The First World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops will be held January 18-22, 2016, in China The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) and the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) join forces with CATAS (Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences), and GCRI (Guangxi Cassava Research Institute), to organize the First World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops in Nanning, Guangxi, China, on January 18-22, 2016. The Congress represents a unique opportunity for exchanging expert and scientific advice on Root and Tuber Crops (RTCs) – in particular for … [Read more...]
Unlocking Nigeria’s Agricultural Potential with Cassava-Legume Intensification
Sustainable intensification of production systems in the humid tropics offers the potential to address simultaneously a number of pressing development objectives, particularly unlocking the agricultural potential, adapting production systems to climate change, sustainably managing land and water resources, and reducing rural poverty (Vanlauwe et al., 2014*). In densely populated areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, given anticipated further increases in population density and lack of access to land, agricultural intensification is a short-term requirement to alleviate rural poverty and food … [Read more...]