Comments on: Mitigating drought-induced food crises: The experts speak out http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/mitigating-drought-induced-food-crises/ A Global Agricultural Research Partnership Thu, 01 Aug 2013 02:04:09 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Board Member Focus: Lloyd Le Page, CGIAR | Global Child Nutrition Foundation http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/mitigating-drought-induced-food-crises/#comment-193 Board Member Focus: Lloyd Le Page, CGIAR | Global Child Nutrition Foundation Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:08:42 +0000 http://consortium.cgiar.org/?p=671#comment-193 [...] *Article adapted from CGIAR blog posting http://consortium.cgiar.org/mitigating-drought-induced-food-crises/ [...] [...] *Article adapted from CGIAR blog posting http://consortium.cgiar.org/mitigating-drought-induced-food-crises/ [...]

]]> By: Peter Casier http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/mitigating-drought-induced-food-crises/#comment-192 Peter Casier Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:51:27 +0000 http://consortium.cgiar.org/?p=671#comment-192 Fully agree, Andrew! In the panel discussion, there were some excellent examples of this. E.g. Dr.Mwangi spoke about the promotion of sorghum as a better suited dry-land crop. But no use in promoting sorghum, bringing good seed varieties to the farmers, etc.., the adoption will be nil unless if there is a market for their crop (a good price, means of storage, means of transport, an off-take,...)... Same with his example of camel milk: A good production still, despite the drought, but most of the produce gets spoiled before it gets to the market... Fully agree, Andrew!

In the panel discussion, there were some excellent examples of this. E.g. Dr.Mwangi spoke about the promotion of sorghum as a better suited dry-land crop. But no use in promoting sorghum, bringing good seed varieties to the farmers, etc.., the adoption will be nil unless if there is a market for their crop (a good price, means of storage, means of transport, an off-take,…)…
Same with his example of camel milk: A good production still, despite the drought, but most of the produce gets spoiled before it gets to the market…

]]> By: Andrew Ward http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/mitigating-drought-induced-food-crises/#comment-191 Andrew Ward Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:19:04 +0000 http://consortium.cgiar.org/?p=671#comment-191 These are very high quality comments. We must remember that agricultural research cannot bring benefits to the poor independently of other links. For example upgrading road infrastructure, we should keep an eye on the impact of such projects on the uptake, adoption and benefits of agricultural research. These are very high quality comments. We must remember that agricultural research cannot bring benefits to the poor independently of other links. For example upgrading road infrastructure, we should keep an eye on the impact of such projects on the uptake, adoption and benefits of agricultural research.

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