From the farming and food security hub
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How to ... get female voices into farming research
The majority of smallholder farmers are female, so what can academics do to ensure their views are heard?
From our partner SAB Miller
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Modern farming
is unthinkable without irrigation. But, in a resource-constrained world,
how do we grow enough food for booming populations, without
exacerbating water stress?
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The Tanzanian government is looking for greater synergies between existing water security programmes
Also on the network
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Scientists have developed a quicker, cheaper and potentially more reliable way to improve disease diagnosis in rural areas
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Donors must stop earmarking funds to tackle nutrition emergencies that don’t make the headlines
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40% of Ecuadorian adults don’t have a bank account, but is their new ‘currency’ more about escaping the US dollar?
From Guardian Global Development
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Jayati Ghosh: Asia’s ‘success’ in reducing poverty uses a flawed system for measuring income and ignores food insecurity
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Tourism boom spreading obesity across the islands but South Pacific state being encouraged to see value of a traditional diet, writes Declan McCormack
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NGOs must acknowledge the risks to livelihoods and food security and teach smallholders to diversify for higher profits, writes Joshua Smith
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NGOs react to new research showing air pollution is having a worse effect on food security than previously thought, writes Charlotte Seager
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Milcah Wasike, smallholder farmer in Miendo, Western Kenya, takes us through her daily routine
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An Australia-Africa initiative is sowing nearly $1m in training, mentoring and action plans to combat pests' threat to agriculture, writes Caspar van Vark
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Caspar van Vark: The use of volunteer farmer trainers has more than doubled volumes of milk sold. But how do you get them to stay?
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