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CAADP Climate-Smart Agriculture Workshop factsheets

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Climate-Smart Agriculture Workshop, held last month in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on approaches for effective program design of climate-smart agriculture in support of both country and regional CAADP investment plans. Climate-smart agriculture incorporates practices that increase productivity, efficiency, resilience, adaptive capacity, and mitigation potential of production systems.

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Delivery Method:In-Person
Event Host:Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) at the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER)

The conference will critically examine, from both research and policy perspectives:

Location:
Hall of the Americas
17th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20006 United States
Date:
Registration Deadline:October 28, 2011
Delivery Method:In-Person
Event Host:Organization of American States (OAS) / Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

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3:00 pm - Welcoming remarks by Irene Klinger, Director of the Department of International Affairs, OAS (TBC)

3:05 pm - Introduction of the topics by David C. Hatch, IICA, Representative in the U.S.

3:10 pm - Remarks on youth and agriculture by Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch, Senior Programme Specialist, UNESCO Regional Office for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean

3:25 pm - Remarks on innovation and agriculture by Gustavo Manrique, President, SAMBITO, S.A.

Location:
Hilton Nairobi Hotel
Nairobi, Kenya
Date:
Registration Deadline:September 9, 2011
Delivery Method:In-Person

This international conference will take stock of current policies, thinking and practice, successes, and failures of ongoing and past reforms in extension and advisory services and build a coalition moving forward to specifically address meeting the future needs of smallholder and resource-poor farmers, marginalized communities, women, and youth in a sustainable and cost effective manner.

Applying Peanut CRSP Research to USAID Initiatives (Presentation and Screencast)

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Author(s):
Tim Williams
Organization(s):
Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program
Institution(s):
USAID Bureau for Food Security
Date Published:
October 19, 2011

This presentation was part of the Ag Sector Council Meeting, "Applying Peanut CRSP Research to USAID Initiatives." The seminar was held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, on October 19, 2011.

Location:
Westin Dragonera Resort
St. Julian's, Malta
Date:
Delivery Method:In-Person
Event Host:Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program

 

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The USAID-funded Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program (Peanut CRSP) cordially invites you to participate in the Peanut CRSP Malta 2011 Strategic Research Conference in St. Julian’s, Malta.

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Location:

Ronald Reagan Building
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Room M17/18 (Public Information Center)
Washington, DC 20004
United States

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Ag Sector Council Meeting
Presenter(s):

Tim Williams
Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program

Date:
October 19, 2011 - 9:30am - 10:30am

The Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program (Peanut CRSP or PCRSP) supports joint research, technology development, and capacity development in eleven African and Latin American countries to boost productivity of peanut crops and increase the economic advancement of small-scale farmers. The Program has 21 active projects with diverse research themes. Presently, Peanut CRSP is paying special attention to the management, prevention, and consequences of aflatoxin.

Presenter Bio(s):

Tim Williams
Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program

Photo of Tim Williams.For 40 years, Tim Williams has strived to achieve public health and development goals through research on peanut science and the peanut value chain. In 1980, he joined the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) in India to lead peanut research on drought, plant nutrition, yield potential, and genotype/environment interactions. After 9 years in India, he spent 6 years at the ICRISAT Sahelian Center in Niger researching peanut, cowpea, and millet cropping systems.

Tim joined the University of Georgia and Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program (Peanut CRSP) in 1995 and became Director in 1997. He has focused on streamlining research management and on the market and utilization aspects of the peanut industry. His current professional interests span the entire peanut sector and opportunities to involve agriculture in the realization of health. He has developed a strong interest in mycotoxins, particularly in the prevention and chronic health effects of human aflatoxicosis. His research has established that aflatoxin is immuno-suppressive and is exacerbating the HIV epidemic, vitamin deficiencies, and malaria in Africa. Under Tim’s leadership, Peanut CRSP has become a world leader in documenting human exposure to and the public health consequences of aflatoxin.

Tim received his Doctor of Philosophy in Crop Science from the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in 1979. He has authored over 130 publications in scientific journals and as book chapters. He is responsible for numerous inventions placed in the public domain, including a soil moisture probe that he co-invented in 1985. This device was selected by NASA for the most recent Mars probe to confirm the existence of water on that planet.

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PATH
10th Floor, Room 1061
455 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC United States
Date:
Registration Deadline:September 7, 2011
Delivery Method:In-Person

USAID’s Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project and the Alliance to End Hunger presents a forum for agriculture project designers. Please join us to discuss the linkages between agriculture and nutrition programming.

USAID Special Seminar
Presenter(s):

Dr. Pedro Sanchez
Tropical Agriculture & the Rural Environment Program

Date:
November 9, 2009 - 9:30am

Nearly one sixth of the global population is malnourished. The problem is particularly acute in tropical Africa, where constant or recurrent food shortages affect over 30% of the population — over 260 million people. Low levels of agricultural productivity are a key cause of hunger in this part of the world. Decades of farming without adequate fertilizer and manure have stripped the soils of the vital nutrients needed to support plant growth.

Presenter Bio(s):

Dr. Pedro Sanchez
Tropical Agriculture & the Rural Environment Program
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Risk Management: How Can Risk Transfer Help? (Screencast)

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Author(s):
Lena Heron, Ruth Vargas Hill, Kimberly Pfeifer
Organization(s):
USAID Bureau for Food Security, IFPRI, Oxfam
Institution(s):
USAID Bureau for Food Security
Date Published:
July 7, 2011

This presentation by Lena Heron (USAID Bureau for Food Security), Ruth Vargas Hill (IFPRI),  Kimberly Pfeifer (Oxfam America) was part of the Feed The Future CSO Stakeholder Meeting,"Risk Management: How can risk transfer help?"

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