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International institutions join forces on Africa water initiative
Agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa is vital to poverty reduction and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals set by the international community. Despite its importance, however, investments in agricultural water have seen a continuous decline since the late 1980s, with only a slight recovery in recent years. In response to the decline, five international organizations (the ...
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NFU Announces Featured Speakers and Events for 122nd Anniversary Convention in Scottsdale
National Farmers Union (NFU) will host the organization’s 122nd Anniversary Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona, from March 10 through March 12. The NFU Convention is the annual opportunity for Farmers Union members from across the country to set the organization’s grassroots policy priorities for the coming year, informed by the elected officials and policy experts they hear from ...
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National Survey on Cover Crops Seeks Farmer Participation
Farmers are invited to share their thoughts on cover crops—whether or not they use cover crops themselves—in a national survey, now in its third year of collecting valuable data on the increasingly popular management practice. The results, which will be released this summer, will help growers, researchers, agricultural advisors, ag retailers and policymakers more effectively address ...
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Copa-Cogeca to Host FIGARO Project’s Closing International Conference in Brussels
European Farming body Copa-Cogeca will host the closing conference of the FIGARO Project in Brussels on September 19, 2016. The event, which will be held at Copa-Coqeca’s offices, will present the successful project’s outcomes and the benefits of using the FIGARO Platform to potential end users and promoters of precision irrigation. The Figaro Project is an EU-funded ...
By FIGARO
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EPA Region 7 to Participate at National Association of Farm Broadcasting Trade Talk Event Nov. 14 in Kansas City, Mo.
EPA officials will be available for interviews at the annual National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Trade Talk event at the Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., on Thursday, Nov. 14. Interview topics include outreach to the agricultural community, regulatory updates, animal feeding operations, nutrient management and pesticides. WHAT: National Association of Farm ...
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Cool Planet Gains Momentum in Agriculture, adds key Board Members
Expanding leadership and enhancing technical expertise, Cool Planet - the developer of carbon negative fuels, chemicals and biocarbon technology - adds Ed Anderson to its board of directors and Jim Bone to its technical advisory board. Anderson brings strong leadership from his experience in founding and growing North Bridge Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm, while Bone brings four ...
By Cool Planet
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Farmers` rights `at stake in Chile`s Monsanto law bill`
Campaigners who last month marched through more than a dozen Chilean cities against a bill dubbed the 'Monsanto law' after the giant US biotech firm, plan to protest again if the bill progresses through the country's Senate. Meanwhile, the bill's supporters - mainly associations of large-scale farmers - are lobbying senators to back it. At issue is the legal implementation in Chile of the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Research funding and skills key to food for post-2015
Public spending on agricultural research must double in the next decade if the world is to successfully move to sustainable methods of food production, says a UN-backed report. This funding must be coupled with long-term investment in the training of agricultural professionals to fill the skill gaps in many developing countries, concludes the report published yesterday by the Sustainable ...
By SciDev.Net
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Tanzanian Agriculture and Livestock ministers at opening of Agribusiness Congress East Africa in Dar es Salaam
Tanzania’s ministers of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives, Honourable Eng. Christopher Chiza,and of Livestock and Fisheries, Honourable Dr. Titus Kamani Mlengeya, will address the opening session of the upcoming Agribusiness Congress East Africa in Dar es Salaam on 28 January. Some 800 agriculture experts are expected at the conference and exhibition to focus on finance, best ...
By VUKA Group
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Symposium Tackles Golden Horseshoe’s Ag Identity
The Town of Lincoln and Niagara College hosted an agricultural symposium last week, inviting 90 people in the agricultural sector from across the Golden Horseshoe to talk about growing the food and farming cluster in the region. In the photo, answering questions from the audience are presenters, from left: VRIC CEO Jim Brandle, GHFFA executive director Janet Horner, Food and Beverage Ontario ...
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