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  1. 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…
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. 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…
  7. The Africa Agricultural Science Week and the 4th FARA General Assembly will be held from the 10th – 16th June, 2007 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Sandton city, Johannesburg, South Africa  The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Affairs of South Africa will co-host the fourth (4th) General…
  8. The International Conference on "Agricultural innovations in dryland Africa: what are the key drivers for success?" is the launching event of the INCO project "Unlocking the Potentialities of Agriculture in the Drylands of Africa to fight hunger (AIDA)". We welcome case studies on innovations that…
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