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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 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 ...