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    <title>Developing a new strategy for ILRI - Your ideas needed</title>
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		In 2012, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) are developing a new strategy covering the years 2013-2022. [see their current strategy]
	
		They use this space to share progress and solicit inputs and comments.
	
		In May 2012, ILRI worked up an initial &lsquo;storyline&rsquo; setting out some general directions for their strategy. Please give feedback on this!
	
		They also identified several &lsquo;tough issues&rsquo; where they face some big choices. Tell ILRI ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-The Innovations-Household Pit Storage Rehabilitation Using Plastic Bag Lining and its Impact on the Reduction of Grain Storage Loss in East Hararge Zone: the case of Babile, Gursum and Midega Tola Woredas</title>
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	Written by:Temesgen Kassa and Zelalem Belayneh

	&nbsp;

	In Ethiopia, as in many parts of the World, large numbers of poor and food insecure farmers store their grain in underground pits. In the East Hararge zone of Ethiopia, the pits are characterized by different shapes and sizes ranging from 0.25 to over 2 tons in capacity. They are rarely lined with any protective material resulting in spoilage of 30-40% due mainly to moisture and insect infiltration after burying. The result is ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Innovative Approaches to Extension: The One Acre Fund Method</title>
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	Written by: Nicholas Daniels, Kenya government relations analyst, One Acre Fund, and Stephanie Hanson, director of policy and outreach, One Acre Fund

	&nbsp;

	Lorna Simiyu is a Kenyan farmer, a mother of five who is singlehandedly growing her family out of poverty. Lorna&rsquo;s day starts early. By 6am she
	is preparing breakfast for her children and getting them ready for school. An hour later she has finished milking the cow and collecting eggs, all
	before her main activity of ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extention Approaches-From Supply-Driven Extension to a Demand-Led Approach: A Learning Experience from Pakistan</title>
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	Written by: M. Kalim Qamar and Magdalena Blum

	&nbsp;

	Shazia Kausar, a young woman suffering from Hepatitis C and enjoying membership of Debsi Muhallah, District Kotli Community Organization, comes
	from a very poor family. She needed enough earnings to support her parents, two younger brothers and three sisters. The village development plan
	prepared by the community organization following demand-led extension approach, asked for backyard training in poultry production and it ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Rural Farmer Empowered through Use of Mobile Phones: Lessons from Western Uganda</title>
    <link>http://www.egfar.org/news/extension-approaches-rural-farmer-empowered-through-use-mobile-phones-lessons-western-uganda</link>
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	Written by: Kenneth Masuki, Jeremias Mowo and Rick Kamugisha

	&nbsp;

	The work by the African Highlands Initiative (AHI) in Rubaya sub-county, Kabale district, Uganda revealed that farmer institutions lacked access
	to appropriate information necessary to apply methods and technologies for increasing productivity and improving the management of the natural
	resource base. Their needs were continuously changing, thus they required access to certain information that was unavailable ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Micro- watershed management planning through extension and knowledge sharing in Guatemala</title>
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	Written by: John Preissing and Estibalitz Morras Dimas

	&nbsp;

	In Central America there are numerous examples of extension experiences from public and private programs that have been very successful, but
	so far the factors that determine the success or failure of these interventions have not been properly identified. In general, there is no clear idea
	of the policy and legal framework that defines roles and responsibilities relating to national extension systems; hence the ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Advisory Services for Family Farms: A success story in Benin still in search for sustainability</title>
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	Written by:Guy Faure, CIRAD, UMR Innovation, France; Ismail Moumouni, University of Parakou, Benin; Aurelle de Romemont, CIRAD, UMR Innovation France

	&nbsp;

	In developing countries advisory services are undergoing radical changes. Today, agricultural development stakeholders may provide advisory services
	through diverse institutional arrangements, including public/private partnerships (Swanson 2008). In West Africa, new methods named Advisory
	Services for Family Farms (ASFF) ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Agriculture As a Business in Northern Ghana</title>
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	Written by:Erin Antcliffe-Engineers Without Borders

	&nbsp;

	Engineers Without Borders Canada and the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture have developed a curriculum designed to strengthen the unity
	of Farmer Based Organizations (FBOs), improve the business skills of farmers and build the capacity of government Agricultural Extension Agents
	(AEAs). The project, which started in 2007, has been developed and piloted in over 15 districts in the Northern and Upper East Regions ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Facilitating Innovation</title>
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	Written by: Dominique Hounkonnou, Suzanne Nederlof, Niels R&ouml;ling and Arnold van Huis

	&nbsp;

	The international consensus was that productivity growth requires a smooth flow of &lsquo;innovations&rsquo; from science to &lsquo;ultimate users&rsquo;. That consensus is
	shifting to other pathways. One is Innovation Systems: innovation emerges from interaction among diverse but complementary actors in an agricultural
	domain. Their concerted action can create and interlink the ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Farmer Field Schools on Integrated pest Management Programme; a new Extension Approach in Jordan</title>
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	Written by: Ashraf Alhawamdeh, Director of Participatory Extension Unit/NCARE-Jordan

