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Low-cost ways to ensure hygiene and obtain longer shelf life

Grinja Chitowe, an agricultural field assistant from Blantyre, Malawi, describes how cassava is dried and stored, and a method for removing toxin from the bitter varieties.

Can agricultural extension services have a role in helping farmers with marketing? In Cameroon the answer is ?Yes?. A government marketing adviser describes the methods he uses to link farmers to buyers, and make their products more marketable.

An agricultural economist from the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture describes the impact of the abolishment of the Cocoa Marketing Board, and recommends that the board should be reinstated and other supports given in order to restore cocoa production and encourage young people to enter the business.

Busani Bafana talks to Inviolatta Moyo of the Western Region Foundation in Zimbabwe, an organisation that puts great emphasis on training its project holders in business skills.

Our second report comes from The Gambia, where Ismaila Senghore spoke to Fatou Sarr, a training officer at the Promotion Centre of the Village Indigenous Savings and Credit Associations, commonly called VISACAs. He discovered that the associations had a strong sense of ownership, not least becaus...

Speaking at the Launch of the Nile Basin Development Challenge program (29 September 2010), ILRI Director General Carlos Seré explains why ILRI is partnering in a program focused on improved water management in Ethiopia and the Nile Basin. He emphasized how the type of integrative science envisag...

One man?s story of life with the virus

Susan Bamuh, President of the National Association of Professional Media Women in Cameroon discusses the importance of women being able to inherit and own land.

The art and method of grafting.