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Future Agricultures Consortium Early Career Fellowships Programme

18 January 2012

Round 3: Call for Applications
Application deadline: 17 February 2012

The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) is proud to announce the third call of its grant programme to support talented young researchers working on African agricultural policy: FAC’s Early Career Fellowship Programme (ECFP).

The ECFP is available to early career professionals working in Africa and the UK. Both full-time and part-time appointments are available and all fellowships will include mentorship support from a senior FAC researcher affiliated with a FAC partner institution. The awards will support original field-based and policy-oriented research on African agriculture.

Five innovations working to empower women

06 January 2012

Women produce more than half of the world's food but face unique challenges as farmers. Five innovative programs are helping them – and strengthening the world's food system.

At a time when world resources are dwindling and global population is growing rapidly, finding sustainable solutions to nourish people and the planet is more important than ever.

Research has shown that women may play a key role in the fight against global hunger and poverty. Worldwide, roughly 1.6 billion women rely on farming for their livelihoods, and female farmers produce more than half of the world’s food.

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Canadian Environment Minister announces recipients of climate change research

05 January 2012

On November 25, Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent, announced funding for seven winning projects from across Africa that will support important and innovative initiatives to better equip the African continent to deal with the effects of climate change. The African Adaptation Research Centres (AARC) initiative is a three-year, $10 million project managed by IDRC with funding provided by the Government of Canada, as part of Canada's commitment to fast-start climate change financing promised under the Copenhagen Accord.

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The African Adaptation Research Centres (AARC) Initiative

05 January 2012

Lindiwe Majele Sibanda food, Agriculture and natural resources policy Analysis network south Africa

Research to policy: Linking climate change adaptation to sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa Funding: $1.5 million

Encouraging evidence-based food security policies in the context of climate change by linking researchers and policymakers in Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, and Swaziland.

What Is Needed to Ensure An Equitable Deal for Africa at COP 17

07 December 2011

Africa's adaptive capacity to climate change is itself constrained by widespread poverty, low human capacity, a lack of appropriate technologies, poor infrastructure, and susceptibility to high food prices.

Agriculture is central to Africa's economies and its peoples' livelihoods. If harnessed, its enormous potential could help the continent meet its wider ambitions of peace and prosperity, becoming a key driver of sustainable growth and development.


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Challenge Program on Water and Food: LBDC

LBDC

Climate Change Initiative

Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues (ACCID)



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FANRPAN Media Awards
Nominations are invited for the FANRPAN Regional Dialogue Media Award 2011. The theme for this year: Engaging the Youth in the Agricultural Value Chain. The 2011 dialogue will be held in Swaziland on 12 - 16 September 2011 where over 200 delegates...

Angola Angola
Botswana Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC
Kenya Kenya
Lesotho Lesotho
Mozambique Madagascar
Malawi Malawi
Mauritius Mauritius
Mozambique Mozambique
Namibia Namibia
South Africa South Africa
Swaziland Swaziland
Tanzania Tanzania
Uganda Uganda
Zambia Zambia
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

Highlights

Press Release: Open Forum on Food
The CEO of FANRPAN will form part of a panel of a live broadcast at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. She will stage the platform with eminent speakers, including David Beckman of BREAD.
Nourishing the Planet TV: Acting it Out for Advocacy
Nourishing the Planet Research Fellow, Molly Theobald, highlights FANRPAN's Theatre for Policy Advocacy project to explain how the organization is using theater to help improve the livelihoods of rural farmers - especially women.

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  • ilse0717


    RT @Waterandfood: "Five media innovations that help feed the planet" featuring our partner in the Limpopo River basin, @FANRPAN http://t.co/vZvzUIvR
    January 25 @ 05:56

  • Waterandfood


    "Five media innovations that help feed the planet" featuring our partner in the Limpopo River basin, @FANRPAN http://t.co/vZvzUIvR
    January 25 @ 05:54

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