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12 January 2018
  Climate change is affecting the livelihoods and food security of rural people around the world. However, when it comes to making policies to address climate change impacts, national decision-makers often do not have access to crucial evidence of climate change at the local level. Furthermore, it is common for projects...
03 January 2018
Foods made from the meat and eggs of ducks are becoming more popular nowadays. The demand for these products has continued to intensify over the last 10 years. This has resulted in a significant growth of enterprises which raise ducks for consumption. With increased numbers of poorly managed commercial duck...
28 December 2017
Currently one in every nine people in the world does not have enough food to eat, while overcoming the burden of malnutrition remains a serious challenge to ensure people’s full development potential. In Asia alone, 520 million people are currently undernourished, of which an estimated 20 million live in...
19 December 2017
The International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) is the largest organization for forestry science students in the world. One of their local committees (IFSA LC UGM) operates at Gadjah Mada University and has a very active student community. At the end of 2017, IFSA LC UGM held an event to provide...
13 December 2017
The Field Epidemiology Training Programme for Veterinarians (FETPV), known as PELVI (Program Epidemiologi Lapangan Untuk Veteriner Indonesia) in Indonesia was launched in May 2017. In order to determine concrete steps for the implementation of the programme, which has been discussed between the Ministry of Agriculture and FAO ECTAD Indonesia since...