Dairy value chain/Ethiopia - Boosting the nation's dairy production New Zealand Dairy Co- operative Fonterra, with its local business partner Faffa Foods, officially launched its first ever nationwide Anchor's Fort... 30/08/2015
Rice value chain/Madagascar- IRRI introduces two cold-tolerant rice varieties The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Africa Rice Center (AfriceRice) have jointly released two cold-tolerant rice varieties in... 30/08/2015
Cassava value chain/Liberia - WAAPP to build capacity and boost cassava productivity The West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) aims to increase productivity, value addition, and profitability of agricultural system... 05/08/2015
Livestock value chain/Botswana - Consider genetics when buying cattle A Simmental stud breeder from South Africa advised farmers in Botswana to investigate genetics of cattle before buying them. In a networking sessi... 05/08/2015
Livestock value chain/Papua New Guinea – Farmers empowerment through scientific assessment In a community participatory assessment on animal production, smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) were empowered based on livestock tech... 05/08/2015
Rice and Cassava value chain/Cameroon - C2D projects amplify seed multiplication The Cameroon French Debt Relief Programme (C2D-PAR) on agricultural research, managed by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRE... 05/08/2015
Rice value chain/Nigeria - Rice production increases by 140 percent According to the Managing Director (MD) of Niger State Agricultural and Mechanization Development Authority (NAMDA), rice yield per hectare has inc... 18/06/2015
Rice value chain/Africa - China clones heat-tolerant gene from African rice strain Global warming threatens many aspects of human life through the heat stress which can strain rice proteins and cause the plant to wither thus redu... 08/06/2015
Poultry value chain/Nigeria - Tech to determine chick embryos' sex developed A German veterinary professor, Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns has developed a way of determining the sex of chicken embryos while they are st... 19/05/2015
Cassava value chain/ Nigeria – Dissemination of improved vitamin A cassava stems HarvestPlus Nigeria is part of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) coordinated by CIAT and IFPRI. HarvestPlu... 14/05/2015