Articles

Research and Agricultural Development
Research Alone Won't Drive Agricultural Development SciDev.Net's Commissioning Editor, Sian Lewis has penned...

Tropical Forests and Climate Change
The Interacademy Panel on International Issues has issued a Statement IAP STATEMENT ON TROPICAL FORESTS AND...

Water Security, Climate Change, Science.
Water Security and Climate Change: How Science Can Help In this15 September 2010 Editorial, David Dickson, D...

Western Mediterranean Has Warmed
The Western Mediterranean Has Warmed for More Than a Century ScienceDaily reports (June 18, 2010) on [t]he ...

Nutrition and Agriculture
Nutrition Should be a Priority for Agriculture Lawrence Haddad* writes on SciDev.Net on 23 December 2010 ab...

Traditional Health Systems
Recognising traditional health systems Image Legend: Traditional custodians may not share knowledge unless...

Communication: A Responsibility
Communication: A Responsibility of All Scientists David Dickson, in an Editorial on SciDevnet on 31 December...

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Blog Posts

Comprehensive Analyses of Climate Change?
Climate Change Choices for the U.S. Q: How useful do you think these reports will be in addressing climate ch...

Agriculture / Health Gap?
Bringing Agriculture and Health Back Together Q: How do you explain the intersection of disease, poverty and...

Agriculture/Food Crisis in Pakistan
The Compounding Crisis in Pakistan The biggest problem may be an escalating food shortage. Q: What in your ...

IPCC for Biodiversity?
Wanted: an IPCC for biodiversity Q: Are the recommendations offered in this Editorial reasonable and feasible...

Tropical Forests and Farmland
Tropical Forests Slashed for Farmland 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and ...

The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of Internation...

Agricultural success from Africa
Agricultural success from Africa: the case of fertilizer tree systems in southern Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mo...

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News Articles

Food Security Threat
Chinese soil experts warn of massive threat to food security Ding Jie writes on SciDev.Net on5 August 2010 t...

Call for Proposals
Abstract Online Form- Formulaire de Rsum CLICKHERE Please complete this Online Abstract Form accurately and ...

Nature on "Can Science Feed the World?"
Nature has produced a Special Issue on Can Science Feed the World? The Special Issue focuses on the fact tha...

Commons Monitoring
Voluntary Cooperation and Monitoring Lead to Success EurekAlert reports on forest commons management researc...

Special Call to Decisionmakers
RESEARCH-POLICY INTERACTION DAY BACKDROP Special Call to Decisionmakers The Research-Policy Interacti...

Monitoring World Agriculture
Global Network Needed to Monitor World's Agriculture Sources: SciDev.Net and Nature 29 July 2010 Writing i...

Celebrating International Year of Forests
GEF Joins Global Campaign Celebrating International Year of Forests GEF largest provider of grants todevelopi...

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Events

Sixth Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
Sixth Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems The Dubrovn...

International Conference on Sustainable Development 2011
Call for Papers International Conference on Sustainable Development 2011 December 5-7, 2011 Palm Garden...

Resources

Third Global Biodiversity Outlook
Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 Global Biodiversity Outlook is the flagship publication of the Convention on Bi...

Food Security Primer
Food Security Ensuring food securitywhere people have access to an affordable, nutritionally adequate dietis...

Certified Sustainability?
The U.S. National Research Council's Committee on Certification of Sustainable Products and Services has produ...

Urban Sustainability
Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Research and Development on Urban Systems The National Research Council's...

Global Crop Biodiversity Trust
Global Crop Biodiversity Trust Important collections of crop diversity face urgent and chronic funding short...

President's (U.S.) Cancer Panel Report
President's Cancer Panel: Environmentally caused cancers are 'grossly underestimated' and 'needlessly devastat...

Global Fire Monitoring System
Poor to Benefit from Global Fire Monitoring System Jacob Aron reports on 18 August 2010 on SciDev.Net that: ...

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