We are pleased to release the Calls for Nomination for our annual Friends of Southern IPM Award program. This program recognizes outstanding work in IPM in the southern region. We have two kinds of awards: one for IPM professionals and one for graduate students.
Deadline for nominations is Friday, December 7, 2018. Continue reading
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Background
There is wide agreement globally that gender responsiveness is critical for Africa to achieve the transformation that is so desperately needed for food and nutrition security. For example, Sustainable Development Goal No. 5 focuses on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, which includes ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life. The African Union (AU) has declared 2015 the Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development. Continue reading
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We weren’t sure what would happen when we started the Friends of IPM Award two years ago. An award program was a little different from the grant programs we managed, and many of the IPM professionals we worked with were just too busy to type up a two-page description of their own or someone else’s work. We figured we’d try it for a couple of years anyway.
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