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Collaborating, Learning & Adapting (CLA) USAID's TOOLKIT... to Improve Capacity Development Programming

24/01/2018

If you want to make sure that your programs are coordinated with others, grounded in a strong Monitoring, Evaluation (M&E) base, and iteratively adapted to remain relevant throughout implementation, you might be interested to learn more about the USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) TOOLKIT, - a set ...

CGIAR Capacity Building & other Efforts to Improve Food and Nutrition Security...The inside story

23/01/2018

"The need for Capacity Development arises in all fields of agri-food research, but is particularly pressing in new areas such as Data Management and Communication Technologies, Landscape analysis and Climate-smart agriculture". These issues, together with other CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) strategic priorities for a food-secure future, are ...

Call for Applications for Ph.D. Fellowships under DAAD’s : for innovative research topics related to Forestry, Agroforestry & Agro Biodiversity (in East African countries)

22/01/2018

Capacity Development (CapDev) has been an integral part of the World Agroforestry Centre’s (ICRAF) overall program to both facilitate the use and impact of its research as well as to enhance the relevance of its research and development for partners’ needs. Capacitating is one of four value propositions ICRAF ...

AGROVOC and other community agreements for agrifood & related sectors

22/01/2018

Source [1] The landscape of agri-food data standards: From ontologies to messagesChristopher Brewster; Data Science Group, TNO, Soesterberg, The NetherlandsIn EFITA WCCA 2017 Conference, Montpellier Supagro, Montpellier, France, July 2-6, 2017.This entry provides a short overview of a recently published article [1] presenting some community agreements (i.e. standards including vocabularies and ontologies) ...

Make the best use of the Research4Life Resources… & MORE : Get involved!

18/01/2018

Research4Life* is the collective name for the four programmes:AGORA Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture,facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN       - What you need to know about AGORAHinariAccess to Research for Health programmeARDIAccess to Research for Development and InnovationOAREAccess to Research ...