PROJECT PARTNERS
CORAF
In 1987 a meeting was held between the directors of fifteen francophone agricultural research institutions of West and Central Africa and Madagascar and their colleagues from French agricultural research institutions namely, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the Office de recherche scientifique et [...]
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ASARECA
The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) is a non-political organization of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of ten countries: Burundi, D. R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. It aims at increasing the efficiency of agricultural research in the region so as to facilitate [...]
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SADC
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) started as Frontline States whose objective was political liberation of Southern Africa. SADC was preceded by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), which was formed in Lusaka, Zambia on April 01, 1980 with the adoption of the Lusaka Declaration (Southern Africa: Towards Economic Liberation).
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RUFORUM
RUFORUM is a consortium of 29 universities in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, was established in 2004. The consortium originally operated as a program of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1992. RUFORUM has a mandate to oversee graduate training and networks of specialization in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries. Specifically, RUFORUM [...]
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NRI
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) is a specialist institute of the university of Greenwich. NRI provides research, consultancy, training and advisory services to underpin sustainable development, economic growth and poverty reduction. The majority of NRI’s activities focus on the harnessing of natural and human capital for the benefit of developing countries, though much of our [...]
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DFID
The Department for International Development (DFID) is a British Aid Programme that was set up in 1997. DFID’s top priority is fighting world poverty. Among its key objectives, DFID set out to make global development a national priority and promote it to audiences in the UK and overseas, while fostering a new ‘aid relationship’ with [...]
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