Propaganda Posters Reimagined: Green Revolution

[I am toying with some ideas for semi-regular blog features to get me posting more often. This one, Propaganda Posters Reimagined, will be an occasional development-themed take on some classic works of propaganda from throughout history.]

Today's installment: The Green Revolution

(Source of original image here)

Rice Basket: Markets and El Niño; Prawn-Fish-Rice

[I am toying with some ideas for semi-regular blog features to get me posting more often. This one, Rice Basket, will be an occasional collection of rice-related stories I found interesting. Or, more interesting than normal, since we all agree that rice is super-interesting. Right?]

• Putting the "rice" into "price" forecasting - The global rice market winks at El Niño and Thai problems: IRRI looks at where the rice market may be headed - early signs look good, but severe El Niño conditions and/or poor government policy reactions could lead to another rice price crisis (see what I did there?)
• Old synergies for new benefits - Climate Change Adaptation and Prawn-Fish-Rice Agroecosystems: Stuart Bunting posts on the LPFN blog about a climate adaptation strategy based in a Bangladeshi tradition of synergistic prawn-fish-rice culture.

Update on EcoAg Work - Policy, Marketing, Strategy, Governance

A few of my work projects have recently been published / shared on our blog, and I thought you might find them of interest. As you may recall, EcoAgriculture Partners and/or our initiative (Landscapes for People, Food and Nature) work on integrated landscape management, striving to simultaneously meet goals for food production, ecosystem health and human well-being. I recently worked on the following events / publications (along with many others! - and I did not write these blog posts) -

• Kenya Policy Dialogues for Integrated Landscape Management - event held in June 2014 - Bringing together public and civic sector actors from 5 landscapes to discuss policy issues and share experiences with each other and national policy makers.
• Landscape Labeling - released July 2014 - Developing a marketing approach for landscapes that highlights "their common vision for the landscape and their dedication to sustainable management."
• Landscapes for People, Food and Nature in Africa - event held in July 2014 - bringing together many major players interested to develop actionable strategies for landscape management in Africa, including researchers, national government representatives, community representatives, private sector representatives, and more.
• Toward Viable Landscape Governance Systems: What Works? - released June 2014 - Investigating what makes effective landscape governance systems work, and how to overcome the many challenges inherent in bringing together multi-stakeholder platforms (such as power imbalances).

Also, as part of our staff retreat this past week we visited three farms in Virginia - check out the experience here.