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Saving Africa’s maize and cowpea from the violet vampire | IITA
Striga plant, a parasitic weed (Photo credit: IITA Image Library) Striga bilabiata, nahe Gaoua, Burkina Faso. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Source IITA – Ibadan, Nigeria Agricultural researchers in...
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Mali: Sowing the Seeds of Success | CGIAR – ICRISAT
English: Peanuts seller in Ouagadougou. Français : Vendeuse d’arachides à Ouagadougou. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In Mali, nearly 68 percent of the population is considered poor. They are mostly...
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How to Fight Hunger | USAID Feed the Future Infographic
How to Fight Hunger | USAID Feed the Future Filed under: General Tagged: agriculture, aid, development, Feed the Future, food, Food security, Hunger, Investments, Nutrition, USAID
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Major investment to persuade bacteria to help cereals self-fertilise | The...
English: John Innes Centre, Norwich (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The John Innes Centre will lead a $9.8m research project to investigate whether it is possible to initiate a symbiosis between cereal...
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Working together to better manage CGIAR intellectual assets
Reblogged from CLIPnet: Throughout CGIAR, the management of Intellectual Assets requires a careful balancing act of sometimes seemingly opposite objectives. How does one find the correct balance...
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How to avoid another food crisis - AlertNet
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ECOWAS, NEPAD SIGN AGREEMENT TO EMPOWER AFRICA’S RURAL WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
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Promising New Technologies to Improve Cowpea Production in West Africa | Feed...
August 21, 2012 Feed the Future | Science & Technology in Agriculture USAID Undamaged (left), superficially damaged (center), and severely damaged cowpea pods (right). New insect-resistant...
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Planting Seeds of Prosperity | USDA:FAS
Posted by Erin Tindell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist Forestry and Agricultural Investment Management (FAIM) workers in Rwanda check the condition of virus-free banana plant...
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Africa’s Food Markets Could Create One Trillion Dollar Opportunity by 2030 |...
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 - Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030 if they can expand their access to more capital, electricity, better technology and...
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