Dar at her computer.
KM Insights
Lessons on engaging global audiences online: KM Insights from Dar Maxwell of Engility
In this short interview which is part of the KM Insights series, Dar discusses the various components of ensuring a successful, interactive webinar. ...read... read more
May 15, 2013
 | Joy Chen
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Video Note
Climate-Smart Adaptation in the Sahel: An interview with Peter Gubbels of Groundswell International
Through his work in the Sahel, Peter Gubbels has seen farmers develop many endogenous risk management strategies and innovations for coping with climate change. He discusses three examples in the interview.... read more
May 13, 2013
 | Julie MacCartee
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Reader's Corner
Reader's Corner: Some of the best knowledge-driven agriculture and food security websites
This week Veronica looks at different knowledge sharing food security platforms. ...read more
May 13, 2013
 | Veronica Letelier
A strawberry farmer waters rows of plants
Meeting the Financial Needs of Agricultural Families
With an estimated 2.5 billion people living in 500 million smallholder farm households in the developing world, agricultural production plays a powerful role in poverty reduction. ...read... read more
May 10, 2013
 | Erin Scronce
Kenyan farmer shows her crops. Photo credit: Jimmy Wambua
Why Open Data Matters: G-8 and African Nations Increase Open Data for Food Security
The concept of open ag data fuses transparency and technology to improve food security worldwide; farmers, entrepreneurs, and researchers recognize the impact of increasing access to information and are increasingly receiving high-level support.... read more
May 9, 2013
 | Kat Townsend
News
News Roundup: Food prices in Africa, value chains, open data
International symposium discusses pro-poor changes to the way food moves from field to fork, WFP releases report on "Innovations in Africa," USDA blogs about open data, and IFPRI discusses "Fickle food prices in #Africa: fact or fiction?"... read more
May 9, 2013
 | AgTeam
Healthy tomatoes just harvested from a field in Senegal - IPM Innovation Lab
Tuta absoluta, meet IPM Innovation Lab
Encounter a new insect or disease that hinders crop growth and affects livelihoods. Create an eco-friendly, economical set of methods to manage it. Repeat. ...read more
May 6, 2013
 | Melissa Smith
Google Nexus 7. Credit: Shizo (Flickr)
It's All About M&E
Feed the Future goes high-tech, using android tablets for eight population based surveys
Using tablets for data collection in remote villages with no Internet and limited electricity seemed a fairytale when first proposed, but the FTF-FEEDBACK project made it happen.... read more
May 6, 2013
 | AgTeam
farmer holding bag of maize
Development, production, procurement and planting: The journey of a One Acre Fund maize seed
One Acre Fund recognizes that improved farm inputs (seed and fertilizer) are essential to increasing farm yields. We invest tremendous resources to ensure that the seeds we offer our farmers are of the highest quality.... read more
May 3, 2013
 | AgTeam
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Screenshot of Zachary Baquet
KM Insights
Videos: Using simulations to teach and transforming social learning
Zachary Baquet, Knowledge Management Advisor at the USAID Bureau for Food Security, led two sessions at the KM Expo, "Life in the Village: Using Simulations to Teach" and "Transforming Social Media and Learning into Social Learning."... read more
May 2, 2013
 | Lindsay Levin
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