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ICRISAT West and Central Africa Highlights 2017: Working in Partnership with Governments to Achieve National Goals

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Title ICRISAT West and Central Africa
Highlights 2017: Working in Partnership with Governments to Achieve National Goals
 
Creator ICRISAT, -
 
Subject West Africa
Central Africa
 
Description This annual report is an overview of the major achievements in improving
the livelihoods of farmers who are end users of the results of our research.
The report highlights how our scientific interventions have increased
domestic food supply and created jobs in Mali. It takes you through our
major findings that have reduced malnutrition and land degradation in
Niger. In Ghana and Burkina Faso, the interventions are helping to improve
smallholder farming. The last section throws light on how ICRISAT together
with its partners has succeeded in increasing community resilience to climate
change with the use of climate information services and decision support
tools in Senegal.
Farmers tell their stories best. Their perspective motivates us to serve them
better; to help them tackle the vagaries of nature and the consequences of
hunger, poverty, malnutrition and environmental degradation. The report
fleshes out farmer stories from projects such as Harnessing Opportunities
for Productivity Enhancement (HOPE II), Tropical Legumes (TL III), the Africa
RISING Large-scale Diffusion of Technologies for Sorghum and Millet Systems
(ARDT SMS), and the Increasing Groundnut Productivity of Smallholder
Farmers in Ghana, Mali and Nigeria and many more project interventions in
West and Central Africa.
A major successful initiative in 2017 was the launch of a Smart Food
campaign in the region. Millet, sorghum and groundnut were promoted as
crops that are good for the consumer, the planet and the farmer.
The report concludes with an overview of the driving force behind
this research – the workforce in the region, and its support to building
the capacity of stakeholders and partners in agricultural research for
development in West and Central Africa.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Annual Reports
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Language en
en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11195/1/WCA%20Report%202018_English_Scr.pdf
http://oar.icrisat.org/11195/2/French%20WCA%20Report%202018_web%20version.pdf
ICRISAT, - (2018) ICRISAT West and Central Africa Highlights 2017: Working in Partnership with Governments to Achieve National Goals. [Annual Reports]