She said that another N10 million was spent for the purchase of special species of cassava from International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, so as to test their adaptability to the Plateau topography. Piwuna expressed happiness that…
Archive for May, 2012
Water and food security – A fresh perspective
Food security traditionally looks at whether we can produce enough food. It is less often looked at in terms of who can afford to buy food. Our attention should not just be on the quantity of food being grown, but also on how poorer families can earn e…
Sustainable Food Security and Climate Change
Date: 31 May 2012; Time: 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EDT (Please join us for lunch beginning at 12:00 pm); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time Presenter(s): Chair: Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Speakers: William Hohenstein, Directo…
Honing skills in scientific writing for publishing
Have you ever wondered why the papers you have written on a piece of innovative research are rejected by your target peer-reviewed journals, or why your colleagues in similar projects are publishing with less difficulty? It could be that you are not wr…
A fork in the road to Rio: Stopping to meet Dattatreya Hegde
The fifth in our series: ‘A fork in the road – meeting farmers on the road to Rio’ takes us to the remote village of Salkani, India. Here Dattatreya Hegde cultivates some 35 varieties of mango and a half a dozen types of kokum which b…