New news from WorldVeg West and Central Africa
As we strive to share ever more of our many activities and impacts, our West and Central Africa center now has a new newsletter, that will become a regularly feature, in addition to postings on their webpages and social media channels – D regions / CH regions | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn
In French and English, the newsletter is full of colorful pictures, fascinating stories and testimonials from project beneficiaries. From the SafeVeg project, we read about the official launch of improved vegetable seed kit distribution to market gardeners in Benin, advances in Burkina Faso, showcasing new climate-resilient vegetable varieties in Mali, training of 500 farmers in Benin on the identification of pests and diseases of vegetable crops, producers in Burkina Faso’s Hauts Bassin region selecting onion and tomato varieties, and training farmers in Mali on how to produce high quality vegetable seed. From other projects, we hear about how smallholders in Ghana are learning how to increase tomato yields sustainably, and about empowering women and beating hunger through market gardening in Mali. There are also interviews with three ‘vegetable business networks’ that have benefitted from the SafeVeg project, a ‘focus on technologies’ section that details the zero energy cold chamber (ZECC) that WorldVeg promotes to reduce postharvest losses, and an ‘events’ section that in this edition shows how International Women’s Day was celebrated in different office in the region. We hope that you will enjoy reading about all the latest news from WorldVeg’s work in West and Central Africa.
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[Video] OUR ISLAND: Seed exchange and conservation (English/Mandarin)
PTS, February 2023
[Video] Seed conservation and Breeding-2 (English/Mandarin)
Formosa TV, February 2023
[Video] Seed conservation and Breeding-1 (English/Mandarin)
Formosa TV, February 2023
New partnership agreement signed to improve global nutrition and food security ACIAR, February 2023
AFACI Newsletter Issue No. 22.
AFACI Newsletter, January – December 2022
[Video] PROJET NUTRIFOOD: Dr. Marco WOPEREIS visite le jardin scolaire de Goulo-Sodji à Zè (French)
AgricoTV, April 2022
Low-Cost Solar Dryers Yield Sustainable Incomes to Marginal Farmers of Koraput District in Odisha.
ICRISAT Happenings Newsletter, April 2022
Audience au Ministère de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage et de la Pêche du Benin: World Vegetable Center porte le projet d’un symposium (French).
Benin ODD TV, April 2022
Team of scientists from Taiwan visits Nagaon
The Sentinel, April 2022
Interview with Edmond Totin, WorldVeg Project Manager for SAFEVEG on Climate Change in Africa (French)
UN News, April 2022
Why Seedbank Aren’t Just for Doomsday
BBC Future, April 2022
The scientists helping farmers kick the chemical habit
AFP, March 2022 – Published in France24, RFI, MSN, Global Times and others
Sharing Knowledge for Self-Sufficiency – International Aid in Fruit and Vegetable Production
Taiwan Panorama, February 2022
Pressing for policies that promote “forgotten foods”
Grow Further, 9 December 2021
Cherry tomatoes
KU Research Weekly, 2 December 2021
The fight of mushrooms in farmland. Biotechnology at the service of humanity
Spark Chronicles, 29 November 2021
Asia and Pacific Seed Association (APSA) recognizes 2021’s five ‘most influential’ seed scientists in Asia-Pacific
Seed Quest, 19 November 2021
Un plan mundial para conservar la diversidad de frutas y hortalizas
A en verde, 10 November 2021
European donor delegation discusses partnerships for greater impact delivery in Malian agriculture
ICRISAT Happenings, 15 October 2021
