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Climate Smart Agriculture: why avoiding ambiguity is vital to success

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a phrase that has been gaining increasing prominence in both the sphere of international development and in mainstream media. But despite some powerful backers, CSA...

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The Right to Seed: Picking apart ARIPO’s Arusha Draft Protocol on plant...

Co-authors Jack Spoor and Gigi Davies The Draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Seed (Arusha PVP Protocol) is hardly the most accessible of documents. Even to those used to wading...

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Gender equality in agroecology – the hidden benefits

Co-author Javeria Hashmi Javeria is completing an MSc in Food Security at University of Warwick. She joined Practical Action on a research placement for her dissertation – Agroecology, Small farmers...

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Improving Market Systems in Sudan: Developing the Karaya Gum Industry

Karaya Gum is one of those obscure substances that you often see on the list of ingredients, but no one really knows what it is. Tapped from Sterculia urens, a deciduous tree native to the Indian...

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Rice duck farming in Nepal in pictures

Authors: Jack Spoor, Menila Kharel, Dr. Sujan Piya Women in innovation Rice is a staple food crop in Nepal, accounting for about 67% of cereal consumption.[1] Ensuring maximum yield and minimising loss...

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Rice, ducks and development

A simple concept with clear benefits is something to be explored and scaled up In development, as in most fields, anything that can quickly improve the productivity of an existing agricultural industry...

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Climate Smart Agriculture: why avoiding ambiguity is vital to success

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a phrase that has been gaining increasing prominence in both the sphere of international development and in mainstream media. But despite some powerful backers, CSA...

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The Right to Seed: Picking apart ARIPO’s Arusha Draft Protocol on plant...

Co-authors Jack Spoor and Gigi Davies The Draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Seed (Arusha PVP Protocol) is hardly the most accessible of documents. Even to those used to wading...

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Gender equality in agroecology – the hidden benefits

Co-author Javeria Hashmi Javeria is completing an MSc in Food Security at University of Warwick. She joined Practical Action on a research placement for her dissertation – Agroecology, Small farmers...

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Rice duck farming in Nepal in pictures

Authors: Jack Spoor, Menila Kharel, Dr. Sujan Piya Women in innovation Rice is a staple food crop in Nepal, accounting for about 67% of cereal consumption.[1] Ensuring maximum yield and minimising loss...

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Rice, ducks and development

A simple concept with clear benefits is something to be explored and scaled up In development, as in most fields, anything that can quickly improve the productivity of an existing agricultural industry...

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