Catalysing young agri-entrepreneurs' investments and ensuring their sustainability – Strategic planning tool

Land Leases and Concessions in the Lao PDR: A characterization of investments in land and their impacts

Does it matter who advises farmers? Pest management choices with public and private extension

Food for thought: The underutilized potential of tropical tree-sourced foods for 21st century sustainable food systems

Nitrogen and phosphorus uptake from isotope labeled fertilizers by sorghum and soil microorganisms

The parable of arable land: Characterizing large scale land acquisitions through network analysis

Getting Down to Earth (and Business): Focus on African Smallholders' Incentives for Improved Soil Management

Vibrant mountain communities. Regional development in mountains: Realizing potentials, tackling disparities

Transformation of our food systems - The making of a paradigm shift

Combining organic and mineral fertilizers as a climate-smart integrated soil fertility management practice in sub-Saharan Africa

The potential of agroecology to build climate-resilient livelihoods and food systems

El orden jurídico y las dinámicas socioeconómicas de las semillas en sistemas alimentares de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis

Study on Switzerland’s Foreign Policy And The United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Peasants

The full study is available in French, with Research Briefs available in English, German and French.

Index-based weather insurance for perennial crops: A case study on insurance supply and demand for cocoa farmers in Ghana

Genomic Prediction of Agronomic Traits in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Under Environmental Stress

Channels of Labour Control in Organic Farming: Toward a Just Agroecological Transition for Sub-Saharan Africa

Money Flows: What is holding back investment in agroecological research for Africa?

Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers

A transdisciplinary approach for the development of sustainable yam production in West Africa

Fair Research Contracting - A Self-Assessment Toolkit for Institutions

Social Self-Organization and Social-Ecological Resilience in Food Systems. Lessons from Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya and Indigenous Guaraní Communities in Bolivia

Good agricultural practice in irrigation management

A novel seed treatment-based multiplication approach for cassava planting material

Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya

Variety is the source of life: Agrobiodiversity benefits, challenges, and needs

Towards Shared Research

Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments

Niche change analysis as a tool to inform management of two invasive species in Eastern Africa

Towards Sustainable Food Systems

Supporting transformation through applying agro-ecological principles and contributing to improved nutrition

Direct and indirect land-use change caused by large-scale landacquisitions in Cambodia

The impact of invasive species on social-ecological systems: Relating supply and use of selected provisioning ecosystem services.

Capabilities Under Telecoupling: Human Well-Being Between Cash Crops and Protected Areas in North-Eastern Madagascar

Guidelines to conflict sensitive research

The cash crop boom in southern Myanmar: tracing land use regime shifts through participatory mapping

Complex agroforestry systems against biotic homogenization: The case of plants in the herbaceous stratum of cocoa production systems

Crop-diversification and organic management increase the energy efficiency of cacao plantations

Excessive use of medically important antimicrobials in food animals in Pakistan: a five-year surveillance survey

Making food systems safer: Time to curb use of highly hazardous pesticides

Carbon neutral expansion of oil palm plantations in the Neotropics

Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region

A Quantitative Analysis of Socio-Economic Determinants Influencing Crop Drought Vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Organized Homegardens Contribute to Micronutrient Intakes and Dietary Diversity of Rural Households in Sri Lanka

Trees for the enhancement of mycorrhizal functioning in low-input maize cropping systems

The State of Sustainable Markets 2019 - Statistics and Emerging Trends

A serious game to parameterize Bayesian networks: Validation in a case study in northeastern Madagascar

Haplotype-resolved genomes of geminivirus-resistant and geminivirus-susceptible African cassava cultivars

Pre-treatment of banana peel to improve composting by black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens (L.), Diptera: Stratiomyidae) larvae

Water for maize for pigs for pork: An analysis of inter-provincial trade in China

Impacts of land use and topography on soilorganic carbon in a Mediterranean landscape

Understanding and Changing Farming, Food & Fiber Systems. The Organic Cotton Case in Mali and West Africa

Oil palm concessions in southern Myanmar consist mostly of unconverted forest

Beacons of Hope - Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Food Systems

Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in Agro-industrial and Smallholder Farming Systems in Kenya

Enabling smallholders’ descendants to farm with pride

How the Syngenta Foundation defines sustainable agriculture (Working paper)

The Rich Picture Method: A Simple Tool for Reflective Teaching and Learning about Sustainable Food Systems

Visualizing Sustainability of Selective Mountain Farming Systems from Far-eastern Himalayas to Support Decision Making

Establishing a nutrient loop to improve city region food system resilience

(RUNRES Project)

An innovation perspective to climate change adaptation in coffee systems

Organic and Fair Palm Oil Production – Assessment Project (Synthesis Report)

Sustainable rangeland management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Please Make Avocados Sustainable Again!

