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The U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security graduate research grant supports exceptional graduate students who are interested in developing a component of their graduate research in a developing country setting and in collaboration with a mentor from an International Agricultural Research Center (IARC) or a qualifying National Agricultural Research System (NARS) unit. U.S.…
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Women are strong drivers of agroecological change in farming and consumer communities. One example is the women’s movement for agrobiodiverse, pesticide-free crop production in India. In other places, women experiment with intercropping, vegetable box schemes and seed exchanges. What motivates them? And what role does agroecology play in improving the lives of women?
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The International Food Policy Research Institute has received a second round of support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to adapt and validate a measure of women’s empowerment that agricultural development projects can use to diagnose key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related…
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Join the APLU Knowledge Center for Advancing Development through Higher Education for a webinar on USAID’s Local Solutions (part of USAID Forward), which encourages sustainability through country ownership of the development agenda. During this webinar, we’ll explore the Local Systems Framework, which provides a foundation for engaging local systems in ways that support local ownership,…
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Ask Ag About… Land Tenure and Governance Effectively addressing issues of land tenure and resource governance can mean the difference between project success and failure. This requires implementers to develop a clear understanding of the social and political structures surrounding access to land and other resources. Implementers must also weigh the interests of various stakeholders…
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2015 Institutional Performance Improvement in Practice A Deep Dive into the HICD Methodology In the context of USAID’s increasing focus on local systems and other donors’ efforts to shift more resources toward local institutional capacity building, applying the science of organizational learning and behavior change is a growing imperative. This one and a half day workshop…
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Since 2006, the international peanut genomics research community has worked through the Peanut Genome Initiative (PGI) to integrate genomic and biotechnological approaches into the process for developing effective environmentally benign solutions that help reduce economic risks of peanut production. The PGI has facilitated improved collaboration between international scientists and stakeholders through a series of international…