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For 35 years, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has tackled food insecurity in challenging environments. But the challenge of improving agriculture, livelihoods, and food security in the Middle East has...
In the wake of a sharp spike in international food prices beginning in 2008, “the world seems to have rediscovered agriculture,” declared Martin Taylor, chair of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, at a recent two-day Ottawa...
IDRC welcomed Carlos Pérez del Castillo, Chair of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), at two events on March 13. Pérez del Castillo was in Ottawa to talk about the role of scientific innovation in food production...
About 40 Canadian Parliamentarians, media, industry heads, and IDRC senior staff were up early Tuesday March 13 for the Centre’s Breakfast on the Hill event. Sponsored by Conservative MP, Dean Allison, the event featured Carlos Perez del Castillo...
The September 2011 Conference on Agricultural Research for Development was the first conference in the history of the G20 that focused on issues of international agricultural research for development. It was timely: there are 80 more million people...
The Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming Medical University, and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) will co-host the 4th biennial conference of the International Association for Ecology and Health (IAEH) in Kunming, China, October 15 to 18, 2012...
Ottawa, Canada, April 27, 2009 – Smallholder farmers produce most of Africa’s food. But they often do so with minimal resources and little government support. Equiping these farmers – mostly women – with tools, information, and supportive government...
The Ouagadougou 5th African Agriculture Science Week / FARA (July 19-24, 2010) constitutes a tremendous opportunity for Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to celebrate its 40th anniversary with African agricultural and...
Ottawa, Canada, January 27, 2010 – A global leader in agricultural research, Dr. Gebisa Ejeta will be in Ottawa February 3 to make an impassioned case for revitalizing agricultural research to improve the lives of the one billion people who still...
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