This presentation discusses the evolution of developing country agriculture from the "Green Revolution" period to the emerging use of the "Gene Revolution" technologies.
The document discusses developing new fungicide active ingredients to address challenges in global food security. It describes Syngenta's fungicide discovery pipeline, including screening compounds for activity and determining their mode of action through techniques like haploinsufficiency assays. Mycelium graminicola is presented as a potential plant pathogen platform for mode of action discovery work.
- Philippine agriculture employs 37% of the labor force and is an important source of food and livelihood for rural communities. However, labor productivity has been declining.
- Key challenges include low investment in agriculture, environmental degradation, high population growth, land conversion, and effects of climate change like more frequent typhoons. This has led to low agricultural productivity and widespread poverty and unemployment.
- To address these issues, the document recommends increasing food production and rural employment, boosting agricultural productivity through improved technology and education, and developing climate-resilient varieties and conservation measures to confront climate change impacts.
Food Insecurity & Opportunities in OIC CountriesDinarStandard
State of food security across the 57 member OIC countries; Key drivers of food crisis; A unique OIC-wide food and agriculture cluster approach that identifies opportunities for sustainable growth and investments.
This document summarizes the role of seeds in transforming agriculture in the Philippines, with a focus on rice. It outlines the Philippine seed system and related laws/regulations. It describes the evolution of rice varieties released and trends in adoption of modern varieties. Key issues are identified such as insufficient seed availability, adoption challenges, and cost/price issues. Recommendations include improving production/distribution systems, continuing research, increasing farmer education, and reviewing seed pricing policies.
Sustainable Development and Bioeconomic Prosperity in Africa QZ1
This document summarizes a research paper on the potential for biofuel production and economic development in Africa through the use of biotechnology. It discusses how several African countries are exploring biofuel production from crops like sugarcane, Jatropha, and sorghum to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and support sustainable development. While genetically modified crops are controversial, the paper argues they could increase food production. Biofuels have potential to boost energy security and rural development through crop-based industries. South Africa has emerged as a leader in both biofuel and biotech industries in Africa.
1) The document discusses investments needed to meet key goals of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (SADC-RISDP) and the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) in Southern Africa by 2015.
2) It finds that current levels of public investment in agriculture in the region are low and not sufficient to achieve the goals. Agricultural spending averages only 2.4% of total public spending.
3) The document estimates that countries will need to increase agricultural spending by 20-30% annually based on returns to investments. Higher investments are needed in areas like infrastructure, extension, research, and inputs to boost agricultural productivity.
- In 2010, global adoption of biotech crops reached 148 million hectares, a 10% increase over 2009, with 29 countries now growing biotech crops. The US, Brazil, Argentina, India, and Canada led in biotech crop cultivation.
- Biotech crops have provided significant economic and environmental benefits since 1996, including increased farmer income totaling $65 billion, higher crop yields on existing farmland helping to preserve biodiversity, and reductions in pesticide use and CO2 emissions.
- Looking ahead to 2014-2015, new biotech crops with traits like drought tolerance and improved nutrition are expected to launch, along with greater cultivation in Asia and developing countries, helping to address future challenges of climate change
The document discusses developing new fungicide active ingredients to address challenges in global food security. It describes Syngenta's fungicide discovery pipeline, including screening compounds for activity and determining their mode of action through techniques like haploinsufficiency assays. Mycelium graminicola is presented as a potential plant pathogen platform for mode of action discovery work.
- Philippine agriculture employs 37% of the labor force and is an important source of food and livelihood for rural communities. However, labor productivity has been declining.
- Key challenges include low investment in agriculture, environmental degradation, high population growth, land conversion, and effects of climate change like more frequent typhoons. This has led to low agricultural productivity and widespread poverty and unemployment.
- To address these issues, the document recommends increasing food production and rural employment, boosting agricultural productivity through improved technology and education, and developing climate-resilient varieties and conservation measures to confront climate change impacts.
Food Insecurity & Opportunities in OIC CountriesDinarStandard
State of food security across the 57 member OIC countries; Key drivers of food crisis; A unique OIC-wide food and agriculture cluster approach that identifies opportunities for sustainable growth and investments.
