Showing posts with label farmers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farmers. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Farmers in twenty African countries get new window of opportunity to significantly increase yield

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Participant at the SARD SC Side Event in Accra Efforts to transform agriculture in Africa have received a boost as researchers met un...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Simple technology supporting farmers to revive banana production in Burundi

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Beatrice Bukuru, a member of the 'Tugurukire Kitoki' farmers group in the group's communal land during a field day  Bea...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

In Uganda, coffee and banana go better together

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A field with coffee and banana inter-cropped  in Uganda By Caity Peterson You're hungry for pizza. Walking around the neighborhood...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

IITA DG calls for a “Brown Revolution” for a “Green Revolution” in Africa

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The push for a “Green Revolution” in Africa to increase agricultural production for food and economic development will not bear much frui...

Sanginga drums up support for IITA’s Southern Africa hub

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 The IITA Director General, Dr Nteranya Sanginga, was last week, from 11 – 15 June 2012, in Zambia, to meet different partners of the inst...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Project to save farmers from bogus agricultural commercial products launched

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Most small holder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are struggling to make ends meet and are always on the lookout for ways to boost their pro...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Work smart not hard - Boosting productivity of small-holder farmers through smarter farming practices

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A man and his wife who are small-holder farmers, display their harvest of cassava and banana, two important staples in Sub-Sahara Africa....
Thursday, October 27, 2011

CIALCA partnership highlights contribution of research to bringing stability in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

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The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA) and the CGIAR Research Programme on the Humid Tropics ...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

IITA, partners launch project to control cancer-causing aflatoxin

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The Kenyan government warmly welcomed a project seeking to identify and avail to farmers a natural, safe, and cost-effective solution to pre...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Group riding high, thanks to an old friend, cassava

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“With the money I made from the sale of my cassava roots and stem (as planting material) and the dividends I received from the group, I have...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Return of the cassava: New ways of making popular foods using old crop take village by storm

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Cassava, an old neglected crop that is often remembered when all other crops fail, has gained new recognition and prominence among the resi...