Job: Senior Agricultural Economist/Team Leader, ILRI

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Senior Agricultural Economist and Team Leader to play a key role within the Market Opportunities Theme in leading ILRI’s evolving and expanding portfolio of research addressing smallholder livestock producer competitiveness and technology uptake.

Screening of applications will commence on September 1, 2010 untill the position is filled.

Youth and rural development in ACP countries. Report from 19th Brussels Development Briefing convened by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners on June 16, 2010.

IAALD2010: Scientific and Technical Information and Rural Development Highlights of Innovative Practices - documentation. View the abstracts and videos from this event held on April 26-29, 2010, in Montpellier, France.

Communique of the Sixth Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Partnership Platform Meeting. Report from the meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa on April 21-23, 2010.

Decision support model for planning manure management on pig farms. Sustainable, sanitary and efficient management of animal manure for plant nutrition (SUSANE) Newsletter No. 14, January 2010.

Impact of medicated feed on the development of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in integrated pig-fish farms in Vietnam. Sustainable, sanitary and efficient management of animal manure for plant nutrition (SUSANE) Newsletter No. 13, November 2009.

ICROFS news 1/2010. Newsletter from the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS), February 2010.

BiosafeTrain News Issue 9, September-December 2009. The third newsletter for 2009 from BiosafeTrain, Trainig for Biosafety, is now available online on the project's website. 

Overview of key organisations and processes in rural development and Agridultural Research for Development (ARD). Copied from an internal study of the EIARD FSTP Project (title: "The Impacts of climate changes on food security in Africa: A Synthesis of existing work") with special permission from the EIARD Secretariat.

Journal of Agriculture and Food Systems Community Development : Inaugural Call for papers

The Journal of Agriculture and Food Systems Community Development (JAFSCD) is a NEW online, international, peer-reviewed journal focused on applied research and best practices in the development of thriving farming communities and sustainable food systems. Authors are invited to submit papers under: Open calls (at any time on any subject related to the development aspects of agriculture and food systems) and/or special topic calls (between November 15, 2009, and February 15, 2010). 

Agriculture and Rural Development Day Bulletin: A summary report of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2009. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) bulletin vol.  170, no. 1, December 14, 2009.

ACP rural development: why Media matters? Report from 14th Brussels Development Briefing convened by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners on October 12, 2009.

The GCARD Process in Africa. Report by FARA on the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) 2010 process, October 2009.

Introduction to GMO Biosafety Risk Assessment. Press release by BiosafeTrain and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) on a workshop they conducted together at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), October 19-23, 2009. 

Developing Africa through Science, Technology and Innovations in Agriculture - Women as key drivers, RUFORUM, Entebbe, Uganda, September 28 - October 2, 2009. Travel report by DDRN member Mona Dahms, Aalborg University, Denmark. Mona Dahms' presentation can be downloaded here.

ICROFS News 4/2009. Newsletter from the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, November 2009.

Upgrading to compete in a globalised world: What Opportunities and challenges for SMEs in agriculture in ACP countries? Report from 13th Brussels Development Briefing convened by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners on September 23, 2009.

E-Newsletter October 2009 of the Association for European Life Science Universities (ICA) - available online.

ICROFS News 3/2009. Newsletter from the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, August 2009.

BiosafeTrain News Issue 8, May-August 2009. This years' second newsletter from BiosafeTrain, Trainig for Biosafety, is now available online on the project's website.

The Role of Livestock for ACP countries. Report from 12th Brussels Development Briefing convened by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners on July 1, 2009.

ICROFS News 2/2009. Newsletter from the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, May 2009.

Fighting against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (IUU): Impacts and challenges for ACP countries. Report from 10th Brussels Development Briefing convened by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners on April 29, 2009.

Land access and rural development: New challenges, New opportunities. Report from 9th Brussels Development Briefing convened by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners on February 25, 2009.

Validation Workshop for 2007 AETS. Report from workshop of top civil servants, members of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and development partners, convened by NEPAD, to endorse the 2007 draft report on the agriculture expenditure tracking system (AETS). December 4-5, 2008, in Pretoria, South Africa.

BiosafeTrain News Issue 7, January-April 2009

The first 2009 newsletter from BiosafeTrain, Trainig for Biosafety, is now available online on the project's website.

Sharing of experiences between interdisciplinary PhD research programmes related to agricultural and rural development. Report from ERA-ARD workshop organised by Wageningen University and ICRA, December 11-12, 2008 - Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Brief status report on EFARD, EIARD, and PAEPARD - March 2009

Brief report on European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD), European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development (EIARD), and Platform for Afr–Eur Partnerships for Agricultural Research and Development  (PAEPARD) by Anne Sørensen, Chief coordinator of DDRN, who actively participates in these platforms. The brief is based on draft minutes of EFARD Steering Committee meeting of March 18, 2009.

Read the brief [Word, 43kB].