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The F&BKP together with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is preparing a research about the question “Do higher quality standards hinder inclusive growth / favour exclusive growth?” The assignment aims to provide Food Security professionals insight into the complex relations between inclusive growth and the achievement of higher quality »

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation released its fourth request for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) to commercialize agricultural technologies in smallholder markets in Feed the Future countries. Partnering for Innovation Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation is a USAID funded program focused on finding and commercializing agricultural technologies that can help improve the lives of smallholder farmers. The »

The 12th launch of the Global Nutrition Report took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands this week during an action-oriented discussion event organized by the Netherlands Working Group on Nutrition (NWGN) in collaboration with the Food and Business Knowledge Platform and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and hosted by Unilever R&D. To ensure that the messages »

Income inequality is among the world’s most pressing issues, as highlighted in the recent Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Post-2015 Agenda. In developing countries, income inequality is synonymous with spatial disparity, which in most cases coincides with rural-urban disparities. Most food insecure, poor and vulnerable people live in rural areas. The failure »

The International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) is calling for nominations for the first IAAE 2015 Carl K. Eicher Award for the best doctoral dissertation on agricultural economics applied to an Africa problem. Family, friends and colleagues of the late Carl K. Eicher have established a fund under the IAAE to support an award for »

AVRDC, the World Vegetable Center (Taiwan), has a vacancy for a new Director General to lead the institution to a new level of research excellence strengthened by partnerships with public, nongovernmental, and private sector organizations worldwide. The current Director General, Dr. Dyno Keatinge, will retire in April 2016 after eight years in the position. AVRDC aims »