Opportunities and challenges for mountain communities

Migration: More than a livelihood strategy for mountain people

Recommendations for policy-making

Addressing the causes of migration - end enhancing its benefits

In- and outmigration in the context of the quinoa boom

Mapping Food Systems: A Participatory Research Tool Tested in Kenya and Bolivia

A Review of Angular Leaf Spot Resistance in Common Bean

Nitrogen leaching losses and balances in conventional and organic farming systems in Kenya

How can digital solutions help to feed a growing world? An introduction with case studies

Migration and sustainable mountain development: Turning challenges into opportunities

Understanding fertilizer adoption and effectiveness on maize in Zambia

Co-producing a Research Agenda for Sustainable Palm Oil

The Normative Dimension of Food Sustainability

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Food Systems Governance

Sustainability in global agriculture driven by organic farming

Nitrified Human Urine as a Sustainable and Socially Acceptable Fertilizer

An Analysis of Consumer Acceptance in Msunduzi, South Africa

Understanding the Water–Food–Energy Nexus for Supporting Sustainable Food Production and Conserving Hydropower Potential in China

Farmers' seed, the regulatory framework, and seed policy in Niger

Assessing Food Systems and Their Impact on Common Pool Resources and Resilience

Implications of land use/land cover dynamics and Prosopis invasion on ecosystem service values in Afar Region, Ethiopia

Eco-efficiency and agricultural innovation systems in developing countries: Evidence from macro-level analysis

Performances of machine learning algorithms for mapping fractional cover of an invasive plant species in a dryland ecosystem

Group Certification - Internal Control Systems in Organic Agriculture: Significance, Opportunities and Challenges

Land law reform in Kenya: Devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix

Local Perspectives on Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs in a Forest Frontier Landscape in Myanmar

Shaping Sustainable Socio-Ecological Landscapes in Africa: The Role of Transformative Research, Knowledge, and Partnerships

Labour Migration in the Middle Hills of Nepal:Consequences on Land Management Strategies

Working in Effective Partnerships to Address Sustainable Development Goals

Transforming institutional quality in resource curse contexts: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Myanmar

Implementing Competence Orientation: Towards Constructively Aligned Education for Sustainable Development in University-Level Teaching-And-Learning

Spatial context matters in monitoring and reporting on Sustainable Development Goals

The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2019

Modelling the current fractional cover of an invasive alien plant and drivers of its invasion in a dryland ecosystem

Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar

Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

State of Land in the Mekong Region

Agroecosystem Service Capacity Index – A methodological approach

Farmer perceptions of plant–soil interactions can affect adoption of sustainable management practices in cocoa agroforests: a case study from Southeast Sulawesi

Exposure to Pesticides and Health Effects on Farm Owners and Workers From Conventional and Organic Agricultural Farms in Costa Rica: A Study Protocol

Socio-Economic Atlas of the Lao PDR. Patterns and trends from 2005 to 2015

What is Sustainable Agriculture? Critical Analysis of the International Political Discourse

Assessing Land Investment Quality - A methodology to assess the quality of land concessions and leases in the Lao PDR

Mycorrhizal fungi as natural bio-fertilizers: How to produce and use

Does Organic Farming Provide a Viable Alternative for Smallholder Rice Farmers in India?

