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IPRs hampering food security?
27.01.2012 The double role of IPRs in the context of facilitating the MDGs
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Food Security-Climate Change Road Map in Science
25.01.2012 What next for Agriculture after Durban?
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Report on the future of farming
20.01.2012 Power in Agriculture: Resources, Economics and Politics
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Capacity Building Helps Pastoral Women in Ethiopia
10.01.2012 A capacity building project in Southern pastoral Ethiopia showed that it could ‘set the stage for use of new information and technology’ in pastoral regions of Africa. A report by three scientists claims that their capacity building project has specifically helped pastoral women transform...
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The World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture
23.12.2011 By 2050, food production is projected to increase by about 70 percent globally and nearly 100 percent in developing countries. This incremental demand for food, together with demand from other competing uses, will place unprecedented pressure on many agricultural production systems across the...
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ICT and ARD
12.12.2011 The Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) and infoDev of the World Bank announce the release of the ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook, designed to support development practitioners exploring, designing, implementing, and investing in information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled...
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Healthy ecosystems for food security
09.12.2011 Global food security under a changing climate is possible if the vital role of healthy ecosystems is recognised, according to a recent study, reported here. The researchers suggest that an ecosystem-based approach must be integrated with other measures to tackle food security under climate change,...
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Biodiversity conservation targets and global food security
28.11.2011 Changes in land use and extension or intensification of agricultural land may lead to increased pressure on biodiversity and other services ecosystems provide. A study was done to better understand processes and factors governing competitive land use, and assess options for sustainable use of...
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Export barriers make world less food secure
21.11.2011 Major wheat producing countries who impose wheat export restrictions, e.g. after a shortfall in harvests, have a negative impact on developing countries as a result of higher global wheat prices. The high food prices of 2007/08 and 2010/11 have put food price volatility and food...
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Climate-Smart Agriculture - Science for Action
01.11.2011 The Wageningen Statement
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State of food insecurity in the world at 2011
28.10.2011 The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different countries, with the poorest being most affected. This year’s report focuses on the costs of food price volatility, as well as the dangers and opportunities...
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Feeding 9 billion without destroying earth
24.10.2011 Study to produce enough food for all
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Earth is becoming thirsty
10.10.2011 Global water scarcity report
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IFAD on food security in Africa
01.10.2011 Virtual press conference by IFAD President
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ARD policy briefings
12.09.2011 Two policy briefings have been published by the European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development (EIARD): African agriculture faces the dual challenge of being vulnerable to climate change and largely underfunded. This briefing, commissioned by EIARD, discusses the need to...
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Who will feed the world
09.09.2011 Report of meeting in the Netherlands
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EU Donor Atlas
24.08.2011 The European Commission has put the EU Donor Atlas 2011 online. The donor atlas is an interactive online tool that provides an overview of what the EU and its Member States do to support development across the world. It covers official aid from most EU Member States for 2009 (in some cases not all...
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Food security discussion paper
21.04.2011 UNCTAD recently issued a discussion paper on Assuring Food Security in Developing Countries under the Challenges of Climate Change: Key Trade and Development Issues of a Fundamental Transformation of Agriculture. For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most...
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Major new call for food security research
07.02.2011 In a unique and important move to harness science to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world, UK and USA research funders, together with UK and India government departments, have announced a new £20M/$32M joint research initiative. The new initiative will fund teams...
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Reporting Cause of Global Food Crisis
02.02.2011 A recent report by the International Food Policy Research Institute of the CGIAR led to the conclusion that a number of interacting factors, including increasing oil prices, greater demand for biofuels and trade decisions, such as export restrictions, all affected world cereal prices. The...
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External Relations
28.01.2011 Since the start of ERA-ARD, good working relations with important partners in its network, including AGRINATURA and ICRA, were built and refuelled.The Dutch coordinating team of EL&I has helped launch a potential new ERA-NET-Platform. This ERA-Net, which will be evaluated by the European...
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Renewed ERA-ARD Website
07.01.2011 Due to dedicated work from Marc Bernard of BLE and his colleagues, the website of ERA-ARD was totally renewed in November – December 2010. New interactive facilities on the website were launched. Colleagues from the Dutch coordination team of EL&I, helped actively with the formulation of...
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Successful Kick-Off
15.12.2010 With the first Consortium meeting on 11 and the Steering Committee meeting on 12 Nov 2010, the second phase of ERA ARD made a very good start. With November storms outside, the meeting was held in a great atmosphere with a lot of indoor brainstorming. All participants went through the...
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Presenting ERA-ARD to EIARD
07.10.2010 Last 4-6 October, the annual meeting took place of EIARD, the European Coordination Group for the CGIAR and related items. ERA-ARD II coordinator Sander van Opstal presented the consortium plans and the new ERA-ARD flyer. EIARD members were invited to participate in the upcoming ERA-ARD II...
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Coordination Team
21.09.2010 Presentation of the Dutch ERA-ARD-II team
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ERA-ARD II informal management team meeting
04.06.2010 3-4 June 2010 informal management team meeting ERA-ARD II
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 9
21.12.2009 This is the 9th ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 8
26.08.2009 This is the 8th ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 7
27.03.2009 This is the 7th ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 6
17.12.2008 This is the 6th ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 5
19.11.2008 This is the 5th ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 4
30.10.2008 This is the 4th ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 3
30.09.2008 This is the 3rd ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 2
15.09.2008 This is the 2nd ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
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ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter No. 1
09.03.2008 This is the first ERA-ARD Bioenergy newsletter.
Food security discussion paper
UNCTAD recently issued a discussion paper on Assuring Food Security in Developing Countries under the Challenges of Climate Change: Key Trade and Development Issues of a Fundamental Transformation of Agriculture.
For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector, but climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends. Agriculture (and related land-use change) is the most important emitter of global greenhouse gases but, at the same time, agriculture is also the sector that also has the potential to transcend from being a problem to becoming an essential part of the solution.
This paper outlines the need to shift from conventional, industrial, monoculture-based and high-external-input dependent production towards more sustainable systems, which also considerably improve the productivity of small-scale farmers. The paper also discusses the challenges that are faced in achieving this, at national and international level.