CTA partners: newsletters
Newsletter of the Ethiopia-Wageningen UR Collaboration Programme
Please find herewith Issue Nr 2 of the Ethiopia-Wageningen UR Newsletter ‘Collaboration on Science for Impact’. Most of you will recall that, in the framework of the multi-year collaboration programme on research and capacity development between the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, the Universities of Addis Ababa, Jimma, Haramaya, Hawassa and Mekelle and Wageningen University and Research Centre, we issued our first newsletter in November 2009. In the present edition you will find brief paragraphs that bring you up-to-date with developments in the various collaboration activities, including those on oilseeds, climate change, natural resources management and soil fertility, pesticide management, etc.
31/05/2010
ANAFE: Agricultural Education News - Vol. 16 - 1 April 2010
ANAFE: Agricultural Education News - Vol. 16 - 1 April 2010
31/05/2010
University of Nairobi: 2005-2010 Milestones
The first edition of the 2010 varsity Focus, the newsletter of the University of Nairobi brings a collection of recent developments assesses achievements in the last five years and gives a synopsis of the major milestones. It highlights the infrastructural development that has taken place in the last five years – the period coinciding with the installation of a new management team at the University. The reform process at the University has directly led to the increased enrolment of students. The student population has shot to 49,000 up from 32,000 in the last five years. Student organizations have been active and more disciplined while links with local and international students have boosted networking. ICT being the driving force in the modern life has not been left behind. To this end, the University has acquired more than 5,400 PCs and installed internet hot spots at various points within the University
21/05/2010
FARA Bimonthly Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 1 (January-February 2010)
In 2009, the Copenhagen Conference issued the Copenhagen Accord, recognizing that climate change is one of the biggest global challenges, and in developing countries, is an addition to current social and economic development and poverty alleviation challenges. The Accord set some guidelines on targets and mechanisms of control and agreements. The year 2015 was set for assessing implementation of these commitments. In Africa, the Accord is welcome but the task of implementing it is daunting, because most of the applicable targets and mechanisms are difficult to implement using global data. Continental, regional and local implications in Africa can only be achieved if existing data are generated and analysed based on local conditions. We therefore welcome the commitment of developed countries towards developing countries particularly Africa, to enable and support enhanced action on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD-plus), adaptation, technology development and transfer and capacity-building, for enhanced implementation of the Accord.Africa requires coordinated effort to benefit from the proposed Copenhagen Green Climate Fund and to become part of the proposed High Level Panel, and Technology Mechanisms. The African scientific community, especially agricultural researchers, while working with the relevant institutions from the civil society and African government agencies, will have to know their roles and responsibilities to strengthen African capacity to negotiate, deliver and implement this Accord.
20/04/2010
SCARDA Vol 1 No. 3 October – December, 2009
Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Research & Development in Africa (SCARDA) is a three-year, DFID-funded FARA Project being implemented in the sub-regions of sub-Saharan Africa by ASARECA, CORAF/WECARD and SADC/FANR. SCARDA Outcomes is a quarterly newsletter published by SCARDA Management Team at FARA that aims at updating our stakeholders on the experiences and gains from implementing the project. A growing body of evidence indicates that institutional learning is an essential pre-requisite to improved decision making by research managers and thus to beneficial institutional change. This is particularly relevant for capacity strengthening initiatives where behavioral change is often the key to success and where support needs to be sustained over relatively long periods of time. For these reasons, SCARDA has a strong learning orientation and this implies that the planning, monitoring and evaluation framework needs to be flexible enough to accommodate unpredictable change.
20/04/2010
CAADP News | Issue 01 | English Edition | 17 March 2010
CAADP News | Issue 01 | English Edition | 17 March 2010
23/03/2010
Nuance newsletter - UbuntuNet Alliance - Vol 2: Issue 9: January 2010
NUANCE is a monthly e-newsletter published by UbuntuNet Alliance. Key content is news from, about, or of interest to National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa.
4/02/2010
ACCID weekly news digest
Please visit the following website for pdf versions of the weekly news digests of ACCID.
