CGIAR Consortium–Le Bénin est l’un des 24 pays africains membres d’AfricaRice en tant qu’association de recherche intergouvernementale. En sus d’AfricaRice, le Centre du Riz pour l’Afrique, le Bénin accueille deux autres Centres du CG…
Archive for April, 2012
Benin-AfricaRice Partnership
AidNews–Since Benin’s economy is mainly based on agriculture and the government has accorded an important place to agriculture and food security, it is not surprising that three international agricultural research Centers of the CGIAR Consortiu…
Outcomes from the High Level Panel on the Water, Food and Energy Nexus
Conventional planning and decision-making often fail to address what are inherently inter-linked and inter-dependent processes. If the future needs of…
Vanguard: Journey to consumption of pro-vitamin A cassava varieties in Nigeria
… Drs. Peter Kulakow of IITA and Chigozie Egesie of NRCRI said the development of the varieties was a major breakthrough that would change the nutritional status of people living on cassava-based food. While explaining that what they had come out…
The Nation: Consumption of pro-vitamin A cassava can boost GDP
… Developed by IITA in partnership with the National Roots Crops Research Institute, (NRCRI), Umudike, the project was funded by Harvestplus. The vitamin A cassava varieties are named by the National Variety Release Committee of Nigeria as UMUCAS…