Featured Blogs
June 27, 2023
A father teaches his daughter beekeeping skills, she helps him leverage new technologies to access tools for better bee health and up-to-date information.
June 15, 2023
For World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought we discuss an ICARDA study that highlights the gender-specific challenges dryland women face in the equitable use and sustainable management of rangelands.
May 22, 2023
Neglected crops improve soil health, reduce water usage, provide a nutritious food source, and enhance biodiversity. Yet they are overlooked. We discuss their benefits and what they offer to climate-smart food system transformation.
May 18, 2023
Narrowing the gender digital divide, supporting rural women's livelihoods, and promoting biodiversity through beekeeping as an opportunity for income-generating environmentally sustainable activities.
Recent Blogs
July 05, 2018
Food legumes offer myriad benefits for sustainable smallholder production systems.
June 21, 2018
Reliance on crop residues to feed livestock has hindered the adoption of conservation agriculture. The IFAD-funded “CLCA” project aims to reverse this.
June 19, 2018
A new initiative steps-up efforts to shorten the distance between scientists and farmers.
May 06, 2018
Drip irrigation promotes natural resource management and water conservation.
March 22, 2018
Guidelines for enhanced governance.
July 04, 2017
A recently published analysis demonstrates for the first time temporal variation in Jordan’s barley landrace diversity.
July 02, 2017
The durum wheat breeding initiative helps farmers raise their incomes and diversify their diets.
July 02, 2017
A global database helps identify how land use and related pressures influence the occurrence, abundance, and diversity of wildlife species.
June 15, 2017
Optimizing mechanized micro water harvesting techniques can help to restore degraded rangelands, an innovative hydrology and erosion model suggests.