“When We Stand up, They Have to Negotiate with Us”: Power Relations in and between an Agroindustrial and an Indigenous Food System in Bolivia

Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions in Mountain Areas - Lessons Learned From a 5-Country Project to Upscale Best Practices

Whose Agency Counts in Land Use Decision-Making in Myanmar? A Comparative Analysis of Three Cases in Tanintharyi Region

Why farmers should manage the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Atlas of Agriculture in the Lao PDR. Patterns and trends between 1999 and 2011

Impact of Economic Regimes on Food Systemes in Kenya

The Actors, Rules and Regulations Linked to Export Horticulture Production and Access to Land and Water as Common Pool Resources in Laikipia County, Northwest Mount Kenya

Accelerated ex situ breeding of GBSS- and PTST1-edited cassava for modified starch

Designing user-driven climate services - What we can learn from the Climandes project: A checklist for practitioners, scientists and policy makers

Prediction of enteric methane production, yield, and intensity in dairy cattle using an intercontinental database

Managing livelihood risks: Income diversification and the livelihood strategies of households in pastoral settlements in Isiolo County, Kenya

A burning challenge: Making biomass cooking fuels sustainable in East Africa

Turning Land into Capital: Assessing A Decade of Policy in Practice

Quinoa and production rules: how are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources?

Large-scale land concessions, migration, and land use: The paradox of industrial estates in the Red River Delta of Vietnam and rubber plantations of Northeast Cambodia

Targeting intracellular transport combined with efficient uptake and storage significantly increases grain iron and zinc levels in rice

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) hosts several widespread bradyrhizobial root nodule symbionts across contrasting agro-ecological production areas in Kenya

The Impact of Commercial Horticulture on River Water Resources in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro River Basin, Kenya

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

r4d programme Mid-term Review Report

Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR

Multi-indicator sustainability assessment of global food systems

Genotyping by Sequencing Reasserts the Close Relationship between Tef and Its Putative Wild Eragrostis Progenitors

Impacts of Large Agricultural Investments - a comparative analysis from three African countries

The World of Organic Agriculture 2018

Proceedings of the session on global organic farming and market trends at BIOFACH 2018.

Accounting for the Boundary Problem at Subnational Level: The Supply–Demand Balance of Biomass Cooking Fuels in Kitui County, Kenya

How can science support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development? Four tasks to tackle the normative dimension of sustainability

Assessing the soil erosion control efficiency of land management practices implemented through free community labor mobilization in Ethiopia

Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculataL. Walp) hosts several widespread bradyrhizobialroot nodule symbionts across contrasting agro-ecological production areasin Kenya

What Prompts Agricultural Innovation in Rural Nepal: A Study Using the Example of Macadamia and Walnut Trees as Novel Cash Crops

Technology generation to dissemination: lessons learned from the tef improvement project

Conservation versus local livelihoods? Sustainable development challenges in Madagascar

Improving Crop Yield and Nutrient Use Efficiency via Biofertilization - A Global Meta-analysis

Where people and their land are safer: A Compendium of Good Practices in Disaster Risk Reduction

Phosphorus cycling in soil aggregate fractions in maize-pigeon pea intercropping systems of Malawi

Doctoral Thesis

Climate Changes and Their Impact on Agricultural Market Systems: Examples from Nepal

Protection by origin in Chile and the European markets: the case of the wine sector

The Challenge of Improving Soil Fertility in Yam Cropping Systems of West Africa

Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture

The Private Sector and India’s Agricultural Transformation

Participatory non-GM cotton breeding to safeguard organic cotton production in India

What socially motivates farmers to grow organic cotton in central India?

WFSC Symposium 2017 - Posters and Abstracts

A Conflict Sensitive Approach to Field Research. Doing Any Better?

An overview of agriculture, nutrition and fortification, supplementation and biofortification: Golden Rice as an example for enhancing micronutrient intake

Golden Rice: instructions for use

Grazed and confused? Ruminating on cattle, grazing systems, methane, nitrous oxide, the soil carbon sequestration question - and what it all means for greenhouse gas emissions

Survey 2016 of the Residue Situation in Turkish Organic Products

Legume Shrubs Are more Nitrogen-Homeostatic than Non-legume Shrubs

Emancipation from the land – emancipation from unequal structures? Opportunities and pitfalls for women in the rural labour market

A global view of shifting cultivation: Recent, current, and future extent

Soil Biological Activity Contributing to Phosphorus Availability in Vertisols under Long-Term Organic and Conventional Agricultural Management

