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Hickey Lab : Crop Science For The Real World

18/01/2017

The Hickey lab conducts discovery and applies research on Australia’s most important cereal crops – wheat and barley. The Hickey lab’s research is focused on key abiotic and biotic factors that limit grain production, as well as development of novel breeding tools and methodologies. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________“The human population is expected ...

“Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture for Low-Income Countries” Online Course is now open for Registration!

18/01/2017

ASIRA online course for low-income countries is delivered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Research4Life. The course registration is open from  11th  to 27th January,  2017. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________The goal of this online free course is to provide a platform to enhance the visibility, ...

Agriculture for impact: for inclusive agricultural development in Africa

17/01/2017

Agriculture for Impact (A4I) was (2010- 2016) an independent advocacy initiative based at Imperial College London. A4I aimed to enable better European government support for productive, sustainable, equitable and resilient agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing in particular on the needs of smallholder farmers._____________________________________________________________________________________________________By building and sharing evidence ...

How the Sustainable Development Goals will help us achieve Zero Hunger

16/01/2017

This essay focuses upon the issue of How the Sustainable Development Goals will help us achieve Zero Hunger which is discussed in the ‘2016 Global Hunger Index: Getting to Zero Hunger’ book published by IFPRI in 2016._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“795 million people are going hungry. We demand: Nobody should have to suffer from hunger!” (Hunger ...

AgriProfiles : Global Networking for Agriculture through metadata and standard vocabularies

13/01/2017

AgriProfiles is a search portal giving access to profiles of experts and organizations in the field of agriculture, bridging across separately hosted directories and online communities. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________AgriProfiles portal - formerly AgriVIVO (launched in 2013) - is led by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), in collaboration with Cornell University and ...