‘The new CGIAR: Food security, global change and international agricultural research for development’, slide presentation made by ILRI director general Jimmy Smith in Dec 2011.
Archive for December, 2011
Fish – Making a Meal of it
BecA hub research, facilities, and capacity building
‘BecA (Biosciences eastern and central Africa) hub research, facilities, and capacity building’, presentations made by Jagger Harvey, Appolinaire Djikeng and Rob Skilton, all of ILRI-BecA, in Dec 2011.
Africa-wide task forces set up to accelerate delivery of rice technologies – StarAfrica.com
Africa-wide task forces set up to accelerate delivery of rice technologiesStarAfrica.com“This approach will reduce the time lag between the development and the release of new rice technologies across the continent and increase their impact,â€
The case for an affordable locally adapted combine-harvester
Harvesting and threshing of paddy are serious bottlenecks for rice farmers. Large combine-harvesters are ill adapted to the rice fields of smallholders. Consequently, paddy may sit in the field for weeks or even months waiting to be harvested or thresh…