This document summarizes the role of seeds in transforming agriculture in the Philippines, with a focus on rice. It outlines the Philippine seed system and related laws/regulations. It describes the evolution of rice varieties released and trends in adoption of modern varieties. Key issues are identified such as insufficient seed availability, adoption challenges, and cost/price issues. Recommendations include improving production/distribution systems, continuing research, increasing farmer education, and reviewing seed pricing policies.
Sustainable Development and Bioeconomic Prosperity in Africa QZ1
This document summarizes a research paper on the potential for biofuel production and economic development in Africa through the use of biotechnology. It discusses how several African countries are exploring biofuel production from crops like sugarcane, Jatropha, and sorghum to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and support sustainable development. While genetically modified crops are controversial, the paper argues they could increase food production. Biofuels have potential to boost energy security and rural development through crop-based industries. South Africa has emerged as a leader in both biofuel and biotech industries in Africa.
1) The document discusses investments needed to meet key goals of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (SADC-RISDP) and the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) in Southern Africa by 2015.
2) It finds that current levels of public investment in agriculture in the region are low and not sufficient to achieve the goals. Agricultural spending averages only 2.4% of total public spending.
3) The document estimates that countries will need to increase agricultural spending by 20-30% annually based on returns to investments. Higher investments are needed in areas like infrastructure, extension, research, and inputs to boost agricultural productivity.
- In 2010, global adoption of biotech crops reached 148 million hectares, a 10% increase over 2009, with 29 countries now growing biotech crops. The US, Brazil, Argentina, India, and Canada led in biotech crop cultivation.
- Biotech crops have provided significant economic and environmental benefits since 1996, including increased farmer income totaling $65 billion, higher crop yields on existing farmland helping to preserve biodiversity, and reductions in pesticide use and CO2 emissions.
- Looking ahead to 2014-2015, new biotech crops with traits like drought tolerance and improved nutrition are expected to launch, along with greater cultivation in Asia and developing countries, helping to address future challenges of climate change
Joyce Cacho Water for Food PresentationJesse Starita
The document discusses key topics related to sustainability and agricultural productivity including climate change, enterprise risk management, policy innovation and investment in regional markets. It also touches on creating joint product economics to improve sustainability and transformation and resilience on farms.
Long-term challenges to food security and rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Af...Agri Policy
A total of 180 million food-insecure people live in Sub-Saharan
Africa, over 21 per cent of the African population. These are among
the world’s most vulnerable people, poorly equipped to respond
to the threat of climate change, demographic stresses, or spikes
in global food prices. This briefing examines how improvements
in agriculture might help to achieve greater food security and
recommends ways to achieve this.
Link: http://digital.agripolicyoutreach.org/54549/LONG-TERM-CHALLENGES-TO-FOOD-SECURITY-AND-RURAL-LIVELIHOOD-IN-SUB-SAHARAN-AFRICA/Policy-Brief
The document discusses entrepreneurial opportunities in Nigeria's agrifood system. It begins by defining agrifood system and expanded agriculture. Nigeria has strong natural advantages for agriculture but is underperforming due to issues like underinvestment, low productivity, and imports of agricultural goods. However, there are significant opportunities to grow agricultural output and exports by improving yields, increasing cultivated land area, and shifting to higher-value crops. The document outlines funding sources and new initiatives to support agriculture financing and entrepreneurship. It defines the role of entrepreneurs in identifying and exploiting opportunities across agricultural value chains in Nigeria.
GCARD2: Briefing paper National Food Security - MAIZE and its importance for ...GCARD Conferences
Maize provides at least 30% of calories for over 4.5 billion people in developing countries, yet recurrent crises and constraints threaten global food security. The MAIZE Research Program is a CGIAR alliance of over 300 institutions aiming to sustainably intensify maize farming systems to enhance farmer incomes and livelihoods. Its vision is to increase productivity by 7% by 2020 and 33% by 2030, benefiting 40 million farmers by 2020 and 175 million by 2030, and meeting additional demand from 135 million consumers by 2020 and 600 million by 2030. MAIZE addresses issues through nine strategic initiatives and has a budget of $97.8 million annually from CGIAR and bilateral donors.
Do you know what happened to Philippine Rice?Berean Guide
The document discusses the history and challenges of rice production in the Philippines. It notes that in 2008, the Philippines had to import rice due to insufficient production. In the past, the Philippines was rice self-sufficient but production has declined in recent decades. This is due to various factors such as lack of investment in irrigation, high production costs compared to other countries, and policies that did not adequately support farmers. The document calls for reforms to redevelopment Philippine agriculture and make the country a rice basket again through supporting farmers, improving infrastructure, and strategic government policies.
