“Biodiversity and Agricultures : Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Research for More Sustainable Farming” is the theme for the conference that will be held this week in Montpellier, France.  It will be held over two days (4th-5th November) and the main topics up for discussion include:

Ecosystems and agriculture
Agriculture, biodiversity and society: the footprint and the drivers; North/South [...]

Miscellaneous Wiggins, S. 2008 IPPG Discussion Paper Series Number Twenty-One, DFID, London, UK, 35 pp. This essay compares the experiences of agricultural development and overall development in two similar but very different countries: Bolivia and New Zealand. Similar since they both have small populations living from economies based on relatively abundant natural resources; and both are remote from the centres of the world economy.

The conference “Banana and Plaintain in Africa: Harnessing International Partnerships to Increase Research Impact” will be held from the 5th-9th October, in Mombasa, Kenya.
The organisers from the conference website state:
“We are pleased to announce an Africa-based conference will focus on banana and plantain across Africa: lessons learnt and the way forward. There is an urgent [...]

A high-level congress on Biodiversity of Africa - Observation and Sustainable Management for our Future will be held in South Africa next week (29 September - 3 October).  The congress has been organised by the African-German Research Network BIOTA AFRICA.
Major topics that will be discussed are:

Observation System - Identifying, measuring and understanding the past [...]

Farmers’ Rights website - this website’s aim is to be an on-line tool and information resource for practitioners, policy makers and individuals who work, or are interested in this field. The website was launched in May of this year, and is the official website of the Farmers’ Rights Project of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute [...]

Miscellaneous I. Bose 2007 IPPG Briefing Paper No. Nine, In Conjunction with CUTS International, DFID, London, UK, 7 pp. Globalization is an uneven process in as much as people living in different parts of the world are affected very differently by this gigantic transformation of social structures and cultural zones. However, it is not just a process but an institutional form, embodying a host of international institutional arrangements