CGIAR invested 53 percent of its funding in Africa last year. This sends a clear message that the 15 CGIAR Research Centers and many Challenge Programs are committed to Africa’s development.But progress on these investments and uptake of new agricult…
Investigation plot of hybrid seed production technology in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. Mexican seed producers and researchers who participate in the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro) initiative met recently at El Cant…
Fifteen young scientists from SIMLESA partner and spillover countries were recently trained by the Agricultural Research Council of South Africa (ARC-SA) on various aspects of agronomy and innovation learning platforms (ILePs), including conservation a…
“In one of our project sites a university graduate recently went back to his family’s cocoa farm of his own accord,” Christophe Kouamé said, to make the point that new technologies can make farming more appealing to young people. The senior scie…
The second day of the ongoing (15-20 Jul 2013) sixth Africa Agriculture Science Week of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), in Accra, Ghana, featured conversations on how to develop climate-smart agriculture, how to improve the resili…