15/10/2009
Partnerships: A quarterly newsletter of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation
Nigeria to carry out first confined field trials (CFT) for transgenic cowpea in Africa Nigeria will carry out the first confined field trials of transgenic Maruca-resistant cowpea in Africa during the second half of 2009 after the Federal Government granted approval for the trials to the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR),Samaru, Zaria. Reduced cost of tissue culture banana can help control spread of Banana Bacterial Wilt in Great Lakes region The cost of tissue culture banana plantlets can be reduced by up to 60% through effective and efficient banana tissue culture practices that will increase affordability and accessibility of materials by smallholder farmers who currently have to pay an average of US$1 per plantlet.In brief: WEMA (Water Efficient Maize) for Africaholds workshop on permit application procedures for confined field trials Training in confined field trials compliance for cowpea scientists Nigeria to use IR maize to fight Striga in maize fields The Open Forum on AgriculturalBiotechnology (OFAB) in Africa opened its Tanzania chapter
18/08/2009
RUFORUM monthly newsletter - June 2009
Wikipedia describes ‘Web 2.0’ as the second generation of web development and web design. It is also often described as ‘the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform’. The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) seeks to use emerging technologies and opportunities offered by ICTs , and particularly Web 2 Tools, to hasten achievement of her mission. RUFORUM’s mission is to strengthen capacities of universities to foster innovations responsive to demands of small-holder farmers.
21/07/2009
The CAAST-Net Bulletin - Volume 2 Issue 3
The CAAST-Net Bulletin brings you recent news and reports from the Africa -Europe science and technology cooperation landscape.
3/07/2009
RUFORUM monthly Volume 3 Issue 5 - May 2009
The Monthly Brief of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, Volume 3 Issue 5 - May 2009. Featuring Women in Science and Young Professionals Competitions and The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Training Workshop.
19/06/2009
ACCID News Digest - Week ending 15 May 2009
Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues (ACCID) News Digest - Week ending 15 May 2009
22/05/2009
CAAST-Net Bulletin Volume 2 / Issue 2
The CAAST-Net Bulletin is the official bulletin of the network for the coordination and advancement of Sub-Saharan Africa-EU Science and Technology Cooperation. Inside this April 2009 Volume among others a feature on Euro-Africa ICT Cooperation Forum Exploiting synergies between projects.
6/04/2009
Issue 23 of African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)
Issue 23 of African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) is here with us. We plan to publish an issue every two months, so long as our reviewers continue to be as committed as they are. Our authors are very active and there is no shortage of manuscripts. We only urge that every author goes carefully through the instructions to authors which can be found on the website and examines already published articles for style and format before sending us an article. Ruth Oniang'o wrote the editorial on Nutiriton has come of age? What is Nutrition? In this issue articles on Food security measures during uncertain climatic conditions in Nigeria (Adeniyi Mojisola et al.) and Effects of storage conditions and storage period on nutritional and other qualities of stored yam (Dioscorea spp) tubers (Osunde Zanish and BA Orhevba).
30/03/2009
CIRAD Newsletter no. 38
The March 2009 CIRAD Newsletter feautures besides articles on Global change: what impact is it having on diversity in the forests of the Congo Basin? and Agrofuels: vegetable oils are on a par with diesel an article on Agrimonde: scenarios and challenges for feeding the world in 2050. It should not be impossible to feed the world in 2050! However, research should be looking again at how it is tacking this issue. This is the conclusion of a report by the Agrimonde foresight study on agriculture and food worldwide by the year 2050, published in February 2009. The study has been conducted by CIRAD and INRA since 2006.
30/03/2009
FARA Bi-monthly Bulletin, August - September 2008, vol 3. no5
In 2007 and 2008, the role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important agricultural policy debate. The sharp increases in world food and fertilizer prices created a sense of urgency in meeting productivity and social welfare goals. It put fertilizer subsidies high on the list of options for government and donor responses to the crisis.
27/10/2008
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