The Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) program of ICRISATs Agribusiness Innovation Platform (AIP) in association with the Small Farmers Agri-business Consortium (SFAC), is seeking to promote SFACs venture capital scheme for agri-business development. As pa…
Archive for March, 2012
ICRISAT-HOPE project planning and review meeting held in Soroti, Uganda
Production of finger millet, the main cereal food staple in the Eastern and Northern zones of Uganda, is constrained by low productivity, blast disease and use of improper management practices. In 2010, under the ICRISAT-HOPE project, ICRISAT and partn…
Women in agriculture? Yes, we can!
CGIAR Consortium — Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) describes how women rice producers in West Africa form the heart of small community-based seed enterprises, and dedicated their 2012 calendar to women.
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…
New Japanese contribution for AfricaRice from 2012
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…