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Archive for March, 2012
Smallholder farmers to benefit from second phase of tropical legumes project
With US$ 21 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tropical Legumes II project will get a boost in implementing research-for-development initiatives to overcome productivity constraints and nonavailability and lack of access to quality…
Participatory action research on climate change – ICRISAT and ICRAF to develop community-based climate-smart agriculture in West Africa
Aiming to develop options of climate-smart agriculture that could be upscaled for smallholder farmers, ICRISAT and ICRAF-The World Agroforestry Centre, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to implement the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change…
Tropical Legumes II project second phase approved
Through a US$ 21 million vote of confidence from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tropical Legumes II project is being renewed for a second phase. The Program is overcoming productivity and seed system constraints affecting smallholder farmer…
Climate-smart crop-livestock systems for smallholders – Livestock and Fish project to intensify agriculture and mitigate climate change
The German Government recently approved a new project part of the ‘Livestock and Fish’ research program of the CGIAR. Led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the three-year project aims to improve the agricultural productiv…