Curt Carnemark, The World Bank
“Monica was a street hawker, and a very good one too. I purchased a flashlight she was selling, despite my own perfectly functioning flashlight being in the bag I was carrying on that very walk. So I immediately I asked her to work with me.”... read more
May 24, 2013
Specialists discuss the importance of providing African farmers with reliable source of locally adapted seed through African seed businesses, represented by robust national and regional seed industry groups.... read more
May 24, 2013
Man with phone. Photo: Internews
Freedom Fone, an open source, interactive voice-based communications platform, enables users to engage with their audiences across literacy, language, and connectivity barriers using mobile phones.... read more
May 22, 2013  | 
This lush cowpea field contributes to improved productivity and household nutrition in poor rural communities in Mozambique. The Mozambique Platform for Agricultural Research and Technology Innovation supports research on maize, sweet potato, beans, soybeans, cowpeas, pigeon peas, sesame and groundnuts. Photo by USAID/Mozambique
Feed the Future is developing an inventory of "ready-to-scale" technologies. What is missing? Technical input is welcome from Agrilinks members. ...read more
May 20, 2013
Dar at her computer.
KM Insights
In this short interview which is part of the KM Insights series, Dar discusses the various components of ensuring a successful, interactive webinar. ...read... read more
May 15, 2013
 | Joy Chen
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Video Note
Through his work in the Sahel, Peter Gubbels has seen farmers develop many endogenous risk management strategies and innovations for coping with climate change. He discusses three examples in the interview.... read more
May 13, 2013  | 
Reader's Corner
This week Veronica looks at different knowledge sharing food security platforms. ...read more
May 13, 2013
A strawberry farmer waters rows of plants
With an estimated 2.5 billion people living in 500 million smallholder farm households in the developing world, agricultural production plays a powerful role in poverty reduction. ...read... read more
May 10, 2013
Kenyan farmer shows her crops. Photo credit: Jimmy Wambua
The concept of open ag data fuses transparency and technology to improve food security worldwide; farmers, entrepreneurs, and researchers recognize the impact of increasing access to information and are increasingly receiving high-level support.... read more
May 9, 2013
News
International symposium discusses pro-poor changes to the way food moves from field to fork, WFP releases report on "Innovations in Africa," USDA blogs about open data, and IFPRI discusses "Fickle food prices in #Africa: fact or fiction?"... read more
May 9, 2013
 | AgTeam

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