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Request For Application From Consultant On Assessment Of The Implementation Of Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Commitments

Corruption is a major problem in Nigeria and is largely responsible for widespread poverty and underdevelopment. According to the UN and the AU, around $148 billion is stolen from Africa annually by political leaders, multinational corporations, the business elite and civil servants with complicity of banking and property industries in Europe, North America and elsewhere.   Transparency…

What Nigeria Must Do To Stop Looting Of Public Funds – Global Forum

What Nigeria Must Do To Stop Looting Of Public Funds – Global Forum

What Nigeria Must Do To Stop Looting Of Public Funds – Global Forum

Nigeria has been advised to make laws that makes it difficult for public fund to be looted and siphoned abroad.

The call was made by participants at the inaugural Global Forum on Asset Recovery, GFAR, in Washington DC earlier in December. The forum, organised…

Livestock count: Live reporting from the 43rd session of the Committee on World Food Security

This article was posted originally on 19 Oct 2016 by GFAR.

Photo credit: Dominik Schraudolf on Pixabay

‘This week marked a milestone for the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). For the first time since its reform, it recognized the role of livestock in addressing malnutrition, sustainable agriculture and climate change.

‘Two years ago CFS asked the High-Level Panel of Experts to prepare a…

Youth, the Future of Family Farming

It was the first day of June in the serene and sunny – but slightly windy – city of Montpellier, and from all around the world researchers and academics in the fields of agriculture and family farming were gathered: experts in international development, decision makers, NGOs, as well as farmers organizations’ and private sector representatives. The stage had been set for the “International…

Youth Foresight for their future

It was the first day of the Africa Agriculture Science Week (6th edition)– hosted by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) in Accra, Ghana – and like every other young social reporter/blogger for the conference I was struggling to find my way around the International Conference Centre and locate the venues for the side events I had penciled down to attend – either for…

The provision of extension and advisory services is an important component of Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) mobilizing researchers, extensionists, Farmers Organizations, NGOs, CSOs, Education institutions, small and medium enterprises etc….) in…

The European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) has appointed new leaders: Martin Kropff as Chair, Alessandra Giuliani as Vice-Chair and Judith Francis as Executive Secretary. Reflecting these changes and new directions for EFARD, a…