Today, @RishiSunak announced the launch of the UK’s first CGIAR center, at the Global Food Security Summit #GFSS23. The event brought together governments, scientists, NGOs and the private sector for action on global food security. #UKCGIAR
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"We have to work together, we can't just talk about working together."
“The biggest need that we need to address is: how do we get technologies to farmers through institutional innovation?”
@Agnes_Kalibata, @AGRA_Africa#GFSS23
@EnviroEm I wrote an essay on Nepalese community forest management 15 years ago when studying at uni. The examiner gave me a top grade, but then replaced it with a lower grade, saying "if my assessment was correct, why wasn't everybody doing it?".
I'm chalking this up as a win.
Seeking Twitter hive mind! Names matter - so to get beyond erroneous 'developed / developing' countries, we're proposing new country clusters, in terms of their journey towards living in the Doughnut. For starters: Rise-Shift-Fulfil-Reduce. What else do you suggest?...
A new piece of research looking at changing incomes amongst farmers in East Africa. Agriculture can help some escape poverty, but doesn't help the poorest. Something else is needed to escape the extreme poverty trap. But what?
https://t.co/OSRri7wcyS
@DrHenaSyedSabir Sure this is very useful when folks are feeling towards the red... But there should be more shades of green. Functioning, thriving, flying... Let's not forget about the good moods which are possible.
@TyRBeal @foodpolicy_JHU @l_haddad @AnnaWHerforth@GAINalliance @JohnsHopkinsAHW @RockefellerFdn@CGIAR@IDRC_CRDI@CIFFchild@MaximoTorero Well this totally negates my last six months of work, developing a framework for food system diagnosis and intervention selection... Unless... Hmm, 🤔 any interest in adapting this for local level decision support? @TyRBeal
Any PhD students want a funded 6 month placement with our group? Improving assessment GHGs from African cattle, based on high freuqnecy & crowd sources survey data. See page 47 https://t.co/malBMAXFUt and info here: https://t.co/VLrLAs0lA0
During the lock-down I finalized something I have been working on for a long time: a critical article about the economic narrative behind the Green Revolution. Comments welcome! https://t.co/ytYBHOJo99
We interviewed nine thousand farmers in Africa and Asia about how COVID-19 affected their lives. Massive income loss, reduced food consumption. No government support schemes.
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https://t.co/skOqUAjBao
Nice paper showing that crop and livestock integration opens up possibilities for lower environmental impact. #rhomis data fed into the #farmdesign model. Tidy.
Crop-livestock integration provides opportunities to mitigate environmental trade-offs in transitioning smallholder agricultural systems of the Greater Mekong Subregion - open access https://t.co/r0qaAiNido
@BiovIntCIAT_eng@Livestock_CGIAR@ETH@agroscope