Young boy selling local vegetables at a roadsideDr Lendy Spires
This document discusses genetically modified (GM) crops and their global production. It notes that GM crops are predominantly grown in six countries and make up less than 1% of total farmed area worldwide. While the biotech industry claims GM crops can help feed the world, evidence shows that GM crops have increased pesticide use and questions remain about their safety and benefits for small farmers.
This document summarizes advances in sweetpotato breeding from 1992 to 2012. Some key points:
- Sweetpotato production has increased significantly in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years. Yields have also increased slightly at 1% per year across SSA countries.
- Significant genetic variation exists for traits like yield, dry matter content, beta-carotene levels, and micronutrients. This provides opportunities for improvement through breeding.
- Population genetics studies show sweetpotato's hexaploid nature leads to high heterozygosity and genetic load, making it challenging to fix recessive traits but providing opportunities to exploit heterosis.
- Breeding objectives include increasing yield, nutritional
India has significant potential to boost agricultural productivity and reduce poverty. While India is the second largest producer of rice, its yields are only about half of those in China and other countries like Indonesia and Vietnam. Improving farming techniques and adopting practices from high-yielding countries could allow India to produce an additional 100 million tons of rice annually. However, Indian agriculture faces challenges like population pressure, small land holdings, inadequate irrigation, depleted soils, lack of storage, and poor farm implements. Steps like incentivizing states to reform agricultural markets, increasing private sector extension, and targeting foreign buyers of Indian foods could help realize India's agricultural potential.
Mainstreaming sustainability in the Nigerian agricultural transformation agendaPremier Publishers
The document discusses issues around sustainability in Nigeria's Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) program. It notes that while the ATA aims to modernize Nigerian agriculture, its heavy reliance on chemical fertilizers and ambiguous stance on GMOs could negatively impact future generations. Specifically, the program's fertilizer policy focuses on chemicals over organic alternatives, and does not take a clear position on GMOs, which have been linked to health, environmental and economic risks. The document concludes that while the ATA aims to empower farmers, its approach may actually benefit others at farmers' expense if sociological factors and sustainability are not properly incorporated.
FULL TITLE:
Microcredit and Crop Agriculture: New Technologies and Other Innovations to Address Food Insecurity among the Poor
ROOM: Tsavo B
PANEL:
Chair: Mr. Shadreck Mapfumo, Vice President, MicroEnsure, South Africa
Panelist: Mr. John Kihia, Country Director – Kenya, KickStart International, Kenya
Panelist: Mr. Michael Njuguna, Director Finance & Business Development, Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI), Kenya
Agriculture, climate change and green growth in Africa: What role for Brazil?futureagricultures
Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, FANRPAN
International Seminar: The role of South-South Cooperation in Agricultural Development in Africa - opportunities and challenges. 17 May 2012.
More info: http://www.future-agricultures.org/events/south-south-cooperation
The document discusses the benefits of agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified crops. It describes how a smallholder farmer in the Philippines transitioned to biotechnology by planting Bt corn, which increased her yields from 3.2 to 7.3 metric tons per hectare. She now advocates for biotechnology crops and shares her experiences internationally to help other farmers increase incomes and standards of living through sustainable agriculture.
(1) The document analyzes the impact of intellectual property rights in the seed sector on crop yield growth and social welfare using three case studies. (2) The case studies examine wheat in the US and EU, rootworm-resistant corn, and hybrid tomatoes to understand how intellectual property environments, crops, and companies affect research decisions and yields. (3) Most academic research to date has found mixed impacts of private sector research incentives on yields and social welfare.
Ecosystem Analysis - Monsanto Seeds And Traitstecohen
The document summarizes Monsanto's corporate overview, strategy, products, and ecosystem services review. Monsanto is an international agricultural biotechnology firm that focuses on seeds and genomics. Their strategy includes technology agreements with farmers and acquisitions. Their products include genetically modified corn, cotton, and soybean seeds. An ecosystem services review identified genetic resources, climate change, and wild foods as top dependent services and identified applicable areas of regulation.
