Policies for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Agricultural Biotechnology and Sustainable Development

founded in 1970 as the Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation. It is an independent, not-for profit, environmental law and policy research and education organization. Over the last 15 years, CIELAP has been involved extensively in environmental law and policy development related to biotechnology. In 1984, CIELAP organized the first conference in Canada on environmental law and policy is...

Public-Private Partnerships and Sustainable Agricultural Development

Agriculture in Africa is not sustainable because average yields have been stagnating for decades due to underinvestment, especially in the development of agricultural markets, crop improvement and the sustainable management of agricultural systems. Low public sector funding for agricultural research and lack of incentives for the private sector to operate in areas where there is no market large...

Organic Agriculture as an Opportunity for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Linking international agricultural research knowledge with action for sustainable development.

We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance. We found that these projects closed gaps between knowledge and action by comb...

Biotechnology for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

The Green Revolution (GR) in Asia was started b y the availability of high yielding pest and disease resistant varieties of wheat and rice from CIMMYT developed by Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug clearly showing research when well focus does pay major dividends. These improved varieties became catalystic to Green Revolution, but the overall success was achieved due to increased governme...