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March 26, 2014
Global Futures and Strategic Foresight Program: Second 2014 IMPACT training in Cali
Following the first Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) workshop on the updated IMPACT model in January, 2014 in Washington,
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March 25, 2014
Investing in integrated landscape management in Africa’s drylands: wishful thinking or a foundation to build resilient economies?
PIM is happy to invite all interested colleagues to join us on April 1, 2014, 12:30-2:00pm, to participate in one
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March 24, 2014
Pioneering online tool targets improved decision making in Iraq
Cross-posted from IFPRI, originally published on the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) website. Without access to
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March 24, 2014
Killer factcheck: ‘Women own 2% of land’ = not true. What do we really know about women and land?
This blog was originally written for oxfamblogs. Cheryl Doss argues that (as with ‘70% of the world’s poor are women‘) we
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March 21, 2014
Unsustainable use of groundwater may threaten global food security
In celebration of this year's World Water Day (March 22, 2014), this blog tells about the role of groundwater in food
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March 18, 2014
Upcoming: Research Conference on Agricultural Transformation and Food Security in Central Asia
The conference will take place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on April 8-9, 2014 hosted by the PIM’s lead center, International Food
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March 11, 2014
PIM Brown Bags: Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
The first PIM’s Brown Bag seminar in 2014 took place on February 27 at IFPRI and was dedicated to the
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February 28, 2014
Index-based insurance: a pathway out of poverty?
Cross-posted from CCAFS A recent workshop sought solutions to index insurance challenges If the rains fail, a farmer can lose
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February 28, 2014
Gender focused research – the tools and the strategies
Cross-posted from Consortium News Women farmers are crucial to agricultural production, especially in the small-scale sector. Figures show that they make
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