Situation Analysis and Strategy for Replacing Cell Fusion Cultivars in Organic Systems

Agricultural Expansion and Intensification in the Foothills of Mount Kenya: A Landscape Perspective

A Diagnosis of Biophysical and Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Farmers’ Choice to Adopt Organic or Conventional Farming Systems for Cotton Production

The State of Sustainable Markets – Statistics and Emerging Trends 2017

Strategy 2017-2020 - SDC Global Programme Food Security

Opinion: Smart farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture

Realities, Perceptions, Challenges and Aspirations of Rural Youth in Dryland Agriculture in the Midelt Province, Morocco

Safer lives and livelihoods in mountains

Making the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction work for sustainable mountain development

The Organic and Fairtrade Market 2015

Key results from the FiBL survey on organic agriculture worldwide 2017

Organic Viticulture Worldwide 2015

The Future of Small Farms

Report on an international conference on 24-25 January 2017 at Basel, Switzerland

FiBL Survey on Organic Agriculture Worldwide – Metadata

Recent changes in food labelling regulations in Latin America: the cases of Chile & Peru

Productivity and food security effects of using of certified seed potato: the case of Kenya’s potato farmers

Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification

Diurnal Leaf Starch Content: An Orphan Trait in Forage Legumes

Is Business Linkage Affecting Agricultural Advisory Services?

A Global Vision and Strategy for Organic Farming Research

The World of Organic Agriculture. Statistics and Emerging Trends 2017

Making sense of research for sustainable land management

Information technologies as a tool for agricultural extension and farmer-to-farmer exchange: Mobile-phone video use in Mali and Burkina Faso

Concepts and Strategies of Organic Plant Breeding in Light of Novel Breeding Techniques

Impact of the Farmers' Hub Model Bangladesh 2013-2016

Shifting water demands onto the vulnerable? Water impacts of agricultural trade and investment

Traditional food products and trade: exploring the linkages

Agricultural insurance: Offering hope for the future to smallholder farmers

Productivity, profitability and partial nutrient balance in maize-based conventional and organic farming systems in Kenya

Guidelines to assess and design interventions for food system resilience

working draft 01.11.2016

The challenge of collecting and publishing data on organic agriculture worldwide

Determinants of the Use of Certified Seed Potato among Smallholder Farmers: The Case of Potato Growers in Central and Eastern Kenya

International Land Deals for Agriculture - Fresh insights from the Land Matrix: Analytical Report II

Nachhaltige Agrarimporte in die Schweiz?

Trade, Food Security, and the 2030 Agenda

The Gender Dimensions of Global Value Chains

Utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in academic research

Ökologischer Landbau in Afrika

Präsentationen einer Fachtagung organisiert von der DEZA und SWISSAID am 15. September 2016 in Bern

Socio-Economic Atlas of Kenya

Organic Wheat Farming Improves Grain Zinc Concentration

Resilience in Food Systems - The Case of Tef in Ethiopia

Bringing New Tropically Adapted Soybean Varieties to Africa

Video - 21:33

Making the Commodity Sector Work for Developing Countries

Projected demand and supply for various foods in West Africa: Implications for investments and food policy

Rural Advisory Services and International Cooperation

How to reach large numbers of agricultural producers with rural advisory services – a compilation of articles with insights and innovations

Commercial Horticulture in Kenya: Adapting to Water Scarcity

Large-Scale Land Acquisition and Its Effects on the Water Balance in Investor and Host Countries

Biodiversity Function and Resilience in Tropical Agroforestry Systems Including Shifting Cultivation

Projected demand and supply for various foods in West Africa: Implications for investments and food policy

Investing in Sustainable Mountain Development

Opportunities, Resources and Benefits

Sustaining the supply of organic White Gold: The case of SysCom innovation platforms in India

The World of Organic Agriculture. Statistics and Emerging Trends 2016

Sustainable Intensification of Tropical Agro-Ecosystems: Need and Potentials

The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services: Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru

The State of Sustainable Markets: Statistics and Emerging Trends 2015

Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme

Highlights from 15 Years of Join Action for Sustainable Development

Molecular and transcriptomic characterization of natural resistance to cassava brown streak viruses in cassava

