Past Events

We are approaching the finale of the International Year of Family Farming, and this year’s World Food Day theme, chosen by the UN, aims to highlight the crucial value that family farms bring...

Studies have demonstrated that by removing gender-related barriers and empowering women in agriculture to fully engage in regional economies would accelerate growth, reduce poverty and improve...

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an...

In Sweden, Government policy supporting collaborations intended to reduce food waste and production losses has been a great success.  In part, due to the specific policy for Global Development...

With a specific focus on the application of big data in agri-tech, and in-depth analysis of the market opportunity for biopesticides, seed treatment and drought-resilience, the 2014 summit will...

In spite of increasing growth rates in global food production during the past 20 years, hunger and undernutrition continues to plague a large share of the world’s population. The number of...

The seminar will focus on forests and other off-farm areas that constitute vital resources for the food security and livelihoods of the rural poor in many developing countries. These lands are...

This large wetland of 28 hectare is the final step of a waste water treatment (following mechanical and chemical processes). The wetland was built instead of retrofitting the existing plant by...

All the CGIAR Research Programs include Scaling-up and Gender as two general components. In the past Scaling-up in agriculture was just a question of how Extension would disseminate to the farmer...