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Kenya: Experts Meet Over Seed Varieties

Over 100 African crop breeding experts have convened in Nairobi to discuss how to meet smallholder farmers' need for high performing and high impact seed varieties.

Africa: Visionary African Plant Breeders Tackle Issue of Better and More Available Seed for Farmers

AGRA, 24 July 2012

Over 100 African crop breeding experts including World Food Prize laureate Gebesa Ejeta are meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss how to meet smallholder farmers' need for high… Read more »

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Kenyan farmer Phillip Ngolania buying drought-resistant seeds at Dryland Seed Company, Machakos.

Africa: Aid Can Spur 'Historic Progress' - Bill Gates

allAfrica, 24 January 2012

Bill and Melinda Gates, who co-chair the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, say that they are responding to a challenge from Warren Buffet by taking on "the really tough… Read more »
Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers

allAfrica, 24 January 2012

For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip… Read more »

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Africa: Seed Improvement Gets G8 Backing

The G8 leaders have tasked the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa to strengthen Africa's seed sector. Read more »
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