Scaling up is not just about technology transfer but a critical understanding of the needs and visions of farmers as well.
Key challenges encountered while operationalizing the African Highlands Initiative (AHI) devolution model are linked to coordination management, with issues arising out of collaboration processes.
Land degradation is the major challenge to improving agricultural production and productivity.
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, received a funding boost of $35 million from Canadian agencies for a 26-nation effort to collect specimens, sequence their DNA, and build an informatics platform using digital bar codes to store an
The Canada-led International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project has received new pledges from its major supporters, raising totals from these funders to $80 million.
Researchers are quickly amassing barcodes or identifiers for a database of life forms, and developing new informatics tools and technologies.