The document summarizes discussions from the 3rd annual Global Farmer Roundtable in 2008. 20 farmers from 19 countries discussed three key themes: 1) The value of networking and sharing experiences with other farmers, 2) That biotechnology access can increase agricultural productivity while providing benefits, and 3) That farmer expertise is often not respected in policy debates. The farmers agreed to work on cross-pollinating information, establishing a global communications network, changing political climates, and replicating roundtable events worldwide to advance farmer interests.
This document discusses the business potentials in agriculture in Nigeria. It notes that agriculture currently accounts for 21.97% of Nigeria's GDP and provides 60-70% of employment, yet only 42% of cultivable land is used. There are many opportunities across the agricultural value chain from production to processing. Specific opportunities are discussed for crops like cassava and cocoa, as well as livestock including cattle, poultry, and fish farming. Challenges like underinvestment and use of manual methods are also outlined. The document concludes that agriculture has great potential to create jobs and economic growth in Nigeria.
Genetically modified crops and food Security..scientific factsRajdeeep sidhu
Genetically modified crops can help increase food security in several ways:
1) They can increase yields through traits like insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, virus resistance, and drought tolerance. This helps increase food availability.
2) GM crops that are drought resistant or produce higher yields allow food to be grown in more difficult conditions, improving stability of food sources.
3) Some GM crops aim to directly enhance nutrition, such as golden rice which is engineered to produce higher amounts of vitamin A to address deficiencies.
Eleven Tips To Build Customer Loyalty and SatisfactionAndre Vonk
The document provides 11 ways for businesses to build customer loyalty and satisfaction. It recommends communicating regularly with customers through newsletters or cards, providing excellent customer service, training and empowering loyal employees, offering customer incentives to return, knowing customers' purchase habits, being reliable and flexible, prioritizing human interactions over technology, exceeding expectations, learning customers' names, and continuously looking for little ways to improve the customer experience. The overall message is that focusing on loyal, existing customers is more profitable than pursuing new customers.
Joyce Cacho Water for Food PresentationJesse Starita
The document discusses key topics related to sustainability and agricultural productivity including climate change, enterprise risk management, policy innovation and investment in regional markets. It also touches on creating joint product economics to improve sustainability and transformation and resilience on farms.
Long-term challenges to food security and rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Af...Agri Policy
A total of 180 million food-insecure people live in Sub-Saharan
Africa, over 21 per cent of the African population. These are among
the world’s most vulnerable people, poorly equipped to respond
to the threat of climate change, demographic stresses, or spikes
in global food prices. This briefing examines how improvements
in agriculture might help to achieve greater food security and
recommends ways to achieve this.
Link: http://digital.agripolicyoutreach.org/54549/LONG-TERM-CHALLENGES-TO-FOOD-SECURITY-AND-RURAL-LIVELIHOOD-IN-SUB-SAHARAN-AFRICA/Policy-Brief
The document discusses entrepreneurial opportunities in Nigeria's agrifood system. It begins by defining agrifood system and expanded agriculture. Nigeria has strong natural advantages for agriculture but is underperforming due to issues like underinvestment, low productivity, and imports of agricultural goods. However, there are significant opportunities to grow agricultural output and exports by improving yields, increasing cultivated land area, and shifting to higher-value crops. The document outlines funding sources and new initiatives to support agriculture financing and entrepreneurship. It defines the role of entrepreneurs in identifying and exploiting opportunities across agricultural value chains in Nigeria.
GCARD2: Briefing paper National Food Security - MAIZE and its importance for ...GCARD Conferences
Maize provides at least 30% of calories for over 4.5 billion people in developing countries, yet recurrent crises and constraints threaten global food security. The MAIZE Research Program is a CGIAR alliance of over 300 institutions aiming to sustainably intensify maize farming systems to enhance farmer incomes and livelihoods. Its vision is to increase productivity by 7% by 2020 and 33% by 2030, benefiting 40 million farmers by 2020 and 175 million by 2030, and meeting additional demand from 135 million consumers by 2020 and 600 million by 2030. MAIZE addresses issues through nine strategic initiatives and has a budget of $97.8 million annually from CGIAR and bilateral donors.
Do you know what happened to Philippine Rice?Berean Guide
The document discusses the history and challenges of rice production in the Philippines. It notes that in 2008, the Philippines had to import rice due to insufficient production. In the past, the Philippines was rice self-sufficient but production has declined in recent decades. This is due to various factors such as lack of investment in irrigation, high production costs compared to other countries, and policies that did not adequately support farmers. The document calls for reforms to redevelopment Philippine agriculture and make the country a rice basket again through supporting farmers, improving infrastructure, and strategic government policies.
