Food Security and Climate Change

Agricultural R&D spend falls in 13 African countries

Agricultural R&D spend fell in 13 African countries between 2008 and 2011, according to The Atlas of African Agriculture Research and Development published on 30 June. 

The map, produced by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute, shows that agricultural research investments in many sub-Saharan African countries are “well below the levels required”.

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Wednesday, 16 July, 2014

London to host first conference in the "Planning For Climate Change" series

On the 4th December 2014 in London the first conference in a series across the UK and Ireland entitled ‘Planning for Climate Change’ will take place.  The key focus of the day is to debate and discuss the key issues that face communities across the country when it comes to adapting to climate change and addressing the problems and opportunities that climate change brings.

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Monday, 30 June, 2014

Soil Security Programme: Announcement of opportunity for consortia awards

NERC is inviting proposals for consortia projects requesting funds between £1M and £2.5M (80% FEC), and of up to three years' duration, which will address the objectives of the programme as stated in the announcement of opportunity.

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Monday, 19 May, 2014

EU-Africa Partnership to focus on Food Security and Nutrition

The EU-Africa High Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation has chosen to focus on food and nutrition security, and sustainable agriculture. An expert group has been established to produce an operational roadmap that can be translated into actions to be funded by all the stakeholders concerned including the European Commission, the African Union Commission, the European and African countries or the private sector.

You can read more here.

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Monday, 19 May, 2014

UN Global Compact Publishes 10 Briefs on SDGs, Post-2015 Agenda

The UN Global Compact has launched a series of issue briefs on the post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The briefs address the following priority issues: climate and energy; education; food and agriculture; governance and human rights; health; infrastructure and technology; peace and stability; poverty; water and sanitation; and women's empowerment. 

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Saturday, 26 April, 2014

Scotland-Malawi Partnership: "Global Gathering"

An international evening of dinner and stories from Africa and India. Win great raffle prizes and find out more about our development projects in Malawi and India and how to get involved!

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Tuesday, 22 April, 2014

Scotland-Malawi Partnership

CR&DALL is a member of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership and we are happy to forward mailings and notices from the Partnership. Two recent information mailings are attached here and notice of an upcoming event is to be found in the Events list.

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Tuesday, 22 April, 2014

Istanbul Seminar on Education for Sustainable Development: 'ESD at the Crossroads'

The Learning Teacher Network, in cooperation with the Regional Environment Center (REC) Turkey, welcomes you to an International Seminar on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Istanbul, Turkey on September 26-27, 2014; the title of the seminar is 'ESD at the Crossroads'.

By interactive discussions among the participants the seminar will discuss key issues that bridge the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development to UNESCO’s forthcoming Global Action Programme.

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Wednesday, 9 April, 2014

Online Course: Introduction to the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Stakeholder Forum has partnered with CIFAL Scotland to offer a unique e-learning opportunity which will enhance the capacity of participants to engage with the international Post-2015 process to design and agree a set of Sustainable Development Goals.

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Tuesday, 8 April, 2014

Climate change and sustainable development goals

A new blog post by Joy Hyvarinen (FIELD Executive Director) considers climate change and the new sustainable development goals. It suggests that thinking about the climate treaty’s goal to slow climate change to a level that is not dangerous could help to design the new goals. It argues that poor and vulnerable countries and communities need a second line of defence against climate change and suggests that the new goals should be rooted in the Millennium Declaration.

Heather Pierce

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