	&nbsp;

	IPM approaches in Jordan are not new, and have been promoted for a few decades now. However, at farm level overuse of pesticides is still
	common. A main reason for this is the lack of farmers&rsquo; knowledge on IPM and ecology that underpins informed decision-making. Ghor el Safi is a
	small region in Jordan, south of the Dead Sea with particular environmental conditions: high ...]]></description>
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    <title>Extension Approaches-Farmers’ Innovations: A Survival Strategy for Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia</title>
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	Written by: Abate Bekele (PhD), Kebebew Assefa (PhD) and Demeke Nigussie (M.Sc)

	&nbsp;

	In Ethiopia, small-scale farms are still viable producing the bulk of grain. Researchers debate on farm scale and the food crisis in light of recent
	hikes in food prices and the future of smallholder agriculture (Abate et al., 2009; Wiggins, 2009). The food securities of these farmers depend on
	the use of indigenous innovations.

	
	The objective of the study was to get a better ...]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;Seeing Thoughts&quot; - Video Competition initiated by YPARD</title>
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		Source: YPARD
	
		Competition process
	
		The competition is an attempt to capture and showcase the voices of youth and their contribution to agriculture for development, whether in research, in production or assisting a community to develop a sustainable livelihood.
	
		The project is divided into two distinct stages:
	
		
			Developing the story which would be captured in the video: the first phase of the project would be aimed at mentoring and guiding the selected ...]]></description>
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    <title>Can technology rescue women farm workers from drudgery?</title>
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		Source:Science and Development Network
	
		&nbsp;
	
		We are far from easing the drudgery of women farm workers. But there is growing interest in designing technologies to improve their lives, report M Sreelata and Naomi Antony.
	
		&nbsp;
	
		The seemingly simple act of removing the husks from maize cobs by hand is tougher than it sounds. A female worker uses her fingertips on average 522 times, her fingernails 144 times and her palms 55 times for every single kilogram of ...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Lecture of Dr Maurits van den Berg - &quot;The future of the land&quot; </title>
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	A lecture was held by Dr Maurits van den Berg on &quot;The future of the land&quot; at the FAO Headquarter in Rome,5th April 2012.

	&nbsp;

	Maurits van den Berg (1960) is Senior Policy Researcher Agriculture, at PBL the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. His main expertise lies in the development and application of approaches and tools to assess current and future land use systems at scales ranging from sub-field level to global level. He earned an M.Sc. degree in ...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>YPARD Newsletter March 2012</title>
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		YPARD Newsletter March 2012 is Online!
	
		&nbsp;
	
		Keep updated on YPARD on-line and off-line activities worldwide. Find YPARD news from different regions, funding updates and job opportunities, check out the YP (Young Professional) featured news, information on ARD events and hot news.
	
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	&nbsp;

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 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Securing Rights for Women Farmers</title>
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		Source: Voice of America
	
		&nbsp;
	
		Despite the large role women play in agriculture in the developing world, experts say they continue to face discrimination, gender inequality and a lack of access to credit. A global partnership is campaigning to secure rights for women farmers.
	
		&nbsp;
	
		The Gender and Agriculture Partnership is made up of U.N. organizations, NGOs, World Food Prize laureates, and others. Its members are currently writing recommendations based on ...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Empowering women in agriculture: rethinking agricultural needs and actions through the eyes of women</title>
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		The First Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA), organized in New Delhi on March 13-15 by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), was supported through the Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) of the multi-stakeholder Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR).&nbsp;
	
		&nbsp;
	
		This landmark event was the outcome of two years of intensive partnership building among ...]]></description>
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    <title>Global Partnership Announced to Increase Visibility, Address Discrimination and Secure Rights for Women Farmers</title>
    <link>http://www.egfar.org/content/global-partnership-announced-increase-visibility-address-discrimination-and-secure-rights-wo</link>
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	Editor&rsquo;s note: For press materials, background reports and corresponding photos, please visit 
	the press room at http://gcwa.wordpress.com/. Follow #GCWA on Twitter for updates

	


	
		Neglect of Women Farmers Leads to Malnutrition, Failed Harvests,
		Lives of Backbreaking Drudgery, Say Experts
	
		NEW DELHI (19 MARCH 2012) &mdash; Over 700 participants including ministers, World Food Prize laureates, gender experts, international and non-governmental organizations, and ...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>The Global conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA), first international conference to comprehensively address the gender gap in agriculture </title>
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	On 13-15 March, 2012, 760 participants from 50 countries gathered at the NASC Complex, New Delhi, India for the First global conference addressing the gender gap in agriculture and how women can be sustainably empowered in this sector. The Global conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA) was co-organized by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), in the context of a two year old initiative of the ...]]></description>
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    <title>Experts: Reduce Drudgery of Farm Women to Empower a New Generation of Entrepreneurs  </title>
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