The meeting was held in La Ceiba and researchers from more than 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participated. Photo: Workshop in La Ceiba, Honduras (La Ceiba, Honduras, June 24, 2017) From June 20 to 23, the 12th Workshop on Technical Monitoring of FONTAGRO Projects was held in La Ceiba, Honduras. During the […]
Japan is delighted to host the seventh annual Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) Council Meeting that will take place 29 August – 1 September 2017 in Tsukuba, Japan. Following the Council Meeting, an International Science Symposium on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions, jointly organized by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) […]
FONTAGRO officials visited ongoing projects led by Nicaragua to learn about their progress. Simulation exercise carried out in banana communities (Washington, D.C., May 22, 2017) From May 14 to 18, 2017, FONTAGRO officials carried out a mission to Nicaragua with the objective of learning about the progress of three projects cofinanced by FONTAGRO in the country. […]
The main topics discussed were the platform for the sustainable intensification of livestock production and cacao projects. USDA USAID, IICA, and FONTAGRO officials (Washington, D.C., May 12, 2017) In connection with the launch of the “Sustainable Livestock Production Platform last April, officials from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States […]
One of the main concerns on researchers’ minds nowadays is how to help farmers address the effects of climate change. The main issue at hand is how to produce food using sustainable methods, without depleting soils and water. Over the next few decades, one of the greatest challenges mankind will face will be how to […]
The rice production has a strategic importance for the food security of the Dominican people. This is why the country, as a way of seeking alternatives and management and production mechanisms to achieve higher levels of production with the use of less input, has been, since 2015, supporting the development of the project “Growing more […]
The main topic of the meeting was how to produce beef and milk using sustainable methods, without depleting such resources as soil or water, and reducing gas emissions. Photo: Cows fitted with greenhouse gas emission devices used for research in Chile (Washington, D.C., April 12, 2017) On April 12, 2017, the launching of the “Sustainable […]
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The call for proposals will fund up to $1.2 million in projects to support innovations that meet growing food demand without affecting natural resources. Photo: Gerson Vargas. FONTAGRO’s 2016 Photo Competition (Washington, D.C., April 17, 2017) Today FONTAGRO announced the launch of its 2017 Call for Proposals on “Innovations for the sustainable intensification of […]