In October 2020, two banks, in collaboration with government agencies and development partners in Tanzania, launched an initiative to finance cassava growers with a more than one million dollar loan facility. This arrangement directly injected...
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) planning meetings held recently in Ibadan, Nigeria, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, raised hopes of a bright future for AKILIMO and the ACAI project. The planning meetings brought partners...
…As the project scales out to new geographies A seed system model known as the BASICS model is helping farmers to establish and formalize the seed system in cassava, creating jobs, wealth, and food security...
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), in collaboration with the Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System, phase 2 (BASICS-II) project, trained 61 Commercial Seed Entrepreneurs (CSEs), drawn from the...
…As Summit brings cassava seed system to the front burner The Building an Economically Sustainable and Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) project has successfully organized the first cassava business summit to bring attention...
The project: Building an Economically Sustainable and Integrated Cassava Seed System (BASICS-II), recently trained women farmers in Oyo state on quality cassava seed production and effective weed control using the Six Steps to Cassava Weed...
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been urged to support the ban on Paraquat in Nigeria. The Coalition Against Paraquat (CAP) in Nigeria, represented by one of its members,...
The Green Innovation Centers for the Agriculture and Food Sector Program (GIAE) – Nigeria funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is launching...
A public-private sector initiative between the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) under the Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) and SANO Foods Limited is seeking to promote the cultivation...
Cassava seed producers in Oyo state, Nigeria, have set up a one-year plan to build the capacity of their members to enable them to play a leading role in the country’s emerging cassava seed system....
