The Southern African Development Community (SADC)/International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Sorghum and Millet Improvement Program (SMIP) was started in 1983 as a regional initiative of the SADC in collaboration with one of the International Agricultural Research Centres. T...
Anandajayasekeram, P.
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Martella, D.R.
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Sanders, J.
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Kupfuma, B.
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[Ex-ante analysis of the Sorghum and millet improvement program]
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Ex-ante analysis of the Sorghum and millet improvement program
The ultimate interest of investors in agricultural research and Development (R&D) is the extent to which their investment eventually bears a positive outcome on the lives of the poor and hungry people of developing nations without seriously harming the natural resource base. Consequently, most do...
At independence in 1960, Africa was a modest food exporter while Asia was engulfed in a food crisis. The Green Revolution boosted food production in Asia and the global food problem shifted to Africa. However, science and technology have been promoted on an ad hoc basis in Africa's 45 years of in...