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A current awareness bulletin for ACP agriculture

Satellite solutions
06 06 2008 Getting precise information during a conflict or emergency means relief organizations can take quick and effective decisions. UNOSAT analyses satellite data to give disaster managers the details they need.

Window to the world
05 06 2008 The war in northern Uganda has driven thousands of people from their homes to live in camps. Now, after a lot of trial an error, BOSCO Uganda has brought the internet and low-cost phone calls to the camps, giving the people a chance to tell their own story.

From propaganda to peace
05 06 2008 Radio was used to incite hatred in the build up to the genocide in Rwanda. But today the medium promotes messages of reconciliation and peace to those still traumatized by the violence.

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Virtual resource centre of CTA publications

Domesticating and cultivating fruit trees
03 04 2008 Growing the fruits in your own homestead.

Vaccination for village chickens
03 04 2008 David Daka of the Zambia Institute of Animal Health discusses how small scale farmers can manage Newcastle disease vaccination for their poultry flocks.

Training farmers to tackle Newcastle Disease
03 04 2008 Mr. Demba Touray of The Gambia’s Department of Livestock Services describes the work of the department to control Newcastle disease.

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Rural Radio Resource Packs on a variety of topics related to agriculture and rural development

Web2.0 for Development Conference
07 06 2008 Web2ForDev 2007 was the first conference devoted to exploring the ways in which international development stakeholders can take advantage of the technical and organizational opportunities provided by Web 2.0 methods, approaches and applications. The conference was a CTA initiative co-organised with FAO, IICD, GTZ, Euphoric and many other organizations.

Animal Health
04 04 2008 It is widely recognised that rearing healthy livestock offers many poor families a way out of their poverty. Healthy livestock not only provide food and income but also labour for farming and transport, and manure as a source of fertilizer and fuel. The real secret to keeping healthy livestock is not allowing animals to become sick in the first place; prevention is much better than cure, not least because once one animal becomes sick or dies, there is a strong risk that the illness will spread to other animals in the herd or flock. Keeping healthy livestock requires considerable investment of money, time and other resources. However, the income and other benefits that can be gained from healthy animals ought to make this investment worthwhile.The interviews in this pack focus on general steps that farmers should take to keep their animals healthy, as well as advice for controlling particular diseases that threaten livestock health in Africa.

Goat Rearing
04 04 2008 The importance of goats in Africa has for many years been underestimated and ignored. Recently, however, there is increasing recognition that goats can provide a pathway out of poverty. Goats are relatively cheap to buy and can be kept on marginal land. They are efficient users of water and have a fast reproductive rate, allowing farmers to quickly build up a herd and get return on their investment. This pack features goat experts from across Africa, who offer advice on a range of practical subjects, including: feeding goats, breeding, goat health, rearing dairy goats and selling goat hides..

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CTA / Knowledge for Development


Observatory on science and technology for ACP agriculture and rural development

Perspectives in 'Agriculture, veterinary science, nutrition and natural resources' (call for papers, deadline 1 September 2008)
08 07 2008 CAB plans to publish a special issue on the subject ‘Causes and Consequences of the Food Crisis’, and invites papers for publication in this special issue. Our main interest is in papers that will concentrate on the impact of the crisis on individual or regional groups of developing countries and on the policy measures that they have implemented in order to help their poor population. The plan is to publish a selection of the papers that will be included in this issue in a book entitled ‘The Food Crisis’, to be published by CAB International. Papers should be submitted to David Hemming at d.hemming@cabi.org.

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa - Intellectual property policy and implementation guidelines
07 07 2008 Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), 2007. The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) is committed to enhancing and adding value to the effectiveness and efficiency of agricultural research systems in Africa. Its policy is that publication, disclosure and open access to its data plus sharing of information and knowledge with stakeholders, partners and donors shall be pursued. FARA’s vision is to reduce poverty in Africa as a result of sustainable agricultural growth and livelihoods particularly for smallholder and pastoral enterprises. To further this end, it is FARA’s practice to treat all products generated from research under its hospices as international public goods. This is to ensure easy availability and accessibility of these resources to the public for their use and benefit.

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation approach to IP management
07 07 2008 Richard Y. Boadi & Mpoko Bokanga, 2007. The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) addresses the Intellectual Property (IP) challenges in agriculture by negotiating access to proprietary technologies and facilitating their delivery to smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This chapter addresses the IP issues and partnership arrangements associated with the access, development, and deployment of agricultural technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa by AATF. The model developed by AATF incorporates the acquisition, development, and deployment of new technologies from private sector partners, to try to address the agricultural needs of resource-poor smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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CTA / Brussels office / Web log


information on key ACP-EU programmes and events from Brussels relevant to agriculture and rural development in ACP countries.

The pelagic fishery in Mauritania
08 07 2008 In the context of the 2006-2012 fishing agreement between the EU and Mauritania, the CDE (Centre for...

Climate change threatens global food and water supply
08 07 2008 Scientists from all over the world representing some of the most prestigious national academies of s...

Barnier: EU has made enough concessions on agriculture
08 07 2008 The EU has gone to "the extreme limit" of the concessions it can make to reach a deal at the World T...

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