Capacities for change

  1. LEGEND Challenge Fund: Funding available
    The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is launching a Challenge Fund to support the development and testing of innovative approaches and partnerships for strengthening land governance, with a specific focus on piloting approaches to responsible land-related investments. The…
  2. Capacity Building Material for the Realization of Farmers' Rights in Malawi
    The Global Forum on Agricultural Research – GFAR; and the Development Fund of Norway-DF, with its local partner in Malawi, the Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy- CEPA, have developed this capacity building material for small-scale farmers, farmers’ organizations, decision makers and…
  3. Agricultural R&D in West Asia and North Africa: Recent Investment and Capacity Trends
    Countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) share a number of common challenges, including rapid population growth, progressive exploitation and exhaustion of water resources, land degradation, and the adverse consequences of climate change. Moreover, lack of political stability constitutes a…
  4. Securing Water for Food Launches 3rd Call for Innovations
    On March 9th, Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development launched its third call for game changing innovations to increase water availability and promote efficient use of water in agriculture. The Challenge will be accepting applications now through May 22 at 5pm EST. Between…
  5. GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2015 – Call for Nominations
    The Prize aims to encourage the global development of the mission of higher education institutions in education, research and innovation in the agricultural and life sciences by recognizing the distinguished contribution of an individual to this mission.    Nanjing Agricultural…
  6. GCHERA Conference 2015 – Call for abstracts
    The GCHERA 8th World Conference “Universities’ Global Challenge: nutritional security and environmental sustainability for human health” will be held from 25 to 26 June 2015.  The conference will be held at Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon…
  7. GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2015 – Call for Nominations
    The Prize aims to encourage the global development of the mission of higher education institutions in education, research and innovation in the agricultural and life sciences by recognizing the distinguished contribution of an individual to this mission.  Nanjing Agricultural University…
  8. Knowledge for Development Newsletter - January / February 2015
    GFAR and CTA have a well-established partnership that has seen joint collaboration on a number of fronts including CIARD, capacity development in ICTs in Africa and most recently in a consultation on the “The Future of Agricultural Knowledge Resource Centres in ACP Regions”.   The CTA…
  9. CGIAR Capacity Development Survey Highlights and Comments
    In 2014, the CGIAR initiated an open survey to gather comments and input on the draft CGIAR Capacity Development strategy. GFAR – the Global Forum on Agricultural Research welcomed the development of such a strategy as GFAR stakeholders consider that capacity development is, in itself, a…
  10. Capacity to innovate from a system CGIAR research program perspective
    The three system CGIAR research programs on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics, Dryland Systems and Aquatic Agricultural Systems have included “capacity to innovate” as an intermediate development outcome in their respective theories of change. The wording of the…
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