Young boy selling local vegetables at a roadsideDr Lendy Spires
This document discusses genetically modified (GM) crops and their global production. It notes that GM crops are predominantly grown in six countries and make up less than 1% of total farmed area worldwide. While the biotech industry claims GM crops can help feed the world, evidence shows that GM crops have increased pesticide use and questions remain about their safety and benefits for small farmers.
This document summarizes advances in sweetpotato breeding from 1992 to 2012. Some key points:
- Sweetpotato production has increased significantly in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years. Yields have also increased slightly at 1% per year across SSA countries.
- Significant genetic variation exists for traits like yield, dry matter content, beta-carotene levels, and micronutrients. This provides opportunities for improvement through breeding.
- Population genetics studies show sweetpotato's hexaploid nature leads to high heterozygosity and genetic load, making it challenging to fix recessive traits but providing opportunities to exploit heterosis.
- Breeding objectives include increasing yield, nutritional
India has significant potential to boost agricultural productivity and reduce poverty. While India is the second largest producer of rice, its yields are only about half of those in China and other countries like Indonesia and Vietnam. Improving farming techniques and adopting practices from high-yielding countries could allow India to produce an additional 100 million tons of rice annually. However, Indian agriculture faces challenges like population pressure, small land holdings, inadequate irrigation, depleted soils, lack of storage, and poor farm implements. Steps like incentivizing states to reform agricultural markets, increasing private sector extension, and targeting foreign buyers of Indian foods could help realize India's agricultural potential.
Mainstreaming sustainability in the Nigerian agricultural transformation agendaPremier Publishers
The document discusses issues around sustainability in Nigeria's Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) program. It notes that while the ATA aims to modernize Nigerian agriculture, its heavy reliance on chemical fertilizers and ambiguous stance on GMOs could negatively impact future generations. Specifically, the program's fertilizer policy focuses on chemicals over organic alternatives, and does not take a clear position on GMOs, which have been linked to health, environmental and economic risks. The document concludes that while the ATA aims to empower farmers, its approach may actually benefit others at farmers' expense if sociological factors and sustainability are not properly incorporated.
FULL TITLE:
Microcredit and Crop Agriculture: New Technologies and Other Innovations to Address Food Insecurity among the Poor
ROOM: Tsavo B
PANEL:
Chair: Mr. Shadreck Mapfumo, Vice President, MicroEnsure, South Africa
Panelist: Mr. John Kihia, Country Director – Kenya, KickStart International, Kenya
Panelist: Mr. Michael Njuguna, Director Finance & Business Development, Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI), Kenya
Agriculture, climate change and green growth in Africa: What role for Brazil?futureagricultures
Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, FANRPAN
International Seminar: The role of South-South Cooperation in Agricultural Development in Africa - opportunities and challenges. 17 May 2012.
More info: http://www.future-agricultures.org/events/south-south-cooperation
The document discusses the benefits of agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified crops. It describes how a smallholder farmer in the Philippines transitioned to biotechnology by planting Bt corn, which increased her yields from 3.2 to 7.3 metric tons per hectare. She now advocates for biotechnology crops and shares her experiences internationally to help other farmers increase incomes and standards of living through sustainable agriculture.
(1) The document analyzes the impact of intellectual property rights in the seed sector on crop yield growth and social welfare using three case studies. (2) The case studies examine wheat in the US and EU, rootworm-resistant corn, and hybrid tomatoes to understand how intellectual property environments, crops, and companies affect research decisions and yields. (3) Most academic research to date has found mixed impacts of private sector research incentives on yields and social welfare.
Ecosystem Analysis - Monsanto Seeds And Traitstecohen
The document summarizes Monsanto's corporate overview, strategy, products, and ecosystem services review. Monsanto is an international agricultural biotechnology firm that focuses on seeds and genomics. Their strategy includes technology agreements with farmers and acquisitions. Their products include genetically modified corn, cotton, and soybean seeds. An ecosystem services review identified genetic resources, climate change, and wild foods as top dependent services and identified applicable areas of regulation.