Smallholder Farming Systems in Kenya: Climate Change Perception, Adaptation and Determinants

Learning and innovating together: a partnership between farmers, scientists, public and private organizations

Impacts of feeding less food-competing feedstuffs to livestock on global food system sustainability

Scope and precision of sustainability assessment approaches to food systems

How the organic food system contributes to sustainability

Proceedings of an International Workshop Assessing sustainable diets within the sustainability of food systems Mediterranean diet, organic food: new challenges 15–16 September 2014, Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, CREA, Rome

Sustainable livestock production? Industrial agriculture versus pastoralism

Die Vermarktung von Stevia-basierten Süßstoffen – ein Fall von Verletzung indigener Rechte, irreführendem Marketing und umstrittener biosynthetischer Herstellung

Crop Yields and the Prospect for Food Security

Background paper for the 10th Global Meeting of the Emerging Markets Forum

Feeding the People: Agroecology for Nourishing the World and Transforming the Agri-Food System

Plant Variety Protection in Developing Countries: A Tool for Designing a Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection System

An Alternative to UPOV 1991

International Contradictions on Farmers Rights

The interrelations between the International Treaty, its Article 9 on Farmers’ Rights, and Relevant Instruments of UPOV and WIPO.

Sustainable Development in International Law Making and Trade

International Food Governance and Trade in Agriculture

How Could Mega-Regional Trade Negotiations Affect Agricultural and Food Trade?

Japanese Agricultural Trade Policy and Sustainable Development

Reducing pesticide use and risks - What action is needed?

Tools for the assessment of short food supply chains’ sustainability

summary of tools applied in a working group (WP5) of the EU?project SUPURBFOOD (“Towards sustainable modes of urban and peri?urban food provisioning”, www.supurbfood.eu)

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia

Effects of different stocking densities on performance and activity of cattle × yak hybrids along a transhumance route in the Eastern Himalaya

Green Economy and Institutions for Sustainable Mountain Development

From Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and beyond

The Commodity Sector and Related Governance Challenges from a Sustainable Development Perspective: The Example of Switzerland

Biophysical criteria used by farmers for fallow selection in West and Central Africa

Cost benefit analysis of the Mongolian Potato Project (MPP), 2004 – 2014

Foresight Study: Research for a Sustainable Swiss Food System

Saving soils at degradation frontlines: sustainable land management in drylands

Seed availability for non-GM cotton production: An explorative study

Seed & Soils Task Force Organic Cotton Round Table A collaboration between Louis Bolk Institute, Lanting Agriconsult, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture-FiBL, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Textile Exchange

Knowledge Driven Development - Private Extension and Global Lessons

The formalization fix? Land titling and land concessions in Cambodia

«Eine Welt» – Dossier über Ernährung

Resilience Building for Food Security

Sustainable intensification of organic Basmati rice production in Uttarakhand, India

The role of community and population ecology in applying mycorrhizal fungi for improved food security

Plant Variety Protection and Food Security

A study to capitalise experiences in SDC financed rural advisory services programmes in Asian countries

Socioeconomic determinants of organic cotton adoption in Benin, West Africa

Agricultural biotechnology for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Estimating population and livestock density of mobile pastoralists and sedentary settlements in the south-eastern Lake Chad area

Agroökologie - SWISSAID Positionspapier

The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2015

Designing Payments for Avoided Deforestation under capital constraint - A Framed Lab-in the-Field Experiment

an input at Bioecon, Cambridge, 21.09. - 23.09.2014

Mountains and Climate Change - A Global Concern

Estimating the Consequences of Fire Exclusion for Food Crop Production, Soil Fertility, and Fallow Recovery in Shifting Cultivation Landscapes in the Humid Tropics

New ruralities – old gender dynamics? A reflection on high-value crop agriculture in the light of the feminisation debates

Scaling up smallholders' adoption of technology

On the right path? Land concessions in Laos

The politics of Golden Rice

Role of Crop Research and Development in Food Security of Africa

Swiss Policies for more Food Security

The present status of Golden Rice

How to improve research communication in transnational projects

A Global Vision and Strategy for Organic Farming Research

Tackling Agriculture in the Post-Bali Context: A collection of short essays

A collection of short essays

Organic Eprints – Helping research results go to work

Owning Seeds, Accessing Food

A Human Rights Impact Assessment of UPOV 1991 Based on Case Studies in Kenya, Peru and the Philippines

