A Global Partnership Programme is being built on the initiative of NGOs concerned with agricultural research and development. With the support of IFAD (Inter-national Fund for Agricultural Development), NGOs in three countries in Africa ¿ Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda ¿ have already started a process…
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L¿assemblé générale du CORAF qui a eu lieu à Accra, (Ghana) en
1998, a décidé d¿élaborer pour la région Ouest et Centre
africaine un plan stratégique pour la coopération sous-régionale
de la recherche agricole. Ceci est pour faire face aux défis
majeurs de l'agriculture de…
The Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme Workshop was indeed a ¿workshop¿. It was
characterised by intense roundtable debates and energetic breakout group discussions that were
well informed by briefings on the new paradigm for integrated natural resource management and its
key programmatic and…
Objectives: In 1994, Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation (NEDA) asked ILEIA to initiate and facilitate a research programme mandated to make: A participatory assessment of the viability of Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA) technologies in different environmental and…
ICLARM (an IARC) in partnership with the Institute of Aquaculture Research, Norway (an ASI), Central
Luzon State University and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Philippines (NARS) undertook
genetic improvement of Nile tilapia and demonstrated for the first time that performance of…
The ASTI initiative and the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) are currently calling for proposals for papers for their jointly convened conference, "Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africas Future: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities," to be held in Accra, Ghana, 5-7…
Three consultations meetings took place at the Secretariat Offices in Accra, Ghana on 18-25 February 2008.The RAILS technical group consultation (18-19 Feb) was held for two days in order to elaborate a workprogram on how the information systems will be developed following the…
FARA is seeking to employ a Coordinator for the Sub Saharan Africa Challenge Program (SSA CP) who will be responsible to the Executive Secretary. The overall responsibility of the Coordinator is the successful implementation of the SSA CP following the integrated agricultural research for…