PRIMA First Training ‘Strengthening R&I Capacities In SEMC’
7 - 8 October 2019. Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. Cairo, Egypt. PRIMA – Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area is the most ambitious joint programme to be undertaken in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean...
Grasspea and Finger Millet pre-breeding get a boost
Two food crops prized for their nutritional value and ability to survive temperature extremes, drought and poor soil are now receiving the attention they deserve. A new project led by the Crop Trust will help improve the productivity of grasspea and finger millet by making more genetic diversity available to breeders.
Multi-agent system for integrating ecological processes at multiple scales with human decision-making: Solutions and lessons learned from a modelling framework applied in different landscape ecosystems
Modelling socio-ecological systems, in which social and ecological systems interact each other and co-evolve, are useful for supporting decisions in managing landscape ecosystems. Inter-linking socially interactive decision-making to relevant...
Integrated impact assessment and designing of Mediterranean agricultural systems in Dry Regions
This international training course follows several doctoral programs organised within SemiArid (ERANET ArimNet, 2017-2020) project, SEAMLESS project (FP6, 2005-2010), the global FSD network (Farming System Design), and then more recently as part...
After 30 years of conflict, Somalia is coming back
Nine of the 15 CGIAR centres were present at a meeting in Nairobi to discuss how CGIAR centres, Government, FAO and donors plan to support agriculture in Somalia after 30 years of conflict.
