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Project news: Gender matters in farm power
Monday, 3 November 2014
Although mechanisation has the potential to close the gender gap in agriculture, past efforts based on large four-wheel tractors have generally led to inequitable access to mechanisation, favoring wealthier farmers, and have often widened the gender gap.
Australia and Africa to work together on plant biosecurity
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
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29 October 2014

A cadre of ‘change champions’ are to be trained to improve plant biosecurity in ten east and southern African countries.
Celebrating family farmers on World Food Day 2014
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Happy World Food Day 2014! This year’s theme is Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth. Today we are celebrating the important role of family farmers around the world who feed their families, communities and us. They play a vital role in global food security, yet it is farming families who are often on the front lines of hunger.
Understanding why smallholder farmers adopt sustainable agricultural intensification practices
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
The Adoption Pathways project is focused on understanding how smallholder farmers make decisions about adopting Sustainable Agricultural Intensification (SAI) practices. The project team have been sharing some of their successes through a recent media visit in Eastern Kenya.
Scientific research paper writing workshop to be held in Nairobi
Friday, 12 September 2014
To boost publication in international peer-reviewed journals by researchers working in the African NARS, BecA-ILRI Hub holds annual writing workshops. The objective of these workshops is to strengthen the scientific writing skills of participants, so they are able to successfully publish their research findings.
Assoc. Prof. Robyn Alders receives the Crawford Fund Medal
Friday, 29 August 2014
AIFSRC warmly congratulations Assoc. Prof Robyn Alders for receiving the 2014 Crawford Fund Medal, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to food security and childhood nutrition. Assoc. Prof Alders has worked with smallholder farmers for over 20 years, predominately focusing on tackling Newcastle disease in village poultry in Africa and Asia.
How science can feed the world.
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
How can studying science help feed the world? AIFSRC Staff Mellissa Wood and Emma Zalcman joined year 9, 10 and 11 students from Domremy College in Sydney via Skype to discuss how the work of AIFSRC is helping to improve food security for some of the world’s poorest people. Students have recently been learning about global food production and distribution and were interested to know more about how Australian scientific expertise is helping to address food insecurity in Africa and elsewhere.
AIFSRC July newsletter is here!
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
The AIFSRC has just released the July newsletter. This edition is bursting with news on the launch of the new Alliance for Agricultural R&D for Food Security and the launch of the Centre’s Biosecurity Capacity Building Initiative, as well multiple stories from our projects and partners.

Read the July newsletter.
Plant Biosecurity CRC to lead AIFSRC capacity building program in Eastern Africa
Friday, 18 July 2014
Speaking on ACIAR’s biosecurity research program in Melbourne on 18 July 2014, ACIAR CEO Dr Nick Austin announced AIFSRC’s two-year Plant Biosecurity Capacity Development Initiative will be delivered by a consortium led by Australia’s Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre and including CSIRO, the Crawford Fund and CABI International. The new program to build skills in plant biosecurity in eastern Africa will help address signific
Adoption Pathways Project Strengthens Partnership with Kenya’s Egerton University
Friday, 20 June 2014
CIMMYT and Kenya’s Egerton University have agreed to strengthen their research collaboration, policy formulation and data sharing and to engage more graduate students in data analysis as part of the Adoption Pathways (AP) project. “This will accelerate the use of data sets to quickly produce products,” said Menale Kassie, CIMMYT socioeconomist, who is also the AP project leader.

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