Land deals intensify competition for scarce resources

Youth and agriculture: Key challenges and concrete solutions

UPOV report on the impact of plant variety protection - A critique

Spotlight on knowledge for a new development agenda

ANNUAL REPORT 2013 of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Improving plantain (Musa spp. AAB) yields on smallholder farms in West & Central Africa

Diagnostic and evaluation of the agricultural potentials and examples of good soil and water conservation and soil defence and restoration practices adapted to the MENA desert zones

Saatgut: Bedrohte Vielfalt im Spannungsfeld der Interessen

Transportability of confined field trial data for environmental risk assessment of genetically engineered plants: a conceptual framework

Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers

Biovision’s Farmer Communication Programme

Beyond biofuels: jatropha’s multiple uses for farmers in East Africa

Food Security and Agri-Foreign Direct Investment in Weak States: Finding the Governance Gap to Avoid ‘Land Grab’

Nahrungsmittel Spekulation – (k)ein Problem?

An Assessment of Sustainable Land Management in the Loess Hills of Central Tajikistan Using WOCAT Tools and DESIRE Guidelines

Sustainable Land Management by Disaster Risk Reduction in Muminabad district, Tajikistan, using WOCAT methods

Un marco regulatorio propicio para la inversión sostenible: el ejemplo del derecho comercial

The World of Organic Agriculture: Statistics and Emerging Trends 2013

Reboisements paysans sur les Hautes Terres centrales de Madagascar

After Bali: WTO Rules Applying to Public Food Reserves

Strategic Framework 2013–2017: Global Programme Food Security

Smallholder / Family Farming

A full greenhouse gases budget of africa: Synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities

Brain drain or brain circulation? Career paths of international students

Switzerland is the country with the highest percentage of immigrant scientists worldwide. The impact of funding opportunities has never been systematically assessed. ETH Global has recently conducted a study on this topic, covering 304 scholarship recipients from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich from developing and transition countries....[more]

Annual Report 2012 – Swiss International Cooperation

Report: Survey of the Residue Situation in Turkish Organic Products

Market access for smallholder producers in East and Southern Africa

Gender Equality in Rural Advisory Services

Review of the Development Co-Operation Policies and Programmes of Switzerland

Mountain Farming Is Family Farming

A contribution from mountain areas to the International Year of Family Farming 2014

Yield and Economic Performance of Organic and Conventional Cotton-Based Farming Systems – Results from a Field Trial in India

Mountains: Our Life, Our Future

Progress and perspectives on sustainable mountain development.

Research partnerships: the benefits of North–South collaboration

Agricultural Export Restrictions and the WTO

What Options do Policy-Makers Have for Promoting Food Security?

Innovation in Agriculture: An Important Tool for Tackling Poverty

How can african agriculture adapt to climate change?: a counterfactual analysis from Ethiopia

Government and other Obstacles to Food Security : A Tale of Leadership and Cooperation

Public Keynote Address, Sixth McGill Conference on Global Food Security, Montreal, 8 October 2013

Conceptual and Practical Aspects of Climate Change Mitigation Through Agriculture: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increasing Soil Carbon Sequestration

The Potential of Sustainable Agriculture for Climate Change Adaptation

India’s Agricultural Trade Policy and Sustainable Development

Organic cocoa production enhances resilience of smallholders

Measuring and monitoring the quality of soils using spectroscopy

Agroecology and Organic Agriculture

Private Public Development Partnerships for Improved Food Security

Sustainable Soil Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Guidance for Project Developers

Bericht zum Schweizer Arbeitsmarkt der IZA 2011 / 2012

Von Afrika lernen

Schweizer Universitäten kooperieren verstärkt mit Institutionen in Asien, Lateinamerika und Afrika.

Post-harvest losses of dry grains in North Western Benin

The benefits of collective action: The case of herders in Mongolia

Planting the future: opportunities and challenges for using crop genetic improvement technologies for sustainable agriculture

Do Private Standards encourage or hinder trade and innovation?

