Over the past 10 years, CIALCA, the Consortium for Improving Agricultural Livelihoods in Central Africa, has played a pioneering and pivotal role in applied integrated systems research, actions and innovative partnerships in the Great Lakes Region. Since the establishment of the consortium in 2006, CIALCA has contributed to lifting an estimated number of 560,000 people out of poverty in Burundi, Rwanda and eastern DRC. Through active partnerships with governments, public and private partners, technologies were developed and disseminated and thousands of farmers have been trained in Burundi, … [Read more...]
FARA Science Week – Call for Abstracts
Parallel Session on "Sustainable Productivity Growth" As part of the 7th FARA Africa Agriculture Science Week, IITA is facilitating the Thematic Session on “Sustainable Productivity Growthâ€, which is scheduled on Tuesday, June 14, 2016. The following Concept Note introduces the session, and also invites papers for oral presentation. Rationale Growths in human population and food consumption are expected to increase global food demand of between 70% and 100% by 2050. Sustainable productivity growth or sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in developing countries is … [Read more...]