The document summarizes discussions from the 3rd annual Global Farmer Roundtable in 2008. 20 farmers from 19 countries discussed three key themes: 1) The value of networking and sharing experiences with other farmers, 2) That biotechnology access can increase agricultural productivity while providing benefits, and 3) That farmer expertise is often not respected in policy debates. The farmers agreed to work on cross-pollinating information, establishing a global communications network, changing political climates, and replicating roundtable events worldwide to advance farmer interests.
This document discusses the business potentials in agriculture in Nigeria. It notes that agriculture currently accounts for 21.97% of Nigeria's GDP and provides 60-70% of employment, yet only 42% of cultivable land is used. There are many opportunities across the agricultural value chain from production to processing. Specific opportunities are discussed for crops like cassava and cocoa, as well as livestock including cattle, poultry, and fish farming. Challenges like underinvestment and use of manual methods are also outlined. The document concludes that agriculture has great potential to create jobs and economic growth in Nigeria.
Genetically modified crops and food Security..scientific factsRajdeeep sidhu
Genetically modified crops can help increase food security in several ways:
1) They can increase yields through traits like insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, virus resistance, and drought tolerance. This helps increase food availability.
2) GM crops that are drought resistant or produce higher yields allow food to be grown in more difficult conditions, improving stability of food sources.
3) Some GM crops aim to directly enhance nutrition, such as golden rice which is engineered to produce higher amounts of vitamin A to address deficiencies.
Eleven Tips To Build Customer Loyalty and SatisfactionAndre Vonk
The document provides 11 ways for businesses to build customer loyalty and satisfaction. It recommends communicating regularly with customers through newsletters or cards, providing excellent customer service, training and empowering loyal employees, offering customer incentives to return, knowing customers' purchase habits, being reliable and flexible, prioritizing human interactions over technology, exceeding expectations, learning customers' names, and continuously looking for little ways to improve the customer experience. The overall message is that focusing on loyal, existing customers is more profitable than pursuing new customers.
Особенности и развитие Латинской АмерикиProznanie.ru
План:
1.Экономика.
А) Латифундии
Б) Экономические успехи Латинской Америки.
2.Полика и социальная сфера.
А) Политическое развитие Латинской Америки.
Б) Положение индейцев Латинской Америки.
3)Внешняя политика Латинской Америки.
4)Латинская Америка в начале XX в.
Понятия и термины:
Латифундии – крупное поместье
Пеоны – безземельные зависимые крестьяне
Диктатура – неограниченная власть
новые «центры» и ценности европейского запада.Proznanie.ru
1. Новые ценности в европейском обществе.
2. «Революция цен» и развитие рыночных отношений.
3. Технические усовершенствования и изобретения как средство наступления на природу.
4. Мануфактуры – первые промышленные предприятия.
5. Начало формирования классов (буржуазия, наемные рабочие).
внешняя политика россии в середине XviiiвProznanie.ru
1 Образовательная: Сформировать представления об особенностях и основных направлениях внешней политики России в сер XVIII в.
2 Развивающая: Совершенствование навыков работы с учебником, формирование тезисной записи. Составление схем
3 Воспитательная: Воспитывать чувство гордости за русских солдат.
1. Борьба за власть после смерти и Владимира. Обстоятельства прихода Ярослава к власти.
2. Правление Ярослава Мудрого»
А) Внешняя политика. (Затронуть раздел русских земель Ярославом перед смертью)
Б) Внутренняя политика.
3. Русь при сыновьях Ярослава.
Governments can create a central online resource where citizens can look up information about events and services, apply for permits or licenses, pay bills and fines, or log reports and requests. Governments can also provide access to relevant data such as weather, traffic, pollution air quality, or unemployment
BENA manufactures precast aerated concrete (PAC) villas in Abu Dhabi with an annual capacity of 1500 villas. It has invested 100 million dirhams and started production in January 2009. BENA uses advanced PAC technology to design and produce building skeletons using load bearing PAC panels and slabs, providing a faster and more cost-effective alternative to conventional concrete construction. At BENA, they strive to meet customer needs through communication and process improvement.
The document discusses the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's work in global development and agriculture. It provides three key points:
1) The Foundation aims to lift people out of hunger and poverty globally through programs in global health, global development, and education in the United States. It has granted $2.8 billion in 2008 and nearly $20 billion total since its inception.
