Picures of the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP).
Archive for October, 2012
Building an ICT-based science and technology network on managing African weeds of rice
A workshop to mark the end of a 3-year project on African Weeds of Rice, called AFROweeds, was held from 24 to 26 September 2012 at AfricaRice, Benin. The project was funded by the European Union ACP Science, and Technology Program, and led by Seeraad and AfricaRice. It was carried out in close association with national partners. The main objective of the AFROweeds project was to improve the management of weeds, in West and East African lowland rice cropping systems, through the sharing of information, particularly relating to weed management practices, and the development of, weed identification tools. For more [...]
Brussels Briefing, Belgium
Dr. Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), emphasizes that keeping a key set of adaptation strategies is incremental to stay one step ahead of progressive climate change…
Looking beyond agriculture to help create resilient smallholder farms
Including a landscape approach could be the critical component when working towards improving the rural countryside in developing countries. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). Post prepared by Cecilia Schubert.
Partners meet in Ethiopia to launch Adoption Pathways
The first planning and inception meeting of the ‘Identifying socioeconomic constraints to and incentives for faster technology adoption: Pathways to sustainable intensification in Eastern and Southern Africa’ (Adoption Pathways project) took place…