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From the Roots, From the Stars – Scaling Up and Out

By Francesca Pelloni
Some time back, we argued against top‐down approaches. But we also said that fruitful knowledge exchange was a two‐way street. Confused? Clarification: Roots for Relevance. Stars to Scale up. We want STRONG ROOTS to grow from the bottom up. Like Honorables Mamadou Simpara and Sounkoutoun Sissoko, MPs for Banamba and Diema Districts, Mali. They will champion...

Multi-point Videoconferencing Gateway (#4 CGIAR Strategic Technologies Series)

By Tania Jordan
Over the years, videoconferencing has evolved from a bandwidth-consuming unreliable technology to one that consumes less bandwidth and is much more stable. Video has become more and more utilized as bandwidth has increased and prices have come down. As part of the Strategic Technologies for the CGIAR in 2010, Multi-point videoconferencing gateway ranked 4th place. The...

Wanted: Social Media Fanatics

By Peter Casier
It is great and surprising to see how a good thing, born out of enthusiasm, can take off and start leading a life of its own… I am sure the team organising the Rome Share Fair back in January last year, had no idea where they were going to end up… How the concept, the mechanics, the spirit would snowball into a whole series of similar happenings. Only...

“AgKnowledge Africa”: focus on agriculture and climate change, land, livestock, and water – register NOW!

By Enrica Porcari
Join us in Addis Ababa on 18-21  October 2010 for  ‘AgKnowledge Africa’ Share Fair : a new event  to  showcase the ways agricultural and rural knowledge in and of Africa is created, shared, communicated, and put to use. Like the 2009 edition in Rome, and the recent edition in Cali, this event will be a ‘fair’ that brings together the diverse knowledge...

‘Insuring’ appropriate delivery mechanisms: Facilitating sharing at IBLI project workshop

By Nadia Manning-Thomas
On July 12th 2010, an innovative new project hosted at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a one day workshop on ‘developing index-based livestock insurance to reduce vulnerability due to drought-related livestock deaths’. The project -Index-Based Livestock Insurance-,  better known as IBLI, has been operating in Kenya already...
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