The cooling system sets out to improve the quality of evening milk and thus the income of the farmers. The system makes ice at milk collection centers, which the farmer takes home in the morning to cool the evening milk before bringing it to the collec…
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Well-functioning ‘rules of the game’ crucial for agricultural development
What have institutions got to do with improving maize crops? A recently released Climate Smart Agriculture Sourcebook brings forward the need to create, and strengthen institutions in order for farmers to successfully improve their livelihoods and yiel…

Molecular study makes a difference to guinea pig producers in eastern Congo
An Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ACBF) project (led by the BecA-ILRI Hub, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, the University of Dschang, and the Université Evangélique en Afrique) is looking at ways to improve alternative and rapi…

From PLOS Biology: Where Have All the Crop Phenotypes Gone?
Cross-posted from AgTrials Blog AgTrials colleagues may be interested in this article on crop phenotyping from the Journal PLOS Biology. As I read this, I thought about many of the similar issues that our AgTrials community has faced in the development…

Cage fish culture can bring changes for poor women
Throughout Bangladesh there are many and varied water bodies – such as rivers, irrigation canals, flood plains, beels (large depressions), oxbow lakes and ponds – that offer considerable potential for fish cultivation.
