Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, took place in Berlin on January 16 – 18, 2014 under the title “Empowering Agriculture: Fostering Resilience – Securing Food and Nutrition“. YPARD Georgia had a great opportunity to attend the conference and represent Young Professionals' Platform for Agriculture Development at the forum.  This international conference was organized by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture... More

I have travelled recently to visit two new ILRI Graduate fellows I am supervising. They have spent two months in the field with the IFAD-funded MilkIT project, which is enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development approaches. This research is linked to the CGIAR Research Programs on Livestock and Fish and Humidtropics. Our aim... More

Everybody knows that Nepalese agriculture is typically characterized by smallholder, traditional and subsistence farming. The recent study (6th National Agriculture Census, 2011/12) shows that there are 3.831 million farming household in the country where agriculture is the main source of income for 83 percent of the families, but 60 percent of farmers are unable to feed from their own production. The... More