Africa presented a “fantastic opportunity” to complement and stabilize the global food system with small-farmer production in ways not foreseen at present, Hartmann said on Friday, 9 May 2008, during a press conference at the United Nation’s Headquarters in New York, in line with the 16th Session of the UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) which runs from 5-16 May 2008.
IITA, Kampala, Uganda – The best and the brightest minds in banana research and industry from all over Africa will converge in Kenya later this year to develop a 10-year strategic roadmap that would harmonize and guide efforts to promote the marketing and trade of the crop in the continent
Hugh Levinson asks whether science and technology can provide the key to ending under-development in Africa.
Peasant farmers in Malawi, one of Africa’s poorest nations, rely on subsistence farming. Malawian agriculture has experienced extreme weather in recent years El-Nino drought, floods, etc., making the food supply situation precarious.
More than two million Musa seedlings – covering 1,300 hectares and worth $2.5 million annually to the farming economy of Ghana – were propagated and distributed to banana and plantain farmers here in a rapid two-year time-frame
Maize farmers across three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are starting to benefit from better harvests and richer soils by adopting easy-to-use soil-fertility techniques, thus increasing prosperity and food security, based on research findings from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
Matija Obreza, diplomant Fakultete za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko Univerze v Mariboru, igra ključno vlogo pri zagotavljanju svetovne oskrbe s hrano. 29-letni računalniški programer iz Slovenj Gradca, v okviru Mednarodnega inštituta za tropske agrikulture (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture – IITA) s sedežem v Ibadanu v Nigeriji razvija programsko opremo, ki je ključnega pomena za dokumentacijo in ohranjanje genskega materiala za prihodnje generacije.
African seed collection first to arrive in Norway on route to Arctic Seed Vault as centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) continue the drive aimed at protecting global seed genebank.
