Review 2007
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Final meeting of the Global
Crop Diversity Trust’s (GCDT) Panel of Interim Eminent Experts.
GCDT’s mission is to ensure the conservation and availability
of crop diversity for food security worldwide. The Panel, including
member Andrew
Bennett of SFSA, hands over governance to the newly appointed
Executive Board.
Agreement was reached between International Foundation for Science (IFS) and the SFSA for grants in 2006-2008 related
to capacity building and strengthening the Francophone West
African IFS network on dryland agriculture. In 2006, three funding
applications were approved: two from Mali, one from Burkina
Faso.
Meeting to design proof of concept programme for marker-assisted
breeding of downy mildew resistant millet in Northern Nigeria
and stay green (drought tolerance) |
sorghum in Ethiopia.
At Syngenta’s
SBI facility in North Carolina, USA, with scientists from
Lake Chad Research Institute in Nigeria, Cornell
University, Danforth
Center, SFSA and the International
Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) member countries and institutions
– including SFSA – meet with CGIAR Centers’ Directors General
and their senior research staff at their Annual General Meeting
in Washington D.C.
SFSA opens an antenna office in Research Triangle Park in North
Carolina, USA to increase impact through raising awareness and
building research, policy and enterprise alliances with American-based
institutions.
SFSA Board meets in India. |
SFSA publishes
‘The Role of Microfinance In Rural Microenterprise Development’
by Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Seibel of the University
of Cologne. An analysis of a web-based discussion prompted
by a SFSA advertisement in a microfinance section of The Economist.
Deutsche
Bank Americas Foundation, Skoll
Foundationand SFSA join Shell
Foundationin the launch of the GroFin
East Africa Fund branded as ASPIRE, for small and medium
enterprise development.
Executive Committee of the Insect
Resistance Maize for Africa (IRMA) meets in Nairobi, Kenya.
Gender & Diversity media workshop to support the careers of
African women in agricultural science. Participants include
the Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation (SDC), CGIAR Secretariat, CGIAR
Gender & Diversity Group and SFSA. |
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