2) A major focus area is agriculture, which the Foundation recognizes as critical for reducing poverty and hunger yet historically underfunded. It takes a holistic approach to improving smallholder farmers' productivity, access to markets, and policy environment.
3) The Foundation believes in a "system approach" that considers the needs of smallholder
This document discusses the potential benefits of biofuels for reducing poverty and addresses concerns about biofuels and food security, climate change, water usage, and biodiversity. It argues that biofuels could provide income and employment for rural poor through expanding crop production, and that impacts could be minimized by using non-food crops and sustainable farming techniques. Concerns about biofuels impacting food prices, water, and deforestation are complex issues that require considering population growth and alternative livelihoods.
This document discusses the potential benefits of biofuels for reducing poverty and addresses concerns about biofuels and food security, climate change, water usage, and biodiversity. It argues that biofuels could provide income and employment for rural poor if produced from alternative crops that require less water and can be grown in marginal lands. Concerns about biofuels impacting food prices or deforestation are minimized if multiple-use crops are used and smallholder production employs conservation agriculture techniques on underutilized lands.
The document discusses IFAD's priorities and role in promoting bioenergy and smallholder agriculture. It notes that IFAD has supported over 300 million rural poor people through 829 projects in 115 countries. Smallholder farms are important, with 500 million farms worldwide supporting over 2 billion people. The document discusses opportunities and risks for agriculture, and the role of smallholders and options like cash crops, livestock integration and agro-processing in closing the poverty gap. It advocates using biofuels to expand opportunities for rural smallholders while ensuring food security and environmental sustainability.
Food, Nutrition, Agriculture and the Millennium Development GoalsJoachim von Braun
The document discusses the role of agriculture in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It outlines how agriculture can directly and indirectly contribute to reducing poverty and hunger, improving health and education outcomes, and promoting environmental sustainability. However, it also notes challenges like decreasing cereal stocks and rising food prices that could threaten progress toward the MDGs. The presentation examines the link between agriculture and each MDG, and considers different scenarios for world cereal production and malnutrition based on policy approaches.
This document outlines steps for analyzing and addressing a social problem or situation: 1) Identify the situation, 2) Collect information from multiple perspectives, 3) Reflect on what is concerning and why, 4) Ask questions to understand the history, decisions, groups and values involved, 5) Work to understand the full situation, and 6) Strategize and plan ways to resolve the problem based on the understanding developed. It then provides a detailed analysis of the situation of smallholder farmers in the Philippines, identifying factors that prevent them from achieving their potential, such as market inefficiencies and lack of investment, and makes recommendations.
This document discusses various topics related to agricultural transformation and rural development, including: the role of agriculture in economic development; issues of land tenure, reform, and increasing agricultural productivity; mobilizing agricultural inputs through initiatives like rural banking; and the impact of government policies like agricultural price controls. It provides an overview of traditional agricultural techniques, challenges in food supply, and strategies for modernizing agriculture through packages of machinery, fertilizer, and improved crop varieties.
The global livestock sector: Opportunities and challengesILRI
The global livestock sector faces many challenges in sustainably meeting the growing demand for food while balancing trade-offs between efficiency, livelihoods, and the environment. Key issues include climate change, water and land scarcity, disease risks, and debates around large versus small-scale production systems. Addressing these complex challenges will require reliable assessments of hard trade-offs and achieving equity across scales from local to global.
Enhancing Societal Acceptance of GM Crops in IndiaSenthil Natesan
Fate of agricultural biotechnology hinges on how it is perceived by the policy makers and the public
We can help provide information so the stakeholders can make informed choices and pave way for enabling policies
1. The document discusses the potential for Latin America to become a major global supplier of rice, the world's most important staple crop, to help meet rising global demand.
2. For Latin America to realize this potential, yields would need to increase to 7 tons per hectare and costs of production would need to lower to $1,000 per hectare to compete globally.
3. Significant investments in agricultural research and development as well as stable trade policies would be required for Latin America to capitalize on its land and water resources and become a future "rice bowl" region.
Malthus is still Wrong - we can feed a world of 9 billionPrabhu Pingali
Malthus is still wrong - we can feed a world of 9 billion. Plenary presentation to the Asian society of Agricultural Economists. Hanoi, Vietnam, October 13th, 2011.