Biofuels: Possible impacts on food security in Kenya

Maximising the Impact of Research: The NCCR North-South Approach

Fourth NCCR North-South Report on Effectiveness

20 years of the Research Fellow Partnership Programme, 1996 – 2015

Adapting to climate change through sustainable land management

Threats and opportunities for smallholders in rural development

Global Challenges and the Future of the WTO: Views from the Candidates Beyond the Hype of the DG Race

Summary of the High-Level Consultation on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Conserving indigenous livestock breeds to benefit mountain smallholders

Climate change: farmers' perceptions and strategies

Land Grab v Food Security: Can Global Regulation Cope?

Ethiopia's Food Reserve Policies and Practice

Join the movement

Globale Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Wasser

SDC and Genetically Modified Crops

Dynamics of Indirect Land-Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Brazil

Applied Research in Development and Cooperation

A Program of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts (2007-2013)

Private-sector R&D, supply chains and the small farmer

Contribution to food security by improving farmers' responses to climate change in northern and central areas of Côte d'Ivoire

Modeling crop yield and water use in the context of global change with a focus on maize in sub-Saharan Africa

Radio Mampita – the powerful voice of rural people

A Guide for Transboundary Research Partnerships

11 Principles and 7 Questions

Biodiversity of Andean grains: balancing market potential and sustainable livelihoods

Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation Landscapes in Northern Lao PDR Between 2000 and 2009 Based on an Analysis of MODIS Time Series and Landsat Images

Concessions and Leases in the Lao PDR: Taking Stock of Land Investments

Genetically-modified insects: under whose control?

A four-way win for agricultural development

Socio-Environmental Certifications:

Risks and Opportunities for Small-Scale Coffee Farmers in Central America

Landless Mobile Pastoralists- Securing their role as custodians of Northern Pakistan's Mountains

Proceedings, Regional Workshop Islamabad, 24–26 April 2012

Increasing Food Production in Africa by Boosting the Productivity of Understudied Crops

Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming

Organic Agriculture in Saudi Arabia

Sector Study 2012

Kurswechsel in der Landwirtschaft

Bis 2050 wird die Weltbevölkerung auf neun Milliarden Men schen ansteigen. Nur mit einem genügsamen, ökologischen Landbau können alle ernährt werden.

Influence of the Fast Spread of Bt Cotton on Organic Cotton Production: Examples from India and Burkina Faso

Exploiting the Combination of Natural and Genetically Engineered Resistance to Cassava Mosaic and Cassava Brown Streak Viruses Impacting Cassava Production in Africa

Harmonisation and extension of the bioenergy inventories and assessment

End report by Empa

Measuring and monitoring the quality of soils using spectroscopy

Changing agriculture in a changing climate

Voice and Choice: Rural Advisory Services in Kyrgyzstan

Learning from 20 years of development cooperation

Turning sunlight into stone: the oxalate-carbonate pathway in a tropical tree ecosystem

Strukturen und Entwicklungen des Schweizer und internationalen Marktes für Saatgut am Beispiel ausgewählter Gemüsesorten

Representative Seroprevalences of Brucellosis in Humans and Livestock in Kyrgyzstan

Rio+20: Plädoyer für eine zukunftsfähige Entwicklung

The importance of social networks to inform and support farmers about adaptation strategies regarding climate change in Côte d’Ivoire

Participatory Cotton Breeding for Organic and Low External Input Conditions

Conference paper; NUE Crops Workshop, Crete, Greece, 9. - 10. June 2012

Green Economy - Sustainable Agriculture

Lowering environmental costs of oil-palm expansion in Colombia

Are New Paradigms Needed for Sustainable Food Security in the Face of Uncertainties and Risks? A Sustainability Challenge: Food Security for All

Presentation held at the Conference "Sustainability Challenge: Food Security for All" (May 2 – 4, 2011, Washington DC, USA)

Critical Gender Issues with Regard to Food, Land, and Water

A Compendium for Policy-makers, NGOs, and Researchers

Organic Agriculture in Albania: Sector Study 2011

Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South

The right to food and global strategic frameworks

The Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF) and the UN Comprehensive Framework for Action (CFA)

Factors determining the adoption and impact of a postharvest storage technology

The Meanings of Pasture in Resource Degradation Negotiations: Evidence From Post-Socialist Rural Kyrgyzstan

Partnerships in Development-oriented Research: Lessons Learnt and Challenges Ahead

‘Green economy’: development opportunity or buzzword?

