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Searching for a Market Strategy for Finger Millet in Tanzania
One of the HOPE project objectives in Eastern and Southern Africa is to discover and develop improved market strategies for finger millet to stimulate adoption of improved production technologies. Towards this goal, the HOPE Project seeks to identify intervention points along the value chain to …
HOPE project planning and review meeting held in Soroti, Uganda
Production of finger millet, the main cereal food staple in the Eastern and Northern zones of Uganda, is constrained by low productivity, blast disease and use of improper management practices. In 2010, under the HOPE project, ICRISAT and partners – National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute …
HOPE Project Management Team meets in Zanzibar, Tanzania
The HOPE project held its 5th Project Management Team (PMT) meeting on 9-10 March in Zanzibar, Tanzania, to review the project’s progress across the six objectives and the recommendation of the Addis Ababa meeting. The meeting was chaired and facilitated by Project Coordinator Dr. George …
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My 2012 Annual Letter – Bill Gates
My job is to learn about global health and development – and to travel to poor countries to meet farmers who can’t grow enough food, mothers who can’t keep children healthy, and heroes in the field who are doing something about those emergencies. Very few …
Sorghum field day: Production set to perk up in Rombo District
It all began when Mr Michael Shirima, owner of Precision Air (a regional airline company in Tanzania), on hearing about the improved Macia sorghum being promoted by the ICRISAT-HOPE project, bought 30 kg ofseed from Suba-Agro, a private seed company in Tanzania. He planted it …
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