Developments
STREAM - a new conduit for aquaculture
STREAM, (Support to Regional Aquatic Resources Management) is a new initiative for better understanding poor people's livelihoods and utilising relevant existing and emerging information more effectively, in order to...
Africa struggles more than any other continent to meet food needs for its population; poor and deteriorating soils, lack of water, inadequate infrastructure and years of neglect by...
Good breeding needs participation
In the last fifty years, crop breeding programmes across the world have made incredible progress, developing new varieties capable of producing yields undreamed of a few generations ago. However, it is only too clear...
Confusion, controversy and additional costs face cotton growers in India and Uganda. In both countries cotton is a major cash crop and, to escape the escalating costs of chemical pest control, farmers have been attracted to planting Bt seed, which has...
New market opportunities for two nuts from the South Pacific may make good the decline of a third, the coconut. Copra prices have long been disappointing to countries such as Vanuatu, but this chain of islands in the Pacific is...
