To celebrate International Women’s Day today, 8 Mar 2012, those of us at ILRI, who work in Africa and Asia to reduce poverty, hunger, disease and environmental degradation through livestock- and research-based interventions, have put together 100+ pi…
International Research Information System AFF — Japan plans to implement “Support Project on Developing Africa Food Security Information” in cooperation with AfricaRice from 2012 to contribute to developing agricultural statistics system in C…
Where do more than 80% of the smallholder farmers in West Africa go for seeds? They go to a neighbor’s farm. If farmers can be trained to produce good-quality seed, then the existing system of community and informal exchange can be strengthened. An…
Où vont 80 % des producteurs en Afrique de l’Ouest pour se procurer ses semences ? Ils vont sur l’exploitation d’un voisin. Si les producteurs peuvent être formés pour produire des semences de bonne qualité, alors le système d
In March, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Sokoine University of Agriculture with partners including Irish Aid and the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IF…
