018: Dr. Segenet Kelemu, the Director General of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), is among the…
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Global Bamboo And Rattan Congress 2018
How Can Bamboo And Rattan Contribute To South-South Coorperation And The sustainable Development Goals? Our world today faces a set of fundamental challenges. Poverty, climate change, unsustainable resource use and ecosystem degradation pose serious threats to human wellbeing and our environment. They also slow the…
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Forgotten Foods Research: World over-reliant on handful of food crops
Here’s a startling statistic: Just four food crops – wheat, soya, maize and rice – supply half of the world’s total food needs. Yet over the course of history, humans have grown something like seven-thousand crops. Most of them are now long forgotten or grown…
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Launch of the Forgotten Foods Network
Crops For the Future (CFF) is leading the Forgotten Foods Network – a global initiative to collect and share information on foods, recipes and traditions that are part of our common heritage. Through this network, we hope to discover foods that can transform the way we eat…
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CABI launches new Horticulture Compendium
CABI recently launched a fantastic new Horticulture Compendium which provides authoritative datasheets on temperate, tropical and subtropical horticultural food crops. What is the Horticulture Compendium? A new, unique encyclopedic resource of authoritative horticultural datasheets providing global coverage of temperate, tropical and subtropical horticultural food crops.…
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Fruit fly bait production facility launched in Kenya
Plant will produce icipe Fruitfly Mania™ A facility to commercially produce a protein bait known as Fruitfly Mania™, a product developed through research by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) for the control of fruit flies, has been launched in Kenya. Fruit…
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GAPAD – Global Action Plan for Agricultural Diversification
Crops for the future (CFF) has identified the need for a Global Action Plan for Agricultural Diversification (GAPAD) to meet the needs of a hotter world. With its partners, CFF is taking the lead to establish a global stakeholder alliance to implement GAPAD. The GAPAD…
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Bamboo to help green the highways in India
A three day national convention on “Innovations in Green Highways” was held in New Delhi from November 7- 9, 2016. The convention organized by National Green Highways Mission, National Highways Authority of India, Ministry of Highways & Transport, aimed at identifying the outcomes and action…