It’s time to control brucellosis in Central Asia

Overcoming bottlenecks in water management in the Pangani Basin

Achievements and Challenges in Agricultural Extension in India

Capitalisation of experiences in Rural Innovation and Advisory Services

overview document

Targeting Women in Rural Advisory Services

Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa: Stewardship Case Studies

Mitigating Greenhouse Gases in Agriculture

A challenge and opportunity for agricultural policies

Quand les greniers se remplissent. Les bénéfices du partenariat entre la recherche agronomique, la vulgarisation agricole et des organisations paysannes au Mali

Land Grabbing: the Dark Side of ‘sustainable’ Investments

Concerns of Bread for all on the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone

African Organic Agriculture Training Manual

Food Sovereignty and its Discontents

Research for Sustainable Development: Foundations, Experiences, and Perspectives

Du grain à moudre. Genre, développement rural et alimentation

Les Actes des colloques genre et développement

Highlands and Drylands. Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions

Contested Rural Development in Nepal

Kilimanjaro and Oromia Coffee Value Chain Case Studies: Producer Benefi ts from Fair Trade and Free Market Channels

Freiwillige private Standards als marktorientierte Instrumente einer nachhaltigen Handelspolitik

Public-Private Partnerships and Sustainable Agricultural Development

Indigenous fodder trees can increase grazing accessibility for landless and mobile pastoralists in northern Pakistan

Research in a war zone

Rural Poverty Report 2011

Two Presentations of the Event: Agriculture and rural poverty reduction: the changing global context and emerging policy challenges by Henock Kifle, Chief Development Strategist, IFAD; Rural Poverty Report 2011: New realities, new challenges: new opportunities for tomorrow's generation by Edward Heinemann, Team Leader Rural Poverty Report, IFAD

Animal Breeders’ Rights?

Understanding new sources of conflicts in the lowlands of Ethiopia

Du grain à moudre. Genre, développement rural et alimentation

The symposiumn analyzed the changing agricultural development with a gender focus. The paper collection provide new perspectives on female farmers around the world.

«Water Grabbing» – der grosse Durst nach fremdem Wasser

Der Ausverkauf von Wasserrechten vergrössert den Hunger und schürt Konflikte

Climate change resilient small scale agriculture

Reshaping Rural Extension

Making a Living in Uncertainty

Agro-Pastoral Livelihoods and Institutional Transformations in Post-Socialist Rural Kyrgyzstan

Phosphorus – A bottleneck of nature / Pollution, resource scarcity and its implications for food security

Presentations of the North-South Forum organised jointly by the ETH North-South Centre and the NCCR North-South

The Organic Market in Europe

On Adaptation to Climate Change and Risk Exposure in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Agricultural Biodiversity in the Tajik Pamirs

A Bridge Between Market Development and Food Sovereignty

Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts of Sustainability Certification in the Agricultural Sector – The Current State of Empirical Research

ABC of development policy

Report on Effectiveness– Swiss Development Cooperation in the Agricultural Sector 2010

Integration of Canavalia brasiliensis into the crop-livestock system of the Nicaraguan hillsides. Environmental adaptation and nitrogen dynamics

Kilimo Salama – Index-based Agriculture Insurance

SDC Guidelines on Green Biotechnology

The European Market for organic Fairtrade Products

with a focus of Central America

The US Farm Bill: What implications for Africa?

Weeds as soil bioindicators: How to sample and use data

A burning challenge: Making biomass cooking fuels sustainable in East Africa

A synoptic land change assessment of Ethiopia ’ s Rainfed Agricultural Area for evidence-based agricultural ecosystem management

Agricultural trade policies and childnutrition in low- and middle-incomecountries: a cross-national analysis

Wheat blast: from its origins in South America to its emergence as a global threat

The methane footprint of nations: Stylized facts from a global panel dataset

Gene drives: benefits, risks, and possible applications