A4I is pleased to announce the launch of our upcoming Montpellier Panel Report ‘No Ordinary Matter: conserving, restoring & enhancing Africa’s soils’ ahead of World Soil Day. Soils are primarily responsible for providing water and nutrients to crops and animals. When unable to provide these services to their full capacity, crops, animals and the farmers who… Read more »
A4I hosted a side event at the World Food Prize ‘No Ordinary Matter: A Prelude to A Montpellier Panel Report on Enhancing Africa’s Soils’ on Thursday the 16th of October 2014. Soils are primarily responsible for providing water and nutrients to crops and animals. When unable to provide these services to their full capacity, crops,… Read more »
A4I attended the CFS 41 event at the FAO in Rome and collaborated with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) for this breakout session on ‘Linking smallholders to markets: lessons from working models’ on Wednesday the 15th of October from 6.00-7.30pm in the Iran room. Click here to read ‘Scaling up- scaling up: food security, smallholder farmers & markets‘ a summary… Read more »
Agriculture for Impact will be hosting a side event to discuss our report at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) at 12.30pm on the 3rd of September. Come and find us if you are at the conference and join in the conversation! The AGRFseeks to deliver the objective of the AU Year of Agriculture and Food… Read more »
Following the successful London launch of the latest Montpellier Panel Report “Small and Growing: Entrepreneurship in African Agriculture” , the Agriculture for Impact team launched it again at DG AGRI and DG DevCo at the European Commission on the 2nd of July 2014. Mr. Roberto Ridolfi, Director, DEVCO C – Sustainable Growth and Development gave a… Read more »
Agriculture for Impact launched its latest Montpellier Panel report “Small and Growing: Entrepreneurship in African Agriculture” (PDF) in London in June 2014. Co-hosted by the All- Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development (APPG), the event welcomed a panel of experts to discuss how investments in rural and food sector entrepreneurship in Africa can… Read more »
As part of the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) declared by the United Nations for 2014, the research institutions of Montpellier’s hub (Agropolis International) organized the International Encounters on “Family Farming and Research” This event was co-organized with the CGIAR Consortium, the Global Forum on Agriculture Research (GFAR) and the World Rural Forum (WRF) and supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and… Read more »
The Agriculture for Impact team attended the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” conference from the 15-17 May 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Experts from academia, NGOs, the private sector and government gathered for the conference organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Speakers include Per Pinstrup-Anderson, Cornell University… Read more »
The Borlaug Summit on Wheat for Food Security honours the 100th anniversary of the birth and the legacy of Dr. Norman Borlaug, a legendary CIMMYT scientist who developed high-yielding, semi-dwarf wheat, which is credited with saving over 1 billion people from starvation. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his… Read more »
The Agriculture for Impact team attended The Economist Feeding the World conference in February 2014. Gordon Conway spoke to a high-level audience as part of the “Technology for Food Security” panel, setting out a concept for sustainable intensification of agriculture that grows more food with fewer resources, along with Montpellier Panel member Lindiwe Majele Sibanda. Other Montpellier Panel members also attended the… Read more »
