Monthly Archives: October 2012
A Familiar Fight Gets Tougher
(Punta del Este, 31 October 2012) A major overhaul of water management strategies in developing countries will be needed to enable the world's poorest...
‘Real farmers are not part of the Cauvery agitation’ – Rediff.com
In this interview, Professor S Janakrajan of the Madras Institute of development Studies, talks about how the Cauvery Family was born, and how the...
Allafrica.com: Nigeria: Bracing Up for Food Crisis After the Floods –...
Although Adesina disagrees with Mailafia, saying: "the team that came for a meeting with me today, I brought them from the International Water Management...
CCAFS.cgiar.org: Global flood hotspots being identified
A research project established jointly by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI)...
Aditi Mukherji receives Norman Borlaug Award
Dr. Aditi Mukherji was formally presented with the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application on October 17, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Mukherji...
Gatescambridge.wordpress.com: The second Green Revolution
Just over a month ago, Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, the Chairman of the World Food Prize called me to say that I had won the...
Globalfoodforthought.typepad.com: Commentary – A five-pronged strategy to revitalizing Asia’s public irrigation...
This commentary is part of a series organized by The Chicago Council's Global Agricultural Development Initiative and the World Food Prize to examine the...
Asiancorrespondent.com: The current global market system means that rich nations are...
This is done via wealthy, mostly Western, nations manufacturing water-intensive products in poor countries. For example, it takes 30 liters of water to make...
Ngrguardiannews.com: FG Plans Food Distribution, Employs Satellite To Monitor Flood
AS the nation grapples with the ravaging deluge in many parts of the federation, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has...
World Food Day: Agricultural cooperatives – key to feeding the world
Agricultural cooperatives are usually thought of in terms of pooled resources to help plant, harvest and market crops. But equally important are the cooperative...