Investment and robust studies are needed to strengthen the body of evidence and facilitate gender mainstreaming in agricultural development; Restrictive gender norms remain one of the most significant obstacles for women’s ...

La agrícultura de conservación es una tecnología que se basa en tres principios: a) Movimiento mínimo del suelo (sin labranza). b) Cobertura del suelo con los residuos del cultivo anterior, con plantas vivas, o ambos. c) ...

Seventy percent of the world's poorest people live in rural areas. Many depend on rice-, maize- and wheatbased farming systems for food and income. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United ...

Maize combines the strength of farming communities, international and local public and private sector partners, policy makers and development organizations to ensure that CGIAR’s maize research-related contribution effectively ...

Over the next decades, food security and economic development in South Asia and India will be increasingly and most drastically affected by the negative impacts of climate change, rapidly fal ling ground water tables lack ...

MasAgro Biodiversidad es un componente del programa Modernización Sustentable de la Agricultura Tradicional (MasAgro) enfocado en el aprovechamiento y conservación de recursos genéticos resguardados en los bancos de ...

The Fall Armyworm (FAW; Spodoptera frugiperda), a highly destructive insect-pest indigenous to the Americas, has been reported in Africa since January 2016. FAW is capable of attacking more than 80 different plant species, ...