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ProjectStrengthening the E-Agriculture Environment and Developing Ict-Mediated Agricultural Solutions for Papua New Guinea - TCP/PNG/3605 2020
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No results found.Agriculture is the mainstay of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) rural economy, with 85 percent of its population (of over 8 million) depending on the agriculture sector for their livelihoods. The sector has a great potential to improve national food security, nutrition and income-earning opportunities; create employment; reduce poverty; and enhance socio-economic development. However, attention needs to be directed towards developing appropriate policy, strategies, resources and activities that improve livelihoods and foster rural development. Given both the observed decline in the conventional extension system and emerging global challenges, agricultural development in PNG is becoming more dependent on strengthening linkages between stakeholders and improving access to information and knowledge. Importantly, emerging information and communication technology (ICT) tools and applications offer promising opportunities to promote communication, information sharing and general national development. Many actors in the sector have taken advantage of these opportunities but cannot progress further without favourable guidelines and policy, appropriate infrastructure, funding support and the underlying technical skills. The Government of PNG has expressed a need to improve the research–extension–farmer continuum so that it can both better serve farmers and rural communities involved in agriculture and make relevant information more readily available through an appropriate delivery medium. The availability, accessibility and adaptability (commonly referred to as AAA) of crucial livelihood-related information are essential to sustainable farming. Yet, the existing information gap between agricultural extension efforts, outreach services and farmers has been widely acknowledged as a barrier to sustainable food production. New ICTs provide a way to bridge this information gap -
DocumentWorld Agriculture in a Dynamically-Changing Environment: ifpri's long-term outlook for food and agriculture under additional demand and constraints
Expert Meeting on How to feed the World in 2050
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No results found.In this paper, we explore the nature of several key drivers of change in food systems, and examine a number possible entry points for policy intervention, in order to determine their effect on food prices and other marketdriven outcomes. Among the drivers of change that we discuss are those of policy-driven growth in biofuel production, which has had a role to play in the rapid increase in food prices, along with other factors. We demonstrate the off-setting impact that supply growth cou ld have on the socio-economic impacts of biofuels, both in terms of price changes, as well as changes in nutrition status. We also look at some evidence that points towards the significant impact that climate change could have on the agriculture and agricultural prices in the future. Combining our quantitative experiments with cited evidence from other studies, we suggest a range of policy interventions that could be instrumental in offsetting the negative impacts of food prices, and hel ping to promote those benefits in situations where they might exist. Among these suggestions, we encourage increased investments in the agricultural sector, so as to reverse the steadily declining growth of research and development spending and change decades of counter-productive agricultural trade and national-level sector policies. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetGlobal Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GASCA) Enabling Environment Action Group. (DRAFT) Inception Year Program of Work: Outline of Actions 2015
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No results found.Focus: a limited number of agreed outcomes/objectives relevant to regional, national, and local policy-making that can be reported on at the Annual Forum via a set of 3 country case studies on Climate Smart Agriculture.
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