This document summarizes the progress of agriculture in India between 1951 and 2011, highlighting the Green, White, and Blue Revolutions that led to major increases in foodgrain, milk, and fish production. It also discusses ongoing challenges around malnutrition, climate change impacts, and the need for continued investment in agriculture research and development to sustain gains and ensure food security. Key priorities include making growth more inclusive to reduce poverty and inequality, adapting to and managing climate risks, and taking a systems-based approach to achieve comprehensive nutrition security.
IFAD provides loans to support agricultural development projects that benefit smallholder and rural poor farmers in developing countries. From 1979 to 2009, IFAD funded over 800 projects in 115 countries totaling over $12 billion. Smallholder farms worldwide support around 2 billion people and produce most of the food in developing countries. Biofuels have potential to expand opportunities for smallholder farmers but also risks related to food security and environmental impacts that need to be addressed through research on non-food crop options and sustainable farming practices. IFAD's strategic objectives focus on improving poor farmers' access to natural resources, technologies, markets, and decision making to help them overcome risks and take advantage of opportunities in agriculture and rural development.
This report examines challenges smallholder farmers face in accessing finance to improve productivity and strengthen livelihoods. It discusses how smallholder farmers produce much of the world's food but face low incomes and food insecurity. Access to finance is identified as one of the biggest challenges, as smallholders receive only 3% of the formal bank financing demanded, limiting their ability to invest in better technologies and increase yields. The report aims to understand how businesses can strengthen smallholder incomes and ensure robust, inclusive supply chains.
Food Security: Empty promises of technological solutionsP6P
This document discusses concerns about the promises made regarding nano-technology and genetically engineered crops as solutions to hunger and food insecurity. While these technologies are promoted as able to increase yields and nutrition, they may pose unknown health and environmental risks that are not adequately addressed. The failure of regulatory systems to safeguard consumers and the environment calls into question whether these technologies will truly benefit the poor and food insecure as claimed. Golden Rice is used as an example of how technological promises have failed to materialize despite raising false hopes and diverting resources from more sustainable solutions.
CIAT is a CGIAR research center focused on reducing hunger and poverty in the tropics through agricultural research. It faces the challenges of feeding a growing population with less land and water and a changing climate. CIAT conducts research to increase crop productivity, improve natural resource management, and inform policies, with a focus on beans, cassava, rice and forages. It works across Africa, Asia, and Latin America to deliver impacts at scale through partnerships.
Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010.
4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
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This document discusses solutions for improving Indian agriculture. It proposes establishing interconnected committees at the state, district, and local levels to better monitor agricultural activities and support farmers. The state-level core committee would oversee research, inspection, and sub-committees. Sub-committees at the district level would monitor local conditions and progress. Engineers, experienced people, volunteers, and direct field agents would work closely with small farmers, educating them and addressing issues. The goal is to boost productivity through modern techniques, research, and by supporting small farmers.
Keating - Sustainable intensification and the food security challenge CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
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Gene revolution pingali 2010
1. The Gene Revolution & Smallholder
Agriculture
Prabhu Pingali
Deputy Director
Agricultural Development
2. Agriculture is a source of livelihoods for
billions, but a huge reservoir of poverty
Global extreme poverty 2002, $1.08 a day 2.5 billion people
involved in agriculture
800 m smallholders
75% of poor are rural
Global and the majority will
Urban poor be rural to about 2040
287 mill. South 900 m extreme rural
Asia rural poor ($1/day)
407 mill. In Sub-Saharan Africa,
MENA rural
5 mill. farming accounts for
2/3 of employment
ECA rural East Asia
and
5 mill. rural Sub-Saharan 1/3 of GDP
LAC rural 218 mill. Africa rural
229 mill. In South Asia, the rural
27 mill. poverty rate is still
approximately 40%
7. Types of Biotechnology Research
and Technology
1. GMOs
– Most visible (notorious) aspect
– Widespread public interest; concern from some
– Most studied aspect of biotechnology; most data
2. Molecular Techniques for Genetic Improvement
– Marker Assisted Selection
– Cellular biology
3. Vaccines and Diagnostic Tools for Animal agriculture
4. Advances in Basic Science
– New avenues of science; new scientific horizon
7
10. GMOs have been an effective technology
in some cases in developed and
developing countries
Sustainability problems addressed by Bt cotton
• High pesticide loads
• Insect resistance to chemical pesticides
• Soil erosion under conventional tillage
practices
• High production costs