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Archive for March, 2012

WILD: Take a look at the Women in Livestock Development

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…

Developing women’s seed enterprise

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…