The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are pleased to announce the technical expert workshop on “Gaps, trends and current research in gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty”, which will be held in Rome in the week of 30 March – 3 April 2009 (duration three days - exact dates to be confirmed).

The monsoons came late over the semi-arid regions of central India this year. While several farming villages suffered from drought, Kothapally village in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh had water in their wells for drinking and irrigating crops.

WFP has welcomed Canada's decision to deploy a frigate to Somalia to protect WFP food ships against piracy.

Facts, figures and the lastest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.

Metadata interoperability allows the exchange and preservation of crucial learning and teaching
information, as well as its future reuse among a large number of different systems and repositories. This paper introduces work around metadata interoperability that has taken place in the context of the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF), an international community of the stakeholders that are involved in agricultural learning

In the last few years a strong need has emerged for a standard way to interchange various types of information, such as on organizations, projects, experts, events and news, in the agricultural

The great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti's legacy, a year after his death, now includes a special memorial ceremony and concert to raise funds for UN projects supporting refugees in Afghanistan.

2008/07 - AgInfo News from IAALD

Two new briefs from the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods, and Food Security (RENEWAL) and other media materials released to coincide with the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

Publications Review Seminar, Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Presented by Regina Birner, Surupa Gupta, and Neeru Sharma. IFPRI Headquarters, 2033 K Street NW, Washington DC.

The paper deals with environmental and social values of river water. Although many decisions on water allocation in river basins are made on economic grounds but environmental and social benefits of water should also be considered in river basin management.

IFPRI Discussion Paper by Maria Angeles O. Catelo, Clare A. Narrod, and Marites M. Tiongco

IFPRI Discussion Paper by David Coady, Paul Dorosh, and Bart Minten

IFPRI Discussion Paper by Andrew Dillon

A report to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development links this waste in Western countries to problems in feeding the world's poor and needy. The report, from Stockholm International Water Institute, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and the International Water Management Institute, says "tremendous" quantities of food are discarded in processing, transport, supermarkets and people's kitchens. It urges governments to halve the waste by 2025.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran has praised a new report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies calling for a strategic US approach to the global food crisis.

Bouncing back from a challenging period in the nineties, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) turned itself around to join the ranks of top international agricultural research centers today.

Research from the DFID Trade and Poverty in Latin America programme (COPLA), shows that the agricultural sector of the southern Peruvian Andes, where the poorest people in the country live, is vulnerable to the effects that the imports of goods from the US

Here’s a listing of some more new additions to our library:

Badstue, L.B. 2006. Smallholder seed practices: maize seed management in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. Wageningen (The Netherlands): Wageningen Univ.. xiv, 327 p., ill. ISBN: 90-8504-502-9.
Notes: Wageningen Univ. thesis. Contains summary in Dutch. 2 copies..
Call No: 631.53(72) B14
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Millions of people in DPRK are experiencing hunger not seen in almost a decade according to the findings of a new UN assessment in the east Asian country.