With the support of the CGIAR Consortium and Bioversity International, several YPARD members are attending this week at the Tehnical Online Communications workshop (TOC 2013) being held in Rome this week . Continue reading “#TOCS2013 features @YPARD”
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Kick-off of the #TOCS2013 workshop @BioversityInt
We kicked off this morning in a great way the Technical Online Communications workshop at Bioversity International under the masterful hands of Peter Casier and the CGIAR Consortium. If you ever wanted to know who are the people behind those beautiful sites from the CGIAR Centers and CRP`s, here is your chance to meet them: where they are from, what they do, what are their secrets. Continue reading “Kick-off of the #TOCS2013 workshop @BioversityInt”
How #SocialMedia should be used in higher education for #FoodSecurity?
Ever since I attended the GCARD 2 and have been a part of the Social Reporting team deployed there by YPARD and the CGIAR, I have been wondering how can Social Media be best used to create the premises for global food security.
As a researcher on global food security policies and a social media geek, I realized that if you want to reach a big impact in either fields you have to first educate, then disseminate the knowledge you gained in order to increase its impact. Continue reading “How #SocialMedia should be used in higher education for #FoodSecurity?”
My opinion on Global #FoodSecurity is the best opinion
In the past 20 years, Food security has become a major discussion topic on the global agenda. Everyone, from local communities to international NGOs and the United Nations Secretary General, has become increasingly worry about the pending food crises and the fact that we will soon be unable to feed our increasing population. Continue reading “My opinion on Global #FoodSecurity is the best opinion”
Food Politics & Policies in a time of Food Uncertainty
On April 27th I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd Annual Oxford Global Food Security Conference. Organized by the Oxford Global Food Security Forum, which is a student-led group interested in bringing together research on food security from across all disciplines and sponsored by the Oxford Martin Program on the Future of Food and St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, the conference brought together a small, dedicated group of researchers that lit up the room. Continue reading “Food Politics & Policies in a time of Food Uncertainty”
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