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How Strengthened Seed Alliances are Benefitting Smallholders in West Africa
As the multiple actors involved in the seed sector in West Africa reinforce their collaboration and expand activities to the...
West Africa’s Strategy for the Integrated Management of Agri-Inputs Shapes Up
How do you provide farmers with an input package that contributes to improved productivity? This question was at the heart...
Vitus LAWSON
Mango Exports on the Rise Again in Burkina Faso as a Result of Research
Burkina Faso mango producers have regained significant control of the pesky little insect with a history of decimating mango orchards....
Vitus LAWSON
Research Collaboration Stimulates Plantain Cultivation in Burkina Faso
By 2014, farmers in Burkina Faso had little experience cultivating plantain. “Plantain cultivation in Burkina Faso was rare at the...
Early Signs of Boon for Businesses as Seed Laws are Harmonized
Enterprises in West Africa are now delivering seeds across borders quicker and in larger quantities as a regional rule allowing...
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Implementation of Harmonized Seed Regulation in West Africa: What Way Forward?
Major actors of the seed industry in West Africa will meet in the Senegalese capital, Dakar from June 11 to...
Vitus LAWSON
CORAF Revitalizes its Web TV to Better Engage Agripreneurs
Worried about growing unemployment in the economies of West and Central countries, the West and Central African Council for Agricultural...
Harmonization of Seed Rules in West Africa: Early Signs of Boon for Businesses
“Last week, I delivered 40 metric tons of sorghum seed to Ghana,” explains Stephen Yacouba Atar, Vice Chairman of Seed...
The Trending Nigerian Blue Collar Jobs in Aquaculture
Innovative aquaculture practices brought about the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program are opening new employment opportunities for young Nigerians. Several...
Private Investments Jolt Fish Feed Production in Nigeria
Fish feed production has seen a remarkable increase in Nigeria recently as a result of private investments. The renewed willingness...
WAAPP Gender-Sensitive Technology Uplifts Women’s Dignity
Incomes of women in rural Africa could sometimes be laughable as they tend to be considerably low for survival. For...
Jimmy Glorial
An Aquaculture Millionaire at 25
When 25-year old Olubunmi Aderinsola Yahya arrived to do her bachelor’s degree in the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management...
An Innovatory Model Attracting Teens to Aquaculture in Nigeria
A public education campaign targeting mostly secondary school students in Nigeria is attracting teenagers at an unprecedented rate to aquaculture....
Upscale Seed Demand Forecasting Tool, Actors Urge
West African seed actors have called for the expansion of the seed demand forecasting tool. A device that enables seed...
Vitus LAWSON
Reaffirming the Private Sector Leadership in the Seed Sector
A gathering of West African seed actors has concluded that the future of the seed industry lies in the hands...
Just Out: Promising High-Yielding Tetraploid Plantain-Bred Hybrids in West Africa
The devastating threat of black leaf streak disease caused by Pseudocercospora fijiensis on plantain production in West Africa spurred the...
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